Inside a Microwave at 80,000fps - The Slow Mo Guys

Summary

Gav and Dan, the Slow Mo Guys, demonstrate the fast charging capabilities of the OnePlus 12 phone by intentionally draining its battery. They discuss filming inside a microwave with special equipment to visualize electricity arcing between a spinning CD. Dramatic slow motion shows the arcing plasma. They blow up eggs in a microwave, analyzing the explosions in super slow motion. The variety of egg explosions is interesting. OnePlus 12 can charge 1-100% in 30 mins and features a Hasselblad camera. The sponsored video showcases the phone's capabilities in an entertaining way.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video is sponsored by OnePlus to showcase their new phone's fast charging capabilities
• 📱 Gav tests filming inside a microwave with a OnePlus phone to demonstrate the fast charging
• ⚡ They slow down footage of a CD in a microwave to see the electric arcing in detail
• 😮 The arcing occurs in bursts and moves around unlike a laser engraver
• 🥚 They film eggs exploding in the microwave in super slow motion
• 🤯 The eggs explode violently due to built up internal pressure when cooked
• 🎥 The high frame rate captures the process in more detail than ever seen before
• 🤢 The exploded eggs make a big mess requiring them to switch microwaves
• 🤡 Gav and Dan decorate eggs with faces before microwaving them
• 🧠 They conclude that each egg explodes differently due to variations in shells

Q & A

What is the video sponsored by?

The video is sponsored by OnePlus to promote their new phone, the OnePlus 12.

Why did Gav charge his phone overnight?

He charged his phone overnight so that he could drain the battery today, in order to demonstrate the fast charging capabilities of the OnePlus 12 phone.

Why did they put a CD in a microwave?

They wanted to film the visual effects of a CD sparking in a microwave, which they had never done before. The microwave allowed them to see the alternating current arcing in slow motion.

How did they manage to film inside the microwave?

They removed the glass front of the microwave and drilled a hole in the metal mesh, then used a probelens and specialized lighting to film from the outside and avoid glare.

What causes the sparks and plasma inside the microwave?

The microwave energy excites and heats the metal in the CD, causing electrical arcs and plasma as the current alternates.

What happens when you microwave an egg?

The microwave radiation heats and builds pressure inside the egg, causing it to explode dramatically in a variety of patterns depending on the shell.

What makes the OnePlus 12 phone special?

It has an extremely fast wired and wireless charging system, a fast processor with lots of RAM, a triple camera system with zoom, and a high quality display.

How does the OnePlus 12 charge so quickly?

It uses 80W wired and 50W wireless charging systems, which are the fastest available on phones in North America.

What are some key specs of the OnePlus 12 phone?

Some specs are: Qualcomm's latest chipset, 16GB RAM, 120x digital zoom camera, and 80W wired/50W wireless charging.

What apps can the OnePlus 12 run simultaneously?

With 16GB RAM, it can run up to 47 apps simultaneously without slowing down or closing apps.

Outlines

00:00

🎥 Introducing video concept and setup

Gav and Dan introduce the video sponsored by OnePlus 12. They discuss filming inside a microwave safely using special equipment like probe lenses. A hole is drilled in the metal mesh to allow filming the inside. They note microwaves are actually long 12 cm radio waves compared to visible light.

05:03

⚡ Filming CD sparks in slow motion

The team films a spinning CD in the microwave at different frame rates. At 1000 fps, it looks like a lightning storm. At 10,000 fps, the arcing appears as blue laser etching on the CD. Overlaying the clips shows the full spark effect. The sparks follow the shape of the circular CD.

10:06

🥚 Microwaving eggs in super slow motion

Gav and Dan explode eggs in the microwave filmed at high speeds. The eggs cook fully and burst dramatically. Each egg ruptures differently producing cool fluid patterns. They draw faces on eggs and compete to make them explode most gruesomely.

Keywords

💡Slow motion

Slow motion refers to capturing and playing back video at a much higher frame rate than normal, allowing fast motion to be viewed in slow motion. It is central to the channel and video content, as the hosts experiment with filming destruction and explosions in extreme slow motion. Examples from the script include capturing CD explosions at 10,000 fps and discussing the ideal frame rate to view different visual effects.

💡Microwave

The microwave oven is used as a key piece of equipment to cause explosions and combustion for filming. The hosts discuss methods to safely film inside a microwave and the modifications needed. Microwaving a CD and egg causes them to explode in unique ways.

