Channel 4 TV aired a program yesterday evening (4 December 2025) where Kirstie Allsopp, she of TV series 'Location, Location, Location' fame, set up an experiment involving a domestic Microwave oven, along with some inexpensive bits and pieces of kit available on-line through the web.

The experiment involves heating some sort of spherical bauble, probably Silicon based, about 3cm in diameter, inside a special box, which appeared to be ceramic, and heating it up to 1,000 degrees Centigrade. Yes, really, ONE THOUSAND degrees Centigrade!

Upon removing the container and opening it the revealed now white hot glowing object is retrieved using a pair of large callipers. Then dropped into a tray of sawdust which instantly ignites. To a chorus of giggles by the participants. Neither of whom were wearing any face or body protection.

Or alternatively I suppose it could just as easily have been picked up in the hand of an over excited ten year old schoolchild eagerly imitating the experiment. Whereupon it would instantly destroy their hand. Subsequently dropped onto a timber floor the floor would ignite and the object drop through to possibly destroy the room underneath through fire. Or less seriously, drop into their baby sibling's cot.

Whatever next? How to create a nuclear centrifuge using a tumble drier. So as to make a nuclear bomb. Or how about a bio-chemical kit to copy the Chinese weaponizing a lethal virus?

Viewers aren't even treated at the end to the usual 'Blue Peter' show type encouragement to imitate statement of "Don't try this at home kids!" Thus virtually guaranteeing they will!

Are TV producers really so, so ******* stupid these days?! Who the hell at the top in Channel 4 allowed this to be aired? They should be fired (pardon the pun) instantly, sans payoff and pension.

Please don't forward this to all your friends and acquaintances. I do not wish to be implicated in even partial responsibility for the horrible deaths of any innocent people.

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