You can’t just make a statement like that and not show us photos.
Boing Boing is a hotbed of Nixie tube fetishists, you know.
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Used to do this with olives in the microwave at the pizza place where I worked evenings as chef… oh lord, that was 1989… (student days, happy times)
Three of them lined up, just touching. 10 or 15 seconds in, there would be a couple of sparks, a loud ‘crack’, and they would bounce apart. Things we used to do for entertainment before YouTube…
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but what happens when they get to 3 microwaves down, does the timer run 1/30th the speed of the main microwave?
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One hopes not. If your microwave is leaking enough that the plasma effects work outside the housing it’s leaking catastrophically badly. Should your grape-canary happen to signal microwave exposure you might as well cut the power and/or run; increased chance of saving your corneas is always good; but you’d want to be warned well ahead of things getting to that point.
A gummint-regulation microwave isn’t allowed to exceed 5 milliwatts per square centimeter at 5cm distance. If you are seeing an effect normally seen when running the 800-1,000watt magnetron into a mostly empty microwave outside the microwave that’s not good at all.
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Thanks for shattering dreams you monster.
I was desperately hoping that this situation could be described as “running a naan scan”; but, thanks for nothing Indian culinary diversity, apparently ‘appalams’ are also a thing; and the relevant thing in this case.
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