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Why did my green beans spark and flame in the microwave?
I was making a handful of frozen veggies for my toddler, and the green beans started sparking and caught fire! They acted almost like they had metal? I've seen it happen once before when I was babysitting and one of the kids tried to nuke one green bean for her doll, but we all assumed she had done something else to make it spark. Apparently we were wrong, and it has something to do with the beans themselves. Now I'm just very curious.
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- bravozuluLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Apparently you aren't the only one.
"I did that with cut fresh onions I had diced pretty precisely.
I asked a NOAA radar person via email about it. He said that a nice 90 degree angle in a juicy vegetable will form a "radar corner" (or, more precisely, a "radar angle"). The microwaves don't reflect back out because the of the fluids and other near-ninetey degree angles. My nice little onions had blue coronal discharges at some of their corners, and when turned off the corners were black while the onions were otherwise nearly uncooked."
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/...
I couldn't think of anything about them from a chemist's point of view that would explain it.
- feleciaLv 45 years ago
You beans would have some metallic in them. Metallic in a microwave will make sparks. Are trying putting a cdr within the nucker for only some seconds appears actual cool and the cd is even higher