METAL in MICROWAVE Oven Is NOT That Dangerous
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2021
- I thought I would be making massive arcs and plasma in my microwave oven putting all sort of metal and cutlery in it and maybe kill a few things. But alas!
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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar 
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Thanks to Ali Humaydan for bringing the idea to my attention! One more item off my list, and I didn't kill the microwave oven in the process either! Nguyen - Nguyen! (look up the pronunciation)
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Ah yes ElectroBOOM: doing the things we weren’t supposed to do as kids, but he can do because he’s a ‘professional’
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Once you know something is dangerous, it's people like Mehdi who figure out why, saving thousands afterwards with their discoveries.
Don't try this at home. We're what you call experts
I've never seen a man be so mad about his microwave not exploding.
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Lmao 😂 spot on
Well if you want it to explode, just place a sealed bottle of wine or champagne inside it, set it for 60 minutes and keep back 50 metres. ;)
"professional" btw
That’s weird because I remember microwaves 20-30 years ago going crazy with arcs when you forgot a spoon in the bowl or didn’t take all the foil off whatever you put in there maybe they somehow improved them.
Exactly I wonder if he put a spoon in food if that would work because I also remember that
@@Jus4yaI came to this video because I put some food in my microwave and forgot I left my spoon in the soup but when I came back I seen it was in there and asked my brother if it was making loud spark sounds he said no and my food was warm lol
@@nickgarcia1751 lies
I always put a spoon into my cup when I want to warm my cocoa. Never had a problem, even 30 years ago.
We have a pretty old microwave (made in 2006) and im still terrified to put a spoon in it
*ElectroBOOM casually gets angrier that his microwave isn't exploding in his face*
"I've never been so disappointed in the lack of arcs." -Mehdi 2021
Missing The days where I used to laugh my head off watching his vedios..... these days, his vedios are very educative but sadly not as funny as they used to be....
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I would prefer "Mehdi 2021" rather than "Mehdi 1977-2021"
Newer microwaves have better shielding of the emitter. Get an 30 year one with less shielding and less power regulation.
@@itsdharun we can get arcs if you have a microwave I know how to do it
You need an older microwave for the real magic. Those new ovens have power limiters to prevent a high SWR situation from damaging the magnetron. When it detects a high SWR it turns the TXP down from 1200 watts to like 500 watts. Also metal that is at length of any of the wavelengths sweet spots (1/4, 1/2 wave etc.) and can hold the RF power in watts then you wont get much and this is because the metal is considered a tuned antenna and the SWR will not drive up much.
What you should have done was put a CD in there
I put a whole stack of CDs in there once.
The instructions for a microwave my parents purchaced recently explicetly states that metal is okay as long as it doesn't come into contact with the sides.
Yes, I have put metal in older microwaves and they go crazy
@@The6677yu very cool, new technology though smh...
That's not true.
FWIW, if you read the manual for any modern microwave, they actually say that small amounts of metal are not a problem - they shield the magnetron against dangerous levels of feedback. Some even suggest using metal for cooking purposes to shield certain parts of food. I remember reading this in the manual for my first microwave oven, which I got in 1994.
They do, however, warn you to not use dishes with silver trim. Not because it's dangerous but because if any arcing occurs, it can ruin the finish of the metal.
I do wonder, however, if this was a more serious problem in older microwaves. Maybe a unit from the 80's might have less shielding and may behave differently.
I have never seen a more patient person to wait 30 seconds for the microwave
Next upload:
*"ElectroBOOM on why it isn't dangerous to put a fork in a toaster"*
It isn't.
yeah it used to be, back when toasters were hardcore and we weren’t such pussies.
"The fuse in the house just pops and my lights go out, so boring "
The dangers of putting a fork into a toaster is quite dependent on where on the live element your metal object touches. Each element is a big long coil of wire that snakes through the toaster. One end of the element is at 110/220V and the other end is at zero volts. So, for example, on a 110V toaster 50% of the exposed heater wire is under 55V (but seriously, don't stick things in running toasters, it's still pretty dangerous)
@@natecousins6264 is this a joke?
I've never seen a microwave this clean, I'm so impressed
It's new
microwave a bowl of hot water for a minute.
makes cleaning a microwave a breeze.
@@alecnolastname4362 I'll try this out
@Nedd Flanders nah not really, it won't start steaming in seconds, just telling from experience and yea I used it at 900 watts of power
You've never bought a new one?
As an EE myself, I have still wondered why a steel rack was ok. I could not reconcile it in my mind. Loved your presentation. Very funny and entertaining. Thanks.
