Isn't there some kind of metal lining in those bags?

Fire is even more fun in a microwave. Stick a toothpick in something so its vertical, light it, and put in in for 30 seconds.

yeah

my wife's gonna be pissed about what I do to the microwave.

This YTMND will usher in a new age of man.

The effort that went into this YTMND alone is worth a 5. Also, try putting CDs in the microwave. Use blanks or AOL CDs. They put on quite a light show for about 3 seconds.

just watch somebody burn their house down doing this

+2

that's good.

Interesting.

hmmm...

I can't wait till your microwave explodes and half of the world goes with it! =-o

o rly? thats not very nice of you to say such things! but seriously, its pretty harmless. there was an episode of mythbusters on discovery channel that debonked the whole "your microwave will explode if you put metal in it!" urband legend.

+1

i'm glad i'm not payign you college expences.

is that...safe?

They shrink better in the oven and I learned of this in 3rd grade.

wow.. so i see

more like grade school

try microwaving cd's too

Yeah, I made a keychain out of a skittles packed it 6th grade. It's a better idea to use an oven.

they're like shrinky dinks

+1

first 3-4 frames are pointless

lol shrinky-dinks. but what a god awful song.

Man Law

Truly fantastic. I love you.

you forgot to mention the part where you inhale the noxious chemicals and imagine that this would make a winning ytmnd, lol

yesssssss!!!! i just tried it...it totally works!

It won't blow up, but I think the Mythbusters said something about the magnetron's life being shortened if you pull crap like this. No explosions--just excessive wear from misuse. 5 for yay.

Excellent find sir. If I may suggest, place a small glass of water in the microwave along with the snack bag to prevent damage to the microwave oven. CDs are even more amazing and make neat fractal patterns.

yea i saw that episode of mythbusters, i no longer fear my microwave. i used to go into coniptions if i accidentally left a spoon in there or something. good ytmnd

um, why would you want do this in the first place?

Hah, it worked. Wonder how long before someone f*cks up and posts "IT CAUGHT ON FIRE YOU DICK"

not coniptions, convulsions silly me

IT CAUGHT ON FIRE YOU DICK

+1

5'd FOR f*ckING UTZ CHIPS

Would this work for full size chip bags?

IT CAUGHT ON FIRE YOU DICK

+1

i haven't tried it on a full bag.. i've tried it on one of those "grab bags," the medium-size lays. it still works, but of course, it requires more time to shrink to smallest size. i can't fit a large bag into my microwave...

lol????

Mine went 'kapoof' and frizzled up. It smelled all plasticy and melty. Is it supposed to spark so much when you do it?

you seriously need to goto class

yup! its supposed to spark and pop.. i cant explain to you exactly whats going on, but something with the foil making it really hot and then it shrinks. it does produce an odor that may, in fact, be a health hazard... but i'm fine, and i've been doing it for months now!

I dare you to do 8 minutes.

Awesome music selection, awesome animation, and finally, 5 for Stephanie. lolped

but if you're serious about doing it the right way, try it out a couple times to find the best time for your microwave; and best size/time ratio to make it as small as possible before melting into goo.

I've known this for a while but the music and taping methods earn this my 5.

Your college education is finally paying off!

+1

10 people's houses will now burn down.

lol nuclear

electromagnetic radiation ftw

LOL, Music was perfect!!!!

oh my god this is the hardest a ytmnd has ever made me laugh. oh my god...

Oh. Awesome.

Lol I wanna try that ,but then again....

try next with knives and forks :) I hear they take a whole minute to shrink

1'd because this is NOT safe, bags of chips DO HAVE metal linins, THUS making explosions while in the microwave.. [Lesson: Do NOT put metal objects in microwave]

sweet

not really useful, but informative. And it was pleasant to watch, not to mention the small gif size couldnt be beat, plus good music

That is awesome!

that's f*ckin AWEsome

"Higher" education. lol

you can do the same thing with any heat source. Throw it into a campfire and see what it does.

if you throw it in a fire, i doubt you'll get it out looking as nice as you can via microwave. also, it only takes a few seconds this way - how long does it take for you oven people to shrink stuff? :)

fine then use charcoal and put it on the grill. flames will blacken it yes. Also, for your next experiment try a 9 volt battery and lean down in front of the door to watch and see all the cool action.

You should have learned to put the moves on drunk sluts instead :(

shiiiizzz i cant wait to go to college

MIT has a place for you, my friend!

my inners feel smokey *dead*

lol, unusefullness

EXPLODE.

Education is a wonderful thing

you are gonna ruin your microwave.

The most important thing that I learned is that boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.

One word: awesome. 5'd for the future of mankind.

rofl

ahaha great music choice

you...you just wasted all of those delicious chips :O

OMFG WTF I TRIED DOING THIS AND MY MICROWAVE CAUGHT FIRE AND BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN! NOW I'M HOMELESS... WTF!!!

informative

if you're wondering how I typed that or this, I'm at a friend's house

this made me lol

There are three unstoppable things in this ytmnd. Hasty chip dump and brush, lol baking, and the fact that it encourages people to perform a relatively dangerous act.

