Microwave Me: Donut Light
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Channel: MicrowaveMeShow · 2014 · Entertainment
Experiment #342: Circular Fluorescent Light Bulb (Rated G) I've had quite a few people (surprisingly) request that I microwave a doughnut. I knew that microwaving a doughnut would be uninteresting (plus I already did similar things like a Twinkie), so I decided to nuke a donut light, one of those round, circular fluorescent light bulbs. This was a lot different from the black light I did awhile back, while that stayed lit a steady medium purple the whole time, this lit up brilliantly, almost as bright as that Halogen bulb I did a year ago. Similar to the CFL, this made a bunch of green and yellow light that I didn't see with my own two eyeballs. It looked solid white in person. But this time I saw blue and even red! Unfortunately, after the first 30 seconds, it was a snoozefest, so I edited out all the boring stuff and left you with an awesome video of a donut bulb getting microwaved. I only gave this an "unsafe" since there was no toxic smoke due to the bulb staying whole and there being no ballast to burn. It did however stink a little bit so I couldn't give it a "safe" like I did its ultraviolet cousin, but this donut bulb turned out to be one of the coolest light bulb episodes I've ever done on my show. Season 11 of Microwave Me is filmed with a high definition camera in 1080p for optimal viewing experience, hosted and produced by Captain Microwave who for this episode used a 1984 Kenmore BEAST microwave named Jareth.
