• antisuck@lemmy.world
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      4 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.

    • errer@lemmy.world
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      4 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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        4 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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        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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          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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    4 months ago

    I got one of those fancy new microwaves that does 1 minute when you hit 1, 2 minutes when you hit 2, etc. I believe it has saved me about seven octillion eons of cumulative time I would have otherwise spent typing in numbers.

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      4 months ago

      My parents have a microwave like that. It drives me nuts because it’s basically a better model of my old microwave. Controls look the same, but function completely differently.

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      Mine does that but only the 1-6 buttons. And like… if I’m being honest microwaving something for longer than 6 minutes is probably less than 1% of my total microwave usage, but it feels like the greatest injustice ever experienced by anybody when I have to press cook time then 8 0 0 to get my microwave to run for 8 minutes

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      4 months ago

      I have one of those and it’s cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I’ve actually used the “push 1 for 1 minute” feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional “timer” button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.

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    You can’t put the same time every time! Are you nuts?

    It needs to be a completely random number you think of right when you’re pushing the buttons or they’ll figure it out and the device will go off. Don’t let them do it!