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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 6 points 3 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

"Comparison is the theif of joy."

But your one was fine too, I guess.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Firemen love this one simple trick!

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 7 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 18 points 10 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 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Those are very long minutes!

[–] pulsey@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

metric minutes

[–] fedikitty@piefed.social 16 points 13 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 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That would be the core of the problem here. All that energy and nowhere to go

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 3 points 8 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 6 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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Samsung smart microwave wifi telemetry fears this person.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 8 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 18 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 194 points 1 day 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 13 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 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 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 17 points 20 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 19 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 1 day ago

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

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Dishwashing powder, or basically any cleaning product really

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 14 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.

[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 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 11 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 7 hours ago

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

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.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day 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 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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 23 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 1 day 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 7 hours ago

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

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago

So the opposite of never measuring anything!

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll sometimes take a nap, 30 min before I have to go out. No alarm.

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