{"id":1955,"date":"2005-02-14T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2005-02-14T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T18:30:36","slug":"dont-try-this-at-all-microwave-storm-in-a-teacup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/14\/dont-try-this-at-all-microwave-storm-in-a-teacup\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t try this at all: Microwave Storm In A Teacup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made my usual coffee in the office today; mug of water in the microwave for 2:34, and a couple of tablespoons of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternativegrounds.com\/\">Alternative Grounds<\/a> sustainable, organic Costa Rican waiting in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mec.ca\/Products\/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=650851&#038;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=672615&#038;bmUID=1108405101172\">Mug Mate<\/a>.  I didn&#8217;t think much of the fact that I had about 2\/3 of my usual liquid level in the mug, and threw the filter in anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of seconds of extreme frothing over later,  I realised this was not so smart. I&#8217;d superheated the water, and the grounds and mesh of the filter were providing excellent bubble nucleation sites. Apart from having to mop up very weak coffee from a very wide area, no harm was done. I certainly didn&#8217;t come anywhere near burning myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/science\/microwav.htm\">Snopes&#8217;s article on the microwave boilover urban legend<\/a> is pretty good, despite the noxious popups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made my usual coffee in the office today; mug of water in the microwave for 2:34, and a couple of tablespoons of Alternative Grounds sustainable, organic Costa Rican waiting in the Mug Mate. I didn&#8217;t think much of the fact that I had about 2\/3 of my usual liquid level in the mug, and threw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1933,170,495],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sheesh","tag-boil","tag-eek","tag-microwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}