superiorinferior wrote:Once when my son was about 7, when we were living in the States, I brought Pop Tarts home for the first time.
We put one in the microwave and almost immediately it started burning in the middle, like it was filled with some flammable substance.
Do Pop Tarts generally do this? We didn't try it again.
I was given to understand that all US packaging carried clear, concise instructions, to avoid legal action by the cerebrally challenged when they maim themselves on household items or goods... like the mythical Superman cape with the warning "does not enable actual flight".
Microwaves heat molecules with hydrogen bonds, i.e. water, or other fluids. Pop tarts contain a tiny amount of jam at the centre which is intended to go a bit runny when the pastry is toasted (cooked from the outside inwards). Trying to cook it the other way round i.e. to nuke it from the inside outwards probably wasn't a bright idea, the water would have quickly boiled off and left a very small amount of burnt jam trying to escape from a pale pastry case.
Penelope wrote:Yep, my kids had the same reaction when I bought some from Stockmann last year. "Is this food mum?" Ours were mint Pop Tarts, so they were green and looked, from the outside, vaguely something like the Apollo astronauts, might've eaten on their way to the moon. We didn't eat them and neither did the birds.
You did toast them, right?
I occasionally pick up a pack in England ... IIRC apple and cinnamon, and blueberry varieties are rather nice with a glass of milk as a quick breakfast.
lol.
