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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

"Comparison is the theif of joy."

But your one was fine too, I guess.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Firemen love this one simple trick!

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Eww@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

I would end up looking at my microwave thinking "How can the time be 67:36? It's waaaaaay past my bedtime."

[–] IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Those are very long minutes!

[–] pulsey@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

metric minutes

[–] fedikitty@piefed.social 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Just press the +30 sec button over and over, he's going to burn down the house when he forgets. 💀

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

And here I thought microwaves can't escape the Holey Door

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

oh no my friend, as a product designer let me tell you user count clicks, more than 3 is bad UX and they're lost! /s

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Most microwaves go for 1-6 minutes when you press 1-6 without pressing something else first. Manually setting a time is cook time enter time start. Most operations are thus 1 key press or more rarely 2

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Dishwashing powder, or basically any cleaning product really

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nicest thing i have is a washing machine that dispenses the correct amount itself.

Ive saved so much detergent. And actually use the correct amount of fabric softener so my clothes feel kice.

[–] Briguy@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

You shouldn't use fabric softener at all. It damages your clothes and shortens the life of them. And it makes towels less absorbent since you're adding a coating of wax to everything.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Nah it’s good when you use the correct amount itself like 60ml ish for a load

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

For me, it's the rinse agent. It just disappears into a hole in the door. There's no fill level, no indicator. Just keep filling it until it feels right.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 43 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Samsung smart microwave wifi telemetry fears this person.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 hours ago

Fuck Samsung. They're spending money designing this crap instead of designing appliances that last longer than two years.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 12 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

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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[–] decolo@piefed.social 192 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

Add a dash of ADHD memory issues and this is almost guaranteed to burn your house down.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

Ahh here we go, I have to admit this.

I'm on my 3rd microwave. Ramen noodles caught fire twice. I forgot to add water once, go figure. The second time, I put them in for 33 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Started playing Xbox and forgot until I got hungry again and heard the smoke alarms going off. Flames were coming out of the microwave door so high they burned the cabinets above black, it was a brand new microwave. 3rd time was a metal coffee mug. Who makes a F-ing metal coffee cup so you can't reheat your coffee. It was cool watching the electric sparks and lines fly though.

No regrets. It was the grandparents microwaves. LOL.

[–] xxploit@lemmy.ca 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

My mom burnt a pot of spaghetti.

Yes, burnt. To a crisp.

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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 46 points 23 hours ago

Yeah. I know myself too well to use this "hack"

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Yeast in my pizza dough recipe. I "measure" it by sprinkling yeast on the top of the water until it's evenly coated. I know how it looks.

[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] flubba86@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You should watch the recent videos by "Nate from the Internet", he keeps doubling the amount of vanilla extract put into cookies until you can detect a difference.

Spoiler: 1tsp, 2tsp, 4tsp, etc all taste exactly the same in the final product. After adding in cupfuls, the cookies start to taste bad from too much alcohol, but don't taste any more vanilla than the 2tsp batch. He even tried with vanilla beans and whole pods.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 6 hours ago

There's an obvious missing datapoint here - what about 0?

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 80 points 23 hours ago (14 children)

i don't like to move my finger around, so all my microwave times are of the 44, 77, 2:22, 4:44... format

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Me too! I totally set the microwave time based on vibes and just push the same button over and over until I feel like it's the right amount.

44, 222, and 66 are the most common.

[–] Nimrod@lemmy.world 55 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

Same vibe but I only use the +30s button to enter cook time. Bonus points to microwaves that automatically start when you press +30.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 52 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I envy you! I am not in the position to have this..

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is the response in the post to this really that uncommon? I do this especially for the air fryer, but to a lesser extent in all cooking. Can you guys not tell when it's done by smell?

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Microwaves cook very quickly unlike you know normal ovens and don't within the scope of normal cooking time output much air to carry the smell to allow you to decide when they are done. By the time you smell it you have nuked it way way too long.

Also most microwaves make it extremely easy to put things in for small increments for instance hitting 1 - 6 on mine's keypad and nothing else immediately starts it for 1 - 6 minutes and also has a dedicated 30 seconds button. So it is incredibly easy to set it for a known small length of time allowing you to do other things whilst it cooks rather than standing by the fuckin door waiting to stop it. If you forget you may either ruin your food, destroy your microwave, or start a fire.

There are basically massive downsides to what you are suggesting and no upsides. It is just so unfathomably stupid that were this post to be associated with your real identity it is the only thing the entire world would associate with your name.

easy to set it for a known small length of time allowing you to do other things whilst it cooks rather than standing by the fuckin door waiting to stop it. If you forget you may either ruin your food, destroy your microwave, or start a fire.

Seems more like a skill issue? I don't have the brain of a goldfish, so I don't have to choose between watching food heat up or having to reset the thing every 30 sec.

There are basically massive downsides to what you are suggesting and no upsides. It is just so unfathomably stupid that were this post to be associated with your real identity it is the only thing the entire world would associate with your name.

Lol, seems as if I committed a hate crime against your culture.......

If you calm yourself down just a little bit and actually focus on utilizing your limited reading comprehension skills, you will notice I specified the air fryer.

I have a microwave, but it is very rarely utilized. Even so, it's not that hard to use if you're not an idiot.

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