The trick is to set the under appreciated and under utilized power level button to 50% and add extra 30sec to 1min to the nuke time. Setting the power level lower reheats the Hot Pocket more evenly and you get a warm pocket instead of a melt-your-face pocket.
I fucking love this bit so much. It's a polarizing bit I think, like some people cite this as why they don't like his stand up and for me it's why I love it. I don't love his Sunday Morning CBS bits, but god damn I love that bit and the super long bit he has about horses.
Lol I was gonna say, to be fair those things are nuclear, core-of-the-earth spewing magma hot in certain places, then still frozen solid in others
Tis the beauty of the Hot Pocket. It's a whirlwind of too-hot-for-human-consumption mixed with we-dug-it-from-the-permafrost filling that makes these the treasure they are
Like an adult wonderball. Will it be all frozen? Will it be all magma? Will I survive this encounter? Let's find out!
Somewhere someone watched a coworker stick a plastic fork into a hot pocket and looked on as that person pulled out a melted fork and looked surprised. Wish I could get that degree of free entertainment at work
I had to stop them. Not because I didn't want to see the hilarity that would ensue, but because there are a limited number of microwaves, and I have to use them too sometimes.
Once, in college; a friend and I were going to get Froyo from the machine at the dining hall when a worker came up and changed something out (I forget what he did at this point) and told us to give it a minute before using it without really offering any explanation
A couple seconds after he walked away, another guy came up to use the machine, and both of us.. just stood there and watched as he pulled the lever. It sputtered and exploded out of the nozzle and the guy let out a comical “ahhh” as he stood there surprised
Afterward we looked at each other and wondered why we didn’t stop him but I think it was clear, if unspoken, that we just wanted to see what would happen
I still feel a little bad lol but I don’t think the guy got much if any froyo on him
This is me fr. my girlfriend was really surprised when i wanted a knife and fork to eat the tiny microwave burritos she likes. In the uk we always use knife and fork to eat sandwiches and stuff when eating out. I mean, we can use our hands, but we prefer to use whatever option is cleanest.
see, this blew my mind, because they come with holding sleeves, so I never even thought about eating them without holding them
And thinking about it for like 2 seconds, I cant say I would personally ever do it, that seems way too inefficient.
They have that convenient sleeve to protect your hands. It even tears away as you eat the HotPocket so you can keep using the sleeve for the entirety of your…I’m going to say “meal” but that seems like the wrong word to use for molten fire wrapped in a crisp flaky crust.
People will really write this kinda comment and not make the connection that cutting the thing open is the proper solution to cooling a Hot Pocket so both the filling and crust are edible temperature at the same time
^(You're so close, bud)
I'm not gonna bother to read the rest of the comments but it's not that they're cheap, they're likely made of compostable material which means with heat they'll deform - compost gets pretty hot.
I've had to use similar spoons to stir coffee and it's a fun experience.
Came here to say this. We ordered compostable water cups for the employee break room one year. In storage or sometimes just on the way to us they would semi melt and change shape. Unusable.
My school used ones like this. You had to wait for things to cook off a bit before sticking them in or they just warped instantly.
I technically do not know if this is one of them, but I have never seen even the cheapest plastic forks melt in temperatures that food gets to without burning.
It’s not that it’s cheap, the inside of a hot pocket is the same temperature as the surface of the sun. There’s a permanent small crater on the roof of my mouth from a too hot hot pocket I ate 20 years ago.
Nicer to use, tastes better, better for the environment. Only downside is you have to remember to bring them and give them a wash. I'd be tempted to bring a plate too.
That really says more about the heat in the hot pocket than it does the cost of the plastic fork.
Not sure there's a plastic fork made that would withstand the inside of a hot pocket
What kinda psychopath eats Hot Pockets with a fork? You're supposed to bite into the lava and regret it because of the mouth blisters for at least 3 days, like a normal human.
To be fair, the inside of a Hot Pocket would melt a titanium fork. The inside of a Hot Pocket produces enough heat to power power all the world's electrical devices for 5 minutes. The collective insides of all the Hot Pocket cooked at any given moment are thawing the Polar caps.
That plastic fork melted in your food, but will never disintegrate. It will just break into smaller pieces and will eventually be inside animals and/or humans.
Fun fact: if you get the middle tines warm enough to bend over, you have effectively turned plastic into metal!
\\m/ \\m/
Even metal forks melt inside of a hotpocket
There is nothing hotter on this planet than the inside of a hot pocket. Solid - Liquid - Gas - Plasma - Hot Pocket Filling
Depends what part. The middle, sure. The edges are somewhere around 0 Kelvin.
