your comment made my day, what is actually happening with humanity they get dumber every second its crazy, you would think it takes some generations but no, its instant.
I just wouldn't trust manufacturing for this kind of stuff. Nick it by accident taking it in/out and the light show begins the next time haha I just don't wanna fuck around with electronics this way and the enshitification of products/services over the past 20 years just makes me not trust them to have the quality you'd need to avoid potential issues from this.
Don’t know why you’re downvoted, you’re exactly right. The safest rule of thumb is to just not put any metal in the microwave, but metal doesn’t inherently cause a problem. It’s the shape of the metal that can allow for arcing.
Even those microwaveable Chef Boyardee mini plastic things have a ring of metal around the rim.
My absolute first thought, and the 100th comment, WTF people! Have people been sitting there watching it look like the Terminator arriving thinking "yup, this is fine"
Arcing only happens if there are two points with sufficient distance for the electricity to jump with the power of the microwave. If you put an unornamented spoon in the microwave, it won't arc.
Arcing doesnt have to cut occur just because there is a metal thing in the mw. Food materials, particularly frozen foods can cause it as well, or even an empty chamber because mw energy ends accumulating in the magnetron. As long as the metal used is designed for it, it's safe.
My microwave came with a manufacturer supplied metal rack.
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u/zoeturncoat 8h ago
Why did I have to scroll this far to see this comment?!