Hyperbole, Pop Tarts, and Lucky Charms should all be enshrined somewhere other than the General Mills Hall of Fame. Like my house. Because I love them. Well, hyperbole not so much, although it does make me laugh. Wait. Pop Tarts and Lucky Charms make me laugh too. I’m confused–must be the sugar high.
FTFY
They are actually quite good.
I back that. I don’t see any reason why a microwave oven should not have a phased array of emitters inside, thermal camera for surface temperature and/or (even better) some sort of tomography for scanning internal temperature of the object in 3d, and use the sensors for closed-loop feedback for proper heating of the food by taking advantage of the alignment of the hot and cold spots based on the phase differences of the emitters. Silicon carbide microwave amplifiers, where are you?
Not as fine grained control as you’d probably want, but closer than most domestic models.
Laboratory Microwave:
Nice. About 10 times more expensive than warranted, though.
I wonder if the power regulation is done by keying the magnetron on and off at full power, like the domestic ones do, or if they can regulate the power output continuously. If the latter, I can see part of the price differential being warranted.
Note from the ancient era when I was younger and interned in a microwave catalysis research lab.
Some reactions, when prodded by microwaves, can proceed in an explosive speed even if normally they are rather sluggish.
We used a Whirlpool brand domestic microwave there; it was smiling at us from the fume hood.
You’re so cute, Shaddack!
Deluded, but cute.
A programmer programmed that.
And he did it right.
And QA sent it back with a critical defect notice stating “when door is opened, beep count < 5”.
QA was just following the spec. Who wrote the spec? The team.
Also: am I really the only one who’s sniggering every time I read “large knob” ?
There is NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SHIPPING FORECAST! You take it back, you heathen.
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When I moved in to my flat, I just couldn’t figure out why the sleek, futuristic electric hob refused to heat anything. It took 3 hours of image search and Google translate of a German user manual to find out it’s an induction hob which needs a special magnetic type of pan. So I went hungry. Fin.[/quote]
Straightens tie, levels glasses
So I take it you don’t own any Griswold cast iron?
(Most modern pans in the US have a stamp or mark for types of heating they support, conduction, gas, induction, etc. The induction one is the wavy one)
When it interrupts cricket?
You know nothing!
I am not John Snow! I AM NOT JOHN SNOW!!!
runs off to bed
Takes off glasses and tie, puts on ironic glasses and musses hair
You know I don’t even own a microwave?
Pffft. You don’t even own a kebab oven. How could we take you seriously?
I am eating 3 year old freezer burnt pierogies and leftover new years eve pigs in a blanket dipped in Pinterest-found “fry sauce.”
I’d say that qualifies me as a pomo hipster food aesthete.
What the deuce are you on about today? Custom made, hand forged, cold rolled steel Kebab skewers. Thank you very much.
Try again, newb.
You can’t post pictures from your outdoor sex garden and claim them as proving foodie-legitimacy!
Nice try, perv!
Oh, its on.
@shaddack I need a BOM for a hipster oven that can reach 4000F using only organic sustainably harvested American white oak! And a catalytic converter that scrubs excess CO2 from the exhaust!
And yes, STAT!!
You go that route and you’ll only be able to control via DSL on an Arduino, will that be okay?
Since I have a good friend in the microcontroller industry, can I use a Nordic board instead?
Look, is simple, if you’re going to complain about an Arduino, just get your own fab and design and build one yourself.