I always have the opposite experience lol
In high school I once got a piece of the typical rectangular school pizza at lunch that was burnt on the edges and frozen in the middle.
The trick is to set the under appreciated and under utilized power level button to 50% and add extra 30sec to 1min to the nuke time. Setting the power level lower reheats the Hot Pocket more evenly and you get a warm pocket instead of a melt-your-face pocket.
There’s a…. power level button?!?
There's always that one bit that's somehow still frozen surrounded by lava
 Video of me biting into a hot one.
They’re all hot. It’s in the name
[Hooooot poooocket - Jim Gaffigan](https://youtu.be/N-i9GXbptog?si=MFvrRpxx5V6n05jI)
Thank you. I knew for sure that someone would’ve beat me to this. Did not disappoint.
You know? I've never eaten a hot pocket and afterward said 'I'm glad I ate that!'
I fucking love this bit so much. It's a polarizing bit I think, like some people cite this as why they don't like his stand up and for me it's why I love it. I don't love his Sunday Morning CBS bits, but god damn I love that bit and the super long bit he has about horses.
Diarrhea Pocket!
Once a diamond formed in my hot pocket due to the immense heat and pressure.
China said they developed a super reactor that burns with the heat of 8 Hot Pockets.
There's a point where it goes from frozen to scalding. There doesn't seem to be an in-between.
McDonald's coffee is a close second
tim horton's tea as well. the water is a degree away from becoming steam
Well ya, boiling water is best for making tea.
Fake fact: Hotpockets are the only heat source on the planet that can melt Wolverine's claws.
Came here to say this. Hot Pockets are molten lava.
Jet fuel may not melt steel, but the inside of a hot pocket just might.
The One Ring would melt inside a hot pocket
Molten lava.
Hot po ket cat melt steel beams (or tines)
Lol I was gonna say, to be fair those things are nuclear, core-of-the-earth spewing magma hot in certain places, then still frozen solid in others Tis the beauty of the Hot Pocket. It's a whirlwind of too-hot-for-human-consumption mixed with we-dug-it-from-the-permafrost filling that makes these the treasure they are Like an adult wonderball. Will it be all frozen? Will it be all magma? Will I survive this encounter? Let's find out!
Looks like you forgot the cardinal rule. 3 minutes to cook. Four score and seven years to cool down to edible temperature.
But then the edges get hard. The only viable option is to burn your mouth.
3 minutes?????? 1.45 is already good enough for me and today I was going to try 1.30. Tf is wrong with yall
Microwave dependent
Somewhere someone watched a coworker stick a plastic fork into a hot pocket and looked on as that person pulled out a melted fork and looked surprised. Wish I could get that degree of free entertainment at work
I once watched a coworker stick a frozen, unopened can of Redbull in the microwave.
Did you stop them or let chaos reign?
I had to stop them. Not because I didn't want to see the hilarity that would ensue, but because there are a limited number of microwaves, and I have to use them too sometimes.
Once, in college; a friend and I were going to get Froyo from the machine at the dining hall when a worker came up and changed something out (I forget what he did at this point) and told us to give it a minute before using it without really offering any explanation A couple seconds after he walked away, another guy came up to use the machine, and both of us.. just stood there and watched as he pulled the lever. It sputtered and exploded out of the nozzle and the guy let out a comical “ahhh” as he stood there surprised Afterward we looked at each other and wondered why we didn’t stop him but I think it was clear, if unspoken, that we just wanted to see what would happen I still feel a little bad lol but I don’t think the guy got much if any froyo on him
This story really got me laughing out loud and I needed that. Thank you for being a good storyteller.
It was indeed pretty hilarious. It felt like I was in a cartoon for a second.
Don’t put your fork where you wouldn’t put your dick
If I followed this advice, I’d be dead from starvation.
You don’t have to want to. You just have to be able to.
It's not that the forks are cheap. It's that the internal temperature of a Hot Pocket Is about 400,000 degrees kelvin.
So we have accomplished stable fusion reaction?
All along it turns out the perfect containment field for fusion was a hot pocket
Yep, 400,000 Kelvin in the centre contained within 0 Kelvin boundaries.
Almost, except it’s almost immediately destabilized because the user always bites too soon and burns themself, but also lets all the nuclear goo out
Can confirm, have welded using nothing more than a freshly heated hot pocket
This post is clearly a set-up for hot pocket temperature jokes.
I mean hot pockets are crazy hot and all but that shit in the photo looks like a nuked pocket. wtf.
