I'll sometimes take a nap, 30 min before I have to go out. No alarm.
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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?
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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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Back in the bad old days, some ovens just had a clockwork dial that you'd crank to however minutes of microwaving you wanted. No on switch, just turn it and wait for the "ding". OP's method really isn't too different since it's the same number of steps.
At an old job we had some rooms with really bad internet connection but not always. Network people came by with some ghost busters shit and went around asking us all to do really inconvenient shit -- "please disable that hotspot" ugh.... (And I had lots of tech at the time). They tracked it down to interference from an old microwave down the hall from the rooms that had problems.
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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.
I was visiting the last GF I had, about eight years go. First time in her house. She's in the bedroom, and I go out to the kitchen to heat something up. She hears me pushing the buttons, BEEP, BEEP, and comes running. She told me I had to set a time that ended in 55 or 99. I asked her why, and she just said "my house...".
It probably had that secret exploding feature if you didn’t.
You'd think by now someone would have made a microwave that's like 2€ cheaper and has a single on/off button.
Some commercial microwaves have a single knob you spin to set a time and you can open the door, or spin it back to stop it. This is how the first microwave I used worked, back around 1980.
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The only thing I never measure are spices/seasonings.
Reminds me of Future Gadget #08. Only missing the phone and maybe you'll build a time machine!
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.
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
You treat adults like children and you get childish behavior.
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.
Im lucky enough to own an old microwave that has a simple rotary dial for the timer.
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This would drive me crazy, just seeing that start blinking non stop instead of the time like sane people.
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I remember my school cafeteria doing roughly this, entering a high number and then just heating orders up for a few seconds. Makes sense for them, but in a household, why…
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