• antisuck@lemmy.world
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    4 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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      4 months ago

      Are those seconds? As in is 100 = one minute or 100 seconds? Because

      111sec ~= 2min

      444sec ~= 7 1/2 min

      999sec ~= 16 1/2 min

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        4 months ago

        There’s a range in there where lower numbers can be longer times than higher ones. For instance, 111 is less time than 99, since it gets interpreted as 1:11, or 71.

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        4 months ago

        It’s as entered on a microwave. Any one with digital time entry I’ve seen have 2 digits as seconds and then the most significant ones beyond 2 become minutes.

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      4 months ago

      Glad to find a like-minded individual here. I generally do either 33 for that half minute heat, 55 for when it doesn’t quite need a minute, and 88, because after a buck thirty I should be stirring (if applicable).

      We had an old microwave that had the button. It failed. I went and brought a new one home, and much to my wife’s chagrin, as is in my nature, I failed to notice the lack of 30s button.