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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
I measure my body so I can order clothes that will fit correctly. But I agree with the other stuff.
“Comparison is the theif of joy.”
But your one was fine too, I guess.
I haven’t used a microwave for like 10 years or so
Weird flex, but okay.
Is this on purpose?
I just realised it after reading this post and all the responses. Seems like people are kind of attached to them.
Not really on purpose. Lived in an apartment without one for some years and never missed it.
I came to the comments to see what people don’t measure and it’s basically just microwave discussion. Made me realize that not having one might be unusual. I haven’t had one for decades - intentionally got rid of it because it primarily enabled eating junk. Extra kitchen space is a solid bonus too.
Learning how to make stove top popcorn was actually the nail in the coffin for my microwave. Couldn’t give up popcorn but making it on the stove is surprisingly easy, cheap, and better than microwave popcorn. Takes a few extra minutes but well worth it.
I also don’t use one for space reasons. I live in a studio and don’t have any space for a microwave oven. I’m planning to eventually replace my toaster oven with a combo that has a microwave too, but it’s still working so I have no reason to replace it.
The only moment I miss having a microwave oven is when I need to reheat something in a few seconds. It’s just forcing me to avoid ready-to-eat microwavable meals and make my own, which is not that hard, and a bit healthier.
I’ll sometimes take a nap, 30 min before I have to go out. No alarm.
Bold
This would drive me crazy, just seeing that start blinking non stop instead of the time like sane people.
Ours doesn’t blink, so if it’s more than a minute of time on the timer it literally just looks like the time is set wrong
We had a power outage a couple months ago: when the power came back, the clock on the microwave stopped remembering the time. You set it for 1:30pm for example, then look at it ten minutes later and it’d be something like 5:26am, ten min later and it’s now 2:48pm, and on and on.
We unplugged it a couple times, but it wouldn’t fix it; time was still jumping all over the place.
Had another power outage last week. Power came back: Suddenly it’s working perfectly again. 🤷🏻
That’s really quite strange. Probably not the issue but some electrical devices use the frequency of electricity to keep track of time.
Easily fixed with a strip of electrical tape.
How much microwave exposure does one get whem opening the door of a running microwave oven? Obviously the machine stops, but not instantly.
Basically nothing. Microwave radiation isn’t ionising like x-rays or UV are, the danger is just that they can heat you up in the same way that they heat your food up (and that there’s a heap of electricity involved in running the machine)
Words to live by:
Don’t jump in front of a naval radar dish.
I knew a guy years ago who worked security at Vendenberg AFB. He said on cold nights, when they’d do the rounds, they’d linger for a bit in front of the microwave transmission tower dishes to warm up. Always gave me the willies.
How did the chocolate in their pockets do?
You mean I’m not the only one who doesn’t like to be far from chocolate?
I’ve never much liked chocolate myself (aside from the occasional craving), but supposedly the invention of the microwave as a cooking tool happened when a researcher walked past a microwave dish with a chocolate bar in his pocket and found it to have subsequently melted.
That’s pretty bizarre.
And I mean about not liking chocolate, not the microwave thing.
I’ve never claimed to be normal, but your username makes me suspect you’re biased.
My guess would be roughly zero, but I’m interested if there is a more concrete answer
It’s not roughly zero, it is zero. The only way a microwave oven can hurt you with microwave radiation is if you rig the door switch and put a body part in.
And all that’ll do is burn you.
But microwaves can kill you if you try to take them apart due to the capacitors needed to run the magnetron. Same reason you shouldn’t ever take apart a CRT monitor.
yup, quite a few people managed to kill themselves trying to burn wood with electricity:
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.
This is the perfect use for that add 30 seconds button
Those are very long minutes!
metric minutes
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.
I was visiting the last GF I had, about eight years go. First time in her house. She’s in the bedroom, and I go out to the kitchen to heat something up. She hears me pushing the buttons, BEEP, BEEP, and comes running. She told me I had to set a time that ended in 55 or 99. I asked her why, and she just said “my house…”.
It probably had that secret exploding feature if you didn’t.
You’d think by now someone would have made a microwave that’s like 2€ cheaper and has a single on/off button.
Some commercial microwaves have a single knob you spin to set a time and you can open the door, or spin it back to stop it. This is how the first microwave I used worked, back around 1980.