💡Explosion

The explosions, eruptions, and combustion of various objects like CDs and eggs when subjected to microwave energy are a core focus of the video. The goal is to film these explosions in slow motion to see normally invisible details.

💡Egg

Eggs are microwaved to explode and combust, providing unpredictable and varied explosive patterns to film in slow motion. Different eggs explode in different ways based on the shell, pressure buildup inside, and extent of cooking.

💡Plasma

The arcing electricity inside the microwave and the explosive ejection of gas and energy from objects is described as plasma. This hot ionized gas glows brightly and is a key visual element in the slow motion shots.

💡Frame rate

The hosts experiment with different frame rates for filming, from 4K video to 80,000 fps. There are tradeoffs between realtime appearance, visibility of details, and visual impact. Finding the right rate is key.

💡Destruction

Destructive experiments like microwaving objects to make them explode provides novel and exciting content. The goal is to destroy eggs and CDs in new ways to capture it unseen destruction.

💡Electricity

The arcing electricity inside the microwave and the way it heats up and destroys objects is examined in slow motion. TheHosts look at the path electricity takes and the alternating cycle of AC current.

💡Camera

Specialized high speed cameras, lenses, and rigs are needed to film safely inside the microwave and achieve the right mix of lighting and visibility. Everything from cell phones to the Phantom TMX camera is used.

💡Light

The bright plasma glow and arcing lightning inside the microwave provide brilliant visuals to film. Controlling lighting is challenging, requiring mesh screens and external lenses to provide the desired mix.

Highlights

The video demonstrates filming inside a microwave using a camera lens pressed against a hole in the metal mesh

The wavelength of microwaves is about 12 cm, much larger than visible light wavelengths

The arcing plasma inside the microwave is blue, while the erupting plasma is red

The plasma arcs in the microwave appear to follow an alternating current at 60 Hz

Slowing down the footage shows the plasma moving in a dot matrix pattern, jumping between spots

Heating up the CD causes more plasma to form over time

Eggs explode violently when microwaved due to internal pressure building up

The eggs cooked so fast they turned into scrambled eggs

Each egg exploded differently depending on the shell structure

The OnePlus 12 has 80W wired charging for 1-100% charge in 30 minutes

The OnePlus 12 has 50W wireless charging for 1-50% in 23 minutes

The OnePlus 12 uses Qualcomm's latest chipset with 16GB RAM for up to 47 open apps

The OnePlus 12 camera has 3x optical zoom and 120x digital zoom

The video shows innovative techniques for filming inside a microwave

The Slow Mo Guys demonstrate capturing ordinary objects in extreme slow motion reveals hidden behaviors

