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I always let the oven timer beep a few times, even if I’m standing right there, so it doesn’t feel frustrated that it’s not serving its purpose.
Nah, unnecessary noise makers can get fucked. I have a tower fan that has a mute button to prevent beeping, I love it so much i bought a second one.
One of the best things about having knowledge in component level electronics is being able to open up consumer electronics and disable unnecessary lights and speakers. Personal table top fans are a big offender here. Lots of folks use them at night, and there's no reason they need to have 10 bright blue LEDs lit all the time the fan has power.
I’m lazy and cover bright LEDs with thick black electrical tape. Even then it sometimes takes more than one piece of tape.
The fan i mentioned also shuts off the LEDs shortly after you stop pressing buttons (Breo is the brand i think?) 😁
I could definitely remove a speaker if i wanted to but i have fat fingers and its hard to put things back together again sometimes.
Why would you buy a fan that beeps?
Because if it quacks, you bought a duck.
What do you do with the second mute button?
I keep it at my desk and spam push it while making eye contact with anyone who talks at me while i work.
I’d say a beep for an oven is not unnecessary. Quite the opposite. The last thing you’d want to do is leave your food in the oven too long. Best case scenario it gets overcooked. Worst case: your house/apartment burns down. Yes, it’s annoying, but in this case, it’s worth it.
The pre-heat beep is nice: other than that, we live in a time where everyone has a more advanced, easier to use, and highly customizable timer in their pocket (cell phones). I would absolutely consider oven timers unnecessary.
As a single father who ~~sometimes~~ can’t for the life of me properly plan a meal, I find sometimes I have to run to the store in the middle of cooking for my kids. There’s also the fact that no matter where I am in my house, everybody can hear the oven timer. Basically, it’s not just on me to turn the oven off when time is up.
As for the preheat beep; I typically ignore preheating and just shove whatever in the oven and let it cook while it heats up.
And now that we’re talking about it, I actually don’t use my oven timer. I use my microwave timer. However, they are pretty much one and the same.
That's fair! I spent a lot of my childhood hearing a loud oven beep that somehow didn't reach the back of the house (where the person who set it was), so oven timers never really made sense compared to something more portable and customizable.
I agree for the most part. I just have a special relationship with the oven timer.