Soap in a microwave turns into a monster

[@seanisawesome000]

Please microwave another microwave.

[@达康书记-e7j]

medium rare please

[@flcwr]

达康书记 LMAOO 😂

[@wdujsub7902]

It will supercharge the inner microwave which will make a blackhole if you put a fork in it

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

It's been done: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5-mq4yXfrxoZqM

[@4spades444]

@@Phobos_Anomaly i feel a rick roll lmao

[@AppliedScience]

I'm so glad that I found your channel! So cool! Try microwaving a burning candle. It creates an effect called ball lightning.

[@kamoroso94]

Resurrect the "Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?" series!

[@AndrewBone]

Kyle Amoroso That takes me back 😁

[@rockosbasilisk75]

No one can ever do it better than Jon, Jory or Riley lol

[@MelchiorPhilips]

Redurple idea

[@Kenny_P_abz]

Excellent. Now tell us how you did it.

[@sensibleb]

Took the door off of the microwave and disabled the safety mechanism. *Coming soon from Steve Mould: Things I Can Do With My New Third Arm!*

[@ArtturiSalmela]

My guess is by cutting a hole in the mesh, still preserving the faraday cage thing microwave ovens have going on. The hole still has to be small enough not to let the 12-something-centimeter waves escape, though.

[@3enjoy3]

Sensi Bleb 😂

[@moritzkockritz5710]

Yeah, you can't make a video like this and not tell us how you did it!!

[@Headerman300]

I think he put the camera in a junction of the microvawes. Sorry if I sad something stupid, I don't speak scientific English😅

[@jacobdykstra8499]

Possibly and interesting experiment would be if you could get an infrared thermal imaging camera in there and say a rather large object such as a tub of water or something similar to show how a microwave heats. You could demonstrate it without the rotating table and show the actual "gaps" where the microwave heats and doesn't heat the object.

[@SPACKlick]

A tray of tightly packed marshmallows not rotating. It shows the propagation and interference of the microwaves.

[@seanisawesome000]

That sounds cool!

[@datnguyenthe8300]

I don't think that water mark in the corner is going to stop that footage from being freebooted! And cropped... See ya somewhere on FB as a gif... =D

[@lgab]

Yeah. Unilad or some other shitpost FB network will make a square film out of it put a bunch of text around it and get ten million views. Sickening.

[@LeoMRogers]

Should have carved his name into the side of the soap, no way to get around that.

[@oldcowbb]

*emoji* WHO DID THIS *emoji*

[@SteveMould]

Now THAT'S a good idea.

[@PromptedHawk]

Even if he did carve his name into the soap, it gets just a teensy little bit destroyed in the process, which means someone bored enough could probably still make a cut without his name.

[@Actanonverba01]

effin awesome! love the strobe effect in the microwave to catch the soap seemingly not moving.

[@starkravinglunatic]

Did anyone else see the LION'S HEAD on the right hand side of the screen at approximately 2:29 in the video? Have another look at the video and pause it at 2:29 and look at the right side of the image. WOW. This alone should get this video to go viral.

[@Christophe_L]

I was looking for this comment. So bizarre.

[@forzafan4569]

Saw it

[@amaziness5024]

I was wondering if I was the only one! I thought maybe I was crazy 😂

[@8abu_frik303]

oh wow, i didnt see that the first time round. thanks

[@ushakova3101]

Not funny. Cancelled.

[@adammullan5904]

Trying to diversify your gimmicks*, eh? Not just the pouring guy anymore, now you'll be the pouring AND microwave guy! *I couldn't think of a positive word for gimmick, not intended to be rude lol

[@SteveMould]

+Adam Mullan gotta diversify!

[@InShortSight]

I bet there's a good way to do both at the same time.

[@KaiCyreus]

Schticks

[@datatwo7405]

Loved the idea of adding the music to the experiment! Results sort of remind me of when we made soap snow for winter dioramas as a kind - and Mr. Mould is very very pretty to look at too! :)

[@GruntUltra]

Whoa - that audio was perfect for this video!

