66 is better for 1 minute
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antisuck@lemmy.world 4 months agoMine 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.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 4 months ago
55 is a second closer than 66
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
True, but on my underpowered 600w oven, 66 is perfect
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
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 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.
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.
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 4 months ago
8:88 is closer to 10 minutes than 9:99