I came to see an actual test! :( I R sad

Point of the video; 'You've been told not to put metal in the MW, we tell you that you can, but that you really shouldn't, but you can if you want, but like, you shouldn't. So basically we spent 3m telling you that you can, almost, but actually you can't, no wait, can, but shouldn't.' Lol I'll just stick to not putting metal in xD

not satisfied until they put de fucking sharp sausage in the microwave

My Father put a metal spatula in a microwave oven back in 1994 and the electronic discharge transported him back to 1967. When he passed away I found this account among his papers asking me, that when the technology came around (again) to post things, to warn people of the danger.

I’d always been taught not to put metal in the microwave. Then my roomie microwaved stuff in a stainless steel bowl. I thought he was crazy but it was just fine.

Was anyone one else waiting for them to start the microwave while fork was in it?

When your assignment has to contain a certain amount of words.

You know what is a bad idea? Putting spaghetti with tomato sauce in the microwave uncovered because there will be a lot of cleanup after

I used to put forks in the microwave regularly for like 10 years, then one day my brother is like "what in the fuck are you doing" when he saw me doing it recently, and that's when I found out about the metal in the microwave thing... I must be the luckiest person in the world that it never sparked

My favorite thing to put in a microwave is a grape cut nearly in half and placed face down. The condutive juice inside each grape half forms an electric dipole, and in a microwave oven, the grape's physical size is a significant fraction of the wavelength of the micrwaves, so the distrubution of voltages and currents causes the grape's center half to quickly burst into flame (some speculate it may be plasma, but there hasn't been much research).

I came here to see microwaves blow up! I am disappointed...

and nobody actually saw what happens if you put the fork in the MW. dislike from me,what a load of crap..

The narrator's voice was so sweet that I entirely forgot to be angry about not seeing something burst into flames

Gee thanks now maybe you can explain why I shouldn't jump off a skyscraper as the shattering of bones thing just isn't enough

I want my 3 minutes back please.

My microwave instruction manual actually tells you to put a metal spoon in liquids when you're heating them to prevent superheating them which causes sudden boiling and splatter when they're disturbed. The only caveat is that you need to keep the spoon at least 2cm from the oven walls to avoid arcing and sparks between the spoon and microwave.

Hey, MicrowaveMeShow got featured in this, awesome! :D Thanks for sharing this, Captain Microwave, and it's so cool that you got featured in a Huffington Post article since I know they're a big online newspaper.

The way she says "Metal" makes me want to die at 0:29

This is actually a very informative video. Nice pace and narrating.

This was very helpful. Thank you.

I like how people are saying they didn’t explain anything but they literally explained the science behind why metal can produce sparks and what makes it more dangerous or safe.

omg why not show what it does? this is like books on tape

This video answered my question pretty well! I have wondered this for a long time.

I wonder if you can keep or make those metal cooking trays that come with microwave foods for other foods.

I put gold plated dishes in the microwave and it caught fire. Also have accidentally put foil in the microwave and it comes out burned after a small lightening storm in the microwave.

What does it mean when your microwave oven starts spinning backwards?

That's 3min of my life I'll never get back!

Ok i know they told me not to...... but..... I WANNA DO IT SO BAD NOW

Thank you for this video. My microwave has a grill which comes with a metal rack and a metal tray. I also sometimes use a stainless plate for heating food with no problem.. Although some info I found online say that if you use a metal plate, the waves won't be able to penetrate the metal, so it won't be able to heat up the food facing the plate, it will only be able to heat the food from above. Which I'm not totally sure, because I noticed that when you heat food, the first to heat up is the inside of the food, the exterior would be the last to heat up...

my girlfriend JUST NOW learned that you can't put metal in a microwave. like what.

KZfaq channel The Huffington Post is asking the real questions.

My wife was trying to make popcorn by putting it into a paperbag but used a metal twist tie to hold it closed. At 11 seconds it burst into flames. I didnt know what to do, so I unplugged it and threw it out the back door into the snow...

What happens if you "isolate" said metal? Say for example you put the edge of the fork or spoon beneath the food. Does that affect anything?

Hey, I think it's awesome that Captain Microwave's silverware video is featured here. He shared this video on his KZfaq page and I'm so happy for him that a major online newspaper took an interest in one of his videos.

Her: "I don't give any mixed signals" Her:

Thank you for answering my question I had for the longest time

This was really very helpful

Fork: are you putting me in the microwave spoon: I'm safe to be putted in the microwave

Good Content. Easy to Understand. Thanks

Just in case anyone one wants to know, you can put ferrous metals in the microwave (steel, iron). They have a high enough resistance that it won’t spark in the microwave. The metals you can’t use for example are aluminum, nickel, and definitely not copper. It’s obvious which metals have low resistance based on thing you probably already know in in life (nickel and copper is used for wiring for a reason etc) . You probably didn’t realize it but maybe you have a food cover that magnetizes you the top of your microwave( magnets are iron aka ferrous metal) Hope this helps someone

That's really easy to understand, principal of science broken down in the video perfectly

Tks Dear Clear Details of subject

THIS IS SOOOO METAL!

