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Papa Bear · 04-18-2012, 05:19 PM

(04-18-2012 03:21 PM)Number_6 Wrote: Did you have a metal spoon in the water?

Nice light show, almost as cool as microwaving a neon tube.

No, The microwave just picked last night to die. We've had it for about five years, which seems to be how long low-to-mid-price microwave last these days. A quick online search of "loud buzzing from microwave" brought up several diagnostic sites. It is most likely a burnt-out diode, capacitor, or magnetron. I have too much respect for high-voltage capacitors to open it up and find out which, and a repair shop would charge nearly the price of a new microwave just to open it up and diagnose the problem.

But I did find an interesting page about putting weird stuff in the microwave: Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments

dramaturge · 04-18-2012, 06:07 PM

Open it! It's for Science!

EmilyKing · 04-18-2012, 08:08 PM

(04-18-2012 05:19 PM)Papa Bear Wrote:
(04-18-2012 03:21 PM)Number_6 Wrote: Did you have a metal spoon in the water?

Nice light show, almost as cool as microwaving a neon tube.
No, The microwave just picked last night to die. We've had it for about five years, which seems to be how long low-to-mid-price microwave last these days. A quick online search of "loud buzzing from microwave" brought up several diagnostic sites. It is most likely a burnt-out diode, capacitor, or magnetron. I have too much respect for high-voltage capacitors to open it up and find out which, and a repair shop would charge nearly the price of a new microwave just to open it up and diagnose the problem.

But I did find an interesting page about putting weird stuff in the microwave: Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments

Capacitors can be quite shocking, especially when you locked and tagged out a piece of equipment and thought rummaging around inside it was safe.

captain_solo · 04-19-2012, 06:24 PM

(04-18-2012 08:08 PM)EmilyKing Wrote:
(04-18-2012 05:19 PM)Papa Bear Wrote: No, The microwave just picked last night to die. We've had it for about five years, which seems to be how long low-to-mid-price microwave last these days. A quick online search of "loud buzzing from microwave" brought up several diagnostic sites. It is most likely a burnt-out diode, capacitor, or magnetron. I have too much respect for high-voltage capacitors to open it up and find out which, and a repair shop would charge nearly the price of a new microwave just to open it up and diagnose the problem.

But I did find an interesting page about putting weird stuff in the microwave: Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments

Capacitors can be quite shocking, especially when you locked and tagged out a piece of equipment and thought rummaging around inside it was safe.

yeah, thats why we always did the screwdriver test before touching anything that was at one time energized. if it welds itself across the contacts you know its best to back off and regroup - and maybe look for some DC breakers you may have missed on the equipment

**redhot** · (This post was last modified: 04-19-2012 10:10 PM by redhot.)

(04-18-2012 12:36 AM)NotUnderLaw Wrote: pink slime? Like in Ghostbuster 2?

A few weeks ago there was a picture going around of pink stuff that looked a like strawberry shake but was supposedly the stuff found in burgers. It was coming out of a machine and landing in a cardboard box. I'm not tech savvy enough to post the pic but I'm sure you can google it.

**myotch** · (This post was last modified: 04-20-2012 12:14 AM by myotch.)

"pink slime" is the meat scraped off the bone. It is put in some kind of solution and added to ground beef. It's been the practice for years, and helps use more of the cow. It's just one of those things the general public doesn't know about, and are probably happier they don't.

If you like sausage, simply don't visit a sausage factory.

Anyway, ABC news did a hit piece on the practice, and made some false claims about the practice affecting the health of every burger eater in the US, which is total hogwash. ABC has been excoriated by other news networks about their manufactured controversy.

Try telling my mom, though. (I do love her. She's just...excitable.)

JoeR · 04-24-2012, 02:02 PM

Last night my wife's aunt shared the picture of the Obama's putting their "left" hands over their hearts during a ceremony. I knew at first glance that despite the pretty good photo editing, that it was just too ridiculous to be true. I commented that it was "fake, just like most email forwards and FB posts that bash politicians." She asked how I knew, and how she could research it. I posted the Snopes link, and she also found the original uncropped, unedited photo elsewhere. She has since deleted the entire post, thankfully.

bean · 04-24-2012, 07:48 PM

not at my butcher myotch.
its a way for big beef processors to make more $$$.

(04-20-2012 12:11 AM)myotch Wrote: "pink slime" is the meat scraped off the bone. It is put in some kind of solution and added to ground beef. It's been the practice for years, and helps use more of the cow. It's just one of those things the general public doesn't know about, and are probably happier they don't.

If you like sausage, simply don't visit a sausage factory.

Anyway, ABC news did a hit piece on the practice, and made some false claims about the practice affecting the health of every burger eater in the US, which is total hogwash. ABC has been excoriated by other news networks about their manufactured controversy.

Try telling my mom, though. (I do love her. She's just...excitable.)

**myotch** · 04-24-2012, 10:25 PM

Ground beef is ground beef. Doesn't matter if it is the choicest cut, spinal nerve. or these bone scrapings.

One would think the beef processors would get some kudos for not being wasteful, and using more of the "whole cow". We expect that of any other industry facing the reality of a finite resource.

bean · 04-25-2012, 06:50 AM

I hate to be really honest about this Myotch. This is stuff that was only destined for pet food ten years ago.
The troubling part is the spraying with "just a poof of ammonia." Now, when the meat packing industry has to come online with PR sites, getting those listed first through Google, and having authoritative announcers explain how "ammonia is in every living thing" then you need to start asking questions.

I just purchased 1/4 beef. The butcher is a small town, one man band. I can assure you that no tendons or ligaments from the animal I bought were ground, whipped at 100mph in a centerfuge, and sprayed with ammonia. That crap hit the "inedible" tub where it belongs.

I know the people I bought the meat from. I drive by their cows quite frequently. These animals are open pasture critters that have been well cared for. Plus I paid less per pound than the average person does at the "Big Store" with their ground whatever shipped in from Nebraska.