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 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.

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.

I often put things on the microwave for like 20-30 minutes at power 2-3, just because I know I'm going to lose track of time (and things are usually better cooked slowly in the microwave, I find).

Also the microwave running has a nice white noise sound to me.

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

That 77 is hurtig my brain.

On my Samsung microwave the start button does 30 seconds of max wattage. Pressing it multiple times increases the timer by 30 seconds. I just press the button a bunch of times usually

Or microwave has a +30 seconds button, so I always just mash it until it’s close enough. I usually have to add a little extra anyway, since it’s a 1000 watt microwave and instructions usually are calibrated for 1200 now.

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.

My wife does that. Early on, I asked her...

"Why do you set the microwave to 1:11?"

"Because it takes less time than 1:00."

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't."

"🤦🏻‍♀️"

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.

Five coffees a day?

Sometimes it’s hard to control the tisms.

Take it one step further and set up Grocy

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

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.

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

Bold

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

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

You'd think by now someone would have made a microwave that's like 2€ cheaper and has a single on/off button.

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...".

This is the perfect use for that add 30 seconds button

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

The first seconds counter has to run out before the next minute counts down adding 60s to the seconds counter.

So 99:99 is the same as 1:40:39

Yeah my microwave lets me put 99 seconds in, and that's the highest I will go. In fact, I only put multiples of 11 in, because it's the quickest, just bing-bang-start.

On the rare occasion I'm microwaving something that requires, say, 5 minutes, it gets 444 and we hope for the best.

From my experience the numbers left of the colon are minutes and the numbers to the right are seconds. The seconds count down to 0 and then reset to 60 as the minute count decreases by 1 For whatever reason I actually get a tiny kick out of this weird behavior and almost always set my microwave for X minutes and 99 seconds (also almost never 100%power), my favorite part is adding 30 seconds with X:60< <70 so in theory it should be able to just go back to 9x but it always jumps up a minute and adds 30 instead. It knows 99 seconds is silly but still let's me do it.

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

"Comparison is the theif of joy."

But your one was fine too, I guess.

I measure my body so I can order clothes that will fit correctly. But I agree with the other stuff.

metric minutes

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.

wow and it doesn't let you disable this behaviour? must be so annoying

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.

I was able to disable this lock on mine by entering some super cryptic sequence of key presses and holding buttons.

It’s like the up up down down left right left right B A B A start of microwave lock codes.

Except you don’t get extra lives. You just get to pull out your food before it explodes into a massive molten mushroom cloud of spatter.

My microwave is the other way around, the door can always be opened. And if you have the timer set, it will stay lit up and spinning, even with the door open.

So OP's method wouldn't work for me. I got scared the first time, but I think the magnetron turns off when the door is opened... but I haven't tried testing that theory.

Mine is less than a year old and doesn't have a child lock.

'round these parts the microwaves have gone back to how my grandma's works. One wheel for wattage, one wheel is an egg timer that you can even change while it runs down.
Peak.

IDK my drawer microwave is new last month and this works fine, I just tried it. You can't set the time or start again without opening it, but so long as you open and close it, you can continue no problem.

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.

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.

Just an FYI. Opening the microwave before it is done can damage it. I had one that would always blow the breaker if my dad used it, but worked fine for me. Turned out he was opening the microwave 1 second before it was done.

Extending lifespan of the buttons.

Less beep beep

Basically nothing. Microwave radiation isn't ionising like x-rays or UV are, the danger is just that they can heat you up in the same way that they heat your food up (and that there's a heap of electricity involved in running the machine)

My guess would be roughly zero, but I'm interested if there is a more concrete answer

Microwaves are just a form of light we can’t see.

When I need to put something in the microwave for 2 minutes, I punch in 1:60.

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.

Old days... (╥﹏╥)

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.

Weird flex, but okay.

Is this on purpose?