I am unfamiliar with stuffed animal microwaving tactics, as I generally default to the air fryer, but have also heard good things about sous vide, fwiw.
If it helps this was one of the earliest uses of the microwave. They were experimenting with reheating frozen hampsters to see if a creature could be revived from such a state. The issue was that the defreezing options at the time were too slow, and didn't penetrate the outer layer into the core of the creature, but with the invention of the microwave they actually got the process working.
Okay so typing this out it is a little cruel actually, but it's still kinda neat and led to furthering our knowledge of the universe.
Air fryers aren't microwaves heating things in weird ways. It's just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
Also, I'm assuming mouse because how could a rat get in an air fryer without you noticing? Hell I'm not-sure how a mouse could but a rat seems far fetched.
Microwaves are tuned to heat water molecules.
They'll pass right through fabric and plastic/synthetics.
The standard technique to heat non-water based things is by using a thin layer of foil (e.g. microwave Popcorn or some instant meals).
It could be a gel too, but there may be a danger if hot leak.
Unless the plushie is on fire when it's given back to the child, I don't see how this could go wrong.
It can produce 14 liters of water at 70 to 100°C per hour.
I never need to boil water really on the stove, fill a pot and let it boil for like spaghetti. But for like instant raman noodles, just adding the water in a bowl with it works perfectly fine.
I live in America and they aren't the most common thing installed in kitchens
Is there an advantage of a kettle over instant 100°C water on tap? Couldn't you just use it to make tea?
It depends how much boiling water you need per day. Unless you use a LOT it's more efficient (cost/energy wise) to use a kettle. Plus there's a significant upfront cost to install a boiling water tap. However, if you drink a shitload of tea, or use a lot of boiling water in cooking, it's generally better to have the on tap option.
Yup, 70-80s in the microwave, add the tea bag, cover the cup, then wait a few minutes for it to steep. Likewise for hot chocolate, but cut to 70s to not scald the milk.
I did this for years before we got a kettle, and now I use the kettle more for general water heating than tea (we don't drink much tea).
"subject is able to store and emit large bursts of microwave radiation, causing the eyeballs of several Class D personnel to melt upon hugging the subject"