This is the most amazing thing I've learned ever now!

I learned that when I was in 8th grade and got over it about a month later, let's stop lying about our ages shall we

Funny show. Don't think I want to risk ruining my microwave to try it though.

cute? no. stupid? yes. +2 just for effort.

The reason bags shrink in microwaves has nothing to do with heat, by the way, it's because the waves hit the bag, bounce off from the metal, hit the bag again, etc etc

Yay, small chip bags. :)

I love you.

I laughed, I cried.

that's actually a pretty good animation. even though the quality sucks.

"The most important thing that I learned is that boys have a penis and girls have a vagina." HAHAHAHA Impossible

loooooo

I like the fact that you spent so much time making this...what is otherwise a pointless demonstration.

yay for you

WOW!!!!!11

i did that with a capri sun drink pouch.....

don't do this in my f*cking microwave anymore you jackass

i wonder if its possible to cause the shrinkage to follow a specific texture, ie, the design on the bag.

You know what else shinks ina microwave really cool? An aerosol can. Really. Set it for about 5 minutes....

Learn English too please.

Learned this in grade 2, so 2 stars

Purely awesome... I love the music and love the animation (although you could use better quality).

I..love you.

boring.

We were doing this in first grade..we also didn't know about saftey back then too.

Rubbaband man

I shall do this asap.

kinda cool

that was gay, plastic shrinks

also shrinky dinks

Morning Glory Dew

UNIVERSE TIER

I used to do this everyday back in high school. It makes your microwave stink really bad if you do it enough.

I'm... I'm gonna try this. Also 5'd for the comments alone, the YTMND is in a tier by itself anyway.

College education, ftw.

NO ITS NOT SAFE!!! YOU WILL CAUSE ARCS INSIDE YOUR MICROWAVE LOL 5D BEFORE YOU BLOW SOMETHING UP

Wow. I definately need to do this in place of fireworks today.

awsome

lol, if this is what you really learn at college then I suddenly have a greater urge to go

Not sure why I enjoyed watching this, it's completely illogical.

i remember when i turned 18 and boasted about being in college, not yet knowing that college freshmen are some of the most annoying n00bs on earth

The amount of alcohol required to figure this out is why college costs so much.

for some reason, the image quality just strikes me as completely flawless.

Awesome'd NOw that this is in the top 15 everyone will learn and burn thier house down in the process

is it not ironic that the most amazing thing college has learned is how to shrink your intelligence?

You probably paid 100'000 bucks for your college education and alls you got was this lousy technique. :(

"...magnetron's life being shortened if you pull crap like this. No explosions--just excessive wear from misuse..." yeah that's what I've heard too. I did that once with a little container of butter (foil backed) just after I woke up to get breakfast (so I wasnt really thinking). I wouldn't do that too much unless you don't mind junking up stuff with broken microwaves.

Let's see how quickly this ruins my microwave...

I'll lol if some dumbass gets hurt trying this and sues YTMND.

Cool, but I feel bad for whomever is paying for your education (unless, of course, you are yourself)

omg you chip waster!

thats a nice quality gif

Now stick your head inside the microwave and inhale deeply. Do this with a few bags until you've killed enough braincells that you can't breathe anymore. And you're done. This is cool, but not really ytmnd-worthy. More like a flash animation, or maybe a forum post. Inkdrinker would have three words to say to you.

IT CAUGHT ON FIRE YOU DICK

the music makes it

Damn, that owns so much

I like this ytmnd, it's well done, and the animation is superb. Also i love it how you just empty the chips onto the bench and then push them off...lol

the music really makes this ytmnd work

also, "This YTMND will usher in a new age of man." - LoL

very "cute", but i like my microwave too much to ignore its "no metalic objects" warning:D

That was the single most pointless/best optimized/lol, baking ytmnd ever.

Isn't College wonderful...I learned to make Dry-Ice Bombs.

Hooray science!

DAMN NIGG* YOUS ON CRACK!

Pixilation?

-3 for "baking, lol" instead of "lol baking"

You are an insult to intelligence

Took you that long to figure it out. You probably won't be in college much longer, it seems.

OMFG YOU WASTED THE CHIPS! Think about the homeless plz...

lol, radiation

5'd not just for how amazing that is, but also 5'd because you put a lot of effort into it and it looks visually great for a ytmnd... oh and great song choice as well.

Do you think washing out the bag first would have better results?

i used to shrink bags of chips with a lysol-lighter-flame thrower as a kid

anyone tried it with the chips still in the bag ?

yay, now that i learnd that i don't have to go to college!

This is now the most awesome thing I have learned on YTMND

boom

so college IS useful!

That can't be good for the microwave, lol.

5'd because it looks like it took a lot of work and gave me an excuse to put a chip bag in the microwave. But before I try this, if I put it in for 2 long will it catch on fire?

5'd will try when it woke wake the fam :}

wow. i'm gonna try this now.

