- I'm Dan. - We are the Slow Mo Guys, and back in the day,

Daniel, before we had our channel, one of my favorite shows on YouTube was

"Is It a Good Idea To Microwave This?".

Almost never was a good idea.

Rarely. One of my favorite videos they did was they put an air bag in a microwave...

- Yeah. - ...and as you can imagine

Ain't no microwave no more, after that.

The thing with that video though you couldn't really see exactly what happened,

because they just sort of put it in,

ran out the door and it exploded, so we have no idea what happened.

So let's reveal what actually happened, by using state-of-the-art slow-motion capt--

we all know what's going to happen. - yeah.

The airbag's going to blow the door off,

It's going to blow the bloody door right off, innit?

Gonna blow the bloody door right off innit. Great.

Let's go.

- Up in the old retro knob microwave. -Thanks, yeah.

these are actually quite hard to get hold of. There's a reason we've got this though,

and that's because, all you have to do with one of these ones,

is put what you're putting in, into the microwave, and close it.

If you set the dial to on, and plug it in.

it will automatically just turn on and go, so you can be miles away,

Just plug it in and it's gone. With one of the digital ones,

That's not the same, you have to be there and pushing buttons,

I don't want to be anywhere near this thing.

The only airbags we can get hold of have these pins in,

Which is no good for us, because we need these cables to be attached to them. So I've got these jump cables,

Which will hopefully make it work. because without that,

- It doesn't do anything. - Yeah, it just cooks.

- Yes, get a bit melty. - Just melts a little bit.

- So you need the cables in there to get it to work. - Little antenna, all right.

Gonna film this on the Phantom Flex 4K

I've actually set it to HD, giving us a maximum frame rate of 2,000 frames per second, and a very long trigger cable,

so I can trigger the camera from..

safety over there. safety with Daniel. -Aww

You ready? yeah.

[Loud Bang]

Oohh!

- God, well that took off, The door went flying. - hahahaha.

Goodness me.

Phwoar,

- Bloody hell, have you unplugged it? - Yeah, it's unplugged.

That's got some distance on it. Look at that. It must have hit the fence as well.

It did- it did hit the fence.

- Careful, it'll be hot. - Still hot, yeah.

Ohh, that airbag pong.

Familiar smell, on the slow mo guys.

Properly bowed it, look at that.

- Bloody! - Came clean off.

You know I'm surprised none of it went over the fence, it went upwards.

yeah, yeah, some force! That is wicked.

Microwaves not lying. It's just lifted it off the table.

Can you imagine doing that in a kitchen?

It would annihilate a kitchen, yeah. I like that billowing smoke as it goes down.

Definitely adds to the effect.

Because it ejected the door so far, sort of want to get a wide of it.

Okay.

Maybe just focusing on the door, if it happens that way again.

Can we make it fancy maybe put some powder paint in there colors and stuff?

We're really into powder paint these days,

It's what our channel's become, it's like can we put powder paint on that? Yeah.

Well, it's like, it makes it look nice, You know?

Let's do it. Let's burn some powder paint.

All right, we got a black microwave now.

I'm gonna color it up though, some primary colors.

Chuck a bunch of green on first of all.

-Not a primary color, but alright. -Yeah, good point. What I meant was, like, uh

Yeah, just goop over there. Obviously It's not a primary color,

made with blue and yellow, infact.

Yep.

so, don't know why I said that, but, talking of blue

What are the chances that this will just come out as like brown or something?

Oh, it's definitely going to yeah, all right

Oh, that'll do now. That'll do.

- Okay, then. - I'm setting the time on the microwave,

Is it nerve-wracking doing that in front of the door?

Yeah, even though I know it's not plugged in it's impossible.

Let's hope this bag is a good'n.

Okay we're ready?

Yeah.

[Another Loud Bang]

Surprises me every time! Gets me every time.

Weak!

What's weak?

I wanna see it.

So it looks like it's done, identical,

it's like identical patterns, that is completely symmetrical, except not quite as far.

I wonder if it's the powder paint that had that effect,

- Now, I've seen the footage and you haven't. - Yeah.

Not quite as far would be incorrect.

- Really? - Yeah.

How's that? Well look, it's not gone as far as the other one, unless you're telling me it bounced off the fence,

and then came back?

It annihilated the fence.

So if anything it was even stronger because it bounced further back off the fence,

- Flip. - *laughs*

Do you want to see the footage?

Yeah, I mean, how much do you think you'd have to pay me to stand here?

Yeah, you'd break a bone. Oh, you'd absolutely get-- And if it hit you in the face it could do some serious damage.

Alright here we go.

Aw, look at the force!

- It's like a jet trail, isn't it? - The paint leaves, yeah, like a powder trail.

Yeah, that's going at some speed.

Like we're digging the fence, it like properly bounced the fence panel.

Oh wow, there's like a gap in the fence after that some serious-

It might have broken the fence.

Look at it.

If you were stood there, you'd be dead. *sound of car crash in the background*

- Is that a car crash? - Sounds like it. Yeah, it was.

Well this one jumped back about two meters there,

It's almost like the explosion caused the microwave to get that way and there's doors to go that way.

in equal amounts of force.

Yeah, just turning to brown muck.

in there.

There's a lot of paint in there, but it's completely mixed and just...

Yeah, looks like the green on the front was all that came out.

-Yeah. - Looked cool, though.

Yeah, I liked the little trail it left behind.

Well it looks like we found a pretty consistent way to weaponize a microwave door.

You couldn't get me to stand in front of that, there's no way.

- You definitely wouldn't want to do that. - No.

Don't try that one yourselves. That's a real dangerous one.

Yeah, obviously. We did it because we saw it in a video.

- Professionals and everything tho. - We're al professional tho.

- Yup. - More professionals.

Hopefully you enjoyed that video,

Feel free to follow us on Twitter, go and watch the old microwave show it was top.

And we've got a second channel, which you should subscribe to if you would like a bit BTS.

And obviously, [inaudible] Subscribe on this one. Don't smash the like button though,

- It's extremely delicate, - Fragile.

Be very gentle with the like button,

Lots of YouTubers was telling everyone to smash the like button,

- Caress it gently. - That's vandalism.

Yeah.

*Microwave pings* Done! Let's go.