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PSA: Don't microwave bacon unsupervised

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Mark R

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Put some bacon in the microwave on the extra-crispy setting, and then went to nef on ATOT.

After about 7 minutes, I hear the characteristic and unmistakable buzz of a high-current arc. A sound I can recognise immediately.

I sprint across the living room into the kitchen, where I find the microwave emitting a terrifying glow and buzzing angrily. There was a large flame rising from the bacon, and a huge ball of shimmering, brightly glowing plasma in the center of the oven.

I press stop, and the plasma dissipates, but the bacon keeps burning, but in a slightly more controlled fashion. I open the door and blow it out.

One of the pieces of bacon is a bit charred with a hole burned through it.

Not wanting my last pieces of bacon to go to waste, I make a nice chicken and bacon wrap out of what was left. It was crisped to perfection - even the one with a hole burnt in it.

The microwave oven was a bit charred inside, but I suspect it will buff out.
 
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The closest I had to that was some charring between two pieces of large-diced ham.
I just had it in there to take the chill of the refrigerator out of it, but some arcing did apparently occur.



JMapleton said:
Glowing plasma? Is that bit of an exaggeration?
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Nope.
Youtube -> "grape in microwave"

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(Example)
 
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Two of my mom's more recent OTR microwaves started doing that permanently out of the blue. One a GE and the other a Whirlpool I think.
 
7 minutes sounds like an awful long time. I prefer my bacon kind of chewy (yeah, yeah -- that's weird, I know), and I only do 3.5-4 minutes for 4 pieces of bacon. 5 minutes would probably get it crunchy.
 
BudAshes said:
Microwaving bacon ruins it...
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I usually do it because I'm already dealing with eggs (omelettes) and sausage (patties) on the stove. I also find bacon to be the messiest thing to cook, so to avoid having a lot of stove wiping to do later, the microwave (with paper towels on bottom and top) works rather well.
 
Aikouka said:
I usually do it because I'm already dealing with eggs (omelettes) and sausage (patties) on the stove. I also find bacon to be the messiest thing to cook, so to avoid having a lot of stove wiping to do later, the microwave (with paper towels on bottom and top) works rather well.
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Learn to cook bacon in the oven. Lay down some tin foil on a baking sheet. Practically zero clean up and it makes great bacon.
 
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