The MEGATRON.
When microwaves first came out in Australia, the cartoon Transformers had also begun. When I found out that microwaves were called MEGATRONS, well that just did it. I watched and waited for that bath-shaped crate with its own reinforced stand to change into something with superpowers of destruction. Luckily, I only had to watch and wait for a week as my mother killed it by microwaving dinner with foil (foil!) over the top of a plate.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 4:59, 9 replies)

It was Megatron ffs

(foxy01, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 7:54, closed)

Yeah, thanks for that. Memory has blown as much as the microwave.

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:37, closed)

Either that's an Aussie thing...
...or you're thinking of the tube which generates the microwaves. That'll be a Magnetron. They should have had a transformer called that anyway so it's not really your fault.
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:53, closed)

Yeah, that's what I had written in the first place, but I can't remember so changed it.
Aussie things - we like to do it differently out here.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:57, closed)

Foil in the microwave FTW
My gran tried boiling an egg in the microwave when she first got hers. The "crump" noise caused the end both of the egg and the microwave.
(Wibblist Last said "Wibble" on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:08, closed)

Would have liked to have seen that and I am quite tempted to try it out.
Lemons do make a good crackle, but don't blow up the microwave.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:58, closed)

I haven't tried but I believe that if one pricks the two ends of the egg then that leaves sufficient leeway for pressure to escape. On other things in microwaves, there's a UK TV programme called Brainiac which disposes of microwaves explosively on a regular basis using balloons filled with various gasses and a metal strip to get the spark going.

Over and above this, in the far distant past, the comedy duo Hale and Pace did a sketch involving a kitten in a microwave...
(Wibblist Last said "Wibble" on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:18, closed)

Thats amazing
Hale and Pace were comedy?
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:34, closed)

Alrite Craig

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 16:46, closed)