[@KarlFFF]

Again no pouring from a beaker, so disappointed... You could have poured home made soap flakes. Mould Soap Flakes, extra fine and perfect for all soap flake needs of any household. Preferred by the discoverer of the Mould effect! :D Looking forward to what you think of filming in your microwave.

[@SteveMould]

+Karl Frederik Færch Fischer ha! You missed the subtle beaker pour at about 43s

[@KarlFFF]

:O so unobservant of me. From now on I will watch your videos at least twice before calling out any missing beaker pours! :)

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

Karl Frederik Færch Fischer I’m guessing pouring things from beakers is a thing on this channel?

[@joseph199627]

PLASMA GRAPES !!!

[@john117950]

They did surgery on grapes?

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

grapes always come with pants. they remove the pants at the farm

[@Cevans3535]

As it's a common science experiment, you likely already have it in the works, but just in case, film the plasma created when microwaving grapes sliced in half. Another interesting idea I have is seeing the spark gaps between the rods when you microwave a fork. I witnessed some really neat reactions on the fork one by accident as a kid and nearly junked the microwave because I refused to stop watching it. Hah. Cheers!

[@JamieWordsworth]

This is beautiful Steve, Thanks for sharing. It's like seeing popcorn popping in slow motion!

[@immko]

Nice! Of course you need to take a video of plasma, with as many frames as you can.

[@TheKdcool]

Please film with a thermal camera!

[@NintendoThumb]

cool video but I didn't care much for the music, it's a real downer. Like I'm supposed to be feel bad for this poor bar of soap

[@SteveMould]

😂 that wasn't my intention. I just thought it was pretty. But funny to think it's sad!

[@nowirehangers2815]

@@nagoobalhu6348 well now. .

[@masterofdisaster4620]

@@nagoobalhu6348 uncalled for

[@theawesomer]

Looking forward to seeing all kinds of other destruction at this level of detail.

[@National_Socialist_Supremacist]

thermal camera + the idea in this video = another set of great videos

[@moonzerp00]

Did anyone else see the face of a lion in the expanding soap?

[@PromptedHawk]

That's some extreme Pareidolia right there. Yes, I do like using long words to sound more photosynthesis.

[@krishnendumitra3548]

1:09 ?

[@lxp]

No, it was at 2:29 :)

[@EggBastion]

*Jiblob* yep I still sees a dog but that's when it is alright

[@megalith7796]

Nope.

[@KnowArt]

Prepare for lift off! I would say 100k subs withing the next 5 videos.

[@ZeedijkMike]

Very nice filming. So organic looking. Reminds me of a very clean version of "The Blob".

[@smartwombat9116]

I remember demos with neon bulbs embeddedin a plastic disc, showing they lit up only in direct line with the meitter (the mica plate) but that was many years ago, I think the distribution of the radiation has been improved in modern ovens?

[@GodlikeIridium]

A soap monster expanding in the microwave. But the background music shows that it's a good monster^^

[@llamafromspace]

Love the music that went with the video.cool to see the microwave stuff.

[@xja85mac]

Amazing! How did you manage to film inside the oven?

[@theonlyari]

Im going to take a gambit at how you did it... you bought / acquired a piece of ITO glass... cut a hole in the microwave... scraped the paint away from the sides of the hole... placed the ITO... sealed up the spaces around the ITO with foil tape and voila... or at least thats how i made a camera that survives in an EMI reverberation chamber.

[@RedHillian]

Awesome, and nice callback with the soap/beaker pour! ;)

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

I love the shots of things melting in the microwave without the rotating plate.

[@MarcAlexandrePaquette]

3:14 video... Well played!

[@MarcAlexandrePaquette]

And why are you not pouring the microwave out of a beaker?

[@diegodoumecq5144]

Dude, 0:44

[@user-zz6fk8bc8u]

But seconds are base 60 - it should be 3:8.5s

[@OwlRTA]

he's a tau guy though

[@timeme5460]

you mean minutes

[@Caitlinm007]

That is so strangely compelling.

[@ultort]

My guess is that he is using a smaller mesh faraday cage, stick the camera lens on the mesh and zoom and focus on the background so the mesh disappear. That is why the video is not a wide angle shot.

