Can you microwave titanium?

[Rick500]

It depends on the shape of the metal object, not just the composition. So I wouldn't say definitively that Ti is safe to microwave.

[10-K]

Water conducts electricity... So do chickens (don't ask!)

I was thinking metals... man, you've got to be specific around here...

[LordoftheWings]

I like the way you think sir. (I once microwaved a gerbil-ya it didn't turn out well for me or the gerbil)(I was 5 by the way-it was 1980-81 and our first one)

[Gipsy]

I like the way you think sir. (I once microwaved a gerbil-ya it didn't turn out well for me or the gerbil)(I was 5 by the way-it was 1980-81 and our first one)

So how was it? did you baste it? stuff it? Do tell!

I think they would be kinda hot wings. You know, like you would have to eat several to get full.

[Gipsy]

It depends on the shape of the metal object, not just the composition. So I wouldn't say definitively that Ti is safe to microwave.

I tested the cup after reading this.... it was fine. Same results as lid.

[Leanthree]

See http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/f...crowave-109845 for a bit of a better explanation than the people around here have given.

[4eyedbuzzard]

The classic interactive microwave moment

http://www.clipal.com/video/gerbil_in_microwave

[YohonPetro]

If you put metal on the glass dish, it's usually ok, but if the metal touches the bottom or sides is when sparks tend to fly - at least that was the test I did in school showed - also, things inside metal will not heat, as the microwaves don't penetrate metal and are just reflected back. We wrapped an ice cube in foil and put it in the microwave, the only microwave that esssploded was the one without the glass in the bottom, the rest had a perfectly cold ice cube wrapped in foil - then we just put an ice cube in and tried again, the microwaves were able to excite the molecules creating heat and melting the cube.

[Tuckahoe]

We got our first microwave in 1983, when I was 13. At that time I had a fondness for soft boiled or minute eggs. Well not knowing any better I thought that if I boiled the egg for a minute in water, than the same had to work for the microwave and I just put the egg in the oven and set it for a minute. Once the minute was up I took the egg out and with a knife I went to break the shell. Tapped in once with a knife. Tapped it a second time and the egg exploded! Cooked egg was everywhere. All over my face with white and yolk all in my hair and eyebrows. There was egg all over the ceiling, with a silhouette of my head in the exploded egg pattern.

[swjohnsey]

Now that is funny!

[sheepdog]

We got our first microwave in 1983, when I was 13. At that time I had a fondness for soft boiled or minute eggs. Well not knowing any better I thought that if I boiled the egg for a minute in water, than the same had to work for the microwave and I just put the egg in the oven and set it for a minute. Once the minute was up I took the egg out and with a knife I went to break the shell. Tapped in once with a knife. Tapped it a second time and the egg exploded! Cooked egg was everywhere. All over my face with white and yolk all in my hair and eyebrows. There was egg all over the ceiling, with a silhouette of my head in the exploded egg pattern.

kind of an eggsplosion??

[envirodiver]

I bought a gadget that is made to make boiled eggs in the microwave. It is plastic outside and shaped like an egg (asthetics I'd say). It has a metal tray that would seem to be aluminum that you place the eggs in. Water goes underneath the tray and the bottom piece that the water is in is lined with metal. The upper piece is solid plastic with a hole in top to let steam escape.

Don't know how it work with the metal, but obviously brings water to a boil and cooks 3 hardboiled eggs perfectly every time in 9 min.. Shells come right off if you cool them with cold tap water.

[Red Beard]

I was thinking metals... man, you've got to be specific around here...

Actually, water itself is not electro-conductive. It's the fact that so many compounds readily dissociate in water, that make it appear to be electro-conductive. When salts or acids dissociate in water it creates charged particles that are readily conductive.

[10-K]

Actually, water itself is not electro-conductive. It's the fact that so many compounds readily dissociate in water, that make it appear to be electro-conductive. When salts or acids dissociate in water it creates charged particles that are readily conductive.

I surrender.

[Red Beard]

Had to bust your chops a little more. I figured you'd know I was funnin'

[Skidsteer]

Actually, water itself is not electro-conductive. It's the fact that so many compounds readily dissociate in water, that make it appear to be electro-conductive. When salts or acids dissociate in water it creates charged particles that are readily conductive.

Exactly. That's why Gatorade is called an electrolyte. Never drink electrolytes in a lightning storm unless you drink it from a titanium mug.

[wvgrinder]

We got our first microwave in 1983, when I was 13. At that time I had a fondness for soft boiled or minute eggs. Well not knowing any better I thought that if I boiled the egg for a minute in water, than the same had to work for the microwave and I just put the egg in the oven and set it for a minute. Once the minute was up I took the egg out and with a knife I went to break the shell. Tapped in once with a knife. Tapped it a second time and the egg exploded! Cooked egg was everywhere. All over my face with white and yolk all in my hair and eyebrows. There was egg all over the ceiling, with a silhouette of my head in the exploded egg pattern.

Sounds like the mess I had the other day. I sneezed while chewing a hard-boiled egg.

[kayak karl]

Actually, water itself is not electro-conductive. It's the fact that so many compounds readily dissociate in water, that make it appear to be electro-conductive. When salts or acids dissociate in water it creates charged particles that are readily conductive.

do us a test. put one of these...


in distilled water and check to see if it is hot with your finger. (keep your other hand behind your back) then re-post

[swjohnsey]

do us a test. put one of these...


in distilled water and check to see if it is hot with your finger. (keep your other hand behind your back) then re-post

Doen't depend on the conductivity of water to work. You can touch the element, no problem.

[kayak karl]

doen't depend on the conductivity of water to work. You can touch the element, no problem.

do it!!!...