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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: Exploding Haggis  (was Re: Microwave Oven Repair)
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Date: 22 Sep 89 19:43:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: bill@flash.UUCP's message of 16 Sep 89 07:40:13 GMT

In article <80@flash.UUCP> bill@flash.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
   (Anyone with a better guess, I'd entertain it... but I'll certainly take the
   warning and *not* do a haggis in a microwave. :-)

From personal experience: don't try to put egg into the microwave, either.

When I bought the uWave, it said in the manual (very poor translation from
Korean) "do not put egg into microwave" or something similar.  I assumed
that this would mean a whole egg, with the shell (one could imagine all
kinds of havoc an exploding egg in the uWave would wreak).

One day, I made myself a warm sandwich which included amongst other things,
*thinly* sliced egg.  It took me forever to scrape rock-hard yolk off the
uWave walls.  Seems that boiled yolk somehow traps moisture which is then
released more or less explosively...

Making an omlette is another thing, it works beautifully.
Maybe it's time to move this to rec.food.cooking or something...
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