The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XII
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aimeeandbeatles
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This reminds me, last Christmas we got some grapes. I wanted to try and make some raisins in the microwave but the grapes exploded. Is it possible to do this in the microwave? a quick google says no but just confirming.
madviking
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Water expands when it's heated.
aimeeandbeatles
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If I poked holes in it would the water escape?
madviking
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A grape isn't exactly like a water balloon. The (best) way to make raisins is to sun dry them afaik.
PeteAtoms
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I think the heated/hot water being nuked would also damage the natural sugars and/or flavors of the grape. I could imagine it tasting horrible being cooked. Sun dry them, takes longer but is probably a better approach.
Disclaimer: Just spouting conjecture.
Disclaimer: Just spouting conjecture.
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madviking
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You could also use a food dehydrator. Or improvise with a dryer.
A dryer would make the raisins smell like conditioner.
SS-18 ICBM
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Wait, why? 
madviking
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Wait, why?
Whatever; nevermind.
SS-18 ICBM
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I meant a laundry dryer. A hair dryer would take too long and would be a tremendous waste of electricity for the results it would give.
Disgustipated
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You could also buy raisins at the supermarket. They sell those things now days.
ParadigmShifter
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Why would you need to freeze raisins anyway? They last like forever.
aimeeandbeatles
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Someone I was chatting to online was laughing at some music review that said something about a "pulsing, throbbing organ." She wouldnt explain why it was funny. Why is this so funny?
ParadigmShifter
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Hmm, I really don't know how to explain that to you Aimee.
It's a bit like people laughing at "The purple headed mountain" lyric in "All things bright and beautiful".
It's a bit like people laughing at "The purple headed mountain" lyric in "All things bright and beautiful".
azzaman333
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I'm not sure there's an explanation that lies within the forum rules.
nonconformist
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Because in 1956, the Hohner Music Company, in some horrific mixup, managed to install a V8 Chevy engline into the pipes of all organs produced that year.
When being played in church, these organs would play around two bars of music, before the engine roared to life, causing the organ to roar and concequently pulse and throb, before exploding.
On a number of occasions, these have ended in the destruction of the church wholesail, and even death, notably the horrific 1957 Tooting Bec disaster, where over a thousand choirboys, six cardinals, a rabbi who'd taken a wrong turn, 15 members of the congregation plus the archbishop of Canterbury were tragically killed
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