to ask a silly question?

[brizzlemint]

....As microwaves are made of metal inside why can't you put metal things inside them when you are cooking something?

and if you have a silly question please ask it to make me feel less of a fool!

I have no idea! Maybe because the metal is treated in a different way on the inside of the microwave and when you put metal in a microwave it reacts with it.

I've always wondered why you can't freeze eggs (the chicken type)!

I can answer that! The water in the liquid expands and can crack the shell and bacteria get in.

The metal in a microwave is engineered to be at an exact angle so that the microwaves will not bounce off it & cause damage

We have a combined microwave and convection over which can have metal in it when it's a convection oven so I chanced it tonight and put metal in when microwaving bacon, nothing exploded or sparked which made me wonder about conventional microwave ovens.

Thank you @brizzlemint!

You can freeze eggs, if you remove the shell.

How does placing a wooden spoon across a boiling pot stop it from boiling over? Or does it?

@Claw01 The wooden spoon thing is a fallacy. It doesn’t stop it boiling over.

The wooden spoon pops the bubbles and stops it boiling over I read it on the Internet so it must be true

The only thing that stops it boiling over is you watching it, this is why a watched kettle never boils.

Thanks! It did seem a bit pointless, when you can turn the heat down

Oh as a kid, if I felt I wanted to sneeze and couldn’t, my mum used to tell me to look up at the light and it worked!

Why?

Photic sneeze reflex - lots of people get it when looking at the sun as well.

I’ve never seen a baby pigeon, why is that?

One of my ds's always sneezes when coming out of a dark building like a bat cave into the sunlight but my other two dcs don't.

Why can you sometimes hear your heartbeat / pulse even when you have not been exerting yourself ? ( or is it just me )

They leave the nest when nearly fully grown, we see them in our garden because they nest here and fledge when they are still being fed.

cheeky they don’t leave the nest until they are about a year old.....I think!

I saw some baby pigeons recently they were very cute.

Baby pigeons are called squabs. This I know. And that the photic sneezing at bright lights and the sun is a genetic thing.

mschicken I always wondered if it was the light or the looking up that did it. Next time I feel a sneeze and cannot, im going to try looking up, in the dark

It's to do with nerves at the back of the eyes so you never know, I think other stimuli work too. Only 25% of people have it, the other 75% think we're mad. Apparently only some people's wee smells of asparagus after they've eaten it too. Random.

Ok, interesting it doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve been passing on my mum’s advice and looking like a right idiot

I sneeze whenever I eat mints too.

My wee doesn’t smell like asparagus after eating or maybe I can’t smell it, due to the dodgy sneezing!

I watched 2 pigeons grow from eggs in a nest outside my bedroom this spring. They just grow really quickly. Within a month from egg to virtually adult looking birds. They were fluffy, downy things for around a week or so.

Yes, mints is another classic trigger. You have a condition! Congratulations! I envy your non-asparagus smelling wee.

Thank you!

Hmm, my ds with the photic sneeze is the only one in the extended family up to his great grandparents how does it, I'd better not tell his father!