• Catoblepas
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    6 months ago

    Everyone else doesn’t just smash the +30 sec button until it gives you a time that’s close enough?

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      6 months ago

      Mine doesn’t have that button, but I exercise a similar strategy.

      Need 1 minute? Too many buttons. 111 will be fine.

      5 minutes? No. 444. Close enough.

      10 minutes is 999 of course.

      Etc.

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      6 months ago

      My pet peeve recently is that some microwaves don’t also automatically start when you push +30, forcing me to push an extra button…

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        6 months ago

        Interesting. My microwave does exactly that and I use it all the time. It also has “more” and “less” buttons to fine adjust the time by increments of 10 seconds, meaning I never have to enter a number or hit “start” most of the time.

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        Look at this nerd setting the power level. Just cook it on full blast like everyone else. Just let whatever it is sit and the lava parts will warm up the frozen parts eventually.

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        Normal person: guess I have to enter the correct cook time

        Me: enter cook time as 5 and start and then you can still smash +30 sec

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          See, that’s the thing. I still can’t tell if you’re talking about several buttons, or if you’re talking about buttons located in parking lots. You’re saving a miniscule amount of time at best.