While in College in the late 60's a friend loaned us one of the very
first (?) microwaves out on the market to play with.  It did not have
a glass door, but a perforated metal screen door!  Needless to say
some of my idiot roommates, tried to microwave a raw egg in it, & I
can personally verify that said egg did in fact explode & send the egg
material thru the perforations & over the entire kitchen in its blast
path.

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-can you spell hurtlocker?

On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Rob wrote:

> A daughter tried to hard boil an egg in the microwave oven and blew
> it up. The way I heard it she put the egg in and turned it on, later
> BOOM the door blew open and the microwave didn't work anymore.
> When I got home I looked at it and one of the lathes is broken.
>
> I'd never heard of such a thing but I thought if any group of people
> could deal with this or explain it the folks on the Vanagon list
> could.
>
> The egg caused the door to blow open on a modern microwave oven and
> break a latch in the process?  Any thoughts this Friday?
>
>
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net