Can A Box Of Wine Really Destroy A Microwave?
3,413 views · Published 1 January 2015 · 5:45 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: MicrowaveMeShow · 2015 · Entertainment
Experiment #378: Box of Wine (Rated PG) Happy New Year everyone! For the 2015 New Year's special, I decided to put to the test an old viral video myth that microwaving a box of wine will blow up a microwave. In the video, a box of wine is microwaved for a little over 4 minutes before it explodes violently, even knocking out power to their house. The video however has been proven to be fake by "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?", and was demonstrated to be fake with an actual microwaving of a box of wine for 26 minutes. They guessed that the viral video most likely used fireworks to get the desired result. However, there are still naysayers and people posting the copies of the box of wine video, so I decided to do it myself for over a half hour and to more closely approximate the conditions seen in the video. I couldn't find any Tre Apor wine so I had to make do with what I had, but I doubt the brand would have made much of a difference. Even if it would have blown up, it would have just breached at a weak point, I have microwaved containers that were far more secure that had a disappointing result, so at most it would have hissed out like a cat being given a bath. The original "box of wine" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5PqFE9Bo0 Jory Caron explaining why it's fake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcjV4hLumAc Jon, Jory, and Riley actually microwaving a box of wine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxUzSCYM7nM However, like I said, even though the cast of "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?" nuked a box of wine, there are still those who point out that they didn't do it right. So hopefully this, which gets as close to the conditions of the original video as possible, with the box positioning, microwave size, and everything, plus it was in for over a half hour, will shut up the naysayers. If anyone out there thinks I faked it just to support their conclusion, I can upload the whole 35 or so minutes of microwaving, but trust me, it is BORING as hell. Just in case you're wondering why I didn't do a bottle of champagne instead, I already did that a year and a half ago in an identical microwave. Anyways, it's hard to believe but the 12th season of Microwave Me is almost over, just six more episodes left to go. Also, you win a cookie if you can catch the stealth ET reference I put in there. Season 12 of Microwave Me is filmed with a high definition JVC camera in 1080p widescreen for optimal viewing, hosted and produced by Captain Microwave who used for this episode a Proctor-Silex microwave named Elsa.
