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

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I get the 2:00, but shouldn't it be 120? Or am I dumber than I thought? 60+60 still = 120, right?

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

My grandma had wheels. She had both a car, AND a walker.

[handwovenconsensus@lemm.ee]

1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.

120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.

Took me a bit to get too.

[today@lemmy.world]

Huh. Thanks.

[cilethesane@lemmy.ca]

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

[crikeste@lemm.ee]

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.

[freeman@sh.itjust.works]

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

[vindictivejudge@lemmy.world]

The French tried to, briefly.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[rekorse@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[urheber@discuss.tchncs.de]

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

[vindictivejudge@lemmy.world]

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

[nnjwwl@lemmy.world]

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

[echodot@feddit.uk]

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

[tacosanonymous@lemm.ee]

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

[delphia@lemmy.world]

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

[zebbedi@lemmy.world]

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

[kn33@lemmy.world]

Absolutely nothing. We both got the ADHD bad.

[tiuku@sopuli.xyz]

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.

[gac11@lemmy.world]

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