yeah, don’t microwave plastic unless you want a bunch of plastic in your food.
captainsmol on
Aren’t microwaves a lot bigger? These look like tiny waves. I thought the waves of a microwave were around 20 cm, with nodes around the 10 cm. It’s a cool pattern and I’m curious to know how this formed!
xAustin90x on
Enjoy the plastic marination in your food
CatacombOfYarn on
Was there a bit of water in there that maybe melted the plastic when certain parts of the water got heated up?
StanielReddit on
Man, people have zero common sense.
alvenestthol on
That’s not how the microwaves would actually look though
Household microwaves are typically 2.4GHz (same as Wi-Fi!), which gives it a wavelength of a whole 12.2 centimeters. The pattern of the electric field looks more like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microwaveoventransient.webm), big blobs shifting inside the microwave oven, rather than small wavy-waves you might expect
That pattern most likely formed because the plastic already had weak-points along those lines, and the uneven expansion caused by the heating just caused the cracks to properly form.
LopsidedEquipment177 on
Why are you microwaving plastic?
TCinOC on
Yeah that kind of thin plastic isn’t supposed to be microwaved
Snotmyrealname on
Folks microwaving food in plastic like they expect they’ll never die.
And we wonder why ass cancer is the leading cause of death for folks under 50
Xelopheris on
That isn’t directly caused by the microwave. Your microwave has a wavelength of about 12cm. It would also be in either straight lines if the dish was unmoving, or in a very different pattern if the dish was on the carousel.
This is likely heat related, exposing weaker parts of the plastic with thermal expansion.
dfin25 on
You want ass cancer? Plastic in the microwave is how you get ass cancer.
aliendude5300 on
Microwaving plastic is generally pretty bad. I would at least have taken the lid off and put it in another microwave safe container
IfNotBackAvengeDeath on
you can tell it’s cancer by the lines
ilostmydogllc on
Just to be safe, don’t eat it.
Kipp7 on
That there is what they call the micro waves.
V382-Car on
are you sure it wasnt like that prior? looks like bead roll coming off the extruder.
Westerdutch on
Those are not ‘etched microwaves’, that is just an artifact from manufacturing the lid that became visible by heating it too much.
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That pretty much cool.
I wouldn’t microwave plastic that thin.
Not microwave safe…
yeah, don’t microwave plastic unless you want a bunch of plastic in your food.
Aren’t microwaves a lot bigger? These look like tiny waves. I thought the waves of a microwave were around 20 cm, with nodes around the 10 cm. It’s a cool pattern and I’m curious to know how this formed!
Enjoy the plastic marination in your food
Was there a bit of water in there that maybe melted the plastic when certain parts of the water got heated up?
Man, people have zero common sense.
That’s not how the microwaves would actually look though
Household microwaves are typically 2.4GHz (same as Wi-Fi!), which gives it a wavelength of a whole 12.2 centimeters. The pattern of the electric field looks more like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microwaveoventransient.webm), big blobs shifting inside the microwave oven, rather than small wavy-waves you might expect
That pattern most likely formed because the plastic already had weak-points along those lines, and the uneven expansion caused by the heating just caused the cracks to properly form.
Why are you microwaving plastic?
Yeah that kind of thin plastic isn’t supposed to be microwaved
Folks microwaving food in plastic like they expect they’ll never die.
And we wonder why ass cancer is the leading cause of death for folks under 50
That isn’t directly caused by the microwave. Your microwave has a wavelength of about 12cm. It would also be in either straight lines if the dish was unmoving, or in a very different pattern if the dish was on the carousel.
This is likely heat related, exposing weaker parts of the plastic with thermal expansion.
You want ass cancer? Plastic in the microwave is how you get ass cancer.
Microwaving plastic is generally pretty bad. I would at least have taken the lid off and put it in another microwave safe container
you can tell it’s cancer by the lines
Just to be safe, don’t eat it.
That there is what they call the micro waves.
are you sure it wasnt like that prior? looks like bead roll coming off the extruder.
Those are not ‘etched microwaves’, that is just an artifact from manufacturing the lid that became visible by heating it too much.