Microwave safe drink and cup?!
Microwave safe drink and cup?
I put a cup with some metal on the cup, not inside. It is one of the travel cups for your car. I put it in the microwave to warm up some hot tea. After ten to twenty seconds I heard a pop and took it out. There was a small burn mark in the microwave. I poured the water into two microwave safe cups and then when the water was hot I poured the water into the cup that burned. I drank the hot tea I made. Someone told me this was a dumb thing to do because there were unhealthy toxins released whenever it burned. Is this true? Is it really unsafe or slightly unsafe to drink the hot tea from that cup after it burned? Any help or resources would be greatly appreciated.
Answers:
DEpends on the metal.
Being a drinking cup, it was likely some kind of Statinless steel, which it usually Iron with acarbon blent innto it.
The pop you heard was the metal popping. The metal, when it gets zapped, oxidizes creating Iron-oxides, CO@, CO etcc. Nothing there is harmful in small quanitities.
If there was some plastic on the cup and it burned, there may have been some minute levels of toxicity, but the amount would be so small that it won;t cause any real damage.