Comment on How to dry silica gel
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Silica with indicator is hazardous
Yes, even the orange-green ones
Buy some uncolored and use a microwave oven (Warning: only use very little micro power and checknevery 20 seconds, those things get hot enough to melt ceramic and are a fire hazard)
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you’re melting crockery in your microwave, I assure you whatever it is you’re using is not ceramic. Even the earthenware stuff that cheap coffee mugs are made out of has to be heated to upwards of 1000° C just as part of its hardening process, never mind melting.
You can absolutely get silica gel beads hot enough in a microwave to melt and deform plastic containers, though, including those faux stoneware textured ones. Beware if what you have is not actually Pyrex or ceramic.
I cook the shit out of my silica gel beads in the microwave in an old ceramic pie dish I have no other use for. There isn’t a mark on it. Although I will say, you probably want to microwave your beads gently anyway because at high power levels the moisture flash boils out of them fast enough to cause them to split and shatter, or occasionally leap out of the dish like popcorn.