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Microwhat Tumblr Answers Your Burning Questions On How Different Foods Microwave (PHOTOS)

Posted: 03/20/2012 9:26 am Updated: 03/21/2012 9:02 am

Who knew that before and after photos of various microwaved food items could be so cool when turned into animated gifs? The tumblr Microwhat explores the strangely fascinating concept of food microwaved too long. Check out some sample experiments below and head over to Microwhat to check out more (toothpaste! crayons! soap!).

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Who knew that before and after photos of various microwaved food items could be so cool when turned into animated gifs? The tumblr Microwhat explores the strangely fascinating concept of food microwav...
Who knew that before and after photos of various microwaved food items could be so cool when turned into animated gifs? The tumblr Microwhat explores the strangely fascinating concept of food microwav...
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JScott
John Galt's last name is McGuffin-Smithee
12:53 AM on 03/25/2012
If you nuke a piece of cheese long enough it turns into a crispy chip, all the oil goes to the bottom, altho it might stick to the dish, but wait till it cools before eating, and don't let it go too long it'll burn to a black ashy crisp.
07:20 PM on 03/21/2012
I want to put a microwave into a microwave.
06:33 PM on 03/21/2012
If you slice SPAM into equal sizes and place it on a paper towel and cover with a paper towel all the fat is soaked into the paper towels. I nuke SPAM for 45 seconds, actually it is good when heated. But then again, it beat eating C Rations and MRE's.....
05:51 PM on 03/21/2012
That must have been so fun to perform these experiments...
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wildbill654
information/misinformation age?
05:27 PM on 03/21/2012
Now if they can just figure a way to nuke the other kind of spam instead of the delete button------
Nice if itcould be nuked - before it arrives.
Oh well, it's not edible anyhow.
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listgirl3
Always remember to tip your ninja.
03:31 PM on 03/21/2012
Kinda fun :) Just not in MY microwave LOL
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lthrnck68
Reading IS
02:52 PM on 03/21/2012
I would like to know how long the materials being microwaved were in for for the after photos. We had a time for the way after photos, but I didn't see any time linked to the after photos.
10:36 AM on 03/26/2012
there were 3 photos. 1st b4 cooking 2nd after. And then the 3rd showed the time in micro wave and flashed between 1st and 2nd (example the peach rings cooked for 30 sec)
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susanherna121377
02:46 PM on 03/21/2012
Must be a slow news day! LOL
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mspat44417
Rock it if ya got it...Music
02:36 PM on 03/21/2012
Did the 12 year old's take over huff post.. really who cares unless yeah you are 12...
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magicsushi
...will work for peanuts.
09:47 AM on 03/21/2012
The spam was swimming in fat. Disgusting.
04:25 PM on 03/21/2012
What did you expect? Stuff like spam, hotdogs, scrapple, is about 85% fat. Just read the nutrition label.
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jeffhintx
Yummy gruel! Thanks 1 percent!
09:13 AM on 03/21/2012
Is anyone really stupid enough to microwave stuff like this after age 11?
09:50 AM on 03/21/2012
Yes. Some of us didn't get to do it when we were kids. Now that I'm grown up and have a microwave I'm responsible for cleaning and repairing, occasionally I'll throw something in there I've never microwaved before just to see what happens.
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mspat44417
Rock it if ya got it...Music
02:37 PM on 03/21/2012
like your I Q...did you throw that in there seems like it....lol
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AndyB62
Immune to Romnesia & Romonomics
07:39 AM on 03/21/2012
Thanks...now I have a craving for Spam.
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missy mitten
06:13 AM on 03/21/2012
This is awesome. For science!
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oldwolf49
Religion is a tool of the evil.
05:19 AM on 03/21/2012
True story; friend's kid did an experiment started with 2 pea plants, same size. She took a pitcher of water and microwaved it to a boil. A second pitcher she left alone. She watered each pea plant from the same pitcher for 4 weeks. The pea plant with non-nuked water grew and bore fruit. The pea plant with nuked water ended up dieing after about 2 1/2 weeks. She did this 7 years ago and since then I have never used a microwave. Makes ya think.
08:33 AM on 03/21/2012
I have heard of similar experiments... I really limit my use of microwaves now. I think I have used it 2 or 3 times in the past 6 months.
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Lulo
Lord Snarkist I of Aragon
09:13 AM on 03/21/2012
Unfortunately, the so called experiment is flawed and any scientist would debunk it by 1000 different reasons. While not a fan of microwaves, I am also not a fan of myths.

I have grown plenty of vegetables, enough to know that from time to time there is always a seed or two that will produce poor plants, plants which do not mature, plants that for any fo 100 reasons die on me. And the water had nothing to do with it.

Had she done the same experiment with more than one plant and gotten similar results, maybe she could claim this experiment as fact, but with just two plants, no so much.

ON A SIDE NOTE: Be VERY careful when you boil water on the microwave, SPECIALLY DESTILLED water...which you should never boil in a microwave. The reason being that boling occurs due to the impurities and other substances trapped in water. Destilled water does not boil when microwaved, but it does get heated up to the same levels. If you do and then suddenly put ANYTHING on it, it will literary "explode" on your face (Not really explode, but create a sudden reaction that looks like an explosion).
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Robyn Twango
meh
02:15 PM on 03/21/2012
I did that ONCE. boiled some water in the micro and hit 4 minutes instead of 3. Figured no big deal. I put a spoon in there after removing it and that hota@@ water was like a volcano coming out of that measuring cup.
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oldwolf49
Religion is a tool of the evil.
05:05 PM on 03/21/2012
I stand by the results, been repeated like a real experiment.
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Pleasedontdelete
Silent compliance is no longer a valid course of a
05:18 AM on 03/21/2012
Not even close to original.
People have been video taping themselves microwaving stuff and posting the videos on TY for years. There's even channels dedicated to it.

Weak sauce.