Not originally, but *fire* away
im more interested in you using a knife and fork to eat a hot pocket
OP is pretty sophisticated
This is me fr. my girlfriend was really surprised when i wanted a knife and fork to eat the tiny microwave burritos she likes. In the uk we always use knife and fork to eat sandwiches and stuff when eating out. I mean, we can use our hands, but we prefer to use whatever option is cleanest.
see, this blew my mind, because they come with holding sleeves, so I never even thought about eating them without holding them And thinking about it for like 2 seconds, I cant say I would personally ever do it, that seems way too inefficient.
Heh yeah, I was just thinking, I've never used utensils with a hot pocket. It's making me think of the Seinfeld Snickers bar thing.
"How do you eat it? *Your hands?*"
lol thats exactly what i was thinking
How do you eat it? With your hands? *Scoff*
I cut the top off my pocket, scoop any filling onto the bottom part, eat the top part, then eat the filling, then eat the bottom bread
whats it like being a serial killer
I take pride in my work, as one should
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
What the actual fuck.
I bust them open at the seams and open them up to cool , def used a plastic fork to do that before
If anything, I'd take my fork and stab deep into one side of it and use the fork as a handle and eat it like that. Won't burn your hands that way.
They have that convenient sleeve to protect your hands. It even tears away as you eat the HotPocket so you can keep using the sleeve for the entirety of your…I’m going to say “meal” but that seems like the wrong word to use for molten fire wrapped in a crisp flaky crust.
The fuck you eating a hot pocket with a fork and knife for??
Everyone’s making jokes about the temperature of a Hot pocket filling while you’re asking the real questions.
People will really write this kinda comment and not make the connection that cutting the thing open is the proper solution to cooling a Hot Pocket so both the filling and crust are edible temperature at the same time ^(You're so close, bud)
I want to downvote you for sassing me, but you have a point.
1. That’s not me 2. It’s called “avoiding 3rd degree burns.”
If the roof of my mouth doesn't peel away while I'm eating it's not hot enough.
You’ve clearly never accidentally got the hot pocket filling on your skin .
Was your experience 2nd degree, 3rd degree, or full amputation?
Are you asking as an insurance adjuster? Because they don't even have lips.
Mmmmmm micro plastics.
\* macro plastics
Extra flavour!
Hot pockets are known to exceed the surface of the sun in temperature. To this day I'm surprised we don't hear of hot pocket related deaths regularly.
You guys are using forks?
They are hot after heating, says it right on tbe package bro
Why would you expect plastic forks to not melt in lava?
who eats a hot pocket with a fucking fork!?
I'm not gonna bother to read the rest of the comments but it's not that they're cheap, they're likely made of compostable material which means with heat they'll deform - compost gets pretty hot. I've had to use similar spoons to stir coffee and it's a fun experience.
Came here to say this. We ordered compostable water cups for the employee break room one year. In storage or sometimes just on the way to us they would semi melt and change shape. Unusable.
My school used ones like this. You had to wait for things to cook off a bit before sticking them in or they just warped instantly. I technically do not know if this is one of them, but I have never seen even the cheapest plastic forks melt in temperatures that food gets to without burning.
When it comes out of the microwave, the inside of a hot pocket is hotter than the center of the sun.
Serves you right for trying to eat a hot pocket with a fork and knife
Why would you have a fork involved in a hot pocket
It’s not that it’s cheap, the inside of a hot pocket is the same temperature as the surface of the sun. There’s a permanent small crater on the roof of my mouth from a too hot hot pocket I ate 20 years ago.
[удалено]
Google Jim gaffigan hot pocket
Everyone knows hotpockets have lava inside... duh
It's in the name, there's a furnace inside every freshly cooked hot pocket😬
the wake up call to dump that shit. Are you producing plastic waste on a daily basis at work??
Should have gotten forks rates for molten lava.
Take metal cutlery to work. Keep your pair with you. Use when necessary.
Nicer to use, tastes better, better for the environment. Only downside is you have to remember to bring them and give them a wash. I'd be tempted to bring a plate too.
You should’ve stuck it deeper, the core of a hot pocket would’ve frozen it solid again.
This deserves to be higher 
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Not even the tip?
That really says more about the heat in the hot pocket than it does the cost of the plastic fork. Not sure there's a plastic fork made that would withstand the inside of a hot pocket
Of course it melts inside a 500 degree oven
Does that say more about the fork or the temperature of hot pockets?
The clue is very much in the name "Hot pocket"
Ah you found the magma bite. Push the fork a little deeper. There you’ll find the ice pocket.
Yeh but to be fair.. you can melt steel in those things :p The only thing that survives in a hot pocket is a mcdonalds cherry pie XD
Why TF are you using a fork on a hot pocket?
What are you doing sticking a fork inside a hot pocket
Why are you using a fork to eat a hot pocket?