The steel rack wasn't tested in this video - you only saw a picture of it. I'm pretty sure that the rack belongs to an infrared convection oven (as seen on TV). I used to have one, it has nothing to do with microwaves. And yes, I would expect it to produce spectacular sparks, similar to a golden trim around a plate.
Thats for the "microwaves" that you see in resaraunts. Nothing rotates, they don't create heat spots and you put foil in there all the time. All they have in common with microwaves is they heat up food in seconds and they are small.
@@ruslankadylak2999well, you're wrong on both counts. There are some microwave ovens that come with metal racks in them. But you don't have to take my word for it - just Google it
The arcing in the microwave is similar to a lightning storm passing a city. I forget all the electromagnetic concepts of that apply but the air isn't isn't a perfectly homogeneous fluid(fractional differences in humidity) so path of least resistance isn't visible but like op was demonstrating certain shapes like pointy things like a radio tower have a higher likelihood of attracting an arc of electromagnetic energy. Even in the sealed environment of the microwave, the energies put into the objects start creating convection currents creating different resistances in the fluid (air)
So, in a microwave oven we have a magnetron (emitter of microwave energy). The food is the “load”, as the frequency is best to heat water molecules. Putting metal in (as far as I am concerned) simply provides a path of less resistance and puts a greater stress on the magnetron.
The most dangerous metal in a microwave experiment I have seen involved microwaving steel wool.
Every year my wife brings out the Christmas dinner plates with gold designs on them and every year I arc them out forgetting. It’s a Christmas tradition!
My wife only uses the gold designed plates because she's of the belief that you shouldn't be afraid to use things. Well, none of the plates have gold on them anymore, but my poptarts are toasty!
@@jnevercast "...she's of the belief that you shouldn't be afraid to use things."
My wife, EXACTLY. And that, dear friends, is why we can't have nice things.
They're all BRoKeN!
Yeah those arc like crazy!But they don't have sharp edges, how does it happen?
@@FrankieSp90 gold is a better conductor
Also it probably does have sharp edges you just can't feel them because they are in the plate
I like how he's so confident that he's literally right beside the microwave, knowing that it wont explode
Oh, look! It's your comment being recommended to me with only eight likes...
I put a Capri Sun in the microwave when I was a kid and got a firework show
How…are…you…everywhere…?
You give him too much credit
We meet again
A lot of the new digital microwaves have a grill option and they are metal resistant, try on the old microwaves to put some metal and you will see the real danger
Doesn't matter what options they have .it's still a magnetron that's blasting microwaves..
Wonderful editing, fun video. Thanks, Electroboom.
I like how when trying to replicate it you had a lot of problems, everyone that had this kind of accident got it first try
Not really, they just forget when it doesn't happen 🤔 I've been using metal spoons in microwaves all my life, never had a problem
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@@shramadurai7287 BEGONE SCAMMA
it depends on the kind of microwave, putting metal in the old ones is very dangerous
@@zorropotatz why particularly in the older ones?
Try it with an older oven. Some modern ovens have protection for the magnetron against running the thing empty.
Super fancy (expensive) ovens are starting to move towards solid state RF amplifiers, and those too have gain controls to protect the PA's when there's hardly any load (empty) or too much load (arcs), and that power control stuff has been in some ovens for a while.
Guess the simple way to find out is look at how much power it's drawing from the mains.
That´s good idea
@ElectroBOOM ! This is a real mention!
The first microwave oven my family had a couple of decades ago had a metal rack in it. It was supported by plastic hooks that were attracted to the inside of the oven. That oven is the reason I always wondered about this "you can't put metal in a microwave" claim.
He should also try different manufacturers of cutlery. A lot of forks have high content of non ferrous metals, I'd imagine a high nickel alloy spoon will arc a lot less than a high quality stainless steel one.
I remember using an old oven that would arc a cup
Watching this dude run these tests is making my anxiety sky rocket! lol
We actually needed someone to do this
I love that this is the safest experiment you've done on this channel while doing something that everyone was told was the worst thing possible lol
He didn't even get zapped this time!
Flashbacks to the time when he put a mini plastic fan into a microwave and lit his house fireNOT CLICKBAIT
I've seen many microwave light shows throughout my life.
I was just going to post that very thing lol
It is bad. It’s just modern microwaves have more safety features.
