We all know that putting metal in the microwave is a bad idea - it's the kind of thing that can spiral from a sparking disaster into a house fire before you know it.
So, like so many other bad ideas, it's great that there are experts out there happy to show us exactly why we shouldn't do it, in controlled environments.
YouTube channel The Slow Mo Guys has been showcasing cool experiments and physics with extreme slow-motion cameras for years now, but the pair's latest video takes us inside a microwave for the first time.
They put CDs in the microwave and film it at a variety of frame rates, getting down to a crazy 80,000 frames per second (FPS).
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The moment the microwave turns on, you get to see a pretty stupendous light show as electricity fizzles around each CD's surface.
As the guys immediately note, it's almost like watching the light bikes from Tron zip around on the CD, as they rapidly map out a network of interconnected lines.
When they swap to the 80,000 FPS recording, some of the close-ups are jaw-dropping, with really cool light patterns and sparks flying - almost reminiscent of the bomb ignition sequence in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Oppenheimer.
When these CDs come back out, they're absolutely messed up, needless to say - half-melted and certainly unusable, even though the hosts were careful to turn off the microwave after just a few short seconds.
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To close the video out they move on to put an egg in the microwave, another famous 'don't try this at home' step - it rapidly explodes, doing some proper damage to the microwave in the process.
Needless to say, the mess left behind by that egg doesn't look like any fun at all to clean up, one of the many reasons why you might not want to try this yourself.
Still, getting to see the egg's surface split and explode at 10,000 FPS is a treat that only gets one-upped when they swap back to 80,000 FPS - which gives you get a truly spectacular view of it exploding.
If your interest is piqued by the video, be sure to check out The Slow Mo Guys' whole YouTube channel - there's a massive archive of different crazy slow-mo shots to discover.