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.
The eyes generally just explode. /jk No, they don't get hot because they don't contain any moisture.
I should put a caveat in here: if your stuffed animal says to remove the bag and microwave it separately, remove the bag and microwave it separately. Also, don't put a stuffed animal in the air fryer.
Just to add on a clarifying detail: microwaves can heat things that aren't water, they just usually don't do so nearly as well. So while this sloth might have eyes that don't get hot, a different one might have them cheerfully get insanely hot very fast.
The trick is to cover the eyes and entire head with aluminum foil, then soak the animal in kerosine before making your child watch you microwave it.
Ah, I was thinking you'd want it to ignite in the child's hands to really maximize the lifelong trauma and deep seated trust issues.
Yes, fair enough. I think the ones which are designed to go in on the microwave are designed so the eyes don't get hot though!
The microwave energy will absolutely heat the eyes, and everything else in there, regardless of moisture. The dielectric materials will heat quickly as they offer resistance to the RF.
You must be thinking of humans, as human eyes will generally heat quicker when a body is exposed to RF. The rest of the human body will heat as well, but the eyes may melt first, while electricity arcs between the fillings on their teeth.
There are a lot of assumptions here. The specific frequency of the microwave oven is tuned to be absorbed by water molecules.
Yes other materials, particularly metals, (shape and size matter too) can absorb the RF energy as well, but a lot do not, and the RF passes harmlessly through them.
Just like the massive amounts of RF that is going through you right now, every second of everyday. It is everywhere, but the wavelength is something that ignores almost everything you are made of.
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.
Huh, so there was actual basis for that in the game? That's so interesting!
There's a great Tom scott that goes over it, it's really neat and wild that this was before the microwave was widely used as like a food thing.
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.
Yeah, lots of unanswered questions here.
I have two air fryers, a smallish one with a slide out tray, and a largish one that looks more like a toaster oven (glass door that opens downward). The first absolutely isn't big enough for a rat to fit, and the second could maybe fit one, but it's nowhere near big enough to not notice.
I could see a mouse though, especially smaller field mice. I don't think it would "explode," but I could see blood from it trying to escape frantically.
You're not my supervisor!
Hehe Hehe, cool! Burn it! Burn burn!!
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
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
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.
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).
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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"
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