Pre-heating the Faux Cambro

dad of four

Smoke Blower

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Dayton, OH

• Oct 1, 2012

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I bought this item 10 years ago at a Close-out store.

I use it every day for meals as a Trivet that also keeps hot food hot.

It is essentially a small slab of granite that you can heat in your microwave

It gets nice-and warm after 3 minutes in the microwave, and then it slowly releases its heat

Recently, I use it in my Faux Cambro to pre-heat the interior of the ice-chest.

Once I put the PP into the ice-chest, I re-zapped the granite for 3 minutes, and stuck it back on top of all the towels.

Presumably you could keep re-zapping it every 30 minutes or so if you are worried about heat loss

Here's the ironic part.  I bought it at Odd-Lots for $4.99 ten years ago.

Today, they are going for $40 bucks or more. 

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• dad of four
• Oct 1, 2012

 

linguica

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• Oct 1, 2012

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Any kind of granite? How about a piece left over from a granite kitchen counter install?

 

linguica

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• Oct 2, 2012

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A little research revealed some complains the stone blew out the magnetron on their microwave.

 

smokinhusker

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• Oct 2, 2012

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Interesting for sure.

 

dad of four

Smoke Blower

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• Oct 3, 2012

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I saw that review, and took it with a grain-of-salt.

I have used my about 4 times per week for the last 10 years with the same microwave.

YMMV

 

dad of four

Smoke Blower

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• Oct 3, 2012

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Linguica said:

Any kind of granite? How about a piece left over from a granite kitchen counter install?

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I'm not a geologist, so I am not sure.

I looked at the wikipedia entry for granite, and it contains elements of aluminum & iron.

This is probably what reacts with the microwave to heat the granite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite

 

dad of four

Smoke Blower

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• Oct 3, 2012

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Just wanted to add that for the OCD people, I love using this product to pre-heat the dinner plates before I serve up food.

There is nothing worse than taking piping hot fried-eggs, or scrambled eggs, etc. And then putting them onto a plate that

is at room temperature.  The plate zaps all the heat from the food.

Instead, I stick the whole stack of plates on the granite trivet for 2 minutes.

The Microwave heats the granite, and then the granite heats the plates.

 

mballi3011

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• Oct 3, 2012

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Now this is interesting for sure. My wife would hit me on the head if I told her that we had to heat up the plates before we served her food. We are fat kids and it might be nice an all but when the food is done we are eating. Resting of all meats was a hard thing for her to get over.