hi is it possible to put metal in a microwave oven let's put this spoon for 30 seconds and see what happens okay it's a little bit hot not too awful so I guess there has been some high amounts of current running through the metal to make it still touchably warm so not a lot of power consumption but now what if I put two spoons side by side in there here we go still nothing eh well ouch they are hot but nothing terrible happened I mean the food gets hot in there too so what's the big deal well let's raise them a little bit on this empty cardboard box and see if that makes a difference still nothing I bet these are pretty hot now even the cardboard box is hot let's place them pretty close without touching ready no problem so I guess it's okay to put metal in the microwave no we must be missing something wasn't putting metal in the microwave supposed to be dangerous let's put them in this glass at an angle and maybe that makes a difference no touching foreign who said that it was dangerous to put them in there so the question is under what condition it gets dangerous to put metal in the microwave I have seen these metal stands for microwave ovens that they put food over to warm it up so I guess it is okay under some conditions to put metal in the microwave but what for example it should be fine to place a flat piece of metal in the oven without a problem see metal in general reflects most of the electromagnetic wave in there but obviously it's getting warm so it must be absorbing some of it yeah it's a little warm not too bad actually I mean the body of the oven is made of metal so it's all reflective and shouldn't be a problem and I assume this also acts as a very good reflector I wonder what happens if I place a spoon with a distance on top of this in the oven let's give it a try let's bring the spoon even closer to the aluminum sheet still no arcing though but I bet they're all getting warm wow yeah they are pretty hot let's try again I put the spoon directly on top of the aluminum foil it was supposed to be dangerous I'm going to put these spoons vertical and parallel to each other like this in the oven see what happens there we are I was expecting some good arcing nothing oh smoke what's going on oh no no no it's gonna set my alarm my clamp melted in there so something is getting warm damn it well if I remember correctly if you put two aluminum foils like this close to each other in the oven should Arc well let's see oh geez finally there we are it melted what apparently not because it arced to this one because this one is not melted so what's going on let's just put one of them in there and see what happens try again in a different location where is it arcing to I think I see what might be going on it's just jumping from the very sharp edges maybe that's why because these spoons don't have sharp edges so nothing jumps out let me make a sharp Tower and see what happens Sharpie the sharp yeah let's do it oh yes yeah see the sharp tip is gone so is it just dangerous to put sharp metal in the microwave and every other round soft Edge metal in microwave oven is fine something important I should mention if you put a fork in the oven foreign well nothing happens what any kind of metal you put in the oven that touches the wall of the oven that will happen which is bad I don't know why I thought the arc would jump between two pieces of metal but apparently not so Arc just happens with a piece of metal with sharp edges not even this let's make it wider a little bit does it have anything to do with the length of the piece Maybe oh this is long I'll just lay it flat and see they just get warm oh geez what happened hmm arced right in the middle of it what if I cut it exactly at 12.2 millimeter of the wavelength size should be the best antenna to pick up that frequency so far the edge was the king well let's raise it a little bit higher I want to put it in the middle of all the standing waves how about half a wavelength nothing my box is super hot but nothing else okay so based on all my tests it's just the sharpest Edge that the arc might jump off of so let me try my exacto knife I'll raise it on the box too a little bit see what happens is it safe to put metal in the microwave oh man let's just drop it on the bed water Arc Arc video this is this knife has a ton of sharp edges okay I take the glass out I just put a piece of plastic in there and a spoon on top spoon has round edges though so no rotating spoon anymore how about a half away length sheet on the plastic I want the knife nothing I just have a hot crispy knife so it's all just about very sharp edges of aluminum foil what if I make a ball my power level is at maximum so there is no excuse for not arcing how about a loose ball cool I saw some Arc hmm now the bed might work because it might move the ball into a much more powerful area of the chamber it might be just unlucky and put the ball in a low power area of a chamber in the low power standing wave side I did show in one of my old videos that hitting a box you can see hot spots of the microwave standing waves and rotating the box with the plate helps heat up the box more evenly and so it's more likely for the metal to go over high energy spots here just put it in there oh arcs nothing magnificent I remember the first time I saw an arc was when I put two sheets of aluminum foil side by side and they were in zigzag shape something like this and I thought they were jumping to each other let's try it here's my foils I heard something oh there you go hey foreign this one has the bottom of it melted and the other one has the top of it melted so they are not jumping to each other they're just jumping let's put a single one in then there you go so arcing in the microwave which is not a healthy thing to happen in the microwave because arcs generate or consume a lot of energy and can fry your microwave only happens when you have very sharp pointy edges of aluminum foil in your oven and when the table turns and the foil goes over an area of high concentrated energy it could Arc there you go hey stop it so let's try one last time to confirm my theory I made a piece of sheet mostly with round edges and only one Spike at the Top If it jumps only from the tip there then my theory is correct foreign what happened well the tip is gone but the side is completely gone too I guess the entire edge of the foil is sharp anyway well let's put an empty can of soda in there and see what happens nothing and it's a little bit warm so the moral of the story is it seems if you accidentally leave Metals in your microwave oven as long as they don't have very sharp edges there shouldn't be any arcing and they just warm up like food I suppose if you leave them in there for extended period of time the metal can get super hot and dangerous but other than that it's very hard to make an arc in a microwave oven I mean it's easy if you know how to make it you just need a ton of sharp edges let's put all of them in there and turn it on you should be getting arcs anyway there you go wow nice stop it and that if you leave it in there for a long period of time could put too much load on your oven and burn it out but beside that if random Cutlery are in your oven probably nothing happens just be careful okay never been so disappointed in the lack of arcs like.