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[–] 213 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Add a dash of ADHD memory issues and this is almost guaranteed to burn your house down.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Have you ever burnt tea (to dust from liquid and melted kettle handle in the process) while reheating it?
    'tis but one of my life's achievements

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I set my microwave to 2:00 and I'm always back in time to open it at exactly 1:59. So I think I'm going to use this hack.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Ahh here we go, I have to admit this.

    I'm on my 3rd microwave. Ramen noodles caught fire twice. I forgot to add water once, go figure. The second time, I put them in for 33 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Started playing Xbox and forgot until I got hungry again and heard the smoke alarms going off. Flames were coming out of the microwave door so high they burned the cabinets above black, it was a brand new microwave. 3rd time was a metal coffee mug. Who makes a F-ing metal coffee cup so you can't reheat your coffee. It was cool watching the electric sparks and lines fly though.

    No regrets. It was the grandparents microwaves. LOL.

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    [–] 82 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    i don't like to move my finger around, so all my microwave times are of the 44, 77, 2:22, 4:44... format

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  • [–] 56 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    Same vibe but I only use the +30s button to enter cook time. Bonus points to microwaves that automatically start when you press +30.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    My microwave automatically starts when pressing 1-6 and then the +30sec button is the start button.

    The max I can do with two button presses is 6:30.

    If the microwave wasn't underpowered it would be perfect.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] 52 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I shop once a week and buy all the food for the week. At the end of the week, I have a nearly empty fridge.

    I don't want to run out of ingredients, so I divide the weight on the package by seven, and weigh each one as I go. So I know I can have 120g of frozen blueberries each day, 60g of parmesan, 120g of broccoli, 90g of brussel sprouts, 30g of cream in my coffee for each of five coffees a day, etc. I'm happy when on the last day I don't need to weigh anything.

    I didn't use to be this way, it just sort of happened.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago*

    I once heard of someone who would do a regular shopping, and take everything and put it in a stew. Meat, vegetables, fruits, cheese, bread... Whatever was bought that day. I guess that's one way to avoid measuring everything separately.

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    [–] 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Samsung smart microwave wifi telemetry fears this person.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'll sometimes take a nap, 30 min before I have to go out. No alarm.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago

    I would end up looking at my microwave thinking "How can the time be 67:36? It's waaaaaay past my bedtime."

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Just press the +30 sec button over and over, he's going to burn down the house when he forgets. 💀

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    [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    The sentence is life in prison but each offender only has to serve a couple years and then they get swapped out with the next one in the queue.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I wish I could do this, but my microwave resets to zero after about 3 minutes of being left with any residual time.

    I’m also a 2:22, 55, 77, 99, etc. user.

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    [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The one at my work has never reached zero.

    Like the code in Lost, we keep it from running out. Nobody knows what will happen if it does.

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    [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Weird answer: body parts! I have what i have and measuring it isnt going to make me feel better. I do the things i need to do to increase muscle, decrease fat, and maximize happiness and longevity.

    Measuring leads to comparison leads to disappointment

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    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Those are very long minutes!

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    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    So for someone who has a microwave that only works in minutes and actual seconds, meaning 59 is the highest my seconds can go, before the minute counter is increased. Do these microwaves just work in terms of 100 seconds? So if you input 10:00 it's not actually 10 minutes but rather 1000 seconds, meaning it's now 16:40 on a "correct" microwave?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They do a weird conversion in my experience. I think for the first “minute” it just counts all numbers in the seconds field as seconds, then as it counts down, the next minute is only 60 seconds.

    Eg I think I’ve tried putting in 90 seconds, and that is actually 90 seconds, same as if I were to put in 1:30 (minute and a half)

    So I might guess something like 4:90 == 5:30

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    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    This would drive me crazy, just seeing that start blinking non stop instead of the time like sane people.

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    [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Just microwave everything for a M.I.N.U.T.E. Mean Ideal Nuke Unit Time Estimate. That's how the minute was invented back in the 1950s.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    You can't do this with new microwaves. Child lock, you have to clear the time before you can open it. Yes, you have to clear it even if the time runs completely out.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    wow and it doesn't let you disable this behaviour? must be so annoying

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Some do, some don't. Implementation is inconsistent. I've seen one that autolocks after a few minutes of inactivity and requires a code to unlock (default 1234).

    The breakroom at my job has gone through a lot of microwaves in the past year because my coworkers can't figure out how to open the microwave and just rip the handle off.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I got a new microwave with some annoying child lock feature. We have no children. I looked in the manual and there was a way to turn it off, it was some weird combination of holding buttons down but it worked just fine and my brand new (as of last year) microwave will happily let me open it with time remaining.

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    [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Garlic is understandable, I use a shit ton... But if it's an "extract" it's definitely getting measured. Maybe I'm just picky about my baked goods.

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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    This but my air fryer

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Dishwashing powder, or basically any cleaning product really

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I totally do this. Mine is set to just over 4min at the moment (manual dial). Door ajar to stay off until I use it next,which could be weeks away.

    It's completely normal as far as I'm concerned ;) But I do adjust to a round minute if I really want to stick close to the instructed time.

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