OT: uneven cooking in microwaves

Good for scrambled egg too. Put the beaten egg in a glass bowl in the microwave: take it out every quarter minute or so and stir it with a wooden spoon until the desired consistency.

Do not attempt to microwave raw chicken livers...

But if I use a frying pan, I also get the flavor of the butter I cooked it in.

Cindy Hamilton

... unless you cut them up a little. You also don't want to microwave a whole egg. If the shell is intact it will go up like a cherry bomb. Same with a potato if you don't poke a few holes in it. The harvester usually does that for you but not always.

That reminds me of some advertising I heard then for a TV with "the works in a drawer". I forget the brand name.

I see some things here with fused plugs, mainly miniature holiday lights with 3A fuses.

During a long power outage, when I needed to run my garbage disposal. I was probably too careful, first making no one else was inside and locking the doors, then turning off all breakers, finally putting the ends on the cord. Afterward, undoing all that in reverse order.

Yes.

Which doesn't make it heat itself.

I've wanted to do that since 1988, when there weren't any PVRs. Once I got one (ReplayTV 2020) in 1999, I found I preferred to have it record things automatically.

BTW, I still have that 2020, although it is almost useless now since cable went to all-digital and all-encrypted, and that unit won't control modern cable boxes.

Motorola Quasar

Yes. Like a lot of things I remember it as soon as someone says it.

That's not what I was talking about. Language ambiguities can be very annoying. I used "heat" as a thing not as an action.

This is a very long way from the everyday, but in cold-atom traps of the kind used by experimental physicists, you *can* use EM radiation to cool things. You tune a laser to just below an electronic transition frequency, and *if* you have got everything right, the atom can absorb a photon from the laser beam, stealing a little extra energy from the atom's kinetic energy ("heat"), and make a transition to the higher electronic state. Because the transition doesn't create extra disorder, that higher state doesn't count towards the amount of heat energy (which is disordered energy). The atom can then emit the energy stored in the higher electronic state, and so ends up again its the starting electronic state, but with slightly less (heat) kinetic energy.

#Paul

I was asked about making cold, not reversing cooking.

The heat, silly.

I drink so much that to make 18 months supply I'd have top build a factory.

Then some other kind. You know, like anti-matter.

One microwave I had Heathkit, had a stirrer in waveguide to randomize waves. Most now rotate food. Any item is subject to wave absorption by the microwave wavelength. It work in multiples, and a half or full wavelength absorbs the most, hottest being near center where current maximizes. Know the distances of 2.4 GHz frequency. The whole cavity also has hot cold zones when all the waves bounce and act on each other.

Greg

Isn't this a spork? ;-)

spoon+fork=spork spoon+fork+knife=splayd

(Not that any of these combination devices is much good.)

Both are in fact available.