Reading the title I thought "yeah I knew it, I'm overcautious with the microwave". Then, I saw the author of the video. 💣💥
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You forgot to put some steel wool there.
my microwave when i accidentally use metal rimmed dishes: "AND FROM THE POWER ZEUS HAS GRANTED ME I SHALL SMITE THIS PLATE"
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lol samething happened to me. Was literally instant arcing all around the edge. I think its cuz my microwave is older, Electroboom’s microwave seems really new. Microwaves must have evolved
@@ghastlyderp2637 I think it’s a combination of older designs and foods being cooked that causes danger, because the energy also arcs through the food, causing the bad
we had to make sure not to put the plates or cups with gold leaf rims, because it would arc and destroy the leaf. We were not too careful, however, and eventually they had no leafing left lol
Still happens today
When I was stationed in Iraq, one of our local national interpreters would heat up cans of soup in the microwave. One day I caught him, and told him you're not supposed to do that. He said he'dbeen doing it for months lol. I guess there was really nothing wrong with it now
No issue then with a metal tin, but probably best to open it before doing that - otherwise you got to clean your microwave.
Many cans have plastic coating inside...better don't heat in the can ever.
The only thing wrong about it is the internal coating that keeps cans safe, can leech chemicals into the food when heated.
I’d be worried about the microwave becoming an unintentional ied. Wouldn’t want to leave it in too long
@@CanadianBOT99 if you are near it you will hear and see the can bulging under pressure before it goes thermonucler... don't ask how i knoe... and yes i'd not eat that stuff anymore anyways since nearly all cans have a plastic coating on the inside (that white liner on the inside isn't metal) to prevent the can from oxydizing on the inside.
I always thought it has something to do with the metal being very thin with low heat capacity. I have seen very thin foil paper burn easily in a microwave even in newer microwave ovens. Maybe metal oxides also play a role (would have been interesting to test rusty metals as well).
I tried the good ol grape into microwave to see a small arc. It was in a plastic cup, and there was an arc. It wasn't small though. It shot up from the grape and made a loud electric humm as the arc connected to the shell where the magnetron is located.
This reboot of "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?" looks promising.
Bro you just unlocked a memory I forgot about lol I could of swore “is it a good idea to microwave that?” Was a fever dream lol “bad smoke, don’t breath that in!” A company would be sued to shit now of days doing that lol
good old times...
i miss those days
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@@shramadurai7287 eh is wat
Wow. This is very useful information. Thank you very much :-)
Every time he puts it in the microwave my brain just hurts LOL I love it
This man’s reckless abandon for what he puts in his microwave inspires me honestly.
You should check out Photonicinduction. He's the king of doing stupid things with electricity intelligently. Not that electroboom isn't a great channel too. There's lots of good channels.
Worldwide, this video probably has some burn victims to its name, and this dude made money off of it lmao
@@PVComedy "victims" ie: people who half-watched, didnt listen to anything he said, and were going to do it anyway lol
@@PVComedy If you're that stupid to try this even after he repeatedly tells you to do not do it, that's not his fault anymore.
Should check out "is it a good idea to microwave this"
As a teen, I bought a microwave for testing purposes. The best I found: straighten a paperclip, then bend it into a near circle, so there's a small gap between the tips. It started fountaining golden sparks, like a firework, and when the microwave turned off, the clip ends looked melted, and the gap had increased significantly, haha.
I have bridged the gap in burnt out tungsten bulbs with plasma when I was a teen! (without microwaves)
It even (slowly) melted the tungsten too! But the bulb worked fine for at least a few minutes. The funny part was that the arc was so low power, that is was invisible near the working tungsten filament, so it looked like the bulb was working in open circuit.
I imagine the paperclip was melting and burning very fast at those arc temperatures.
Where were your parents??
@ in the microwave probably
Tin foil works wonders! I found that out the hard way as a kid
You can do the same trick by cutting a grape almost completely in half, only leaving a thin piece of skin connecting the two halves. Place it in the microwave with the open side up, and watch the magic
actually our ex microwave showed a picture to put spoon inside cup when warming a drink and not without.
However have had electrical discharges several times with metal- but with a plastic cover (for splatter) its fine
I worked in a shipping warehouse for a few years in the past. We used those "PACKING LIST" plastic adhesive envelopes extensively.
Out of everything in this video, I am most impressed by the ability of the one on your cardboard box to withstand being nuked in a microwave.
it was only for 30 seconds.
You really should have put steel wool in there.
I think he was trying to keep it to kitchen stuff.
I mean. That's stuff That's IN the kitchen...
When
I thought only Casey Ryback did that?
I really want to see him put an aluminum take home container in there. Classic situation of somebody putting metal in the microwave.
many frozen foods, have metal in the "microwave safe" packaging, its there to purposely draw current/heat to it, instead of other places, and acts like a heatsink, and a reflector to direct the microwaves, that actually brows and crisps up your food as it cooks, instead of it just having that standard rubber texture of microwaved food.
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I’m pretty sure microwave popcorn has a metalized film that heats the popcorn
I remember large chicken pot pies that use aluminum foil trays within a cardboard box, right in the microwave.
the material used is called METPET if anyone is intrested
@@jmac1099 Tons of microwave meals (mainly ones with bread) have metal to crisp it or heat it right or something like that
I didn't expect to enjoy this video as much as I did lol
Is it a good idea top microwave this? (love that series)
Remembering that old video where he almost set his house on fire by placing his no.1 fan inside a fucking microwave
I did say be careful!
@@ElectroBOOM Instructions unclear! My house is burning now.
@@dynamite-san You were clearly not being careful then.
When
@@ElectroBOOM OMG thank you Mehdi for replying!😄👑
Put a CD in there (can be junky old CD-R). They're the best for microwave arcs. You'll get a quick lightning show and the metal layer is destroyed. Also lets you see lots of arcs paths in the metal layer. I did this to tons of discs in college. 🙂
I can't even remember how many AOL CD's I did this with when I was younger! Just don't leave them in more than a few seconds. The burning plastic stinks.
I came to make this same suggestion. It looks so cool.
What’s a CD?
@@IslamicTalksPodcast bruh
Dvd's make different colours IIRC from a drunken escapade.
I remember putting a cd in the microwave when I was a kid. Coolest thing I ever saw growing up.
My grandmother was one of the first people to start using commercial microwaves and according to my dad she would put put metal in it all the time and be fine. Apparently there was some trick to it, something about percentages.
9:58 "I made a piece of... sheet" LOL :-D As a non-native English speaker, I can relate to the conscious efforts to pronounce some words very carefully, emphasizing them a lot :-D
😅😂🤣😭
Relatable
I think he was just making a pun.
I absolutely crack up every time
Imagine you walk into your dad’s workshop and he’s just sitting there, microwaving spoons.
And you are holding Karens cat.
"Hey hun, where's your father?"
"Hey Mom, well he's micro-"
"Microwaving spoons again??"
"Yep"
"I thought we were past this. So, how long has he bee-"
"About 4 hours"
"Oh jesus christ"
Then he belongs in the "nut house!"
I love that he tries it and its no problem but I do it and the microwave its on its way to the repair shop right away
You could also supply a free ion source inside, such as a candle flame, and it'll probably show much more arc
I mean... you clearly demonstrated that if the metal touches the side of the microwave it can arc which can damage your microwave which is a good enough reason not to put metal in there at least on purpose
still probably safer than putting half a grape in there though
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Why half a grape? This is oddly specific...
@@svpracer98 Grapes in a microwave creates plasma, there are legit scientific papers studying that phenomenon lol
“I made a piece of sheet” my inner 12 year old is rolling around laughing.
There are no sheets on my bed.
You must have missed, "My box is super hot!"
he made a piece of shEEt
Didn't overload microwave with a piece of sheet, but the accent certainly sent the RUclips algorithm into over drive.
@@idunno402 you better not sheet on the bed you son on a beach
I always liked putting old CD's in the microwave, they arc well, and leave a cool design on the cd.
For proper plasma in the microwave, you have to cut a grape in half and place the two pieces next to each other.
The physics behind it is also really interesting, as the grapes act like lenses and have about the perfect size to focus the radiation to a small spot.
smart guy eh
BTW, my microwave by Panasonic came with metal grids to be used inside it, and they never arch. They are recommended by the designers. What is the trick?
Most of the plasma is made from the sodium ions, but you are also correct, in that it helps to focus down the microwaves
Actually, I’m thinking that maybe over the years they have improved the technology of microwaves. Because I can remember as a child accidentally leaving my spoons/forks in my bowl and seeing arcs. Also I recall we had plates with gold edging and that used to arc too. So maybe you need to get hold of a really old microwave oven?
My exact thoughts, happened to me with a fancy plate
@@gianluccasimao same. Also when my brother overlooked using a stainless bowl for doing popcorn. Mind you the popcorn burnt was on the surface and nos inmediatley on the bowl
My parents had plates with gold edges, but the microwave partially destroyed the gold paint, so it is no longer an antenna.
Every plate was only sparking once or twice, then no more. Problem solved itself!
Ok so let’s like the shit out of this so we can get Khadi to test an old microwave form the 90s or something. And I’d love to know why the old ones did it and the new ones don’t.
Yeah when I was little I tried putting something in the microwave and the bag was held closed by a metal clip and that caused an arc too
My microwave actually instructs me to put a spoon in any glass or cup of liquid I want to heat up. It helps to dissipate heat to prevent liquids from boiling or exploding. Always blew the mind of anyone I told about this. They always believed it couldn't be a real microwave oven, then.
