Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 10, 2020

Where are you going to plug it?

Maxwell is to blame.

So that’s how that happened. Always wondered.

Thickness/density.

I guess he hasn’t invented the rotating carousel yet.

gives me an idea of what to have for breakfast this morning…

Wiz’s inventions are always spotty.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/131/

I love to cook, I refuse to even own one of these things

So that’s what happened. I wasn’t a lack of quality control. It was a matter of apathy. ‘Good enough’ over ‘six sigma’.

from what I’ve noticed, the handle is usually on the other side of the door?

Standing wave patterns. I didn’t watch it, but saw a youtube video promising to measure the speed of light with chocolate (assuming the frequency of a microwave oven is accurate).

And, just for giggles and grins, let’s put in a blinking LED light that always reads: 12:00!

There’s a neat experiment you can do to see how it uses a standing wave to heat the food, and why you get hot spots.

Put a plate of cheese into the microwave (remove the rotating tray first if it’s got one), and run it long enough that the cheese just barely starts to melt.

You’ll get lines of melted cheese with unmelted in between. The distance between the melted lines is the wavelength of the microwaves.

Had one that always left a frozen circle right in the middle of the pizza. Now I use a toaster oven for that.

Constructive interference of the micro waves causes hot spots, destructive interference causes cold spots. Just ask any of the 8th graders I teach. No wait, don’t ask, they had their test over a week ago. ;)

I like the pyrotechnic effects when you put metal in it too.