peeps: W.M.D.'s ?

[grendel 13]

so does anybody know if peeps will blow up if you microwave them. i had heard about it before but never tried it, i just saw it on southpark also. so if anybody has any exploding peep experience i would love to know about it.

[Demonskates]

so does anybody know if peeps will blow up if you microwave them. i had heard about it before but never tried it, i just saw it on southpark also. so if anybody has any exploding peep experience i would love to know about it.

What i do know is if you microwave a regular marshmallow, It expands to like ten times its size. I never saw one explode. Id imagine a peep is no diffrent.
But if your looking for a W.M.D. try microwaving them, setting them on fire and throwing them. Id be willing to bet its just like Napalm. LOL>

[grendel 13]

homemade napalm, i love the way it smells in the morning. well thanks for the info, i know what i'll be doing for lunch,hehe.

[lycanox]

Lets see, I kinda collect this kind of stuff. So i have made an small list of the things i know off that have unexpected side effects in the microwave. All of this stuff can be pretty dangerous when not done carefully. So I put some disclaimers next to riskiest ones of them to prevent getting blamed of other peoples mishaps.


Victim: Grapes nearly cutted in half and placed upside down in the microwave.
Effect: After several tries, an buzzing sound is heard along with an beautiful bright blue/yellow light.

Victim: Unboiled/unbaked eggs.
Effect: An loud popping noise is heard. Egg equally spread out over the interior of the microwave.

Victim: Soap.
Effect: Due to its chemical composition, it melted and forms an abstract piece of art before spreading out over the plate.

Victim: frozen non microwave fricandel. Its always interesting to see why some products have microwave specials.
Effect: Starts to boil and expands toward three times its size. After reaching its maximum potential an silly dry piece of leather is the result.
Great if you never want people over for dinner again.

Victim: dish with an silver edge. ( Risk of damage towards microwave).
Effect: Lightning circling around the edges of the plates. Aldo its theorized that as long the metal doesn't touches the interior it is safe, this cant be good for Granny's heritage.

Victim: Iron wool. ( Risk of damage towards microwave).
Effect: the chaotic structure of the iron wool results in an true lightning storm inside the microwave.

Victim: Dry ice. Dry ice is famous for its use as an smoke generator when heated. Unfortunately since microwaves require water to operate, its also to dry so we have to put it in some water.
Effect: After needing some time to heat up. the smoke generation speeds up until it hits it maximum potential the boiling point of the water. Some of this smoke escapes escapes since the microwave isn't completely airtight. But most of it remains inside. Resulting in an tsunami of smoke when opened.

Victim: Demiwater. Demi water is water that is demineralized for laboratory uses, but some forms of it also can exist in normal drinking water supplies. Since the boiling point of an liquid is highly influenced by the amount of particles dissolved in it. This can have some unpleasant side effects when being heated. ( Do not try this at home.)
Effect: After an while of heating in the microwave. Nothing seems to happened. But in reality the water has become superheated. When the unexpected victim adds some tea or coffee to it. It instantly starts to boil violently, spatting hot water in all directions and burning the skin of our poor fellow.

Victim: Tightly sealed bottle of nutrient agar. Nutrient agar is often used in microbiological analyses to detect various types of organisms. Its an solid substance that melts at an low temperature. Forming an sticky substance. Since it has to be sterile and often stored in its solid form. Its often heated with an microwave. Where the bottles often have filtered air holes or have to be unscrewed.
Question was why? ( Risk of damage towards microwave and personally injury. Don't try this at home).
Effect: After an while of melting two things could happen. Either the bottle holds and super-heats the agar. Or the bottle gives way and pops. resulting in one hell of an mess.

Victim: vacuum. Oxygen is also inside an microwave, question is what happens when you take it out. The only way to do this is by putting an candle inside.
Effect: Spectacular, All kind of lightning flashes and nuclear explosion like effects occur. Oddly it leaves no visible damage in the microwave. And the candle is still burning. indicating that our experiment to take air out of the microwave has failed.

Victim: Light bulb. Steel is never an good idea in microwaves. better only do this with old ones. ( Risk of damage towards microwave).
Effect: Bulb starts to light up. light get brighter and more coloured until an loud popping sound is heard. The light bulb is shattered. and unfortunately this also means the end of our microwave experiment.

Victim: Magic candy that changes colour when being eaten.. As seen on myth busters. ( Do not try this at home.)
Effect: While not leaving any visible signs on the surface. the core can contain elements that melt and pressurise in the microwave. When being eaten the candy explodes and spits an hot sticky substance in all directions. Resulting in severe burns in the face.

[Cartesiantheater]

so does anybody know if peeps will blow up if you microwave them. i had heard about it before but never tried it, i just saw it on southpark also. so if anybody has any exploding peep experience i would love to know about it.

One of my good Canadian friends introduced me to "peep josting," which requires that you microwave them...

See, you impail two peeps with a toothpick, put them in a microwave facing each other, and as the marshmellows expand, eventually one of them will expand to the point of getting "popped" by the other peeps tooth pick... hehe...

Disclaimer: I haven't tried this yet, so I don't know if it's legit, but I have no reason to doubt her... so... GO FOR IT! :D (CT is not responsible for any injuries and/or deaths you may or may not receive/ incur from peep josting...)

[DontBeAfraid]

Ya... marshmellows expand, slowly, in the microwave... But not forever... there is a point at which the quit expanding and just start buring.... left in for long enough and you get char.

also you can put smooth metal in a microwave with no bad effects, not even any static.... Not like smooth but metal in such a shape that it has no uneven protruding edges. I have some very smooth even metal bowls that can microwave just fine.... The static thing happens because it builds up unevenly on the edges of the objects... so like a fork or a spoon gets too much charge at one end or the other and it starts jumping into the air... or from the air I dont know. But like a semi large sphere in the microwave would be ok.

also you can make scrambled eggs in like 45 seconds in a micrwave, but they taste like ass.

[The Space Pope]

Victim: Grapes nearly cutted in half and placed upside down in the microwave.
Effect: After several tries, an buzzing sound is heard along with an beautiful bright blue/yellow light.



Some of my friends tried this yesterday. It was pretty impressive.

[Sammy56]

Victim: Dry ice. Dry ice is famous for its use as an smoke generator when heated. Unfortunately since microwaves require water to operate, its also to dry so we have to put it in some water.
Effect: After needing some time to heat up. the smoke generation speeds up until it hits it maximum potential the boiling point of the water. Some of this smoke escapes escapes since the microwave isn't completely airtight. But most of it remains inside. Resulting in an tsunami of smoke when opened. We did this one in my AP chemistry class last year when our teacher wasn't looking. We (very stupidly now that I think about it) didn't think it would make enough CO2 smoke for the teacher to notice. Of course, when we opened the microwave, there was enough to travel into the hallway. Luckily, our teacher had a sense of humor and only gave us one day of detention.