Are you sure it’s not the removable rice bag in the ass of the sloth that’s supposed to be microwaved… Not the entire plushy?
I have the same one.
We have lots of these. Our sloth definitely goes all in.
Basically anything made by Warmies won’t have a removable bag, everything else will (in my experience).
A lot of the Sainsbury’s ones appear to be made by Warmies. They don’t have removable bags - just stick the entire critter in.
Won’t the eyes get super hot?
I am unfamiliar with stuffed animal microwaving tactics, as I generally default to the air fryer, but have also heard good things about sous vide, fwiw.
The eyes generally just explode. /jk No, they don’t get hot because they don’t contain any moisture.
I should put a caveat in here: if your stuffed animal says to remove the bag and microwave it separately, remove the bag and microwave it separately. Also, don’t put a stuffed animal in the air fryer.
OOP should make REAL CLEAR to any kids that you can’t do this to living creatures.
You do this with a frozen hampster in The Day of the Tentacle, which seemed so morbid to me.
If it helps this was one of the earliest uses of the microwave. They were experimenting with reheating frozen hampsters to see if a creature could be revived from such a state. The issue was that the defreezing options at the time were too slow, and didn’t penetrate the outer layer into the core of the creature, but with the invention of the microwave they actually got the process working.
Okay so typing this out it is a little cruel actually, but it’s still kinda neat and led to furthering our knowledge of the universe.
Huh, so there was actual basis for that in the game? That’s so interesting!
They’re crispier in the air fryer.
Air fryers aren’t microwaves heating things in weird ways. It’s just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
Also, I’m assuming mouse because how could a rat get in an air fryer without you noticing? Hell I’m not-sure how a mouse could but a rat seems far fetched.
Yeah, lots of unanswered questions here.
I have two air fryers, a smallish one with a slide out tray, and a largish one that looks more like a toaster oven (glass door that opens downward). The first absolutely isn’t big enough for a rat to fit, and the second could maybe fit one, but it’s nowhere near big enough to not notice.
I could see a mouse though, especially smaller field mice. I don’t think it would “explode,” but I could see blood from it trying to escape frantically.
I didn’t know there was a difference between mice and rats but after looking it up (read: asking ChatGPT), yes it was a small mouse. Also I forgot the air fryer half open at night.
Air fryers aren’t microwaves heating things in weird ways. It’s just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
idk man maybe the air inside the mouse expanded until it exploded or something? I can’t really give you a definitive answer since I didn’t dissect the little guy. All I know is that I heard something pop, and when I looked inside my air fryer there was a twitching dead mouse with a splash of blood coming out of its mouth.
Microwaving dyes and synthetic fabrics doesn’t seem safe
Microwaves are tuned to heat water molecules.
They’ll pass right through fabric and plastic/synthetics.
The standard technique to heat non-water based things is by using a thin layer of foil (e.g. microwave Popcorn or some instant meals).
It could be a gel too, but there may be a danger if hot leak.
Unless the plushie is on fire when it’s given back to the child, I don’t see how this could go wrong.
Heating plastics can release VOC. Many plastics will get hot in a microwave. It’s recommended not to heat food in plastic containers for this reason
This applies to food, I doubt it’s relevant in this scenario, but I am open to being proven wrong.
Americans will do anything except use an electric kettle
I enjoy my under sink instant hot water heater.
It can produce 14 liters of water at 70 to 100°C per hour.
I never need to boil water really on the stove, fill a pot and let it boil for like spaghetti. But for like instant raman noodles, just adding the water in a bowl with it works perfectly fine.
I live in America and they aren’t the most common thing installed in kitchens
Is there an advantage of a kettle over instant 100°C water on tap? Couldn’t you just use it to make tea?
It depends how much boiling water you need per day. Unless you use a LOT it’s more efficient (cost/energy wise) to use a kettle. Plus there’s a significant upfront cost to install a boiling water tap. However, if you drink a shitload of tea, or use a lot of boiling water in cooking, it’s generally better to have the on tap option.
I feel like if I were a tea drinker, it would be a no-brainer to get one over using a kettle every morning.
You can buy a whole unit on a large website for 302.43. Just a place at the top searches. So maybe cheaper somewhere else.
Most people are going to have power for their dishwasher or garbage disposal
Getting a hole in the countertop would be the hardest DIY part about it.
Non-stone countertop, and I’d probably charge like $200 to put it in for like 1 hour of work at most.
It’s easily worth 300-500 dollars to get instant tea every morning for years.
Better yet installing a small filter water system while you’re at it. While plumber is there, it would be easy to add both at the same time and you’d get a discount rather than doing them at separate times.
The 302.43 unit comes with “cold” tap water dispensing as well. You could have filtered “cold” tap water on demand as well with the single faucet.
It’s an amazing upgrade for a house if you can afford it. I do see some electric kettles for <$10. Apparently, some you can keep plugged in and running always, didn’t know that. Sounds risky unless you get an expensive one and they you should probably just go all out for the faucet.
