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Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

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Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

A microwave with a USB port would be great. Then you could feed the
SPAM in directly.

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Hi!

A microwave with a USB port would be great. Then you could feed the
SPAM in directly.

I think Firewire would be better. :-)

weird sense of humorI once tried to stick a bunch of spam down a USB
cable, but all I got for my efforts was "a device attached to the USB
hub is drawing too much power". And when I put the microwave that close
to the computer, it pretty much obliberated the Wi-Fi signal. Which I
guess solved the problem, at least for a while./weird sense of humor

William

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Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

Yes, but be sure to cover with several layers of paper towels because
the fat really flies!

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Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

Yes, but be sure to cover with several layers of paper towels because
the fat really flies!


What do you think the plastic spatter shields are for? Also, they
are great for reheating pizza without drying it out.


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What do you think the plastic spatter shields are for? Also, they
are great for reheating pizza without drying it out.

You can reheat a pizza in a microwave and have it dry out? I've never
nuked any piece of pizza that didn't come out soggy.

Rick Onanian wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
What do you think the plastic spatter shields are for? Also, they
are great for reheating pizza without drying it out.

You can reheat a pizza in a microwave and have it dry out? I've never
nuked any piece of pizza that didn't come out soggy.


Amateur! I can make it look and feel just like I walked in the door
with it in the box.


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You can reheat a pizza in a microwave and have it dry out? I've never
nuked any piece of pizza that didn't come out soggy.

Do it on cardboard and then give it a couple of minutes in an oven.

Rick Onanian wrote
Michael A. Terrell wrote

What do you think the plastic spatter shields are for? Also, they are great for reheating pizza
without drying it out.

You can reheat a pizza in a microwave and have it dry out?

Yep.

I've never nuked any piece of pizza that didn't come out soggy.

The trick is to do it on one of those big pizza reheating thingos
that you zap for 10 mins before putting the pizza on it to reheat it.

Works great.

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Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

Good one.

On the subject of microwaves, I recently learned what you *cannot* do in
them.
I was home alone and decided to raid the refrigerator. I found a big tub of
pre-mixed chocolate chip cookie dough and decided a little snack would be
nice. I didn't want to get involved with firing up the oven and finding
cookie sheets, etc., so I put three tablespoonful globs of the stuff on a
dish and stuck it in the microwave. I did a quick mental calculation ....
meaning I did a wild-assed guess ... and programmed five minutes at 80
percent power. Pushed the start button and went off into another room to do
something.

After about three minutes my dog (Sam Adams) caught my attention by barking
his head off in the kitchen.
I came over to see what his problem was and there was smoke pouring out of
the microwave rapidly filling the room. The stupid cookies had caught fire.
Then the alarm system went off which automatically caused the fire and
police department to call to see if our house was on fire.

Lesson learned.

Eisboch

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I came over to see what his problem was and there was smoke pouring out of
the microwave rapidly filling the room. The stupid cookies had caught fire.

Ah. I see. The _cookies_ were stupid.

Ayah. I may have run across a few of those myself!

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In article ,
"Eisboch" wrote:

I came over to see what his problem was and there was smoke pouring out
of
the microwave rapidly filling the room. The stupid cookies had caught
fire.

Ah. I see. The _cookies_ were stupid.

Ayah. I may have run across a few of those myself!


heh. I deserved that one.

Eisboch

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In article ,
"Eisboch" wrote:

I came over to see what his problem was and there was smoke pouring out
of
the microwave rapidly filling the room. The stupid cookies had caught
fire.

Ah. I see. The _cookies_ were stupid.

Ayah. I may have run across a few of those myself!


heh. I deserved that one.

Eisboch

No offense intended; I personally have lots more outrageous examples of
stupid stuff than your cookies!

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lid wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote:
the microwave rapidly filling the room. The stupid cookies had caught fire.

Ah. I see. The _cookies_ were stupid.

Mmm...stupid cookies. *drool*

I'm hungry.

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Will you have instructions for removing the door, bypassing the door
switch, and using it to zap bugs as they fly through the air?

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Will you have instructions for removing the door, bypassing the door
switch, and using it to zap bugs as they fly through the air?


Forget bugs! How about a couple hundred stacked like a video wall,
and use it at a political debate to really turn the heat on the
candidates? ;-)


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Jim Land wrote:

Will you have instructions for removing the door, bypassing the door
switch, and using it to zap bugs as they fly through the air?

Forget bugs! How about a couple hundred stacked like a video wall,
and use it at a political debate to really turn the heat on the
candidates? ;-)

In any case, bugs won't care. They are too small and they won't heat up
significantly in the time needed to fly by. But the microwave wavelength
is well suited to politicians though.

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"Michael A. Terrell" writes:

Jim Land wrote:

Will you have instructions for removing the door, bypassing the door
switch, and using it to zap bugs as they fly through the air?

Forget bugs! How about a couple hundred stacked like a video wall,
and use it at a political debate to really turn the heat on the
candidates? ;-)

In any case, bugs won't care. They are too small and they won't heat up
significantly in the time needed to fly by. But the microwave wavelength
is well suited to politicians though.


Make sure to remove the individual timers from each microwave. With
any luck at all, they'll be well done by the time the moderator rings
his bell.

My only question is when to call hazmat to clean up the biohazardous
waste? ;-)


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Sam Goldwasser wrote in
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Jim Land wrote:

Will you have instructions for removing the door, bypassing the door
switch, and using it to zap bugs as they fly through the air?


In any case, bugs won't care. They are too small and they won't heat up
significantly in the time needed to fly by.

Oh. You've already tried it? (c

Hi!

Is it OK to put large quantities of SPAM in a microwave?

Yes, just be sure to take it out at some point, otherwise it will begin
to smell like burning or turn rancid. I don't even want to imagine
rancid spam--the real stuff (junk mail) is bad enough.

Oh, and if you do--crank the power up to the "hotter than hell"
setting, so that the spammers can get a good taste of where they are
going.

William

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I like putting in AOL CDs and running them at full power for about 4
seconds

a great light show. better if you can do it in the dark.

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Crapola!

my new wife decided to make baked potatoes, 20 minutes at full power
ruined the microwave and smoked up the house. White stove became pure
black

priceless story retold for near 10 years now