[@christierus1200]

You know what's really great about this video? It's 3 minutes and 14 seconds long. 3:14. 3.14. Mind blown.

[@Atticus837]

grape plasma ball experiment. slightly dangerous, but look up how it works and show us if it really can be done! would love to see the science behind it!

[@christianraxo7535]

This is extremely satisfying

[@Becky_Cooling]

This was oddly elegant

[@LateralThinkerer]

I doubt expansion of entrained air would cause that level of expansion, with that volumetric change it's more likely to be moisture vaporization.

[@SteveMould]

+LateralThinkerer that's what I say on the video (I think!)

[@KnowArt]

What about a 1000 degree knife? Forks? always good. Light bulbs?

[@l.swethaswetha6249]

HOW DID YOU EDIT THE SLOWNO.. THE MICROWAVE WASNT ROTATING... Awersome

[@LeoMRogers]

I remember in physics class in school, we removed the rotating tray and put a line of marshmallows in the microwave to see that some melted where the microwave intensity was higher. The idea was to estimate the wavelength of the microwaves, assuming that the melted marshmallows were at points of constructive interference, and the intact ones were at points of destructive intereference. Now I wonder if interference is the main reason for the differences in intensity, and if this experiment was accurate.

[@SteveMould]

I used to do that demo is shows but then I did a bit more research. I don't think it's as simple as saying there's a standing wave in there and using it to calculate wavelength. Need to look into it some more.

[@lilliwhyte5893]

That is incredibly satisfying.

[@WijnandN]

Great video! I love this sort of stuff

[@AndreasHontzia]

Well done! I like that very much! What you need is a bigger microwave and a fixed focus for your camera! Have fun!

[@nihonium]

yeah

[@jeremybuchanan4759]

A vid on why the TRAILING corners foamed first might be of interest to your public.

[@Qman621]

I heard you can get some sort of plasma ball going on if you put a candle in the microwave, duno if your camera setup can handle that though.

[@kathyleners600]

Like a FLOWER BloOming !! I did see a Peeled Banana Emerging in the very beginning... CoOl

[@khonthainaidc]

I hate that the video popped up, but I am glad I watched it 😂 So satisfied 😁

[@joeystraka3496]

Now that's how you clean a microwave

[@weylin6]

It seems to make some very popcorny patterns, which I guess would be expected since it's a similar effect

[@aajjeee]

a clear conductive polymer could be used to make clear Faraday cages

[@JoJo-mi3uk]

1:47 to the left looks like a bear breaking out of the soap and then falling to the ground contemplating its life

[@TheIdeanator]

The fine mesh is a nice idea, but the camera's auto focus would have been tricked by it at some point. The depth of field is not so small that you wouldn't notice it either. I like the mirror idea. Putting the camera in a dead spot is good, it was my first thought, but you'll still have diffraction I think. I don't actually know how diffraction works when the aperture is smaller than the wavelength, IE the screen in the microwave door, so I looked it up. With my background only being an intro to QM course - which was my first intro to wave mechanics and qualifies me to be absolutely sure that I know nothing about any of what is going on. Apparently diffraction is weird when the diameter < wavelength which to me implies that hole placement doesn't matter as long as its small enough - hence why Faraday cages are easy to set up. Talking completely out of my bum here, I'd say you could do this if you cut a hole big enough for the lens in the Faraday screen and braze a conductor around the circumference to be sure you aren't making a funky secondary magnetron. Lighting should be easy enough. Throw a tube light in there and the microwaves ought to excite it. Heck, If you shorted an old incandescent it should work. This is extremely intriguing and I'm going to see if I can replicate it after I try to wrap my head around math that is like 3 or 4 levels beyond me.

[@ProVelvetX]

• used motor oil or fresh motor oil • gum • hair or fur • a wet book • Rubik's cube • Kobe beef

[@yourjjrjjrjj]

Let me guess. You put a small camera(maybe GoPro) inside a smooth metal enclosure with a peephole for the lens.

[@dazzlemasseur]

Clicked for the thumbnail, stayed for the music.

