Well, this didn’t quite work out exactly to plan. This is a smoothie bottle with a hole in the bottom and a straw jammed into the hole. The idea is that you half fill the bottle and microwave it so the water boils, the steam rushes out the bottom, and you have a hovercraft. What really happens is the water boils, the bottle shrinks, the microwave half fills with steam and then the base of the bottle pops out and the bottle leans at a scary angle prompting you to shut off power to the microwave rather urgently. Note how loosely the label now fits, that shows the shrinkage that took place!
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Booooo :(
Time to try with a new bottle made of a different plastic? :)
bored at work, or bored at home? :)
Heh. Born out of conversations with Mark from I.T. so a work-related thing definitely…
*goes to try it tomorrow.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and we used to warm yogurt pots in the oven - they flattened to a disc shape. I think this is because they are pressed out of a disc of plastic and warming them returns them to their original shape.
:-( sounded like a great idea when U explained it to me. Keep trying ’cause I want to see a little steam train going round and round in a microwave :-)
Be careful of Mark: He’s probably about to develop a steam powered stereo that runs off an overheating Singer motor :-o
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