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

This but my air fryer

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.

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

Yeah. I know myself too well to use this "hack"

So the opposite of never measuring anything!

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

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.

Five coffees a day?

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.

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

Easily fixed with a strip of electrical tape.

That 77 is hurtig my brain.

Bold

any number between 1 and 99 is just interpreted as seconds, no need for French Revolution era microwave

I don't have numbers at all. I push a button to insta add 30 seconds. Or spin a wheel to scroll up in time.

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

On my Samsung microwave the start button does 30 seconds of max wattage. Pressing it multiple times increases the timer by 30 seconds. I just press the button a bunch of times usually

Or microwave has a +30 seconds button, so I always just mash it until it’s close enough. I usually have to add a little extra anyway, since it’s a 1000 watt microwave and instructions usually are calibrated for 1200 now.

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

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.

Bonus points to microwaves that automatically start when you press +30.

Yep, the cooking gets going while I press the +30 button additional times, saving precious second. Wish I could also change the power level while it's running. update: That actually does work! +30 all the foods!

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.

I had one with a swipe bar a while ago, talk about bad UI.

Our new microwave has that and the buttons 1-6 will start that number of minutes immediately. We were pretty excited about it because our old microwave didn’t even have the 30sec button.

How much microwave exposure does one get whem opening the door of a running microwave oven? Obviously the machine stops, but not instantly.

Sometimes, just to be insufferable, I'll microwave something for one minute, but instead of entering 1:00 I enter 0:60.

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. 🤷🏻

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)

My guess would be roughly zero, but I'm interested if there is a more concrete answer

Words to live by:

Don't jump in front of a naval radar dish.

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

what brand is that?

good to acknowledge when companies actually improve products rather than just enshittifying them

My last two have had that, both GE

I think you should probably heat your food for more than 1 second

Sometimes it’s hard to control the tisms.

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.

If you have a microwave that doesn’t start one minute when you push 1, so you have enter the zeros, then you’re actually being more efficient doing 60 because it skips a number press.

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.

Take it one step further and set up Grocy

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.

my mind is blown, but not in a good way 🤣

Both microwaves are GEs. The first was from 2007 and came with our house in 2015. It still worked when we left it in that house earlier this year so despite not having the 30sec button we didn’t really have any complaints about it.

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

yup, quite a few people managed to kill themselves trying to burn wood with electricity:

The Most Deadly Craft: Fractal Wood Burning

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.

in the UK all my microwaves had this starting from the early 2010s

wow what country do you live in? in the UK all microwave instructions I've seen are for 800-900W

My microwave is the other way around, the door can always be opened. And if you have the timer set, it will stay lit up and spinning, even with the door open.

So OP's method wouldn't work for me. I got scared the first time, but I think the magnetron turns off when the door is opened... but I haven't tried testing that theory.

USA, although now that I'm thinking of it they might be for 1100 watts? Not 1000 on a lot of packages, anyway.