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

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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

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They do, his take is nonsense and sounds like RP, don't take it too seriously. Any trained engineer can tell you the historical reasons why we use base 60 for circles. This is actually a well known computer science issue, but not an engineering or math one.