So I'm waiting for dinner, when I realize my soldering iron gets hot enough to melt metal, why not reheat a hamburger?  So, wrapping it in foil, I set my food on my iron, and let it cook.  safely covered to avoid heavy metal poisoning, of course.  Tell me, have any of you done this or similar?  C'mon now, I can't be the only one, can I?

uh.... you might be the only one.. :roll:

perfect gear for lighting up cigarettes, I can tell for sure...

(but not recommended for stirring your gotten-cold coffee...)

haha, now the cigarettes I could see.  Now If only i wasn't underage, so I could test that.

DON`T EVER START SMOKING!!!

I dont intend to, thanks for the concern though!

Every ex-junkie I've asked which was more addicting.... heroine or tobacco (five of them) has said tobacco very quickly and decisively. They all said it wasn't that hard to quit heroine after the first week, but quitting tobacco was not possible for them because they were just way too hooked on it.

Recently it was finally discovered why tobacco is so bad.... Nicotine suppresses apoptosis, the internal mechanism that causes your cells to kill themselves if they detect their DNA is damaged. That causes mutated cells to replicate that would normally just die away. Those mutated cells then can become cancers. Tobacco also happens to naturally be a good source of a very power carcinogen called NNK just to make sure there is good potential for mutations. See the journal Nature for research about this in the last year.

I think of all the lead I’ve been exposed to on the job and with my hobby and I do everything I can to reduce exposure lead exposure now. You should worry about the flux too. It’s nasty stuff. Surely a toaster oven would be better wouldn’t it?

Take care,
-Peter

oh most certainly, i just wanted to prove it to myself.  again, thanks for the concern.  Of course, I would never smoke, its had its hold on my mother for the past 31 years, and I regret knowing she's probably got an illness creeping up on her.

And don't forget about the top of your computer monitor .  Great place to hit up your burritos......................

It's like one of those RANCO ovens - AS SEEN ON TV.....


BILLYL   :lol:

I cooked a big chunk of my left hand a few weeks ago by accidentally grabbing the wrong end of the soldering iron with it.  All those security folks who *thought* they had my fingerprints on file are going to have to take them all over again.

Food, on the other hand (and I really mean the *other* hand), I've never attempted to modify with any of my bench tools.  Well, there was that one time I put a zucchini on the scope, but nothing heat related....

I'm glad I stopped smoking, costs a fortune, especially now they cost E4.80 in holland :roll:

I never actually used a soldering iron for a purpose other than soldering, except burning through plastic. But by then the tip was all screwed up allready so I didn't worry about that

MarK: sorry `bout hearing your accident, but don`t be afraid the security will mix us up: while you probably are "Mr. Weller" now, I`m "Mr. Ersa" after decades of soldering (and using the wrong end, too...)

:lol: When I played in a band and had tube amps we joked many times about warming some food on them, but never did that. Old Vox amps temperature seems like planned for somethin else than long life of components and reliable operation...

One silly trick belonging in category "Do Not Try This At Home" is connecting bare wires (maybe you can solder vodka bottle or beer bottle corks there for better contact) to the opposite ends of a sausage and plug this straight to the wall (220 V here). Few seconds or even less and it is hot ready (some reports it tasting "metallic" but who cares) but of course no one sensible people do nothing like this (Dangerous!!!)

More elegant trick I saw on TV. A famous british tv-cook made delicious looking piece of meat. Just wrap the meat with ingredients and spices in paper, maybe a newspaper on top and some tin foil from oil canister. Tie the packet to the exhaust tube of a car just near the motor (Toyota Land Cruiser, Jeep or Land Rover recommended) and take a four-hour ride in desert or somewhere, and dinner is ready.

One last words, I want to share the wisdom what my father told me about smoking cigarettes:

"Son, it is so that drinkin booze and messin with women is enough for ordinary man, one does not need tobacco"

(Not that I recommend anybody drinkin alcohol or messin with bad women...)

you all are so crazy.  Sorry to hear about the hand though! I know how that goes, Ive grabbed the unfriendly end more then once, trying to keep it from falling off my table.  Hurts like a bitch, and then, no guitar for a few days!

Just one look at at the burn scars on my arm/wrist/hand says it all

Weird "food and electronics" story.  During WWII my father was a radio operator in northern Australia.  Where he was stationed they had some very early radar eqipment, too.  Apparently, they used to put a magnetron (?) with a gallon or so of water in an old five gallon kerosene tin to make their coffee.  Probably one of the earliest microwave ovens (this was 1945).

About 20 years after Brett's father, I knew a guy that would heat his rations on the dummy load for a 5MW search RADAR.

Mark, I hope your hand heals quickly. Your same finger prints will grow back. I know from experience I'm sad to say.

I've heard the "exhaust manifold oven" concept work really well for potatoes.

Take care,
-Mr. Xytronic

Quote from: Mark HammerWell, there was that one time I put a zucchini on the scope, but nothing heat related....

Mark, was that the trick where someone bites through the zucchini & it looks (illusion) that the trace jumps, showing that zucchinis have feelings too?

Quote from: Peter Snowberg
Mark, I hope your hand heals quickly. Your same finger prints will grow back. I know from experience I'm sad to say.

Yep, those fingerprints are hard to kill, the only thing permanent i managed (painfully) to do to them, was sticking a carving tool in my thumb  :x

Erased them mondo times in the most stupid ways :

- classic: is my cpu cooler working? argghhh!!
- last one: i wonder if that short in my pedal ps has made the 7809 heatsink hot? f****ck!!!)

Get well soon Mark