I would totally buy one.
I would end up looking at my microwave thinking “How can the time be 67:36? It’s waaaaaay past my bedtime.”
Yeast in my pizza dough recipe. I “measure” it by sprinkling yeast on the top of the water until it’s evenly coated. I know how it looks.
my mind is blown, but not in a good way 🤣
Just press the +30 sec button over and over, he’s going to burn down the house when he forgets. 💀
oh no my friend, as a product designer let me tell you user count clicks, more than 3 is bad UX and they’re lost! /s
Most microwaves go for 1-6 minutes when you press 1-6 without pressing something else first. Manually setting a time is cook time enter time start. Most operations are thus 1 key press or more rarely 2
And here I thought microwaves can’t escape the Holey Door
Damn I wish my 1995 microwave had this.
Is the response in the post to this really that uncommon? I do this especially for the air fryer, but to a lesser extent in all cooking. Can you guys not tell when it’s done by smell?
Microwaves cook very quickly unlike you know normal ovens and don’t within the scope of normal cooking time output much air to carry the smell to allow you to decide when they are done. By the time you smell it you have nuked it way way too long.
Also most microwaves make it extremely easy to put things in for small increments for instance hitting 1 - 6 on mine’s keypad and nothing else immediately starts it for 1 - 6 minutes and also has a dedicated 30 seconds button. So it is incredibly easy to set it for a known small length of time allowing you to do other things whilst it cooks rather than standing by the fuckin door waiting to stop it. If you forget you may either ruin your food, destroy your microwave, or start a fire.
There are basically massive downsides to what you are suggesting and no upsides. It is just so unfathomably stupid that were this post to be associated with your real identity it is the only thing the entire world would associate with your name.
easy to set it for a known small length of time allowing you to do other things whilst it cooks rather than standing by the fuckin door waiting to stop it. If you forget you may either ruin your food, destroy your microwave, or start a fire.
Seems more like a skill issue? I don’t have the brain of a goldfish, so I don’t have to choose between watching food heat up or having to reset the thing every 30 sec.
There are basically massive downsides to what you are suggesting and no upsides. It is just so unfathomably stupid that were this post to be associated with your real identity it is the only thing the entire world would associate with your name.
Lol, seems as if I committed a hate crime against your culture…
If you calm yourself down just a little bit and actually focus on utilizing your limited reading comprehension skills, you will notice I specified the air fryer.
I have a microwave, but it is very rarely utilized. Even so, it’s not that hard to use if you’re not an idiot.
You are literally defending people doing the above behavior with a microwave
By asking if it’s really that big of a deal? I didn’t think so many people struggled with something as basic as using a microwave without having to check it every 30 sec.
I also specified that I mainly used the same routine for the air fryer.
Again, this seems like a skill issue.
Setting a microwave to 99:99 and repeatedly turning it off and on IS a skill issue
You just click start… Opening the door turns it off. Have you ever used a microwave? I can see why you would be having some issues.
This implies you are too stupid or incompetent to simply set the correct time on the microwave. It’s not really that hard to figure out how much time to set and it literally takes 1-2 presses to set any time between 30 seconds and 6 minutes. Many also have a speed dial setting to pre-program particular time/power settings 2 presses to actuate eg memory -> number.
You can set it to 99.99 and close and open it and you will get hot food in the same fashion as you could get drunk by pouring jim beam up your ass. You do you I guess. Excuse me whilst I make a proper cocktail like a fuckin adult human being with a functioning brain.
Dishwashing powder, or basically any cleaning product really
Nicest thing i have is a washing machine that dispenses the correct amount itself.
Ive saved so much detergent. And actually use the correct amount of fabric softener so my clothes feel kice.
You shouldn’t use fabric softener at all. It damages your clothes and shortens the life of them. And it makes towels less absorbent since you’re adding a coating of wax to everything.
Nah it’s good when you use the correct amount itself like 60ml ish for a load
For me, it’s the rinse agent. It just disappears into a hole in the door. There’s no fill level, no indicator. Just keep filling it until it feels right.
That is the most purely evil thing I have ever heard. NEVER DO THIS
When I need to put something in the microwave for 2 minutes, I punch in 1:60.
That’ll be 4 +30 second presses for me.
