"I recently ventured to the cereal aisle at my grocery store and picked up a box of Lucky Charms, which are also available on Amazon, eager to experience the bounty of enormous, fluffy marshmallow treats for myself. Following the directions laid out in a number of viral videos, I filled a microwave-safe bowl halfway with the cereal and then microwaved it for 18 seconds, no more and no less."
"In the videos featuring massive marshmallows, you'll notice right away that something is a little off. Many of the colors don't quite match real Lucky Charms, but the shapes are oddly consistent. If you've ever toasted a real marshmallow before, you know they morph as they expand and become big, puffy blobs. You don't turn a little horseshoe marshmallow into a big horseshoe marshmallow."
Viral TikTok videos claim microwaving Lucky Charms for 18 seconds causes marshmallows to dramatically expand. An attempt to replicate the hack by microwaving cereal for 18 seconds, and for longer durations, produced no significant marshmallow expansion. Microwaved marshmallows in the videos display inconsistent colors and unnaturally preserved shapes, whereas real marshmallows typically morph and become amorphous when heated. After multiple trials, no enlarged marshmallows appeared, indicating the viral demonstrations are staged or edited rather than genuine transformations of authentic Lucky Charms marshmallows.
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