Things Not To Microwave: Toilet Paper

[Initech]

An attempt to salvage a soggy roll of toilet paper will end up costing someone several hundred dollars.

Fire crews were called Saturday afternoon to a Foothills senior living complex in the 1500 block of East River Road when a smoke alarm was triggered, Capt. Barrett Baker, spokesman for the Tucson Fire Department, said.

Someone had put a wet roll of toilet paper in the microwave. It began to burn and filled the apartment with smoke, causing several hundreds dollars in damage.

Between 2006 and 2010 there were about 7,300 structure fires in the United States in which a microwave oven was involved in the ignition, Baker said, citing a statistic from the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association.

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[Curmudgeoness]

1. I can't imagine why anyone thought it would dry the toilet paper.

Microwaves don't dry out anything that I have seen.

But I have had a microwave fire situation myself. I bought this cloth bag that you put a potato in to bake in the zapper and it was supposed to cook it more like in the oven. Well, my bag caught on fire the first time I used it.....lucky for me I was right there and so was the sink.

Don't bother trying one of those bags!