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Odd Microwave issue
Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put
it in mug and heat in Microwave for 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. |
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On Jan 4, 1:14*pm, "Rick Hughes"
wrote: Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put it in mug and heat in Microwave for 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... * along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. A film of something on the handle? (Maybe washing up liquid, milk - something that would evaporate off after getting to a high temp in the microwave). |
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I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Any cracks in the handle or holes needed when the cup was fired? Water might have got in and boiled. Peter Scott |
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On 04/01/2011 13:48, Peter Scott wrote:
I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Any cracks in the handle or holes needed when the cup was fired? Water might have got in and boiled. Peter Scott I agree. Somehow water has soaked in to the ceramic within the handle. Is it cracked? D |
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In article , Rick Hughes
writes Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put it in mug and heat in Microwave for 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. I'm no expert but you may have been the victim of localised superheating within the contents, near the handle. Googling for microwave oven "localised" super heating brings up quite a few hits that may help. Googling for "skin depth" in relation to microwaves might help more but nothing near the top of my quick search was helpful. It's also possible that your microwave just started working properly after all these years, a half cup of milk in mine is toasty after just 30s (900W :-). -- fred FIVE TV's superbright logo - not the DOG's, it's ******** |
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"Rick Hughes" wrote in message ... Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put it in mug and heat in Microwave for 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Does it have a turntable, and was it working? The microwave energy in the is very uneven within the cavity and the mug handle might have been in a hot-spot. I take it there was no gold-leaf under the glaze? -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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I would go with this too: I had a mug where the glaze cracked
round one limb of the handle and if you left it soaking in water overnight, enough worked its way in through the crack for it to cause some significant fizzling-and-spurting of steam when next used in the microwave. "Peter Scott" wrote in message ... I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Any cracks in the handle or holes needed when the cup was fired? Water might have got in and boiled. Peter Scott |
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I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) As I'm sure you know, some glazes get really hot, presumably because they are conductive # Why only the once Are you *absolutely* sure it was the usual mug? # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Damned if I know either |
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On Jan 4, 3:45*pm, "Graham." wrote:
"Rick Hughes" wrote in m... Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put it in mug and heat inMicrowavefor 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago.. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... * along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides ofmicrowave(unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Does it have a turntable, and was it working? Themicrowaveenergy in the is very uneven within the cavity and the mug handle might have been in a hot-spot. I take it there was no gold-leaf under the glaze? -- Graham. %Profound_observation%- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It has a turntable ... the only guess I could come up with was that the handle had touched door or side and was not rotating .... but still at a loss why the handle would get so hot. It is just a plain handle ... ceramic , no splits .... and I still use it every day ... only happened the once. Scars still healing ! |
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On Jan 4, 7:39*pm, "newshound" wrote:
I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) As I'm sure you know, some glazes get really hot, presumably because they are conductive # Why only the once Are you *absolutely* sure it was the usual mug? 100% certain .. it's my morning bucket of coffee mug ... |
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"Rick Hughes" wrote: # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) Moisture in the handle (glaze crazed and taken out of dishwasher before drying, or recently soaked) or contamination. # Why only the once Cos other times it was perfectly dry and clean. # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides of microwave (unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. If conducting could arc across, but unlikely to be the case. One of my pint pots has done the same very occasionally. I put it down to a porous handle. -- B Thumbs Change lycos to yahoo to reply |
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On Jan 4, 3:45 pm, "Graham." wrote: "Rick Hughes" wrote in m... Every morning I make myself a Latte coffee, taking milk from the fridge, put it in mug and heat inMicrowavefor 1 minute ... just to take fridge chill off the milk before frothing. Use the same mug every morning .. bought the thing on holiday years ago. The milk comes up to about room temp ... mug is barley warm to touch, (conduction from milk) handle does not warm at all. 3 weeks ago reached in and picked cup off ... and the handle was so hot it gave me full thickness burns to 2 fingers .. actually burnt right into the fingers put in the handle to pick it up. These were serious burns .... along with a few choice words. Even several minutes later the handle was too hot to touch, you could feel heat from it more than inch away ... yet milk and rest of mug were normal luke warm temp. I have since used same mug at least 20 times .. and it is back to normal. # Why would handle only get so hot (way over 100 degrees C) # Why only the once # a mate commented that the reason was the handle had touched the sides ofmicrowave(unknown) ... but how would that make a difference. Does it have a turntable, and was it working? Themicrowaveenergy in the is very uneven within the cavity and the mug handle might have been in a hot-spot. I take it there was no gold-leaf under the glaze? -- Graham. %Profound_observation%- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It has a turntable ... the only guess I could come up with was that the handle had touched door or side and was not rotating .... but still at a loss why the handle would get so hot. It is just a plain handle ... ceramic , no splits .... and I still use it every day ... only happened the once. Scars still healing ! I would hazard a guess that you perhaps put the mug in off-centre, but with the handle dead in the centre so that whilst the mug was moving round through the microwave field, the handle as relatively stationary and consequently heated up a lot more than usual. Easy enough to test. Let us know what happens. Tim |
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