Soap in a microwave turns into a monster 

Please microwave another microwave.

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

Excellent. Now tell us how you did it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Whoa - that audio was perfect for this video!

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

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

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! :)

PLASMA GRAPES !!!

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!

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.

Please film with a thermal camera!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3:14 video... Well played!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now that's how you clean a microwave

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

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?

That is so strangely compelling.

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

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.

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

This was oddly elegant

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

Great video! I love this sort of stuff

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

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.

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

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

This is extremely satisfying

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

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

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!

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

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

That's amazing! Great video! :)

yeah

“HELP! I’M MUTATING! I’M MUTATING!!!”

That is incredibly satisfying.

Interesting music choice for soap in a microwave

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

Clicked for the thumbnail, stayed for the music.

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.

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.

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

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'

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

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

Reminds me of those time lapse videos of fungi growing

The world's first self-cleaning experiment

I would have liked to see how you did it.

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

Hi Steve. Leave my recommended alone

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

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

REAL ART !!

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My vote definitely goes for grape-plasma. Cut a grape in half leaving a small bridge of the skin attaching the two halves. Microwave. Plasma. Good shit. There's no great scientific consensus on what causes this though, which makes it more interesting imo.

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

Compact disc please.

Wicked cool!

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

Are beakers your preferred choice of drinking vessel?

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

Wild! I want to try now.

Soap.exe is evolving

I'm here because of Tom Scott new sub added

Next try something gold plated!

What's the song name made me fall asleep?

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

Steve Mould's trick exposed!

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

Would it do the same thing in a vacuum

Now how did you film it

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

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

It's like giant, soapy popcorn.

Steve u lookin goooood

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

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

Do the Plasma Grapes experiment!