Tea
- Take a cup of cold milky tea.
- Put it in a microwave (making sure the cup is microwave-safe, of course).
- Microwave the tea for 3 minutes on full power (category D, 700 W).
- Open door to discover tea has boiled over.
Crackin’.
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Ninety seconds should usually suffice.
1 said Damien (21st February 2006 at 1.18 pm GMT)
Where’s the fun in that?
2 said pandammonium (21st February 2006 at 1.37 pm GMT)
Or the jam sandwich entries?
3 said Damien (21st February 2006 at 2.08 pm GMT)
How to clean the now dirty microwave:
1) Take the now empty cup.
2) Half fill with hot water.
3) Carefully pour a small amount of washing up liquid into cup, to form a layer at the bottom.
4) Place in microwave, on full power for 60 seconds.
Hey presto the inside of your microwave is clean as the soap/water mixture explodes all over the inside of microwave. (I guess it’s something to do with heat coefficients of different liquids etc and blah, blah).
I discovered this at work, one lunchtime, whilst cleaning my mug. Oh and the mug does get clean too.
4 said stef (21st February 2006 at 3.56 pm GMT)
Does that method remove months and months and months of tannin build-up as well, Stef?
5 said pandammonium (22nd February 2006 at 12.19 am GMT)
Best thing for tannin build-up, apart from some mighty scrubbing, is a drop of diluted bleach in the cup and leaving it overnight.
Be careful to rinse completely.
6 said Damien (22nd February 2006 at 10.54 am GMT)
Or just give the cup to Ex-Flatmate-Colleen >:)
7 said pandammonium (22nd February 2006 at 5.53 pm GMT)