Cheese Completely Warps plastic plate

[TallBill]

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.

 

[vi edit]

Maybe the plate was lactose intolerant.

 

[Eli]

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.

 

[FoBoT]

you can't microwave on plastic (at least not cheap/thin plastic)


you used a non-microwave safe plate

 

wow, youre a smart one.
Definatly the sharpest tool in teh shed.

 

[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.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can't microwave on plastic (at least not cheap/thin plastic)


you used a non-microwave safe plate

Its a tupperware brand plate. Its been microwaved hundreds of times. Why the cheese?

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: SampSon
wow, youre a smart one.
Definatly the sharpest tool in teh shed.

wow, youre a smart one.
Definatly the sharpest tool in teh shed.

 

[0roo0roo]

the bread is full of air, it didn't get hot enough to melt your stupid plate is all.

 

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: SampSon
wow, youre a smart one.
Definatly the sharpest tool in teh shed.

wow, youre a smart one.
Definatly the sharpest tool in teh shed.

echo


echo


echooooo

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the bread is full of air, it didn't get hot enough to melt your stupid plate is all.

who microwaves bread? lol

what are you talking about?

 

[boomdart]

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

 

[Ness]

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.

I'd assume the cheese wouldn't really allow any moisture underneath it to evaporate and escape, either.

 

[FoBoT]

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

 

[TallBill]

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

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.

 

[Amorphus]

CheddAr.

CheddAr.

CheddAr.

:|

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
CheddAr.

CheddAr.

CheddAr.

:|

Actually its chedder

 

[FoBoT]

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cheddite was also a fictional substance described in the comic science-fiction
. It was made by irradiating Cheddar cheese

 

[FoBoT]

ooops

 

[TallBill]

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.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

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

 

[Evadman]

Put an egg still in shell in the microwave for 2 minutes.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Put an egg still in shell in the microwave for 2 minutes.

but on a plastic plate or not?