I should be banned from using microwaves

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone else doesn’t just smash the +30 sec button until it gives you a time that’s close enough?

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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  • antisuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine doesn’t have that button, but I exercise a similar strategy.

    Need 1 minute? Too many buttons. 111 will be fine.

    5 minutes? No. 444. Close enough.

    10 minutes is 999 of course.

    Etc.

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    • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10 minutes is 999 of course.

      8:88 is closer to 10 minutes than 9:99

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      66 is better for 1 minute

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    • groet@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are those seconds? As in is 100 = one minute or 100 seconds? Because 111sec ~= 2min 444sec ~= 7 1/2 min 999sec ~= 16 1/2 min

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Glad to find a like-minded individual here. I generally do either 33 for that half minute heat, 55 for when it doesn’t quite need a minute, and 88, because after a buck thirty I should be stirring (if applicable).

      We had an old microwave that had the button. It failed. I went and brought a new one home, and much to my wife’s chagrin, as is in my nature, I failed to notice the lack of 30s button.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My complicated AF microwave has a dial. I just turn it to the right time.

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My pet peeve recently is that some microwaves don’t also automatically start when you push +30, forcing me to push an extra button…

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    • yonder@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Interesting. My microwave does exactly that and I use it all the time. It also has “more” and “less” buttons to fine adjust the time by increments of 10 seconds, meaning I never have to enter a number or hit “start” most of the time.

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  • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t work with “power level”, need to press “cook time” next :/

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look at this nerd setting the power level. Just cook it on full blast like everyone else. Just let whatever it is sit and the lava parts will warm up the frozen parts eventually.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Normal person: guess I have to enter the correct cook time

      Me: enter cook time as 5 and start and then you can still smash +30 sec

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would do like “2:22” then START

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    • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s my thing. Why push lot buttons when one do trick?

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tetsuo, is that you?

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of all those idiots that microwaved their iPhones in like 2010

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is there any documented case of someone actually doing that, not as a stunt / meme?

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• Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got one of those fancy new microwaves that does 1 minute when you hit 1, 2 minutes when you hit 2, etc. I believe it has saved me about seven octillion eons of cumulative time I would have otherwise spent typing in numbers.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My parents have a microwave like that. It drives me nuts because it’s basically a better model of my old microwave. Controls look the same, but function completely differently.

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  • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine does that but only the 1-6 buttons. And like… if I’m being honest microwaving something for longer than 6 minutes is probably less than 1% of my total microwave usage, but it feels like the greatest injustice ever experienced by anybody when I have to press cook time then 8 0 0 to get my microwave to run for 8 minutes

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  • hakase@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have one of those and it’s cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I’ve actually used the “push 1 for 1 minute” feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional “timer” button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t put the same time every time! Are you nuts?

  It needs to be a completely random number you think of right when you’re pushing the buttons or they’ll figure it out and the device will go off. Don’t let them do it!

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• GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can really vibe at 2.45ghz

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My microwave is really just a fancy kind of egg timer.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My 99 sec gang where you at.

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• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  55 seconds is life

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