Plate Cracked In the Microwave

[MADDECENT]

I got home from school today and I was microwaving a pot pie. I put it in for 12 minutes, and 6 minutes into it I hear a sound like plates clacking together. I opened up the microwave to find that the plate had split in half perfectly down the middle in a pretty much perfectly straight line, and it was insanely hot to the touch. I have never even heard of this happening before.

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm kind of scared to microwave on anything but paper now cause I have no idea what caused it.

 

[Thenowhereman42]

That has happened to me. I don't know what caused it, but that happened to me once.

 

[b-kul]

it has something to do with water being in the plate and getting all sorts of excited i think.

 

[shredables]

im guessing either the plate was in the fridge OR the pot pie was frozen causing a hot/cold reaction.

also,

why the fuck was it in for 12 minutes? microwaving usually entails like 5-6 minutes max.

 

[soulskier]

pics or it didnt happen

 

[andrew.]

that happens with some of my plates. we have half glass and half ceramic and the glass ones break in the microwave.

 

[alex.bgk.]

 

[thelizards]

youre supposed to only use ceramic(think thats what theyre called) plates in the microwave

 

[hartig]

was the plate "microwave safe"?

 

[MADDECENT]

 

[Big_Spence]

i'm pretty sure turning your microwave for over 10 minutes at a time turns it into a nuclear weapon.

 

[MADDECENT]

Yeah the pot pie was frozen.
I'm not sure if the plate was microwave safe, but I have been using these plates all my life and this is the first time this has happened. I guess I just won't put frozen stuff on them anymore when I'm microwaving

 

[baethoven]

chicken pot pie?

12 min?

?

 

[MADDECENT]

Mrs. Marie Calendar suggests 14

 

[Big_Spence]

that plate doesn't look microwave safe.

and was the pot pie in a metal tin?

 

[superpoluha]

if water somehow gets in there, this will occur

 

[MADDECENT]

No. Paper.

 

[baethoven]

good god