Well, the general rule is never microwave metals.
Any metal.
In any quantity.
Just no.
Here’s one thing though that is still important, it is knowing what all has metal in it or made up of metal.
This happened on January 25th 2020, it was around 2 am and my sweet tooth had a weird craving which I knew would not allow me to sleep unless I gave it what it asked for. So I got up and looked for snacks in my refrigerator and found a bar of Snickers.
Now, it was January, and it was in the refrigerator, so naturally I felt like warming it up first. I thought I should microwave it for about 10 seconds, that should’ve been enough, right? Oh it was more than enough, but just not for what I intended to do.
Here’s what I saw, nothing happened in the first second. Then after about 2 seconds I saw multiple tiny explosions on the surface of the wrapper. It was almost like a nuclear chain reaction. Of course I immediately switched the microwave off and pulled out my snack.
This is what came out.
That’s when I learnt that chocolate wrappers (any food wrappers for that matter) have a metal lining in them. I googled and found out it was Aluminium to be accurate.
I felt stupid because I sort of already knew about the Aluminium lining I had simply forgotten it. This could possibly be the dumbest thing I’ve done this year.
Microwaving metals causes formation of toxic fumes and plasma which should never be consumed. So, I am not at all saying that it was safe to eat, it’s just, I ate it anyway. Heh.