mildlyinfuriating
I microwaved a soup and tried to drink from the bowl. Turns out a small part of the rim was 210 degrees Fahrenheit (99°C). Way hotter than the soup.
Imagine my surprise when the first sips were fine, but by rotating the bowl the next sip burned my lips badly.
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Next time use a spoon 🥄
Not a microwave safe bowl. Now you know.
I have some plates and bowls that are like this, very clearly printed microwave safe on the bottom. So, technically safe for the dishes, but they're very bad at the job.
The dish is safe, our skin is not.
FYI for anyone who reads this. Any chips and cracks immediately make it not microwave safe anymore
All of my plates had chips before I got them around 1999, and none of them have broken in the microwave. I don't think they're that dangerous.
Microwave safe basically means “won’t absorb all the radiation allowing your food to get hot instead”
Microwave safe only means that putting it in the microwave won't damage it.
Microwaves are notorious for uneven heating. This kind of thing can happen no matter what the bowl is made of.
Unless it's leeching chemicals into the food being able to withstand this kind of temperature gradient proves it's microwave safe, no?
I think getting this hot is what makes it not microwave safe. It's not safe it burns you.
from a random website so take with a grain of salt.
"To qualify as microwave safe, products must: Not leach harmful or toxic chemicals or substances into food. Not break, crack, shatter, or become damaged in some way when heated in the microwave oven. Be cool enough to handle after 2 minutes in the microwave."
Microwave without turning funktion? Or a stoneware bowl or something similar? Then the glaze could be damaged in one spot, allowing water to seep in during washing. This would then be heated. The dry areas would not.
funktion
Hmm. Hold three fingers up for me, real quick.
Sorry, don't get the three finger thing. My english isn't that good. Function got fu(n/c)ked up by my german auto correct. 😬
Fittingly, he was implying that you were giving a tell that indicated you are German.
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/major-hellstrom-sees-three-fingers
That’s an amazing response. 💯
Germans typically use the thumb and first two fingers to show “three” vs English first three fingers with thumb folded over. An English spy was caught in the movie Inglorious Basterds because they used the English way, not the German way.
I was making a joke that I caught you out.
Ah, jetzt hab ich's 😂
Alles klar, Alter
Not just Germans, we do the same in Denmark
But I got the movie reference though, I love Quentin Tarantino movies
Don’t worry, my phone does the same all the time (I’m danish)
I use both an English and a Danish keyboard on my phone, but the English autocorrect knows Danish and the Danish autocorrect knows English, so my autocorrect is really messed up
This. I've recently returned to Reddit, partly to improve my English. And my phone is making it difficult. Especially capital letters at the beginning of nouns. I always have to edit if I even notice something.
Mine does the weirdest edits. Yesterday, while typing English on an English keyboard, it’s autocorrected “symptoms” to “surmælk” (sourmilk) lol
You have a FLIR camera for funsies?
FLIR cameras that attach to your phone aren't terribly expensive and they can pay for themselves in a few years if you use them in the winter to find spots the cold is leaking into your house and use foam to seal them up.
The cheapest ones I can find are $150.
lf it saves you $5 a month in heating and cooling, it's paid for itself in 3 years.
If you're renting an apartment maybe it's not worth it, but if you own a house maybe it is.
Some places allow you to rent them! Every so often the village camera goes around checking houses, I love it
HIKMICRO Mini3 Its a smartphone usb-c camera that costs around 300$. I bought it for finding heat-leaks around the house.
I have bowls that are like this. The outside of the bowl would get very hot but the contents would get warm at best. One time we put something in there for about 10 minutes, and when we took it out, noticed that the glazing on the bowl was cracking and stuff was oozing out of it. Turns out not microwave safe as we had assumed.
Nice one, mate. 🙄
The bowl is so hot that its glowing bright white
The microwave perfectly calculating the optimal heat distribution in order to create the coldest food and hottest bowl possible :
Jesus Christ what kind of bowl is that
One that likely isn't microwave safe
Stainless steel.
I think that would start sparking quick enough for op to notice
Metal generally won’t when it doesn’t have somewhere to arc to. The rim would be the sharpest part of the bowl, so the energy gets concentrated there the most.
Exactly. Everyone thinks you can't put any metal in the microwave, but arc points are what matter. The pull tab microwave soups and chili are metal lined, but because it's round and smooth, it can't create an arc.
So, the bowl isn't appropriate for microwave use. Check. You didn't notice how hot it was when removing it?
