Both "200" and "160" are 2 minutes in microwave math

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I used to have one like that as well, most baffling design decision I've ever seen

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Really? Every microwave I’ve had you hit a number and it’s cooks your food for that many minutes. No power option, but you can set it prior to heating your food.

azuth

It's not 160 (seconds) it's 1 (minutes) **:**60 (seconds). My microwave always keeps the : when I input time.

VindictiveJudge

The French tried to, briefly.

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I mean it really depends on what you're heating up as to how much better it is. Some things it doesn't matter as much.

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They are saying that. Its a button on the microwave, you hit it before or after the time input, but its not usually a repeatedly hit button. On mine I would hit the time I wanted, then power, then the number for the percent power I want like 5 is 50%, then start.

I do have a potatoe button that works by pressing it over and over to select weight though.

psychOdelic

what?????? I have NEvER and I mean NEVER!!! seen a microwave with buttons EVER!!! in real life.

VindictiveJudge

You can also punch in 90 to get 1:30. I may have been extra lazy a few times to learn that.

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It's not really lazy until you're putting in "88" to save a keystroke and extra finger movement.

Echo Dot

I'm not down with all this fancy technology.

My microwave has a dial and some cogs and that's about as far as I'm prepared to go. An added bonus is that I don't get blinded whenever walking into the kitchen in the middle of the night

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What did he do with all of the time he saved?

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They all do, you put the food on it and it spins while its cooking.

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I thought modern microwaves didn't rotate at all. My Neff one doesn't.

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Absolutely nothing. We both got the ADHD bad.

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Microwave UIs suck so bad. I've yet to find an improvement on the classic two analog knobs system, where one controls power and the other sets time.

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Jokes on you, my 6 button doesn't work so 160 gets me 10 seconds

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I heated up a leftover chicken breast the other night, and felt as though that was a perfect example of something that needs to be reheated at a lower power level. If you've ever had leftover chicken from the microwave that was chewy or tough, there's a good chance it was that (unless it was tough to begin with).

Try using 80% heat (power level next time you have to re-heat up a thick piece of chicken. It really is a game changer.

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That actually sounds lit I didn't know that existed

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I just thought microwave chicken was terrible. I didn't know there was a way to make it better

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Mine has a button to cycle between 5 power levels, a knob for time, and the start button is also a 30 second button. It's perfect