Finally. I was beginning to think I am crazy. I clearly remember that we had to put a metal spoon into our cups when heating liquids when I was a kid and Microwave ovens were kinda new.
Whenever I tell this story, they are all claiming that I must be misremembering, "Metal = Boom, everyone knows that" :) :)
Doesn't have to be a metal spoon. It could be a chopstick. You're just giving the fluid something with nucleation points in it so you don't end up with a container of superheated liquid that will vaporize as soon as it is disturbed. It happens most easily with smooth glass containers with narrow necks.
Those microwavable meals all have foil in the packaging to reflect waves and heat more evenly.
It's to provide a nucleation site so the water doesn't superheat and then flash to steam. (aka explode) You do NOT want that to happen while removing it from the oven. I use a chopstick if I'm boiling water in a microwave.
@@notjustforme8857 from my experience, potato=boom
I once put a frozen granola bar (with wrapper) in the microwave when I was kid. It was an instant spark show. (OLD big early 90's microwave)
i loved that every time it arc'd he laughed like a kid
Newer microwaves have safety features against arcing, try using an old one
Infect my old one arcs like a pro
I knew it
*Thor:* Newer microwaves are NOT worthy!!!
Bull. Older microwaves had no problem with metal plates and other smooth objects
@@NavinF Yes they did. I recall them doing so
New idea: 1. Heat up metal plate in microwave. 2. Place pizza on plate. 3. Profit!
When
jeff do you have extra raspberri pi's that you can donate to me?
Microwave popcorn bags have a metal grid inside the bottom layer of the bag that absorbs the microwaves to generate the necessary heat.
4. burn off finger prints on plate. 5. become bank robber
@@vulpixgaming7123 there quite cheap from what i can tell. No reason why its impossible to find one
From my observations i found that it only sparks with closed counters, like a round of metal on the border of a plate. Putting a spoon on the other hand is completely safe and even recommended if you warm up liquids. Otherwise they may start boiling in your hands.
What I was not sure about is running the oven empty. I saw that warning in the manuals and my understanding was that if the energy is not consumed by food it will find an exit inside the oven and damage it. So I always put a glass of water when doing experiments like this.
You have to love this guy Comes off as being a little slow but actually is a very brilliant man
I think something like a closed loop would have been good. I think at the right spot, the magnetic field forces quite a high current through it and it should do some kind of relieable melting at specific spots where a lot of magnetic field is enclosed (like in a transformer). Also this would not be the same as a sheet with eddy currents as with a ring much more field can be encirceled, while in a sheet every magnetic field is immediately shorted and energy is dispersed more evenly. Also: I think it is not the sharp edges but the thin-ness of the foil that is being heated through magneticly induced eddy currents.
I would say a great demonstration of newer technology. An old school microwave would've lit up like a Christmas tree with just the spoon. Been there done that.
i distinctly remember this happening to me too a couple of times
@Peter Evans I remember seeing them on TV testing a microwave, the guy giving the tour was having so much fun. Takes a bunch of foil, stuffs it into the microwave, turns it on for several minutes, and sees what happens. Later goes to the shooting range, loads the test rifle, and shoots some ballistic glass to see if it works. Im a huge fan of anything UL listed, especially because of that. And, you know, lower risk of the appliance burning the house down.
My current microwave doubles as a light show.
I was thinking the same! We have a really really old microwave and that thing will get ANGRY.
@@OGPatriot03 Your current microwave is a microwave _current?_
When I was young I put CD in a microwave and the whole disk sparked like firework. You should try this in another video
Yeah i used to do this too, its awesome. The best way to do it is to put a small disposable plastic cup upside in the microwave then put the cd ontop of it shinyside up. The cd looks like one of those plasma discs with little bolts of electricity crackling all over it and shooting sparks out of the edges.
Same here, but the microwave will never smell the same,, lol
Interesting. CDs are made of a phase-change material that is supposed to melt and change between amorphous and crystalline states when blasted with optical beams... when heated enough, it probably goes full amorphous and expands, cracks, and the cracks create new sharp edges, that make arcs?
Yeah I used to do this with Cd-R discs I didn't want any more and then stuck them to the walls in my first flat for decoration haha.
Can confirm.
I had a mug that was glazed with sort of metallic glaze maybe chrome, and it nearly destroyed itself.
It still to this very day have a heat colorspot on the location it arced like crazy.
I have arcs on the plates and cups with gold painting on them, mostly old ones, partially scratched.
Also the magnetite sand does the strong effect.
came here to say this. i have plates with either white gold inlay or silver (not sure which) and they sparked when i put them in the microwave. i have noticed tho, that they sparked somewhat after accidentally putting them in there, but if you keep doing it, they eventually stop sparking and no longer spark.
