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

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You mean here on Lemmy? I think they disabled them on reddit anyway.

Get_Off_My_WLAN

You guys are getting buttons?

My Japanese microwave only has an imprecise knob to turn. It came free with the apartment, so I can't complain too much.

I suppose it prevents people from accidentally doing something like hitting 20:00 instead of 2:00 and starting a fire.

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Your microwave does math funny

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I'll only buy a microwave if it stops beeping when I open the door. So if I open it right as the timer finishes then it only does like half of one beep.

Side note, the microwave also needs to go straight to time entry once I start pressing numbers. I've seen some stupid microwaves that you need to press a Time Cook button before the numbers or it will assume you are using its preset cook settings like "pizza" or "soup".

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I don't think you can even input :60 except as in 2 presses of [+30 seconds]

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What happens when you type "1-6-0" on the time?

Zagorath

Since we're talking about the fine polish UX of microwaves, one feature I highly value that not all have is that it should end cooking at exactly the same angle I put it in. It should complete a whole number of rotations while running.

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I've put a note on my microwave how to turn off the beep.
I've made it very clear to my wife, in the event of my death, she is to show her next husband how to turn off the beeping after a power outage.

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It probably becomes 1m 60s. I've had microwaves do it both ways, either having it only be in seconds or having seconds for two digits.

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I dunno. I've never put in a time on my microwave - i just use the add button. Does it give you a minute and 60 seconds. Thats weird.

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Had a friend who got a microwave that instead of a numpad it had a dial like a volume knob. It was so irritating for some reason to twist it and then have to turn it the opposite way to correct it. Like you wanted 45 seconds and you'd twist and it's be at 1:30, youd scroll back, 35... 50, fuck it good enough. I just would twist it to a number and then stop it 45 seconds in after I realized it was that way

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I shoot for opening between 0-1. So it clears the timer and doesn't beep. It was either get good at that, or check the manual for how to turn off the beep noise, and I sure as hell wasn't going to learn how to read.

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+30s button, twice

TheFlopster

I know, for example, that my microwave completes one full rotation every 10 seconds. If I want to heat something for 45 seconds, it'll end up backwards. But that's on me for not using a multiple of 10 seconds.

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Wait you can turn off the beeping???

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Huh, all of mine since I was a kid have taken numbers up to 99 in seconds. Gotta admit I've never tried x60-x99

I regularly use 55 or 66 instead of just hitting start 2x which does the 30 second thing because it's so ingrained.

And 44 seconds is known as an Obama, 33 a Truman, 22 a Cleveland, and 11 a Polk.

Pressing more than one number is sacrilege. and 45 is treasonous.

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To save time on things that need to be microwaved for 1:30, I just hit 90 then start. Saves 1 button click.

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Clearly shows that hours and minutes are messy units. The French Revolution fixed a lot of stupid problems, but decimal time just didn’t stick for some reason.

Dharma Curious (he/him)

For my microwave its 20 second intervals. But also, let's say I open the door mid-run, if the tray is rotating clockwise, when I restart it it will rotate counterclockwise. Every time you open it it reverses it's rotation.

I don't know if all microwaves do this, or just mine. I never really had cause to notice until I started making desserts and candies, where you often nuke for 10 seconds, stir, 10 seconds, stir to melt chocolate. Easiest to just set for 40 seconds and open/close than it is to reset each time. This is the only microwave I've done that with, though, so idk if it's common