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

OpenStars

My microwave won't start with just the add 30 seconds button. Others that I've used work that way, but not this one. So 9-9-start would work for me, while add 30 3 times would not.

tired_n_bored

I have an analog microwave from 2007. It just has a mechanical timer

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"9 0 start" is the same number of buttons.

Yeah but you gotta move your finger from the 9 to the 0, which is slower

Also +30 seconds 3 times gets exactly 90 seconds

It didn't have that button then

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I don't clear the timer because my +30 sec button will only work to start the microwave if there's time left on the timer. If there's no time left on the timer, the +30 button is useless until I punch something in.

HobbitFoot

Because 2:00 = 1:60

Or are we going to implement metric time?

Ephera

Alright, did not expect that. To me, it's just that the food I'm trying to heat often enough varies in terms of amount or how much water is in there, so that it just seems extremely futile to try to heat it precisely. But yeah, I can see dog food or such being consistent enough that this works.

snooggums

Generally high is too high for most foods, where it overcooks the outsides. Regulating the power setting and time is like using the settings on a stove and taking stuff off when done.

Melting cheese, heating mashed potatoes, and a ton of other things are just better with some tweaks to the time and power. Hitting the +30 seconds is like putting the stove on high and cooking in 30 second increments.

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And if my grandma had wheels she’d have been a bicycle

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Everyone would get a ride

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Don't they have conversation lookup tables for stuff like that? Been years since I was in school so maybe those aren't really used anymore? At least to convert the numerator to different units.

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Pump manufacturers are like: “We’re selling this professional grade stuff to people who know what they’re doing. They know how to math their way through this mess.”

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On mine, you can only add 30 seconds, if you started it with that button. If you start the microwave any other way, the "+30 sec" button does nothing. It's annoying.

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What? Of course you can... At least on every microwave I've ever had.

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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.

This should be codified

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People that thing microwaves suck to heat up food are just rawdogging the +30 seconds button.

So I agree with this, however, microwaves are absolutely one of the worst ways to heat up food, in most situations.

That said, there is a lot of finesse, particularly when it comes to reheating food, that it seems like so many people never figured out.

Always gotta reheat food on power level 8 (Sometimes I'll blast it for 15-20 sec on high after).

OpenStars

Oh wow I find that so interesting - basically it's up to the manufacturer to decide what "add 30 seconds" means and so everyone does something different, it would seem.

Tbh I think I would prefer your way, bc I far more often want to do merely 30, 60, or 90 seconds total (so just 1-3 presses of that button ), whereas I virtually never want to change the timing of something after I've already started it. It probably depends heavily what task it's being used for - rewarming a drink, 90s tiny popcorn bag, 30s quick warming of food after it cooled, etc., and more importantly how routinely the task is performed.

And for that reason it would be cool if they could be reprogrammed:-). Linux has spoiled us all far too much:-).

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Every microwave I've had, you hit the power button then the number corresponding to the power level you want.

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That's it, I'm starting an OpenMichaelwaveOS github

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More efficient to enter 99 seconds, to save time moving your finger from the 9 to the 0.

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You change the power?! In 44 years i have never changed the power.