Add a dash of ADHD memory issues and this is almost guaranteed to burn your house down.
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Yeah. I know myself too well to use this "hack"
Have you ever burnt tea (to dust from liquid and melted kettle handle in the process) while reheating it?
'tis but one of my life's achievements
I have fallen asleep while boiling hotdogs to wake up in a smoky mess with black tar hotdog welded to the bottom of the pot. And it was my brother's house.
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I set my microwave to 2:00 and I'm always back in time to open it at exactly 1:59. So I think I'm going to use this hack.
I think you should probably heat your food for more than 1 second
Hm, I guess it would be more impressive if my internal clock allowed me to heat for exactly 1:59 seconds and open the microwave at 00:01. Maybe heat-pulsing food isn't the answer?
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i don't like to move my finger around, so all my microwave times are of the 44, 77, 2:22, 4:44... format
Same vibe but I only use the +30s button to enter cook time. Bonus points to microwaves that automatically start when you press +30.
My microwave automatically starts when pressing 1-6 and then the +30sec button is the start button.
The max I can do with two button presses is 6:30.
If the microwave wasn't underpowered it would be perfect.
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That 77 is hurtig my brain.
any number between 1 and 99 is just interpreted as seconds, no need for French Revolution era microwave
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Sometimes, just to be insufferable, I'll microwave something for one minute, but instead of entering 1:00 I enter 0:60.
If you have a microwave that doesn’t start one minute when you push 1, so you have enter the zeros, then you’re actually being more efficient doing 60 because it skips a number press.
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I shop once a week and buy all the food for the week. At the end of the week, I have a nearly empty fridge.
I don't want to run out of ingredients, so I divide the weight on the package by seven, and weigh each one as I go. So I know I can have 120g of frozen blueberries each day, 60g of parmesan, 120g of broccoli, 90g of brussel sprouts, 30g of cream in my coffee for each of five coffees a day, etc. I'm happy when on the last day I don't need to weigh anything.
I didn't use to be this way, it just sort of happened.
So the opposite of never measuring anything!
I once heard of someone who would do a regular shopping, and take everything and put it in a stew. Meat, vegetables, fruits, cheese, bread... Whatever was bought that day. I guess that's one way to avoid measuring everything separately.
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Samsung smart microwave wifi telemetry fears this person.
Telemetry? Oh God. Why Samsung? And why end users are you connecting your microwave to the internet?
Either way, it is kinda funny like seeing a random Win2000 in the Steam surveys.
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Fuck Samsung. They're spending money designing this crap instead of designing appliances that last longer than two years.
I'll sometimes take a nap, 30 min before I have to go out. No alarm.
Bold
Just press the +30 sec button over and over, he's going to burn down the house when he forgets. 💀
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I would end up looking at my microwave thinking "How can the time be 67:36? It's waaaaaay past my bedtime."
I wish I could do this, but my microwave resets to zero after about 3 minutes of being left with any residual time.
I’m also a 2:22, 55, 77, 99, etc. user.
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The sentence is life in prison but each offender only has to serve a couple years and then they get swapped out with the next one in the queue.
Weird answer: body parts! I have what i have and measuring it isnt going to make me feel better. I do the things i need to do to increase muscle, decrease fat, and maximize happiness and longevity.
Measuring leads to comparison leads to disappointment
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The one at my work has never reached zero.
Like the code in Lost, we keep it from running out. Nobody knows what will happen if it does.
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This would drive me crazy, just seeing that start blinking non stop instead of the time like sane people.
Easily fixed with a strip of electrical tape.
Ours doesn’t blink, so if it’s more than a minute of time on the timer it literally just looks like the time is set wrong
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So for someone who has a microwave that only works in minutes and actual seconds, meaning 59 is the highest my seconds can go, before the minute counter is increased. Do these microwaves just work in terms of 100 seconds? So if you input 10:00 it's not actually 10 minutes but rather 1000 seconds, meaning it's now 16:40 on a "correct" microwave?
They do a weird conversion in my experience. I think for the first “minute” it just counts all numbers in the seconds field as seconds, then as it counts down, the next minute is only 60 seconds.
Eg I think I’ve tried putting in 90 seconds, and that is actually 90 seconds, same as if I were to put in 1:30 (minute and a half)
So I might guess something like 4:90 == 5:30
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Just microwave everything for a M.I.N.U.T.E. Mean Ideal Nuke Unit Time Estimate. That's how the minute was invented back in the 1950s.
Garlic is understandable, I use a shit ton... But if it's an "extract" it's definitely getting measured. Maybe I'm just picky about my baked goods.
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You can't do this with new microwaves. Child lock, you have to clear the time before you can open it. Yes, you have to clear it even if the time runs completely out.
wow and it doesn't let you disable this behaviour? must be so annoying
Some do, some don't. Implementation is inconsistent. I've seen one that autolocks after a few minutes of inactivity and requires a code to unlock (default 1234).
The breakroom at my job has gone through a lot of microwaves in the past year because my coworkers can't figure out how to open the microwave and just rip the handle off.
Adult lock
That almost happened at my workplace. 6 new microwaves and the locks threw everyone off. I found the right sequence to disable it or I'm sure a door would have been ripped off by now.
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I got a new microwave with some annoying child lock feature. We have no children. I looked in the manual and there was a way to turn it off, it was some weird combination of holding buttons down but it worked just fine and my brand new (as of last year) microwave will happily let me open it with time remaining.
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This but my air fryer
I totally do this. Mine is set to just over 4min at the moment (manual dial). Door ajar to stay off until I use it next,which could be weeks away.
It's completely normal as far as I'm concerned ;) But I do adjust to a round minute if I really want to stick close to the instructed time.
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