i've heard about a similar thing with a candle, toothpick and a glass. Something about plasma arcing, not sure about the whole story though. For some reason I think cel might know something about it
I've done this plenty of times with the toothpick method, but just using a candle is much simpler, dunno why I didn't think of that.
Something the video forgot, remember to put a glass of water in the corner of the microwave when you do this or you'll overheat the magnatron pretty quickly.
Basically what happens is that the carbon made from burning the candle or toothpick has the neat ability to reflect microwaves. That reflection creates intense heat which in turn makes the effect you see in the vid.
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