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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?

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When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago
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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 month ago

    I use Nuke.

  • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Nuke it.

    • Remy Rose@piefed.social
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      1 month ago

      That’s what my house says too lol

    • tisktisk@piefed.social
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      1 month ago

      why do we do this? Is it an american thing?

      • gruvn@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Canadian here. I also “nuke it”.

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
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        Yes, from a general misunderstanding of how microwave ovens work, and what “radiation” was during the 1960s and 70s.

        https://kitchenpearls.com/why-do-we-say-nuke-for-microwave/

      • Dr. Bluefall@toast.ooo
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        I think it’s because microwaves use, well, microwave radiation

        • tisktisk@piefed.social
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          radiation exists in like everything to some small degree tho right?

          • Fermion@feddit.nl
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            The issue is the ambuguity in what someone intends when they just say radiation. It is valid to call any electromagnetic wave radiation. However, as for health concerns, what matters is “ionizing radiation.” Microwaves are too low energy to be ionizing, so they don’t match what most people think of when they say radiation with the implication of ionizing.

  • iamanoldguy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Nuke it

  • ChocoboEnthusiast@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    Chef Mike’s cooking

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Microwave it, use it as a verb

  • tomcatt360@lemmy.zip
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    When I worked at McDonald’s in 2015, we called it Q-ing. That’s what the official term was. We got in trouble for calling it anything else.

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      Are you sure it wasn’t “queuing?” As in, “I’m queuing up some food to be cooked for our queue of orders.”

      • tomcatt360@lemmy.zip
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        Nope, it was written “Q-ing” on the “Q-ing Oven” itself, as well as in the training materials and manuals!

        Edit: here’s the manual for it!

  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
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    Let’s excite these water molecules until they vibrate so hard it generates heat that transfers to surrounding atoms

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      heat itself being the average kinetic energy of said vibrating molecules makes the heat part of that sentence redundant. Now make me a sandwich

      • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
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        Molecules can also vibrate not hard enough to generate enough heat to warm their surroundings though.

        Here, I made a roasted goat testicle marinated in a tuna eyeball reduction topped with lettuce, tomatoes, olives, onions, uncooked rice, and taint shavings sammich. Bone apple titties

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          Other than the taint shavings, that actually sounds like it could be good, albeit very crunchy

          • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
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            The taint shavings are harvested from Jennifer Lawrence

            • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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              *retches*

              • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
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                1 month ago

                scoops some up in a tupperware

                For my next sammich

      • moe93@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Abra cadabra, you are now a sandwich.

        I’ll show myself out.

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Activate the magnetron!

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I think I’ve used both zap and microwave.

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    I say “zap it” myself. idk it just rolls off the tongue really nice

  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
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    Put it in the science oven!

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Gonna put it in the spicy light box

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    We say “ugh, there is too much stuff in front of the microwave, do you mind eating it cold?”

    And I think that’s beautiful.

    • jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I feel that. I eat so much stuff cold.

  • zarathustra0@lemmy.world
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    Zaaaap https://youtu.be/T1b6ko1I00A

  • calidris [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Nuke it

    • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      This is the one

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