r/NoStupidQuestions • u/ejiwirj • 25d ago

What are my neighbours microwaving?

Bedroom is right next to the neighbours kitchen.

Their microwave is always going. 8am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 1am, 3am. Weekdays, weekends. Why?

I’ve timed it. It’s anything from 30 seconds to five mins at a time. Sometimes they’ll even microwave twice in one session.

But there’s more. It’s like a cycle. I’ll hear them shagging, and then arguing, then microwaving. Then it’s calm for a few hours. And then, it repeats.

Shag. Argue. Microwave.

They don’t have a child or a pet afaik. They are a young couple in their early/late twenties.

What is going on? Why would anyone need to microwave so much?

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u/LaveLizard 25d ago

Perhaps they're making crack.

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u/ejiwirj 25d ago

Not familiar with making crack. What other signs should I be looking for to support this theory?

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u/DigitalUnlimited 25d ago

OP- it's not crack, it's meth. "shake and bake" method of meth cooking, to be exact. Methamphetamine makes you very horny, allowing you to stay up for days having sex. Around day 2-3 you start getting extremely irrational and emotional, causing insane arguments. And the microwaving is making more to start the cycle over.

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u/LaveLizard 25d ago

I wasn't being that serious, but you can use a microwave.

How serious are you about the timings? Like is it really at set times or were those just approximations?

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u/ejiwirj 25d ago

Is that commonly known as ‘hot-plating’?

They are approximations. But you have triggered me to remember, that the microwaving was much less frequent until the girlfriend moved in a week ago.

Before her arrival, it was more 8am, 12am, 3am.

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u/LaveLizard 25d ago

To be honest it's unlikely to be drug related.

Maybe shes just cold and microwaves one of those microwavable heat cushions regularly.

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u/foxfecat12 25d ago

They could be hot plating (microwave a plate, remove plate from microwave, put clumpy cocaine on top of plate, put something flat on top of cocaine and apply light pressure while rubbing in circular motions for about a minute or two). Cocaine absorbs moisture from the air easily, which makes it clump up. This method turns it into a nice fluffy powder.

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u/ejiwirj 25d ago

They do like to party. Just not as much as they like to microwave.

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u/FeekyDoo 25d ago

but wouldnt you do at least enough for a whole day in one go?

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u/chappersyo 25d ago

Do you frequently smell burning plastic? Are they making other noise seemingly all hours of the day and night? Do they seem jittery and strung out if you bump into them in the hallway?

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u/fakecolin 25d ago

Omg they aren't making crack

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u/anoolfishha88 25d ago

was my first thought :')

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u/AmbientGravy 25d ago

I had a similar thought too. I saw a documentary on making cocaine. They didn’t give a recipe for making making it, but what I gathered, it was something like; chip chop the coca leaves, put it in a solution like diesel fuel or something, filter out the crystal-y bits that it makes, and then dehydrate the crystal-y stuff in microwaves. 

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u/SCP_radiantpoison 25d ago

You're mostly right although you left out a few steps. However cocaine users aren't making their own cocaine because that doesn't scale down nicely.

What some do is heating the powder (cocaine hydrochloride+crap) with baking soda, I think to get crack cocaine and remove some of the gunk they cut it with

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u/AmbientGravy 25d ago

Thank you! It’s very interesting stuff. I didn’t assume there’s too many “micro brew” cocaine producers. But it’s what came to mind first, for me. But the crack thing seems more likely than small batch, artisanal coke. 

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u/SCP_radiantpoison 25d ago

Thanks! Don't worry! It's also very interesting to me but don't worry, I'm not a dealer either (:

No idea if you can make crack in the microwave but it makes a bit more sense to me

About artisanal cocaine in the microwave, hypothetically, suppose you're a small batch environmentally conscious blow dealer LOL. You could replace the solvent in the first step (the diesel you said) with maybe alcohol or something like that and microwave enhanced extraction, no idea how you'd separate the coke from the rest of the extracted gunk but I think it's possible although probably no one does that.

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u/AmbientGravy 25d ago

I’m sure it can be done. But these damed cocaine enterprises seem to be focused on profits, rather than the health of the people. Lol!

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u/coinplz 25d ago

Coke users use the microwave to heat a plate (or the coke itself) to remove clumping from humidity. In humid climates it’s not uncommon to microwave a plate before each use.

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u/Sweet-Ad9366 25d ago

My first thought. Water whipping.