Like, they stop sparking on repeat uses. I dont mean "in the same session". They spark the first time, then they stop sparking and never spark again.
Electroboom has a special arc less microwave. My microwave arcs like crazy when I leave any metal.
I'll leave spoons in when reheating soup. I only had arcing once from a fork that was beside some food.
And the classic "frozen bag of bread with a metal tie" that is forgotten about. That quickly arcs.
@@volvo09 the arcs add flavour
@@ohmygahdbilly "Would you like some arc-flavoured pizza?"
@@cicianamumu had that last night, no thanks
Newer microwave ovens on the market definitely avoid arching more than older or cheap ones, but im not sure why.
As a person who is even afraid of plugging in a toaster, i truly admire this guy
He put the spoon in there and was RIGHT NEXT TO IT the entire time.
Toasters are actually more dangerous than microwaves arguably
I wasnt allowed to do anything because "I'm stupid and talentless" by my parents saying...but yeah....I did this nothing ever happened
@@korigamik you are not helping
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On one of my microwaves the manual asked for a metal spoon in a glass when you warmed liquids.
If it hasn't already been mentioned, what about the moisture of the food you're cooking while the utensil is in the microwave?
you are using a microwave that advertises it's anti-arcing technology with a logo right on the door (cyclonic inverters minimize arcing and smooth the standing waves you mentioned)
@Honest Addict Post Ban 3 Yeah, intentionally misinforming people possibly causing them serious injury or death.
I recall sticky all kinds of shit in microwaves for fun since the seventies. I always got metal objects to arc of weird shit. The slinky was fun. Gallium, cool.
@Honest Addict Post Ban 3 Having practical examples of what not to do can be very informative if you're not short sighted. You and I watching these videos are not the same thing.
I was wondering why he was having so much trouble getting arcs when I immediately got them when I forgot once a fork mixed with the food and another time a plate with a golden rim. It's not safe at all because the metal gets hot as hell and doesn't cool down super quickly as aluminum foil does.
@@anthonyugarte1072 If you need practical examples about microwaving metal, then you are "short sighted" lmao
I've also had a lot of trouble making this work reliably. I've tried lots of antenna designs and materials. It's tough to get the arc to form right where you want it. If you could make it work in a specific spot you could make a microwave arc furnace.
you can place a bar of chocolate elevated without spinning and after a while, not let it totally melt, you ll be able to pinpoint geographically where the waves are in your microwave oven. Based on that you can place the antennas on the "high" points and get some arcs
Same here. Until my daughter decides to heat up our stainless steel pot and it hit the inside wall....while I wasn't home. Tripped the breaker lol
@@tyjohnston5889 Woah, can't believe that can go tripped breaker
Try a fork!!
I have heard, but never tried, that a salted slice of cabbage (not rotating) will show you the hot spots in your microwave.
I have an old microwave from the 80s, it has 2 metal plates inside as well as a metal grate for putting food on, never sparked once. All the new microwaves i had burned up trying to make popcorn, burned a hole through the inside of the microwave about an inch wide.
Chip bags in the microwave are fun to watch. Compact disks as well.
My favorite was to put a CD or DVD in there, great patterns as it burns through the foil. I also ruined several antique plates with gold edging. I'd be curious to see what happens with loops of metal.
It's happened to me twice. Once when I put a foil-wrapped burger in the microwave as a kid, and again when the thermometer needle got dirty in my current microwave. Watching this, it may have been touching the wall.
It's a 1400-watt from 1982. Came with a metal rack and an internal meat thermometer from the factory. It's a wonderful machine. Got it for 25 bucks. Even had the manual. My previous microwave was 500 watts, so I've learned a few lessons the hard way. Like the Boiled Egg Grenade. I did it on purpose, but with almost triple the power, it goes from a giggle-worthy "poof" to a literal explosive.
I had a stack of Xbox magazine demo disks I did that to.
@@ootdega I just had to replace a microwave rack because grease got trapped inside one of the rubber feet which someone caused arcing there. it was super violent, and the foot exploded with tons of arcing. it's only an 1100 watt oven though from the 90's
I used to shrink chip bags in the microwave
I've had that happen with gilt patterns on a jug. Made a worryingly loud arcing buzz
What you need is just a voltage differential for arcing to occur. The best way is to make a loop of metal with a gap in it. It'll produce alternating current in the loop so the ends will arc to one another.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Oh yeah, I've destroyed plates like that, then hidden them underneath all the other plates in the hopes nobody sees the damaged ones. 😂
cd's go off almost instantly.
Interestingly enough they become completely destroyed. So, just another kind of CD.
