Yesterday, I was eating a microwaveable burrito. I thought it had cooled sufficiantly to be eaten. It didn't feel too hot to me. But, when I bit into a pocket of molten cheese, it splashed on the side of the outside of my mouth. Right where the bottom and top lips meet. So, has anyone else suffered burns from food that leave scars/blisters? That cheese must've been 200F at least!

Sorry to hear that, but cheese consist of fat, and fat keeps the heat pretty good...

Like any other meal with a lot of fat or oil.

I did something similar a few weeks ago with a microwavable macarroni cheese. I sturred it at the half way point and even after 2 mins it's bloody hot! spilled over the side and splashed onto my fingers, I can't describe how much pain i was in...

I said for a few days afterwards "Cheese almost killed me!!"

This bottle of absinthe my girlfriend got me for valentine`s is doing a fantastic job of turning my mouth and throat into one huge blister but the upside is I am getting a lot of skins and .dds textures done...

The problem is basically the physics of microwaves. :nerd: :doctor:

They don't work by heating things other than water (it emits, you've guessed it, microwaves at a set frequency to hea up water), so that's why when you microwave those powder soups (that are always skanky other than the mushroom flavour) the mug is only heated by conduction and convection from the soup.

So, be careful when using microwaves!

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I can't say I have got 2nd degree burns of cheese, but I have nearly blown stuff up. And fats and oils (same thing actually - it depend only on the temperature). The fatty acids are long chains of carbon surrounded by hydrogen, except that some times the carbon atoms screw two hydrogens and form a double bond. Saturated fats are where the whole thing has no double bonds. Unsaturated fats are when there are double bonds, and transfats are when there double bonds on each side. What makes the difference between the fatty acids the lard used in your pastry and hydrocarbons is that there is an oxygen at one end. Hydrocarbons (natural gas, bitumen, naptha etc) are not formed in the presence of oxygen. If they were, there would be a damn good chance of having a load of vegetable oil under the sea

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Squirting fat / cheese can be really painful..
I've burned my face with greasy fatty cheese filling that ejaculated from a grilled sausage..

Slightly OT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ux8nSWmAz0

In the future, please refrain from using the words "fatty", "ejaculation" and "face" in the same sentence :Eyecrazy:

nothing wrong with "squirt", then?

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nothing wrong with "squirt", then?

I think it's okay.... sort of

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This bottle of absinthe my girlfriend got me for valentine`s is doing a fantastic job of turning my mouth and throat into one huge blister but the upside is I am getting a lot of skins and .dds textures done...

youre supposed to blow out the flames before you drink it

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In the future, please refrain from using the words "fatty", "ejaculation" and "face" in the same sentence :Eyecrazy:

not to forget sausage

I have had no such troubles, but I use microwave only to warm up or melt something frozen. And always I tend to forget anything I put there after it finishes so there is no hot spots but just even temp all over.

I don't eat microwave meals at all, quality of those is so bad that I can't stand them, I make everything my self then and I don't prefer shortcuts like pizza I make base first, I don't buy it ready etc. Quality has gone down so much in few years that soon there is nothing at all that can be bought ready.

You must have a lot of free time. In spite of how low quality microwave meals are, least they're ready in 10 mins

Nothing has ever really squirted in my face, but at the start of the schoolyear a teacher wasn't present because it happend to her. Quite the same way the OP described, same type of bun.

Speaking of that, we had to do a task back then, and I got less points because I "cheated"... I had the same errors like the guy that sits nexto me NOW, I wasn't even near him back then (O/T)

At primary school, we had to boil water in a test tube, and when it was really boiling, the test tube broke and all the boiling water splashed over my hand

Believe me,that really did hurt alot.

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You must have a lot of free time. In spite of how low quality microwave meals are, least they're ready in 10 mins

Actually too much freetime and still I have managed to arrange things so that I'm busy, lol. But you can actually make cooking in one day of week and then use microwave to warm it later, freezer is there too so it really don't take too much time when organizing things a bit.

You are what you eat, I believe in that, yet still I eat rubbish

I once tried to heat an egg in the microwave...great bang...and a lot fun to clean it afterwards.:yel:

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I once tried to heat an egg in the microwave...great bang...and a lot fun to clean it afterwards.:yel:

For many of you, it is probably impossible to remember when microwaves first came about. I do, hehehe. My parents got their first microwave and poached eggs are the first thing they tried to make in it. So.... they had quite a mess to clean up for their very first microwaved food.

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For many of you, it is probably impossible to remember when microwaves first came about. I do, hehehe. My parents got their first microwave and poached eggs are the first thing they tried to make in it. So.... they had quite a mess to clean up for their very first microwaved food.

Ah, but I do remember, warm sandwiches turned out to be something not edible mess, after 10 minutes at full power, who needs manual

It was amazing how fast it warmed water too and as I was kid at that time I was not allowed yet to boil water alone, but I could use microwave machine, so drank lot of chocolate drink of course

Bread machine was quite amazing thing too when it did came, but I guess you got those in US long before us? I think it was around late 80's and microwave was before mid 80's when these miracles came at our home