Microwaving a Christmas Tree

I take a small Christmas tree and string some fairy lights around it for a nice show, then microwave it. The light show was awesome and the best part was it started to catch fire towards the end.

This video was great and a brilliant idea.

You need some kind of better light so we can better see whats going on.

Demon_skeith wrote:You need some kind of better light so we can better see whats going on.

That microwave's light burnt out awhile back, so that's why the lighting's so poor, because of that I only use it as a backup when I don't have another microwave or for when something's too big for a normal microwave. I try to make it as good as I can by adding things that'll light up and/or catch fire with the experiment, but even then it doesn't always work out that great.

Captain Microwave wrote:

Demon_skeith wrote:You need some kind of better light so we can better see whats going on.

That microwave's light burnt out awhile back, so that's why the lighting's so poor, because of that I only use it as a backup when I don't have another microwave or for when something's too big for a normal microwave. I try to make it as good as I can by adding things that'll light up and/or catch fire with the experiment, but even then it doesn't always work out that great.

Can't you replace the lightbulb or is it melted into the machine?

I've been looking for the right bulb (a new bulb version), but so far no luck. Funnily enough, I did have one episode where it was actually better that the light inside didn't work (the fireworks) since it looked so much more spectacular that way. The first couple minutes all that happens is the snake things morph, then suddenly 30 seconds of pure awesomeness.