"So what's the big deal with metal in the microwave?" In a Californian accent just sounds so funny.

This video easily made me fall asleep and had a dream I was living a life of a toy in toy story.

It isn't just the sparks, it is creating gaps where the electric charge can jump. A spoon or a bowl doesn't have that, forks have prongs, so it has gaps to jump.

I literally came here because I accidentally put a spoon in the microwave and I thought my microwave broke and when I touched the spoon I thought I would get shocked. 😂😂😂 all of this because I wasn’t paying attention 😂😂

What a great video! Thank you! I accidently put a spoon in the microwave, but all good. nothing happened except a hot spoon. ;)

sharp edges sausage cause spark too? is it true?

I came expecting to see a large amount of metal sparking! :(

Incredible!!

Cool video, hope to see more!

Don't know about you guys but this video was valuable. It taught that the tray people put frozen pizza on is metal. It also taught that life is a science experiment to see what can actually be safe and what isn't. Also why sometimes sharp edged food sounds like danger when it's in there. Which is good to know.

But if you don't put any flammable material in along with the metal, then the sparks shouldn't matter correct? Or could the metal frame of the microwave become charged?

This is the most indecisive video ive ever seen

Great explanation on how its not the end of the word as well as how metals go into a microwave all the time we just don't realize it.

love her voice

I have ceramic plates, with tiny strip of metalic paint surrounding its edge. When I put in microwave, spark happens. I wonder why? They are perfectly round, especially compared to a spoon

Hello. i'm teacher in Korea. may i put this clip on my class material? we just started 'Online school' because of corona-19 situation, so i have to make some materials like power-points, videos, pictures etc to teach my students.

I like the background music!

And how about creating plasma with a grape and a glass measuring cup (or any other solid glass thing to cover the grape).

I'm gonna make all my hotdogs pointy from now on :3

Kaboom, where's the Kaboom. There's suppose to be a big earth shattering Kaboom!

That was great video

Hey Microwave Me! I got the memo that your video was featured here! That's so cool! It sucks that they didn't put a link to it. But it's called microwave me silverware if any of you want to see the whole video. It's mostly what you saw at 1:58 only moreso, at one point the fork even turns blue. I'd post a link but Google will shadowban me for doing so.

Halved grapes do wonders. Give it a minute in the microwave. Haha

really helped me to use d kind of utensils in thanks

I learned first hand what happens when you put metallic items in a microwave, when I stupidly put a cup with metallic paint on it in there, forgetting it was metal. Lightning actually started striking the cup until I turned off the microwave. It was scary, but cool. The cup was burnt and broken afterwards and I basically almost got a heart attack just for a hot chocolate XD

Well, I don't see the point to even putting utensils in the microwave.

‟Metal can go in the microwave!‟. Me: Puts spoon in microwave on accident for 5 seconds and whole microwave sets on fire.

so, youve answered metal, now why do dry noodles try to burn my house down?

My brain cells were deported after this

Cool I just accidentally made a huge light show in my microwave.

today i put opened can of beans in the mic..... There were flames sparks 😂😂😂

I got that sparks as soon as I put can tuna fish. I was terrified.

Was really hoping to see what would happen with all them utensils =(

once I accidentally put tinfoil in the microwave and it sparked and burnt into the glass. I was shaking so much it was like a traumatic event.

I put a spoon in once, but removed it immediately because of all the sparks.

Cinemassacre's "You Know What's Bullsh*t" bought me here 😂😂😂

Thank you @huffpost

Once I placed a Hershey’s bar in the microwave. 2 seconds in i took it out, forgetting THAT THEY HAD SHARP AF EDGES.

Me and the boys watching the forks in the microwave sparking

what's the background music please?

I want to see the sparking hotdogs. Let's have sparkdogs for supper!

I was expecting to see the microwave blow up.

I'm sure it was already asked thousand times, even with 557 comments right now, but what about spork? I was kidding, but then I realized it's a serious question.

I wanted to see the sharp cornered hotdog spark.

Can i still eat food if there is metal in or on food?

I'm relieved. I microwaved leftover cinammo pull aparts that are in a tray

What this video needs to address: what's wrong with arcs in the microwave?

You can hear the portable Ravioli/Beefaroni cans popping while heating them up since the lid you pull off is metal and the metal rim remains under the plastic cover.

The plates that my parents had at one time had a metal trim. This let off sparks in the microwave.

*Thanks!!* _here at 5am, planning to bake muffins, Dec. 7_

I DARE YOU TO START THE MICROWAVE WITH A SPOON IN IT!!!

I put the chick fil a wrapper with the biscuit in the microwave for like 3 seconds and there was a small fire. I had to breathe on it and I dont know if it is safe use it again.

me and the boys watching the uranium in the microwave glow

I googled this cuz I accidentally left a fork in my pasta and heated it up, when I took my pasta out I was like why didnt my microwave blow up

I once put an IHOP take home syrup in the microwave. It sparked and some ofthe tinfoil in the lid actually curled up. I would not have heated it up if I knew what was in it.

This would have been so much better with more footage of the experiment behind it. How did that not factor in to the making of the video?

My grandfather left his fork in the microwave it exploded