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Today was going too smoothly, so I managed to *burn glass* in a microwave.
The handle of this pyrex jug (almost certainly not "real" pyrex) touched the... grille? emitter? of the magnetron and stopped turning, and there was a loud buzzing sound and bright sparks for a couple of seconds before I flew across the kitchen and hit the open button.
WTF just happened? Why did glass do this? My first thought was "oh fuck did I leave metal in there" but I absolutely didn't.
To clarify - this jug and several of its ilk have been in the microwave before, and they've not caused any issues whatsoever. The difference today is that the glass physically touched the side of the microwave and stopped moving, right at the grille on the side - layman's guess is that this put super dense material right in front of the magnetron and it reflected back into it ?
@timixretroplays I'm guessing that it stopped right in front of the maximum point of heat, though I'm surprised you was able to get that much heat!
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