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2mo ago

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Are you sure it's not the removable rice bag in the ass of the sloth that's supposed to be microwaved... Not the entire plushy?
I have the same one.
- We have lots of these. Our sloth definitely goes all in.
  Basically anything made by Warmies won't have a removable bag, everything else will (in my experience).
  A lot of the Sainsbury's ones appear to be made by Warmies. They don't have removable bags - just stick the entire critter in.
  
  Won't the eyes get super hot?
  I am unfamiliar with stuffed animal microwaving tactics, as I generally default to the air fryer, but have also heard good things about sous vide, fwiw.
- Before clicking, I was going to suggest to check if it’s an ass rice design.

OOP should make REAL CLEAR to any kids that you can't do this to living creatures.
- You do this with a frozen hampster in The Day of the Tentacle, which seemed so morbid to me.
  
  If it helps this was one of the earliest uses of the microwave. They were experimenting with reheating frozen hampsters to see if a creature could be revived from such a state. The issue was that the defreezing options at the time were too slow, and didn't penetrate the outer layer into the core of the creature, but with the invention of the microwave they actually got the process working.
  Okay so typing this out it is a little cruel actually, but it's still kinda neat and led to furthering our knowledge of the universe.

They’re crispier in the air fryer.
- Don't put the rat in the fryer
  
  That's got to be one of the worst thing I've read in a few months
  
  Air fryers aren't microwaves heating things in weird ways. It's just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
  Also, I'm assuming mouse because how could a rat get in an air fryer without you noticing? Hell I'm not-sure how a mouse could but a rat seems far fetched.
  
  You're not my supervisor!

Americans will do anything except use an electric kettle
- I told my friend from Australia that I heated water for tea on the stove in a saucepan and she said it was barbaric
- Do the British heat their lower back with tea?
  
  Yes.
- I enjoy my under sink instant hot water heater.
  It can produce 14 liters of water at 70 to 100°C per hour.
  I never need to boil water really on the stove, fill a pot and let it boil for like spaghetti. But for like instant raman noodles, just adding the water in a bowl with it works perfectly fine.
  I live in America and they aren't the most common thing installed in kitchens
  Is there an advantage of a kettle over instant 100°C water on tap? Couldn't you just use it to make tea?
  
  It depends how much boiling water you need per day. Unless you use a LOT it's more efficient (cost/energy wise) to use a kettle. Plus there's a significant upfront cost to install a boiling water tap. However, if you drink a shitload of tea, or use a lot of boiling water in cooking, it's generally better to have the on tap option.
- Most of us don't drink tea. My wife does and we have an electric kettle. It's fantastic.

Microwaving dyes and synthetic fabrics doesn't seem safe
- Microwaves are tuned to heat water molecules.
  They'll pass right through fabric and plastic/synthetics.
  The standard technique to heat non-water based things is by using a thin layer of foil (e.g. microwave Popcorn or some instant meals).
  It could be a gel too, but there may be a danger if hot leak.
  Unless the plushie is on fire when it's given back to the child, I don't see how this could go wrong.
  
  Heating plastics can release VOC. Many plastics will get hot in a microwave. It's recommended not to heat food in plastic containers for this reason

We have the turtle warmie. Kiddo calls it 'warm turtle'. I will never feel ok microwaving a turtle
- What about doing it sous vide?
  
  This suffocated the turtle

Still not as weird as microwaving tea.
- Don't people microwave the water, not the tea?
  
  Yup, 70-80s in the microwave, add the tea bag, cover the cup, then wait a few minutes for it to steep. Likewise for hot chocolate, but cut to 70s to not scald the milk.
  I did this for years before we got a kettle, and now I use the kettle more for general water heating than tea (we don't drink much tea).
- People! Just get a kettle 😳

My partner has a sheep one that she uses to help with period pain, can confirm it's very weird.

New SCP just dropped.
- "subject is able to store and emit large bursts of microwave radiation, causing the eyeballs of several Class D personnel to melt upon hugging the subject"

There’s a video game from my youth about this, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOJkdLLGvs.

We've got our ways to make you speak
We've got our ways to make you talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_V-fS_rrI

I see you took our microwave. Look its fine, just bring it back first thing tomorrow morning. Good night!

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