I think that’s what happened with the metal spring inside the clamps holding up the spoons in the video
This explains why my plates with gold rims create arcs/sparks in the microwave.
Pop tart wrapper fit the bill here? I know those use to turn into a lightshow..
Was not the first air plane food used in WW2 a microwave / TV dinner thing, but the plates were made of metal, even early TV dinners were made on metal plates
Suggestion. Try a wooden toothpick, the round kind with a sharp pointed end, stuck in a marshmallow. I remember seeing this done somewhere. Exciting! Coronal discharge is concentrated at the sharp pointed end.
Put a CD or DVD in it. It will arc in a tree pattern. I used to do that to make sure information was destroyed when discarding data CDs. You only need a few seconds for it to arc.
Cool
Or just get a razor blade and scratch?
@@alexwang982 but it's not as fun to watch. :-)
this is insane. every single time I accidentally left silverware in there as a kid, it went insane and make tons of smoke. maybe microwaves were less safe in the early 90s? I still remember I heated a bowl of soup with a spoon still in it, and the whole room was lit up blue by the plasma and I panicked and unplugged it. The microwave was made 1990-92
Maybe it's the liquid
@@robsumn56 Any amount of foil I put in my crappy 50 dollar microwave I got a few years ago from home depot sparks up like crazy. I tried it a couple times after watching this. A small amount all by itself in any shape makes plasma like crazy and is also really loud.
Yeah the old microwave my parents had when I was a kid still had the rotary dial timer on it made a pretty awesome lightshow when I forgot a spoon in some soup. Never made that mistake again. Must be some safety features in microwaves now or something.
Microwave technology hasn’t really changed since then.
@@MohammedAli-mb6ozIt literally did.. Industrial Microwaves are a thing now, and you can put metals in it(certain metals) if the metal doesnt touch the edge of the microwave
I feel like there's more to this story. In college, I had some old grandma plates that had an intricate design of gold-colored foil inlaid in and around the plate edge, and those sparked like crazy. Not sharp, but it had sort of a web-like design, with each "strand" being just a 1-2mm across if memory serves. Also, why do CDROMs fry so dramatically?
I love how the microwave says “enjoy your food”
When I watch this I imagine Mehdi's wife looking around the house for her microwave oven and at the end of the day asking Mehdi what he did that day.
"You did what to my microwave oven?!"
Film it, call it "Dueling Unibrows"
She responds like she did that shocking family vid where she slaps him repeatedly
Had one of those metal wire stands that broke.. I repaired it with a nice stainless TIG welding rod and tried using it in the microwave. I learned you can not do that. The sparks from that single small welding repair created a massive lightshow. I guessed the metal is coated with something that reflects the microwaves, but the welding was not protected.
Its just like regular tig/mig welding.
Bright. As. Fvck.
Great microwave experiment
When I was younger, in the early 90s I've put tinfoil covered bowl in the microwave and it started sparking a lot. The tinfoil was crumbled with lots of edges. And also a much older microwave then
I'm learning electronics right now and tbh, I wish this dude was my teacher, lol. The stories I could tell.
His way of teaching is a lot more memorable and fun than the boring dry instruction you receive in classes. Maybe you can ask your instructor to show some of his videos in class to demonstrate things. Or you might be able to recreate one of his more tame experiments in class
Don't let school get in the way of your education - someone sometime idk
Aka he can be your teacher but only by RUclips
Wife: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!
Mehdi: Trying to burn down the house
Wife: AGAIN!!!!!
Again? You mean he didn't succeed last time?
I'm pretty sure she's comfortable with the proposition at this point...
wife: "oh okay - well let me know how that goes."
*' A G A I N '*
Wife: What are you doing?
Mehdi: A piece of sheet
Wife: AGAIN !!?!!
Wife: Slaps Mehdi continuously
I recommend you try it. The waves Will last about a few years and at the end of life expect subtle gravitational fluctuations affecting spacetime in very minor ways.
The answers we all wanted but never tried on our own.
I remember once when I was a kid I wanted to heat up my tea and I left a teaspoon inside the mug. The microwave lit up like a christmas tree. So, does that mean the more modern ovens have some kind of protection?
Something like that
See, my theory is that when the metal is inside another material, like liquids or maybe soup, or any kind of food, the food/drinks itself act as some sort of conductor. I wish his experiment brought these factors into play because I’ve never found myself wanting to only warm up my utensils 😅 BUT I have accidentally left utensils inside various dishes and also have kids who tend to not think things like this through thoroughly. I would like to see this experiment again with different types of variables, and also would like for him to reign in more on why the utensil arcs when it touches the side of the microwave. I have intuition on it obviously but would just love to see the experiment fully thorough without having to sacrifice my own family oven to do so 😅
He is using a very modern one, an "inverter" microwave, no idea if that's more protection too.
