I believe I've mentioned how frighteningly powerful our microwaves are. I am having really poor luck with the one in our room.
Like many of my stories, this needs a bit of backstory. I am generally very adept at cooking in microwaves. I make passable recipes in them (because really, if I am cooking with a microwave I want ease and simplicity). Same with fire. While I have done things such as set lamb bones on fire for a photography shoot, I only slightly burn my fingertips when sealing 550 cord. And I can successfully use matches now.
As you can probably guess, when these two things come together it is Not a Good Thing. So to start this story, I will write of 2 successes!
First: Cake in a microwave. It can be done. You need normal cake batter, a greased mug, and two minutes.
Second: A really cool art piece that involved burning canvas and wax. It is still a bit in-progress (well the series is, because I couldn't find the cream color paint I envisioned), so there will not be a picture.
But then there are the failures.
For instance: Did you know that if butter is in a silver wrapper it is metallic and should not, in fact, go in the microwave for even 5 seconds? And if you did happen to put it in the microwave to soften it, it will spark and cause the wrapper to char?
And due to the success with the cake, I supposed that you could make cookies in the microwave! Wrong. Oh, so so wrong. At around 20 seconds:
I still hold that there were flames. There was sure enough smoke.
And now today. I was just trying to cook apple slices with cinnamon on them. Most were ok, but I noticed something weird as they were cooking, and one of the slices, though it looked normal, tasted electronically charred. Can't help but think that had something to do with the metal wrapper at the beginning of J-Term (That's the second time I've mentioned J-Term without actually talking about it. Don't worry, posts to come soon). But no one else has noticed anything, so I conclude that our microwave doesn't like me. (A personification to make up for the fact maybe I just have bad luck with microwaves).
<3
Like many of my stories, this needs a bit of backstory. I am generally very adept at cooking in microwaves. I make passable recipes in them (because really, if I am cooking with a microwave I want ease and simplicity). Same with fire. While I have done things such as set lamb bones on fire for a photography shoot, I only slightly burn my fingertips when sealing 550 cord. And I can successfully use matches now.
As you can probably guess, when these two things come together it is Not a Good Thing. So to start this story, I will write of 2 successes!
First: Cake in a microwave. It can be done. You need normal cake batter, a greased mug, and two minutes.
Second: A really cool art piece that involved burning canvas and wax. It is still a bit in-progress (well the series is, because I couldn't find the cream color paint I envisioned), so there will not be a picture.
But then there are the failures.
For instance: Did you know that if butter is in a silver wrapper it is metallic and should not, in fact, go in the microwave for even 5 seconds? And if you did happen to put it in the microwave to soften it, it will spark and cause the wrapper to char?
And due to the success with the cake, I supposed that you could make cookies in the microwave! Wrong. Oh, so so wrong. At around 20 seconds:
I still hold that there were flames. There was sure enough smoke.
And now today. I was just trying to cook apple slices with cinnamon on them. Most were ok, but I noticed something weird as they were cooking, and one of the slices, though it looked normal, tasted electronically charred. Can't help but think that had something to do with the metal wrapper at the beginning of J-Term (That's the second time I've mentioned J-Term without actually talking about it. Don't worry, posts to come soon). But no one else has noticed anything, so I conclude that our microwave doesn't like me. (A personification to make up for the fact maybe I just have bad luck with microwaves).
<3
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