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A while back there was an article about a man whose hand was scalded after he nuked a cup of water in the microwave. A cautionary tale, with the punchline being that microwaving food can store energy in the material being heated which can then violently erupt when the material is disturbed.
A woman has been possibly blinded in one eye after her microwaved eggs exploded:
She said: "I googled to see if you could make boiled eggs in the microwave.
"There are endless websites and YouTube videos which say you can. The one I read, though, was the set of instructions on recipe website, Delish.
"It said that you could microwave the eggs as long as you add salt to the eggs in the water to prevent them from bursting.
"The instructions then said to leave the eggs in the microwave for between six and eight minutes. Being cautious, I did six and took them out.
"As I looked into the jug to see if the eggs were done, they went bang in my face.
"It only happened as I took them out. The eggs were fine in the microwave."
This is another example of the everyday acts that people undertake in their daily lives which can have devastating consequences if not handled correctly.
Have we failed society by not teaching basic science lessons at school? I love how microwave popcorn has a warning on the outside to remove the outer packing first, and the iron warning tag advising to not iron clothes on the body.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday August 19 2019, @12:30PM
That was my reaction too to the question about science ed in the summary here: Yes, we should teach better science ed. On the other hand, "everyday acts that people undertake in their daily lives which can have devastating consequences if not handled correctly" includes a lot of things most people don't even think about. Like driving. You're much more likely to get a serious injury or die during a typical daily commute or trip to the store or whatever than you are to have an egg explode in your face even if you microwave it.
So why don't we talk about that? Because we are so used to car accidents just happening all the time that they often don't even make the newspaper unless there's something unusual about them.
Similarly, if you want to be concerned about kitchen safety, look up statistics on what actually causes hospital visits. Things like: slicing bagels (yes, this causes a crazy number of kitchen accidents), getting injured while doing something else stupid with knives (one common scenario is people who drop sharp knives in among dishwater and then get seriously cut by accident), or things like slipping on spilled water/liquid that's not cleaned up.
I mean, yeah, microwaving whole eggs seems pretty stupid to me, but it's nowhere near the "everyday acts that people undertake in their daily lives" that I'd actually tell people to be concerned about.