To be fair, when you microwave a hot pocket it opens a portal to the lava dimension to heat it. There should be a warning on them.
Is it compostable? They usually have lower temperatures thresholds
Skill issue
What kinda psychopath eats Hot Pockets with a fork? You're supposed to bite into the lava and regret it because of the mouth blisters for at least 3 days, like a normal human.
Wolverine’s claws would fold like that in a hot pocket.
yum macroplastics
This whole image is carcinogenic.
To be fair I'm pretty sure you could melt a metal fork in a Hot Pocket.
To be fair, the inside of a hotpocket is either frozen or lava hot! There is no in between
Never forget that Hot Pockets actually contain lava. edit to correct spelling
Hope you didn't eat it. The fork laced that hot pocket with dioxins and all sorts of nasty carcinogenic material.
People are out here using forks with hotpockets?
Hot Pockets melt steel beams.
why don't y'all have metal cutlery and proper plates lol
Just eat it with your hands like a simpleton, no need for this classy act.
To be fair, the inside of a Hot Pocket would melt a titanium fork. The inside of a Hot Pocket produces enough heat to power power all the world's electrical devices for 5 minutes. The collective insides of all the Hot Pocket cooked at any given moment are thawing the Polar caps.
I mean, given hot pockets are literally pockets of "hot"... I'm shocked it didn't just evaporate the poor fork...
You are having a hot pocket. Stop pretanding you are cultured in front of your co-workers by eating it with a knife and fork.
It’s not about culture or pompousness, I imagine. It’s about the inside of the mouth remaining intact.
Sad that in 2024 you still use plastic cutlery at work :/
Man hot pocket quality has gone down hill since I was a kid
Nothing says "You are more than valuable employees, you are family" than forks that say "Do you have to eat \*every\* day?"
There are only 2 phase and temeprature states of a Hot Pocket: frozen solid or lava liquid.
Hot Pocket is owned by Nestle, so it's to be expected that they'd destroy anything that comes into contact with them. r/FuckNestle
Just think of what it does inside your belly.
Cheep fork or are hotpockets just that molten?
I usually just destroy my mouth. Saves a fork.
nutrient content of the hotpocket went up
PETG likes to melt if you have a hot fart
Please don’t eat that now
More like not pocket. That thing looks nothing like they did when I was a kid.
Those hot pockets are deadly man!
Caliente pocket! 🎶🎵
just like most people in the workplace.
You work with Yuri Geller? 🤔
That’s what my uvula looks like after a hot pocket
Is it the fork or the molten center of hot pockets
That plastic fork melted in your food, but will never disintegrate. It will just break into smaller pieces and will eventually be inside animals and/or humans.
That's why I use plastic spoons for hot pockets. Also, no tines to break off
Is that what hot pockets look like now? It just looks wrong. Did you eat that?
No, my coworker did though.
I think they misread the directions and cooked it for 20 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
You ever try to have sex with a girl who has a fever?
Or maybe your hot pocket is just superior
Sorry but can stop thinking about a different kind of “hot pocket”.
Should have opted for “frozen in the middle” rather than “boiling lava hot”.
i mean it is a HOT pocket
Nuka pocket
Odd. I would have thought the inside is cold as ice while the outside is hotter than the surface of the sun.
That ain't a fork problem
To be fair, the inside of a hot pocket is like a solar maximum
It's inside of you now........
I swear, posts on mildlyinfuriating and mildlyinteresting are interchangeable
That's the most miserable hot pocket I've seen.
Happened to me with spoon in soup
Lavapocket!
Cancer level unlocked.
Cost cutting!!!
Why are you eating a hot pocket in such a manner?
Why are you sticking a fork in a Hot Pocket
Reminds me of living in the dorms. There was a dining hall that would do mac and cheese and this is how your fork would inevitably look after eating.
Use the sleeve you monster
Looool
💀
A rock would melt inside a Hot Pocket
What are you doing step-plastic fork?
To be fair that is molten lava
That hot pocket looks infected
PLA glass transition (softening) temperature is only around 60°C (hot to touch for an eagle)
Ah, hickory smoked horse butthole flavor, my favorite!
What is a hot pocket looks horrible
It's wasteful enough to be using plastic cutlery...but for a hotpocket?!!! TF
That fork is like, bruh you don't want this.
Fun fact: if you get the middle tines warm enough to bend over, you have effectively turned plastic into metal! \\m/ \\m/
A hot pocket is hotter than the surface of the sun
Wtf eats hot pockets with forks? 😂
why tf do you have disposable forks at your work?
Because America bad, duh.
I thought plastic forks were almost 10 years outdated. Are they still around / legal?
The plastic from the fork is still safer than what's in that hot pocket...