I built a 20k watt microwave oven [video]

(youtube.com)

27 points | by surprisetalk a day ago ago

12 comments

  • m-i-l 20 hours ago

    I used to work in an office which briefly had a commercially available 4KW microwave in the coffee area. I used to like it because it was fast. Unfortunately several other people failed to appreciate that you had to take the 800W timings and divide by 5, and it was quickly removed after several people set fire to their food.

  • SlightlyLeftPad 21 hours ago

    Haha, I saw the title and immediately thought “oh this HAS to be styropyro.”

    Spoiler: it is

    • moronicalox 20 hours ago

      He's had some health issues this year and hasn't been posting. I'm just happy to see him active again.

  • ortusdux 21 hours ago

    Styropyro puts out some crazy videos! See also: "100 car batteries wired in parallel!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaTX-nLm6Y

  • inyoursway a day ago

    I think my immediate feedback is simply this: "Want."

    Note: I've got a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old. This has been taken into consideration, and summarily ignored.

  • surprisetalk a day ago
  • bun_terminator 20 hours ago

    Why can't these youtubers be human? Everything about this guy speaks fake. The demeanor, the voice, everything.

    • fortran77 16 hours ago

      And yet, he's real. Have you never seen a fit, attractive, smart, enthusiastic, person before?

      • bun_terminator 12 hours ago

        The person in the video is not "real". No one speaks like that

        • TheMatten 11 hours ago

          In a sense, doesn't speaking naturally in front of a camera require you to be more fake?

          It's not the easiest thing to do, trying to address audience without any feedback, looking at a black object sitting in a room, in multiple attempts and with random interruptions needed to fix technical issues or change shot, while pretending that it is all part of normal, continuous discussion.

          People watch him because he is genuinely good at what he does, not because of his presentation or editing skills.

        • fortran77 10 hours ago

          There are videos on his instgram page of him doing Q&As at hacker events and he talks the same way.

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