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I replaced the microwave with an air fryer, still have the microwave but it lives in a cupboard and only gets used a couple of times a year.
As the air fryer cools for a few seconds before it finishes I usually don't stop it early. I will often open it early to check on the food though.
Of course! I'm not going to let a fucking oven tell me when my food is ready. Fuck you, Skynet, this is how the rebellion against the machines starts!
god forbid we let people customize these things. we'll jam AI into the fucking appliances before we let people have actual QOL advancements.
Yeah because the thing beeps as if the house is on fire. I'd rather have it stay silent. And 1-3 seconds is not really enough to have any measurable effect.
I'm just hit the god damn stop/cancel button if you want to stop it before the timer reaches zero.
Depends on what I'm putting in. There are some plates of leftovers that I've made often enough to just know how long it'll take, so the time is exactly what it needs to be and I can wander away for a second to check the mail or whatever. Popcorn obviously comes out when it's done. If I'm warming a drink in a mug, I'll stop it early if the handle is at a more convenient angle, since otherwise I'm liable to burn myself.
If I don't stop it before the last second, the universe will blow up.
I time it right so that I can run towards the microwave “in slow motion” and pretend I’m stopping a bomb from going off, 1 second before it blows. My kid loves it. 🤷♂️
I have kids that I enjoy keeping asleep. There is no reason for that fucking beep to ever occur.
Nominating for best of out-of-context comments.
Is that really out of context? Maybe it's also because I am a parent, but that was my immediate reaction to the post. Death to all things that beep loudly!!!
I used to stop my microwave a few seconds before it finished, like many others, due to the annoying unstoppable beeps. But then I got this smaller unit that happens to let out the faintest confirmation of doneness that I ever did, or rather almost didn’t, hear. I don’t mind it now.
Almost always.
Me in the break room stopping the microwave before the beeps:
Here future microwave user, have these free nine seconds I'm leaving you.
Me finding the timer is not cleared when I want to use the microwave:
Ugh, now I have to press the reset button before I can enter the length of time to warm my lunch. Who was the accursed person who left time on here?
Only if I'm standing across the room and my brain calculates that the time it takes to close the distance is within the time remaining on the countdown and I get to do a badass flip, twirl, and slide to stop it just in the nick of time so I get to pretend I have super hero level reflexes.
I cannot do badass flips but the point still stands. I can twirl and slide though, as long as I'm wearing socks.
I have this annoying microwave that beeps 5 times when it hits zero, even if I open the door in the middle of it. Kinda rude honestly
Only when microwaving something that might overflow… like oatmeal.
Aside from that… I want every last second of microwaving that I can get and beeping!
People who leave those few remaining seconds just hanging there for the next person to have to deal with are called “microdanglers.”
Someone at work does this and doesn't clear the remaining time. Pisses me off. Press the stop button for the love all that is holy. Look, I know it's petty.
Not petty, totally fair. In my case, the microwave is the most visible clock from the couch, so I am always annoyed when it's 00:02 instead of the time. But then again, the power goes out frequently where I live, so it's not so reliable as a clock in the first place
It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn't common. There's rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.
Really? First thing I do after a power outage is turn off the sound on the microwave. I'm not putting stuff in for hours, I've not forgotten about it. If I'm not taking it out of the microwave immediately it's because I'm busy. Settle down, machine.
I have my microwave on silent so I actually prefer to let it finish so I don't need to press a button to clear those few seconds to have a useful clock back
I set mine to vibrate so I feel it in my pocket when it goes off
There's such a thing as a beepless microwave 😮?
Basically every microwave iv seen in the last 25 years has a way to turn off the beeps.
Read the manual for the shit you own. It's wild sometimes how hidden options can be.
man microwave
I wish I could do that to everything in my life.
man child man taxes man life
HOW
WHAT BRAND OF MICROWAVE DO YOU HAVE?
LG #1675079
For older ones I owned, you can open up the control panel and take out the little speaker puck as an irriversable alternative option.
I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn't just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.
Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)
Yes, regularly AND I leave the remaining time on the microwave. It's pure chaos over here.
Fucking Monster.
Stay away from my family!
This is how my wife is. However, weve recently (6 months now) gotten a new microwave and i havent had to clear the time off once. There's no way shes changed her ways, so this must have a feature to clear remaining time after so long
My husband wants this. Brand?
I mash the stop/clear button until it makes more beeps than the microwave would have made if I let the time expire.
I am triggered, please for the love of god and anyone who lives with you JUST CLEAR IT
My partner does the same thing! The amount of times I've looked at the microwave and wondered why time is standing still is too damn high!
I hate the beep in every form so far, and I avoid using microwaves every chance I get.
No, unless I want to set it up for period shorter than what is available but that hardly ever happens.
I usually leave and come back when it beeps.
It beeps 5 times if I don't. Super fuckin annoying, are those beeps.
Microwaves stop by themselves? /j
No, if I wanted to microwave something for 57 seconds I'd put 57 seconds in. I don't practice brinksmanship
