subject: Plastic And Metal Don't Belong In The Microwave [print this page] For many years now we have used microwaves to cool our foods and heat our food up. Especially bachelors, mainly hot pockets, pizza rolls, and anything you can think of that will fit in a microwave. All of our kids today love to heat up their snack foods and to microwave their macaroni dishes for their lunches. But there are some dangers that your not to do with a microwave like; putting metal or plastic that can not be used when you cook anything.
Most people know what will happen if you put these things in the microwave. But if you do not know what will happen here are some things that you should know. When metal is put into the microwave you will start to see sparks and if you don't get it out in time it will explode and start a fire in your kitchen, it also can explode right out the wall or in to another room causing that room to started on fire and you can have a electrical fire or blow up the fuse box. But sometimes if it is in there to long and you try to get it out it also can knock the door right in your face and it can hurt you really bad and it can sometimes make you bleed or worse, put you in the hospital.
You have no idea what it can feel like unless you have done it before. If you put a plastic plate in the microwave you also hear popping and the plate will ether break off pieces of the plate or it will break in half then you will smell burning. If it melts it can start a fire too and it will stick to the bottom of the microwave and then it is hard to get out. You will be scrubbing and breaking it trying to get the mess out. You also have to watch out for plates that have metal in it, sometimes you my not know it until you put it in the microwave. You may know people who have done it, its not a pretty picture when the microwave blows up.
Anyone will tell you to be careful. Dealing with metal and plastic is dangerous. With plastic you have to make sure you get microwaveable plastic to use in it. Metal well there is no metal that is microwaveable so do not think there is, it is common since. Please tell your young one what not to put in a microwave.