@@rpavlik1 is it an actual inverter or just called that?
@@bigkirbyhj666 I'm not sure, but I know they don't have the typical large transformer in them, so that suggests they may actually be inverters. (As in, switch mode power supply on some level at least)
“It’s hard to make arcs in a microwave” Two grapes:
*am I a joke to you?*
Don't you mean Derek from Veritasium?
@@EelcoPeterzen Maybe both made such a video
Wasn't that plasma
@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 Maybe, but I couldn't find any from Steve.
And yes, those grapes formed plasma, through an arc. It's what usually happens in an arc, especially those big ones at power plants.
@@ratchicken8159 Well, arcs are a manifestation of electrical breakdown which is plasma
Hello , i think you must use metals with their edges being as thin as the wave length of microwaves so that diffraction happens
Never saw a microwave so clean.
So it's relatively safe to put metal utensils in the microwave, but one things that you probably still shouldn't put into a microwave is plates with gold or silver detailing. That feels like an important part of the "no metal in the microwave" rule.
That one is probably the worst case scenario. Regular spoons or such do absolutely nothing. I've heard some people even recommend putting a spoon into a glass of water because it might prevent the water from superheating itself, which can then suddenly burst into steam once you move the glass. But obviously you shouldn't heat up liquids to that degree in a microwave anyway.
The worst stuff that usually happens to me is puttng some kind of scrambled egg in there and some of the inside hitting a high power spot, getting super heated and exploding egg all over the inside of the microwave lol.
My grandad gave me some plates with gold around the rim, he's got dementia so tries to upsell everything. I wasn't sure whether it was actually a metal rather than just some paint, until I tried to put it in the microwave. Within one second the entire rim of the plate sparked up, microwave was turned off immediately. I guess it is real gold!
I burned up a gold-detailed plate in the microwave recently.
Definitely, I remember as a kid accidentally putting such plates in the microwave on accident, eventually I figured not to do that lol.
@@LeutnantJoker Gold- or silver-detailed cutlery isn't that uncommon, tbf. Wouldn't call it a "worst case" scenario (if by "worst case" you meant it'd happen very, very rarely)
I am impressed he didn't suspect a power limiter
I remember we had a work party years ago. They bought a ton of paper plates that had sparkly 4th of July decorations built into the plate. Everything was fine until later when someone went to re heat their leftovers the thing actually caught fire in the microwave.
A metal plate wasnput in my micro wave for 2 seconds, it steamed, there was arks and made some quiet sounds, it wasn't that scary but i was kid and i will never forget this
When I was a kid, I accidently put a bowl covered with aluminium foil to heat in the microwave, and saw a ton of sparks and pops. Like literally 20 times more than in your entire video.
I got the slippers that day, but yeah, never put metal anywhere near that death contraption ever again...
old microwaves are more wild.
He only tried 1 microwave. Test an old microwave without modern safeguarding. BUT BE CAREFUL!!!
It's the Aluminum foil
@@toxicara dont even need to go that old just choose a cheap one without electronics and mechanical timing these ones should do aswell
Haha i did something similar
Experimented quite a bit myself, but I used a really old one with high power. Worked like a charm to make big arcs or plasma.
I won't go into detail but all I can say, steel wool in the right setup or open flames work the best. (Don't do that..) Got so much arcing that I ended up with molten metal puddles and the like. And in other runs could sustain a plasma ball for some time that I trapped under a glass, until the glass exploded that is. xD
Guessing the inverter design signal is way different than the older CW way design effects. I know with lasers and other electromagnetic designs the effects of the signal through air or media is different. I recall the CW's heat up way more the air and other medium compared to pulse train methods.
Same here. Growing up we had a Montgomery Ward microwave. That sucker would leave burn marks on spoons.
@@jafinch78 Could be, I am not sure. Idk if they really changed anything fundamentally over the years. I always thought they would just always use the inexpensive commercial continuous wave magnetron.
My old oven surely had one like this, either it was 100% on or completely off. You could just set how long it should wait in-between.
It even had a circuit diagram on the back which was very simple. But the simple things don't break so easily. I even tried to melt glass or put burning sparklers in it. It never died on me, until I took it apart for the components. xD
"or open flames" what? I don't even understand what you mean by that.
@@ewthmatth microwaving a flame can cause plasma. Like microwaving a lit candle and such.
I love the part where microwave says "ENJOY" but he is pissed af 😅
Those arcs are plasma. Used to work in a wafer fab where RF plasma etchers/ashers employed microwave tubes were to excite the plasma over the wafer. They used to malfunction a lot.