That's not wise since if you overcook it and melt the bag, it will probably smell quite bad and possibly be toxic. Your roomates if any will kill you and besides, this just isn't a smart thing to do...

you are gay

^ agrees with andre

Did it took you all the way to college to learn that plastic shrinks when heated? f*cking idiot.

lol

Congratulations on your new discovery. We would surely be lost without you. God bless. -Mary Ellen Johnson

Fecking awesome man! I'm so doing that now....

IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP IT'S A TRAP

i thought everyone knew about this since 5th grade

whattage ?

5 for possible microwave breaking Use an oven.

Uh....okay.

Oh My God.

yay for pixilation. yay for shriking bags (can also be done in a conventional oven).

5. one for each house that will be burnt down when people try this.

i love you

"So, son, what have you learned in that university I've spent well over a hundred grand to get you into?" "Well, Dad, I just learned how to shrink a bag of potato chips in the microwave! It's awesome!"

Radiation poisoning FTW!

That was pointless, btw change the music to somthing else besides that gay rap sh*t, queer.

i lol'd. and i like. but thats not pixelation...not true pixelation anyways. but i'll 5 ur *ss anyway.

k...

* pixilation.

this truely is amazing

-1 for the image quality. but way to go all the same. i sense an angry girlfriend when she comes home tonight.

ok then

A conventional oven works better :P

The microwave won't "explode". It'll just stop working right.

S C I E N C E R U L E S ! ! !

4 for shrinking chip bags and 1 for putting Steph in there randomly.

TI Sucks

cool.

f*ck you. i hate you. I demand you give me money to buy a new microwave now >:(

^_^

5d for "cute"

Good effort

"The effort that went into this YTMND alone is worth a 5." Trust me, the T.I. loop alone gets the 5. Also, DANGER, DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!

have fun with your cancer and your lovely debt

-2 for waisting chips

lol! Learned that in jr. high school... one kid set the cafeteria on fire practically. They didn't let us do that anymore.

Pretty cool. Microwaving CDs, as someone else said, is pretty cool also. They turn out like http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/824278/2/istockphoto_824278_crackled_cd_rom_after_being_exposed_to_microwave_radiation.jpg after 4 or 5 seconds.

You learned that in college? I learned that in 3rd grade

Oh god, my house is on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO COLLEGE!!!!

5'd for having "gnarly" as a keyword

shame you never learnt how to spell properly

who am is?

This looked kinda cool, so I tried it out yesterday before I went to work. Turns out our microwave was too old to do this correctly. Instead it began to spark way too much and before I could open it to stop it from catching on fire, it burst into flames. It quickly spread to the table cloth and before I could put the fire out with my sink, it caught the curtains on fire. Then my cat caught on fire. NEDM

xD Oh my god, that is AWESOME! Hm... Now I just need my parents to leave for a few hours and a chip bag...

Meh. At least you showed me what song that was. I was curious for the longest time.

Used to do this all the time.

Flippin' amazing!

Amazing.

I totally just saw that thing spark.

i new what this was gonna be when i saw bagshrink :P my old babysitter when I was a kid used to tell me and bro about these things all the time (much to the dismay of my parents) but she told us if you put it in for too long it would explode or burst into flame or something, cause some people were doing it at school and someone tryed doing it for a really long time (like maybe 10 seconds more) and there was a small fire :P haha it also reminds me of when my friend put a sponge in the school microwave in 8th

crisps

At college, I put metal in teh microwaev. Go science!

you are a f*cking idiot

If I set my house on fire doing this I'm kicking your ass.

5'd for T.I.!

That's pretty cool. But you do need to change the sh*tty music.

stop eating chips, fatty.

o rly? thats not very nice of you to say such things! but seriously, its pretty harmless. there was an episode of mythbusters on discovery channel that debonked the whole "your microwave will explode if you put metal in it!" urband legend. BULLsh*t, THEY DIDNT PUT ENOUGH METAL IN IT!!!

Ha wow. Watch there be a wave of microwave accidents on the news now because of this YTMND.

I learned the exact same thing in College.. We also threw lightbulbs and CD's in the microwave

Stephanie, lol

congratz

lol

3'd because I learned this already and I'm not in college yet.

you should be learning how to make bongs out of everything

lol,awesomeness

"Cute!"

lol

Interesting. :)

5d FOR COLLEGE!

lol that's so pointless but I'm going to do it.

I thought it would be how to remove 5 bras at once with your tongue, but this works too haha.

Did you know a grape will catch fire if you cut it in half and put both halves next to each other in the microwave?

amazing!

I was trying to think up a witty line about how you must be retarded if it took you until college to realize this, but then realizing nobody else did, and that I was incapable of conceiving said witty line, I retracted and gave a five. ......You're welcome???

thts stupid all tht does is make holes in the bag and it looks like shi*

meh. grape fireworks are better.

Amazing

i learned that a long time ago. have any mentos and coke stories to share with us?

Baking Soda + Vinegar = Volcano. Potato + Wires = Electricity. Pop rocks + Soda = Fizziness. Knife + Skin = Blood.

You learn so much at college.