Transcripts

hello I'm gav we're the slowmo guys this

video is sponsored by the OnePlus 12

it's a telephone didn't video there I am

I'm filming in my pocket because I

accidentally charged it last night and

one of the main demonstrations is how

fast it charges so I'm just trying to

rinse the battery to demo it later that

makes sense I was thinking about you

know the fast charging the wireless

charging is the coils of wire

electricity moving in a circle and I

thought CDs in a

microwave it was a leap but we've never

filmed in a microwave that is a leap

yeah but I like you just come up with an

excuse to film inside a microwave which

I've always wanted to do however we've

not really been able to do so because

you know it's a microwave can't really

get a camera in there especially not a

phantom it's easier with smaller cameras

but now we can film outside of the

microwave it's true I've kind of done

some research and figured out a way to

do it and we've got some new kit and

equipment that allows us to as well got

some prob lendes and a way to safely

film it from the

outside to avoid glare and allow more

lighting I've taken the glass off the

front of this microwave CU otherwise

it's kind of tricky to film inside I've

also drilled a hole here in this mesh

now this mesh usually is just to stop

the microwaves from passing through out

to past the door of the microwave now

microwaves are actually 12 cm long sort

of wavelengths like this which means

that these tiny little holes are a

little bit Overkill so we can easily get

away with a hole like this is it mental

that a microwave is 12 cm long yeah it

is in in in wavelength that it's so much

bigger than I imagined how big are are

like visible light waves um I think

green is 540 nanm or something well this

is 12 CM that's exactly what I mean it's

like it's so far at the other end wow

480 nanm might be blue I don't know I

love that you know

that it's like fully expecting you to be

like I don't know but you're like I

think blue actually all right I'm a

nerd do you know what I love about you

YouTube there's there's actually really

good videos out there on specifically

how to film inside a microwave yeah I

did actually um look at a few of those

for research purposes you watched a bit

of our boy mold out there I did watch

moldy bit of Steve mold I flopped on the

old probe blend quite a bit bigger than

the hole but if we press up right

against it there shouldn't be too much

vignetting let's grab a cheeky 4K shot

at

1,000 5 4 3 2

1

okay I don't think my line wire

downloads are going to go on there

anymore oh oh it's like a it's like a

lightning storm in the dark you know at

night yeah some real like Tron Vibes

yeah it's like the opening of a portal

or something so we're clearly seeing the

uh the alternating current cuz it's

happening every 60th of a sec second

it's coming on and then off oh

interesting that's something you'd never

see not in slowmo all right so why don't

we take a look at it with all the gaps

cut you ready yep

oh that looks cool that's cooler I've

never seen it like that so the arcing is

blue and then plasma is red it looks

like green green some bright ones there

absolute laser show yeah I like the fact

that it's still circular like with the

CD I thought it would just jump kind of

any angle but it shows the sort of

circular parts of the CD seems to start

from the outside all right now with all

the gaps out let's overlay all of it to

happen at the same time pretty much

ready

yep

it looks like um the activation of like

the Infinity Stones or something do you

know what I mean should have aimed for

the head

yeah it says

here do not operate with object an

object caught in the door yeah there

isn't

one a door that does not close properly

it close is fine close is just

fine 5 4 3 2

1

[Music]

okay Switching to the TMX at 10,000

frames a

second 4 3 2

[Music]

1

ooh yeah looks like laser etching

doesn't it that does that's it's being

graved by tiny little robot lasers like

a CNC sort of thing it's very clever

there's a lot bigger gaps in some places

like from the outside you can see a huge

gap in the sort of surface of the CD

with a plastic show through it's it's

like as soon as there's a eruption of

plasma all of the energy is focused

there and you don't get a lot of

simultaneous Sparks oh that's true

without the Puffs you wouldn't be able

to see that it's a CD yeah like it can't

go at 45° really it can only go

perpendicular or veral I've never seen

it like this never seen it in this

detail it's explosions out it's like

ejecting material it's it's really

interesting to see the speed difference

between the spark travel and the little

eruptions okay 10 was good but why are

we down at 10 when we could be at 80

that's what I always say that's the

question I always wonder I always ask

myself

that

stop oh yeah you can see it kind of goes

back and forth and it is just individual

dots it's like and it's and it's not

really it doesn't necessarily like

follow a path in the same space like do

a little bit here jump up there come

back down here yeah is it like lightning

where it goes back and forth all the

time is that what's happening I don't

know it's like little Morse code bits

sort of like it is just like a a laser

engraver that's exactly what it looks

like I wonder if you could do this you

know a billion times it be different

every single time oh that was

interesting the the spark stayed in the

same place for a while there it's just

started working on the same spot and

that caused the eruption was interest

interesting when something like less

visually cool actually gives you more

information this just looks like dots

but it's actually quite interesting the

way it's like the way it's deciding to

go yeah it's not that any decisions are

being made but it seems to be there's

more more plasma the further on we go is

you're right like it Heats it and heats

it and heats it and then it gets then

you start getting more plasma yeah I

think it this The Sweep spot for the the

way this looks like the coolest is at

slightly lower frame rate because then

more occurs in each frame you end up

with lines instead of dots Ah that's

true I think it looks cooler too there's

definitely a sweet spot with the frame

rate yeah it's one of those rare things

that looks cool in real time and then as

you step up the frame rate it still

looks cool but you're seeing different

things each time yeah I'm going to use

the OnePlus for an internal view strap

it up tiny little hassle blad is what it

is

[Music]

yeah

St a good amount of Destruction yeah

solid but not enough not not not enough

yeah I think uh we've done a lot of eggs

exploding and being shot and things like

that before but it's always been there's

there always been a cause like a visual

cause yeah whereas with the microwave

they just sort of spontaneously combust

it seems like the pressure builds up and

inside the shell and then explodes I

don't think I've ever put an egg in the

microwave in my life have you not no you

know to draw any any funny face on the

egg or

anything that's one of us does he got

standard ears no ears no no ears hang on

oh perfect all right let's see him

ripped open from the inside

to use one word one word to describe

this it would be

perfect hopefully the egg is cooked by

the microwave and not these

lights can you already see it my got

[Laughter]