No because, like OP said, he drank from it first and it was fine, only after he rotated he got burnt. You can also clearly see the heat on the bowl is not evenly distributed
I have a few bowls that are labeled microwave, safe, and they get too hot in the microwave, hotter than their contents. And the other bowls from the same design with the same glaze and labeling, don’t. (I’m not positive. They were purchased from the same box set, I think I bought them individually over a couple of months ) We also got a new microwave and suddenly all kinds of dishes are getting hotter than their contents. Things like Corelleware and Pyrex
When you microwave liquids, you're not supposed to use 100% power. My microwave has a button for liquids, taking it down to 50% power for those uses. Some microwaves only have a power level setting and require you to manually select the power level.
Looks a bit like the colosseum
Microwave: here's your hot bowl of cold soup. Fuck you.
We bought a new microwave and suddenly all of the bowls are hotter than the contents, even the ones that didn’t do that before
Ring ring, bitch! Here's your hot-ass bowl of cold-ass food
You do realize why some bowls aren’t safe for microwaves, right?
I do not know what I was more surprised about: that this plate could get so hot, or that the degrees are Celsius
Flir camera. I use a $20,000 flir at work. It’s wicked fun
Damn. That things radiating
Average microwave experience
how
the mircowave beam always stays in one place, thats why dishes have to rotate in a mircowave so they get heated evenly
ohhh didnt know that thanks for teaching me :)
Either bowl isn't microwave safe or you didn't have the bowl off-center. My guess is you popped it in the middle haphazardly and that arc of the rim was the most askew from the middle.
Burn my lips once, shame on the microwave.
This is why you let food cool before you eat it/drinkit
Was the bowl on a rotating plate and is it microwave safe? This seems like user error.
Looking at the image I'm almost certain that's a reflection and the temperature you're measuring is incorrect.
Also wondering if you're using the correct emissivity for the bowl, what material is the bowl?
Have you once tried changing the emissivity in the IR camera? The change in temperature is miniscule. 1-5°C difference at best except for glass, metals and very shiny glazed porcelain.
You ignored the reflection I mentioned, you didn't say what material the bowl is, and you're trying to infer that the emissivity isn't significant, I'm pretty sure you don't actually understand how to properly use an infra red camera.
You're misreading my point. I never said emissivity doesn't matter, I said the change in temperature in my case is minor, because I'm not measuring shiny metals or glass. The material is a matte black ceramic bowl on a matte wooden table, both with emissivity values around 0.90/0.95. So unless the IR camera is wildly off or theres a strong external IR source reflecting in = the measured temperature will be fairly accurate.
You're right that ignoring reflections is a mistake, but so is assuming emissivity errors always cause massive deviations. Not all surfaces are polished aluminum.
And to be clear: numerical deviations of a few percent are largely irrelevant in the vast majority of IR camera use cases, which are qualitative in nature. identifying hotspots, cold leaks, or general gradients, not performing precision metrology.
I have 3 scabbed burned knuckles, probably from something similar. I didn't even notice at the time!
(Awkwardly carrying a few things, put napkins folded over on left hand holding plate, but was using right hand to balance other dishes on top, , noticed heat through the napkins on the left hand but was all ok. ate lunch noticing nothing, was back at the desk & right hand was sore & hot , looked down & saw blood & peeled skin on 3 knuckles)
Do you not understand how microwaves work?
Okay ?
You pulled out the FLIR after you burned yourself?
I mean, I don't usually preemptively whip out my flir unless I have a good reason to
And you just happened to have a heat measuring device to measure your soup being both hot and Hot Damn that's Hot
A number of years back (like 6) I worked at a place that had one of these for detecting industrial pipe leaks (so high quality, cost them like $25k) and since they stopped offering the service to our customers we got to use it for funsies in the office.
It was a lot of fun.
they are great for looking at a breaker box and seeing if one of the breakers is failing
Fluke thermal imager? Or acoustic imager?
I could do this with my phone, but it's sadly not that accurate
Which phone?
CAT S60 and newer models got a FLIR Sensor. These are really impressive.
Google pixel 8 pro
Holy hell!
Why is this downvoted. Tf?
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So… you.. can’t do this with your phone……….
To be fair to him, it does have a temperature measure sensor which could somewhat accurately tell the temperature, but not as in the image and only 1 place at a time
You can definitely do this with a phone. Some phones have the feature built in (this dude was talking about the pixel 8 pro, for example) but you can also just get a camera attachment for your phone. Theyre not that expensive. I got one ages back to check my insulation / around my windows etc., when I was planning some renovations. Found some cracks and such that id probably never have noticed so I figure it paid for itself.
I worked at an electrical parts place that sold FLIR cameras that go on your phone. They were expensive and not much real use to us, but we all wanted one..
Looked into some of those for night hunting, I also really want one.
I meant the temperature measure part
Ahaha, that's hot. That's hot.
one of the more fun and expensive tools in my tool box currently is my infared camera