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Cheese Completely Warps plastic plate

TallBill

TallBill

Lifer
We had a few extra cheeseburgers left over from a big bbq, and tossed em in the fridge. I put one on a plastic plate and microwaved it. The cheese blew up and burned to the plate and made half of the plate swell up about half an inch. Crazy stuff. I expected the cheese to melt/burn a little, but not ruin the plate. I'm gonna go try it again.
 
It is because the cheese got very, very hot.

You absolutely should NOT be using non-microwave safe plastic in the microwave, it is very bad for you.
 
you can't microwave on plastic (at least not cheap/thin plastic)


you used a non-microwave safe plate
 
Any moisture in the cheese is subject to rapid increase in temperature while in the microwave, which probably melted and deformed your plastic. I wouldn't eat it if I were you.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can't microwave on plastic (at least not cheap/thin plastic)


you used a non-microwave safe plate
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Its a tupperware brand plate. Its been microwaved hundreds of times. Why the cheese?
 
We once bought a plastic tea-container for our tea (go figure!) and upon our first batch of tea being made, I poured the boiling tea into the tea-container to mix it with water (like you do)... The hot tea melted the plastic tea container. Rendering that pot of tea useless. The plastic was about 1/6" thick.

*shrug*

Oh, a microwave experience. Reheating some soup in the microwave (chicken noodle; very good) and I made a large bowl of it. Well, from the living room I heard a loud crash noise from the kitchen. So I walk in and nothing is wrong. About 2 minutes later, I open the microwave door and the bowl had actually tipped over inside the microwave because the spin plate came off its tracks! The light is out on my microwave, so I didn't see it from before. What a freaking mess to clean 🙁
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Any moisture in the cheese is subject to rapid increase in temperature while in the microwave, which probably melted and deformed your plastic. I wouldn't eat it if I were you.
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I'd assume the cheese wouldn't really allow any moisture underneath it to evaporate and escape, either.
 
the cheese got hotter than the melting point of the plastic, so the plastic melted

what kind of cheese ? american ? cheddAr ? we'll look up the melting/boiling point of the cheese
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
the cheese got hotter than the melting point of the plastic, so the plastic melted

what kind of cheese ? american ? chedder ? we'll look up the melting/boiling point of the cheese
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Chedder. But remember that it was origionally melted on the burger, and then stored in the fridge. Its pre-melted cheese and perhaps because of that picked up more moisture.
 
i was google searching for the melting point of cheddAr cheese and found this tidbit

linked

Cheddite is an explosive compound used as a primer
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Cheddite was also a fictional substance described in the comic science-fiction
. It was made by irradiating Cheddar cheese
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I'm cooking a few burgers without cheese for a bit untill I've got this figured out. Stockpile is running low though so testing might soon end.
 
cheese gets up to temperature faster than the burger.... pours out onto plate... holds hot temperature for any period of time while burger still slightly cooler = = warped plate under cheese but not under burger
 
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