Tell us about your mistakes.

[blklotus49]

I thought I would share my (fathers) mistake here, as it seems to fit. Anyways, way back when my father was just fooling around with fermenting, he decided to do a batch of root beer (non alcoholic as I remember, I was just a kid all of 10 at the time) he brewed up this "root beer" and bottled it, and for some reason he thought it was a good idea to store it in the dining room of all places. And then we went on vacation for 2 weeks to Florida.

Needless to say we got home and oh my god the mess. Turns out whatever he was brewing had too much carbonation in it and the glass pop bottles he used had exploded, almost all 96 of them. Glass on the carpet, glass stuck to the ceiling, glass inbedded in the walls! We were finding glass shards months later in places we never even thought to clean after that mess. Not to mention the sticky carbonated mess that was the root beer all over my mothers fine china.

Not exactly a still gone wrong, but thought it was a good place to share that story.

[Kiwikeg]

tried sterilising some leftover Turbo Yeast in the microwave today so i could use it as a nutrient for my millet wash, put it in a AGEE jar with 250mls of water, put it in micro on high for 2mins and walked away it foamed up and escaped the microwave and now is just a stinky mess on the kitchen bench and in every drawer below..

[rad14701]

tried sterilising some leftover Turbo Yeast in the microwave today so i could use it as a nutrient for my millet wash, put it in a AGEE jar with 250mls of water, put it in micro on high for 2mins and walked away it foamed up and escaped the microwave and now is just a stinky mess on the kitchen bench and in every drawer below..

[OlympicMtDoo]

So Kiwikeg, are you recomending this as a good practice?

[heartcut]

In the mid 70's I found out that putting a potato in a microwave for 20 min coats the oven with a substance suitable for civil construction. Apparently it takes less time than that. My wife didn't like it.

[Kiwikeg]

@ OMD - Definately not. the microwave has developed arcing problems since then so I owe the wife another new one.

Disclaimer - I do not endorse the use of microwave ovens for ANY purpose except popping corn.

[Oxbo Rene]

My wife told me one time that she wanted to save the small pieces of soap left over after using till they were due to be replaced.
I thought she was going to melt them all down and make new bars, etc.
So, I got up a bunch (Irish Spring) and decided to melt them in the microwave.
Man, that stuff foamed up, out of the container and all over the turntable.
I shut her down, but learned that it certainly doesn't melt.
Been wanting to experiment with the process more but haven't gotten back to it, etc, etc,.....

[rad14701]

My wife told me one time that she wanted to save the small pieces of soap left over after using till they were due to be replaced.
I thought she was going to melt them all down and make new bars, etc.
So, I got up a bunch (Irish Spring) and decided to melt them in the microwave.
Man, that stuff foamed up, out of the container and all over the turntable.
I shut her down, but learned that it certainly doesn't melt.
Been wanting to experiment with the process more but haven't gotten back to it, etc, etc,.....

My other half just did a similar experiment in her after school program using Ivory soap... It grows into a large spongy blob in the microwave... She found the instructions on the internet... I'm not about to try it with our Irish Spring though but I've boiled the scraps down on the stove for making soap sculptures before...

[FreeMountainHermit]

Attempting to make quickie hard boiled eggs using the microwave is not a good idea.
Trust me on this one, my friends.

6 eggs in a bowl still in the shell fresh out the refrigerator blew the door clean off.

Hellava mess ! ! !




FMH.

[webfoot]

About a month ago i was running my first sweet feed whisky in the dinning room, it had just got hot enuf to start dripping forshots when my daughter (2 years old) asked my to go help her in the bath room.
When i got back there was steem spilling out on the table and a wisp of steem the sise of my thumb heading for the propain burner.
I ran to the table and shut off the burner like my life depended on it (i'm not a small man) and started opening the windows (it was 40 out side).
All the time my loving wife was standing silently in the kitchen wondering why i was so worried about a little steem.

pants where changed.

del foot

[shadylane]

You can't heat activated charcoal in a microwave. At first it seemed to be working very well. Some were around the second beer I noticed the fire.

[RumRaider]

An 8.5OZ (250ML) bottle ain't big enough. Seemed like it on the internet but, 1/2 a pint ain't big enough to store your booze!