show ready yep it's getting sweaty it's

getting

sweaty quite a lot of cooked egg

showing okay

W

flip I think it's like done the

microwave in look at

it

holy the thing is it's not even viscous

it's cooked it so much it's just cooked

egg it's just cooked it like I've seen

the videos before where it's kind of

liquidy and viscous and it sort of

explodes

this was just scrambled egg at a million

miles hour that's some intensely strong

egg

there

oh I'd not seen that before did you just

go all over yourself in in amazement I

did that was the longest I've seen it go

in the

microwave that's just scrambled it's

just fully scrambled it it doesn't smell

as bad as I was

expecting

it's definitely

overcooked just a nice egg you can

barely tell it's spitting we're filming

so fast oh yeah you have to look at it

for a few seconds to

realize wow there was like a primary

explosion and a secondary one if you

look I can't believe so much pressure

can build up doesn't appear to be

working just just completely ended the

microwave well that's a positive means I

don't have to clean the microwave should

you break out the spare microwave I

think so should I get some different

less powerful eggs as well no these eggs

are great these eggs are great I know

what to talk about do you want to do you

on the front me on the back sure I guess

this can be

me just a regular size nose

here cheers for

that I'm I've got I've got the subject

right in front of me

so it's not particularly well shaven

beard

there we

go okay I think whoever blows up loses I

think it's a win really cuz you get

immortalized okay so the winner blows up

the winner blows up

okay I think our Channel's

devolving you think uh when did it start

going downhill when when did I join the

channel that's

me back round to you there we go oh oh I

think I think that's it that is

definitely it looked like a gruesome

head

shot so

quick

oh that's so much less violent

now oh wow it's like a tidal wave you

know in like a water pressure overcomes

sort of a barrier oh that one just

peeled open open everyone's completely

different you can see the little cooked

areas in there yeah are you making my

schnozes bigger I was wondering if you

were going to notice but I'm trying to

very subtly make them slightly bigger

each time let me know if it starts

sweating yeah

oh just

went I think that was you oh yeah I

think you just got a

visery blood bar

well I don't know your eyes look like

you've already

been do you put a g in your mouth oh oh

oh that was a forceful one but

undercooked still that one looks really

cool that's my favorite one oh straight

through the eyebrow just the patterns in

the liquids yeah that's entirely

dependent on the shell that one hasn't

so much burst as that one exploded more

it's like it's like that scene in um

license to kill oh yeah sure the Yol got

out of there as well look got those tiny

flexs of cooked egg yeah pretty Grim

pretty

Grim there you go just the eventually

detected that as a

face well that was gruesome oh oh a

dripping egg on you I'm sorry I like how

quickly we went straight to eggs which

have really nothing to do with

electricity right we've done the

electricity part eggs blow up some egg

do you know what I like the the variety

of different eggs did different things

yeah like it every egg was different

yeah every single one well there we have

it hopefully you enjoyed that

destruction big thanks once again to

OnePlus for sponsoring this video you

can check out the OnePlus 12 at the link

in the description and I would now like

to tell you slightly more things about

the phone on the screen right now is a

real time screen capture of how fast it

charges 80 Watts when plugged in 80

Watts 80 Watts I feel like my electric

car at home doesn't charge that fast I

actually don't think it does the iPhone

I believe is 25

which is what I'm used to OnePlus 12 has

the fastest wired and wireless charging

in North America 1 to 100% in 30 minutes

with 80 W wired charging 50 W wireless

charging that can charge from 1 to 50%

in 23 minutes if you started charging

your OnePlus 12 from 3% at the beginning

of this video it would now be

approximately 61% charged features

qualcomm's latest chipset with 16 GB of

RAM which means you can have up to 47

apps open at the same time that is a

very specific amount of apps it is I was

like 47 the thing is I never closed the

apps as well it also features a triple

lens camera that's made in collaboration

with Hasselblad has a three times

optical zoom and 120 times digital Zoom

that is that's that's in there

considerable thanks once again for

watching make sure you subscribe if you

like slow-mo and we'll see you next time

bye-bye