Man brought on ‘mini explosion’ at work after cooking outrageous meal in work microwave
The perpetrator has been banned from using the shared appliance but not before he decided to put the bizarre item inside the microwave for his lunch and caused an explosion
A man who chose to put a raw steak straight onto the glass plate of his office’s microwave also forced all his colleagues to evacuate due to a mini-explosion he had caused.
Outed by his co-worker u/Equal_Warning_5319 on Reddit, the man has now been banned from using the shared appliance. The user named the 32-year-old man as “Greg” who apparently used to use the microwave as “his personal test kitchen”. The 27-year-old said on Reddit: “It started small – he’d microwave weird things like boiled eggs (which exploded) or sardines (which smelled like the apocalypse). But then [it] escalated.”
He said he walked into the breakroom and found Greg microwaving a “whole raw steak directly on the rotating glass plate” without a cover.
Greg said it was his “signature dish”, but the Reddit user said “the microwave now permanently smells like burned meat and despair.”
But apparently a “soup incident” happened after.
He said: “Greg brought in a thermos full of homemade soup (fine, whatever), but instead of pouring it into a bowl, he microwaved the entire metal thermos.”
A mini explosion then happened, which broke the microwave and forced everyone in the office to evacuate after a fire alarm went off.
The user wrote: “Management got involved, and now Greg is officially banned from [using] the microwave.”
But the user has been told he “snitched” on the perpetrator, but he said: “All I did was explain to our boss why there was a charred thermos carcass inside the microwave.”
The Redditor said a few of his co-workers thought he “should have just let it go, but I feel like I saved us from a much bigger disaster down the road.”
Some commenters were appalled by the man’s cooking choices.
One said: “Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that someone’s ‘signature dish’ is a MICROWAVED STEAK????”
Diane Gottsman, founder and owner of the Protocol School of Texas in San Antonio, told Fox News Digital that food that makes a mess or smells awful “should not be cooked in an office kitchen at all.”
She said: “Cleanliness and common sense dictate that you use a microwave-safe plate and cover. A steak is going to be extremely messy. It’s also disrespectful, not to mention a display of poor judgment to microwave a piece of meat directly on the glass.”
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