To save time on things that need to be microwaved for 1:30, I just hit 90 then start. Saves 1 button click.
More efficient to enter 99 seconds, to save time moving your finger from the 9 to the 0.
Sub-Thought: I wonder how many people punch in “1:00” instead of “60”?
I do
"9999" equals 1 hour, 40 mins, and 39 seconds
I don't think you can even input :60 except as in 2 presses of [+30 seconds]
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.
What? Of course you can... At least on every microwave I've ever had.
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
Every microwave I've ever lived with has had a knob to input time. Maybe this is a regional thing?
My old one was completely analog and just had dials for time and power and a single button to open the door. Truly an efficient interface!
Older (and cheaper) ones have an analogue dial. More modern ones have a digital timer.
Isn’t 159 faster
+30s +30s +30s +30s
My microwave doesn't have speed cook, so this is the fastest way to get 2m on the clock
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.
I love knobs. You just turn them and the thing turns on. And no one needs an exact time measurement on a microwave anyways.
I need exact seconds and power settings for multiple things, including heating up small amounts of dog food a small amount.
People that thing microwaves suck to heat up food are just rawdogging the +30 seconds button.
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.
Generally high is too high for most foods, where it overcooks the outsides and still cold in the middle. 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 small tweaks to the time and power. Hitting the +30 seconds is like putting the stove on high and cooking in 30 second increments.
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 (but they're super fast, so...)
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 that just to make sure nothing is lukewarm in the center).
2 + 0 + 0 + start for me on every microwave I've ever owned.
Sure, but that's 4 presses on 3 buttons. I can press the same button 4 times much faster.
Over the course of a lifetime, we're taking double, maybe TRIPLE DIGIT seconds saved!
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