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From: bill@flash.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Exploding Haggis  (was Re: Microwave Oven Repair)
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Date: 16 Sep 89 07:40:13 GMT
References: <1430007@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> <348@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
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In article <348@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes:
}Actually food can explode in a uWave. I knew somebody who was doing a haggis 
}for a dinner party - after 5 hours it was sitting in the saucepan in some 
}horrible fatty water not looking very cooked so she decided to give it a
}quick turn in the old uWave. In it went and started cooking - about 1 minute
}later it suddenly shrunk to the size of a tennis ball (quite impressivce for
}a haggis) and then violently exploded leaving haggis entrails all over the
}uWave.
}
}This sounds more like the behaviour of a neutron star than an object of
}food. Anbody cot any ideas as to why it conracted before exploding ?

At a guess, what might have happened is that first the casing dried, which
then contracted. Then, with the casing dry, the wet interior mash heated to
create pressure against the now-harder and shrunken casing, until the casing
split, spewing the "haggis entrails".  :-)

(Anyone with a better guess, I'd entertain it... but I'll certainly take the
warning and *not* do a haggis in a microwave. :-)


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