Stupid microwave trick
While many modern microwaves have an “express cook” button, allowing you to heat something for one minute just by pressing “1,” other less-user-centered devices do not.
In these cases, to heat something for a minute, most people press Time-1-0-0-Start. Instead, press Time-6-0-Start. Same 60 seconds, one fewer keypress.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
And it works all the way up to 1 minute, 39 seconds!
February 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Just hit 55 and start you don’t move your finger and 5 sec in micro time is zip
February 7th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
More interesting is input like “160″. What does this mean:
1. 2 minutes
2. 2 minutes, 40 seconds
Whatever the answer is, it bound to lead to some logical oddities when compared against the results from inputs like “180″ and “159″.
Yet I can’t think of a time when a microwave has behaved unexpectedly on me, so I think that overall they have the user-experience thing mostly down.