[@jnightshade4379]

Get this man some cold tea bags or a cooling cucumber eye mask

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

me: wow,that is so cool My brain: can you eat it?

[@3enjoy3]

Excellent job - well done!!! Now go for filming something being poured from a beaker whilst it's being microwaved lol! :)

[@SteleexLS]

That's amazing! Great video! :)

[@johngregor9140]

Interesting music choice for soap in a microwave

[@Archiekunst]

Now do the flame plasma experiment and the microwave wavelength measurement with a bed of cheese experiment.

[@cemerson]

The world's first self-cleaning experiment

[@Animator584studios]

Like akira transformation

[@RoflcopterGalore]

Microwave everything and keep posting to reddit. You'll be the next Hydraulic Press Channel.

[@CraigWhitmour-qq2eg]

I looks like he stayed up all night and day microwaving different items

[@StephenMortimer]

REAL ART !!

[@StarryMan192]

“HELP! I’M MUTATING! I’M MUTATING!!!”

[@davislast7891]

At first, I saw beauty, like a baby duck escaping its small egg-shaped home into a new world... But then it expanded more and looked as if someone tried to use the spell 'fetus deletus'

[@Tonicwine999]

I would have liked to see how you did it.

[@kentvandervelden]

Because of the fantastic voice and music, I'll forgive the lack of explanation of the photography setup :)

[@Metahec]

It looks like what I imagine popcorn does just when it pops

[@erniecoombes3847]

Did anybody else notice the Rat Head at 2:32 ?

[@jeremybuchanan4759]

Break on through ... to the other side ... of the microwave shield ... nice

[@Kmack2008]

It was like a nebula was growing out of the bar of soap.

[@claymore609]

Wild! I want to try now.

[@PotatoShirts]

A grape sliced in half save 5mm of skin left attaching the halves will erupt into sparks.

[@stigyanblue1442]

Please microwave two marshmallow chicks or bunnies, but give them toothpick spears so as they expand they joust. Sir Peepsalot vs Sir Bunbun!

[@henrikginnerup8345]

It collapsed when the gas contracted as it cooled. What would happen if this entire thing was done in vacuum?

[@ushakova3101]

Hi Steve. Leave my recommended alone

[@whyisthismyname6258]

Soap.exe is evolving

[@113dmg9]

Wicked cool!

[@kieran96cfc50]

so how do you record in the microwave without destroying the camera?

[@agustinburroni8745]

Next try something gold plated!

[@aryaweak6479]

Cool, this stuff reminds me of fully hydrogenated rape seed oil. Above the melting point it looks like normal very light oil, when you cool it down it gets hard and after a while it grows and looks like cauliflower or like this "foam". Maybe you can make a video about it? By the way I really enjoy your videos! Thank you very much!

[@SteveMould]

+Arya Stark that sounds really cool but i can't find any reference to it. I'll have to investigate. Thanks!

[@aryaweak6479]

If you want I can send you pictures.

[@TayWoode]

Reminds me of those time lapse videos of fungi growing

[@AviPars]

can you tell us about how exactly you filmed?

[@NeedsMoreBirds]

It's like giant, soapy popcorn.

[@kevinangers]

Now how did you film it

[@guobin2005]

This is helping with my school science report :D

[@xenodeath7065]

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[@sean..L]

Are beakers your preferred choice of drinking vessel?

[@SteveMould]

I refuse to drink out of anything else.

[@shamon351]

WAIT ! You don't explain how you did it ! Arrrg ! I'm dying to know how you did it !

[@bbygamingyt6734]

I microwaved my soap. it turned into a toothpaste-like goo.

[@Qwerty_1101]

I think it’s because there’s too much chemicals in it. Was it a cheap soap?

[@shinalim9664]

What’s the song’s title when the soap began fluffing up? Need it.

[@MaxMcAdams]

yeah well good luck cleaning all that SOAP outta your microwave! wait

[@asvarien]

So how'd you film inside the oven?

[@berthamilton]

Hi Steve. please microwave a lit match and explain what on earth's happening. It would look cool in slow motion.

[@berthamilton]

Eggs explode in microwaves - that might look good in slow-mo