Comment on I should be banned from using microwaves

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• everett@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the way.

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• antisuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    66 is better for 1 minute

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    • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      55 is a second closer than 66

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      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, but on my underpowered 600w oven, 66 is perfect

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  • groet@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a range in there where lower numbers can be longer times than higher ones. For instance, 111 is less time than 99, since it gets interpreted as 1:11, or 71.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s as entered on a microwave. Any one with digital time entry I’ve seen have 2 digits as seconds and then the most significant ones beyond 2 become minutes.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would do like “2:22” then START

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Hazmatastic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      See, that’s the thing. I still can’t tell if you’re talking about several buttons, or if you’re talking about buttons located in parking lots. You’re saving a miniscule amount of time at best.

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