Are you sure it's not the removable rice bag in the ass of the sloth that's supposed to be microwaved... Not the entire plushy?
I have the same one.
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Before clicking, I was going to suggest to check if it’s an ass rice design.
OOP should make REAL CLEAR to any kids that you can't do this to living creatures.
You do this with a frozen hampster in The Day of the Tentacle, which seemed so morbid to me.
If it helps this was one of the earliest uses of the microwave. They were experimenting with reheating frozen hampsters to see if a creature could be revived from such a state. The issue was that the defreezing options at the time were too slow, and didn't penetrate the outer layer into the core of the creature, but with the invention of the microwave they actually got the process working.
Okay so typing this out it is a little cruel actually, but it's still kinda neat and led to furthering our knowledge of the universe.
Huh, so there was actual basis for that in the game? That's so interesting!
There's a great Tom scott that goes over it, it's really neat and wild that this was before the microwave was widely used as like a food thing.
frozen hampster
reheating frozen hampsters
Hamsters?
Did we just witness double trouble?
They’re crispier in the air fryer.
Don't put the rat in the fryer
That's got to be one of the worst thing I've read in a few months
You're not my supervisor!
Hehe Hehe, cool! Burn it! Burn burn!!
Air fryers aren't microwaves heating things in weird ways. It's just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
Also, I'm assuming mouse because how could a rat get in an air fryer without you noticing? Hell I'm not-sure how a mouse could but a rat seems far fetched.
Yeah, lots of unanswered questions here.
I have two air fryers, a smallish one with a slide out tray, and a largish one that looks more like a toaster oven (glass door that opens downward). The first absolutely isn't big enough for a rat to fit, and the second could maybe fit one, but it's nowhere near big enough to not notice.
I could see a mouse though, especially smaller field mice. I don't think it would "explode," but I could see blood from it trying to escape frantically.
I didn't know there was a difference between mice and rats but after looking it up (read: asking ChatGPT), yes it was a small mouse. Also I forgot the air fryer half open at night.
Air fryers aren’t microwaves heating things in weird ways. It’s just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
idk man maybe the air inside the mouse expanded until it exploded or something? I can't really give you a definitive answer since I didn't dissect the little guy. All I know is that I heard something pop, and when I looked inside my air fryer there was a twitching dead mouse with a splash of blood coming out of its mouth.
Oh I missed you had screen shotted your own comment. Not sure why someone downvoted you.
Rats are huge compared to mice, I had assumed you meant a mouse.
Also I wouldn't really consider a mouse bleeding out it's mouth "exploding". I had assumed pieces were splattered around. Just a difference in interpreting words.
Americans will do anything except use an electric kettle
I told my friend from Australia that I heated water for tea on the stove in a saucepan and she said it was barbaric
Do the British heat their lower back with tea?
Yes.
I enjoy my under sink instant hot water heater.
It can produce 14 liters of water at 70 to 100°C per hour.
I never need to boil water really on the stove, fill a pot and let it boil for like spaghetti. But for like instant raman noodles, just adding the water in a bowl with it works perfectly fine.
I live in America and they aren't the most common thing installed in kitchens
Is there an advantage of a kettle over instant 100°C water on tap? Couldn't you just use it to make tea?
It depends how much boiling water you need per day. Unless you use a LOT it's more efficient (cost/energy wise) to use a kettle. Plus there's a significant upfront cost to install a boiling water tap. However, if you drink a shitload of tea, or use a lot of boiling water in cooking, it's generally better to have the on tap option.
I feel like if I were a tea drinker, it would be a no-brainer to get one over using a kettle every morning.
You can buy a whole unit on a large website for 302.43. Just a place at the top searches. So maybe cheaper somewhere else.
Most people are going to have power for their dishwasher or garbage disposal
Getting a hole in the countertop would be the hardest DIY part about it.
Non-stone countertop, and I'd probably charge like $200 to put it in for like 1 hour of work at most.
It's easily worth 300-500 dollars to get instant tea every morning for years.
Better yet installing a small filter water system while you're at it. While plumber is there, it would be easy to add both at the same time and you'd get a discount rather than doing them at separate times.
The 302.43 unit comes with "cold" tap water dispensing as well. You could have filtered "cold" tap water on demand as well with the single faucet.
It's an amazing upgrade for a house if you can afford it. I do see some electric kettles for <$10. Apparently, some you can keep plugged in and running always, didn't know that. Sounds risky unless you get an expensive one and they you should probably just go all out for the faucet.
Most of us don't drink tea. My wife does and we have an electric kettle. It's fantastic.
Microwaving dyes and synthetic fabrics doesn't seem safe
Microwaves are tuned to heat water molecules.
They'll pass right through fabric and plastic/synthetics.
The standard technique to heat non-water based things is by using a thin layer of foil (e.g. microwave Popcorn or some instant meals).
It could be a gel too, but there may be a danger if hot leak.
Unless the plushie is on fire when it's given back to the child, I don't see how this could go wrong.
Heating plastics can release VOC. Many plastics will get hot in a microwave. It's recommended not to heat food in plastic containers for this reason
This applies to food, I doubt it's relevant in this scenario, but I am open to being proven wrong.
The point is VoCs and plastic particles move to other surfaces more readily (or to the air) once heated. Kids who play with toys breathe the air around them. The also touch them, and sometimes chew on them. I fail to see the meaningful difference.
We have the turtle warmie. Kiddo calls it 'warm turtle'. I will never feel ok microwaving a turtle
What about doing it sous vide?
This suffocated the turtle
But how was the taste?
Like slightly fishy chicken, with a hint of polyethylene.
Apart from the last part, that is how I have described the taste of alligator meat to people before.
Still not as weird as microwaving tea.
Don't people microwave the water, not the tea?
Yup, 70-80s in the microwave, add the tea bag, cover the cup, then wait a few minutes for it to steep. Likewise for hot chocolate, but cut to 70s to not scald the milk.
I did this for years before we got a kettle, and now I use the kettle more for general water heating than tea (we don't drink much tea).
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People! Just get a kettle 😳
My partner has a sheep one that she uses to help with period pain, can confirm it's very weird.
New SCP just dropped.
"subject is able to store and emit large bursts of microwave radiation, causing the eyeballs of several Class D personnel to melt upon hugging the subject"
We've got our ways to make you speak
We've got our ways to make you talk
I see you took our microwave. Look its fine, just bring it back first thing tomorrow morning. Good night!
Why? He seems pretty happy with it.