WingedTrish of the introspective Salon asked :
If you stop the microwave before it beeps, are you robbing your food of that last second?
As the saying goes “Ask a silly question, get a silly answer”.
The difficulty I have that most questions people think are quite silly, I think are totally sensible.
I am imagining the last second of life of a frozen lasagne.
Does the microwave murder your food?
I remember reading the book – The Idiot by Dostoevsky,a man who was condemned to death at one point in his life.
In the book he wrote of a man who was due to be guillotined.
The blade slices through the neck .
Blood still pumps around the head –
Do the eyes see for that one split second as the head falls?
Does the brain still think?
Memories are jumbled into one massive randomiser.
The last thought could be any thought from your life.
I forgot to buy bread.
That last second
I thought again of the frozen lasagne and that last second before the microwave ‘pings’
I would urge all readers to make sure your food is dead before putting it the microwave.
Stick a knife in it a few times.
This not only ensures your lasagne is dead, it will pierce the plastic packaging to make sure it cooks better.
What would your answer to Trishes silly question be?
What would you not want your last thought to be?
Thank you Trish for your silly question. I hope I have not disgraced you with my answer.
Here are links to some other silly questions :
Silly question #2 Coconut health drink
Why not ask one of your own? – Ask a silly question
The rebel fish 
Well, most foods will continue the cooking process for a time after the heat source is turned off… don’t believe it will make any difference… 🙂
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Shouldn’t we test it scientifically? I would hate my food to suffer unnecessarily.
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I suppose that is what they make thermometers for…. I usually use a fork or toothpick should it be needed…. 🙂
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I’m quite sure I’ve heard my frozen lasagna scream from time to time. It’s very disturbing, but I find if I add more cheese? It stifles the sound.
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It’s still murder right? I’d be very disappointed if I was blameless this whole time.
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Technically, yes. And I suppose the wheat shrieks when cut and the carrots howl when pulled… but hey, we’re at the top of the food chain so just munch happily. And if necessary? Wear ear plugs.
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Part of the attractiion of being vegetarian must be the slow painful deaths of all the vegetables in the scraping and chopping. Have you seen the glee in a vegetarians eyes before? Frightening.
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We live across the street from an 80 acre organic vegetable farm. I see mass slaughter on a daily basis from early spring to late fall. Dismembered brussel sprouts, bleeding beets, cabbages cleaved in two. Oh, the horror!
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Vegicide
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My silly answer to the silly question would be 48. I would not like my last thought to be, Why is it getting so hot?
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your personal descent into hell….. 🙂 everyone knows the only number that can answer any silly question is 42. Did Douglas Adams die in vain?
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I like to think outside the box. 48 makes more sense…it can be divided by 3 (for superstitious people) and 12 (for religious people).
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Nice!
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Tim, I enjoyed this! It was both silly, philosophical, and a little existential! I shall always make sure to thoroughly murder my food before microwaving it now because being in a microwave . . . owe.
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Lol – thanks for asking me 🙂
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The best way to test your theory is to climb in the microwave, with the food, and conduct a live interview during the cooking process. You will, of course, need to maintain a written log as anything electronic will not work within the confines of a metal cage emitting microwaves. If you need any help in getting in then I am willing, for a small fee, to come and help stuff you!
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That’s perfect and prizeworthy ! Unfortunately I’m not inventing a prize until tomorrow. Early entries are void unfortunately O:-). How much btw, might be worth a try 🙂
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A very small fee. Say as little as an ounce of gold. That’s very small.
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Ok, I’ll climb in ready. I’ll try anything once.
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Use only a 650W setting, otherwise your fingers will not work.
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I’d like to look at my own brain in that final moment before signing out.
In some images I’ve looked at, the eyes of the decapitated head have rolled up so that only the whites are visable.
I like to think that they too have marvelled at the glory that is their own brain.
What do I not wish to think about in that final moment?
Whether or not I set the house alarm on leaving.
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Re the images of decapitated heads you looked at…. Is that a hobby or serendipitious severed head pics lying about?
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Both 🙂
Also re created several 3D models from chocolate digestives and Fur cones.
More effective than a ‘Keep Out’ sign.
(Until Halloween)
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I prefer methods other than Microwave, in preparing my food. There are times, though, like my workday lunch, when the good old radar range is the only viable option. Then, I zap the food, and let it sit in the hot box for a few seconds, after the beep, as it needs time to set.
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John Barleycorn Must Die
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If I stop my microwave with one second left, it says, “What the hell, dude?”…
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You sure that’s your microwave?
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I wasn’t until I put the toaster in the other room and tried it again…
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Hey this modern stuff is a nightmare!
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