Experiment #33: Fork, Spoon, and Butterknife
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http://vimeo.com/microwavemeshow/silv...
(Rated G) You've heard your whole life from the time you were little "never put metal silverware in the microwave", so I felt like it was a good idea to either disprove this or show everyone why you're warned not to microwave silverware by microwaving a metal spoon, a metal fork, and a metal butter knife all at once. And yes, it was cool. As you can guess, there was sparking. Lots of it. Almost all of it was concentrated in the fork. Contrary to popular belief, metal does not blow up in the microwave, and it doesn't cause your microwave to explode, unless you're planning on microwaving your silverware with a dry ice bomb. I don't recommend it but all that crap about burning your house down is just that, crap. You'll just have a burnt ramen smell of microwaved metal. That is all. Oh and you might damage the integrity of your silverware, which is bad.
This video was recently featured in a Huffington Post article and accompanying video about putting metal in the microwave. I'd like to thank Amber Genuske for taking an interest in my work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWOxn...
Another microwave show also microwaved silverware, but neither the fork nor the spoon reacted. Their result was atypical. What happened in this video is what you should usually expect if you microwave a metal spoon, metal fork, and metal butter knife.
Actually, this was really a revisiting of an experiment I did back in 2001, four years before YouTube was even invented! Between 1998 and 2001, I did different silverware in microwave experiments. First, I tested out a spoon in liquid, and found it to be safe, but a fork on a dinner plate turned out to be unsafe. Then I did different variations in later experiments, including one with a butter knife, with a similar one to this being my penultimate one. So, I decided to microwave silverware again for YouTube to show the results of my findings over a decade ago. This yielded similar results, but this time I added in the butterknife. The spoon and knife did next to nothing, but the fork more than made up for it and then some. There was so much arcing that the fork tines glowed by the episode's end. Cool visually but not the best thing to try at home if you value your microwave. It won't destroy it or result in an explosion, but it will wear down your microwave and possibly ruin your food. So, the final result was that it's a bad idea to microwave your silverware. Microwave Me is filmed with a bottom of the line, state of the fart digital camcorder. The show stars host and producer Matthew Villani as Captain Microwave and a Sharp Carousel microwave named Demi.
