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The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it's mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get irrationally upset over microwaves that don't let you use the timer and cook functions simultaneously

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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Hmm. What are you doing with that? Like, you want to be cooking for a certain amount of time, then after the cooking completes, have a timer trigger to start a second cooking period?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

More like, I need to heat this frozen thing for 4 minutes. Also while that's going on, I want to set a timer for my pasta which is cooking on the stove for 6 minutes to remind me to check it.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

Exactly. I have a batch of cupcakes in the oven so the timer is set for 12 mins, but I also want to melt some chocolate for the ganache while that's going.

Luckily, my microwave supports doing both, but I've cooked at other people's houses and their microwaves are essentially bricked while the timer counts down which is so crazy to me it's like they've made this appliance worse on purpose.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, so this is like, a timer for an alarm rather than to control the microwave's operation. Gotcha.