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sanjuro
02-29-2008, 05:32 AM
Skipping any microwave burrito jokes, is there a dish that could not be cooked in a conventional oven?
I Are Baboon
02-29-2008, 06:37 AM
Microwave popcorn? Not exactly a "dish" though.
narlus
02-29-2008, 06:39 AM
it's not like my grandfather didn't know how to make popcorn, and he never had a microwave.
syadasti
02-29-2008, 06:48 AM
Expanding marshmellows, CD lightshows, superheated water
narlus
02-29-2008, 02:27 PM
actually, one cool thing i just remembered was when a friend of mine took one of those small pencils (the kind you get at golf courses), set it lying on top of a styrofoam cup, and turned the microwave on. sparks shot out either lead end of the pencil.
syadasti
02-29-2008, 02:29 PM
actually, one cool thing i just remembered was when a friend of mine took one of those small pencils (the kind you get at golf courses), set it lying on top of a styrofoam cup, and turned the microwave on. sparks shot out either lead end of the pencil.

Its pretty cool if you stick a candy bar with the wrapper on in the microwave too:busted:
BadDNA
02-29-2008, 02:35 PM
Grape races
syadasti
02-29-2008, 02:38 PM
Grape races

Yeah that too.

Make you own drill/death ray/EMP generator too...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/researchers-create-microwave-drill-death-ray/
BadDNA
02-29-2008, 02:54 PM
DIY smelting @ home: http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2003-09/smelting-microwave
Dartman
02-29-2008, 03:08 PM
Chicken into rubber.
sperkins
02-29-2008, 04:04 PM
it would be hard to make ramen noodles in an oven.
valve bouncer
03-01-2008, 11:44 AM
Chicken into rubber.
When I was back home at Christmas my old dear had these chicken in a bag deals. You bung the bastard in the microwave for 45 minutes and they come out perfect, tender as. Double bagged (hehe) open one when you put it in and it steams away, very tasty indeed, skin and all. Must have been you Americans that invented them I'm sure. I'm sold.:thumb: