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I stop it on the start of the beep.

Never had one, used one maybe 3 times in my life. I've let them run through until I heard the beep, then came over to check. Is that's not how it works?

Yes. Even tho. You should let an item sit and continue to cook after the wave is done. I just grab it like a Neanderthal.

Mine makes a little music sound, and when I hit the "stop" button it makes a different music sound. If I hit it at just the right time, it makes a nice melody by combining both sounds. I recreated a similar sounding one to it here.

beepbox.co project with the following melody:

A ........ ####.... ........ ........
Ab........ ........ ........ ........
G ........ ........ ........ ........
F#........ ....#### ........ ........
F ........ ........ ........ ........
E ........ ........ ........ ........
Eb........ ........ ........ ........
D ....#### ........ ........ ........
Db........ ........ ........ ........
C ........ ........ ........ ........
B ........ ........ ........ ........
Bb........ ........ ........ ........
A ####.... ........ ........ ........

i can set my microwave to not make any beeps by holding the 8 button down for a few seconds.

I feel like I am the opposite. If I set it to a specific time, then I feel I have committed to letting the food cook for that entire time and will not stop it early even if I think it looks like it's done already.

Yeah. My microwave makes five beeps whenever the timer runs out, regardless if I open the door or not.

In terms of appliance beeping aggravation, I've yet to have one that tops an old slow cooker I had. When you turned it on, it just had a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep that lasted for multiple seconds and made me want to throw it out the window every time I had to use it. It was like a goddamn siren alerting the whole apartment complex to the possibility of pot roast in 4-8 hours.

No, I don't get that urge. Ours takes awhile to get things where I like it. If I make 3 cups of rice I leave it in there for 17 minutes 😬

No. I like to stop it right as it hits 0 on the first beep if people are around, but if I'm by myself I wait for it to stop beeping.

No. But my wife does and doesn't reset the display so it'll just show 3 rather than the time.

🙂‍↔️🫸 Stopping the microwave after 29 seconds to prevent the beep

🙂‍↕️👉 Stopping the microwave after 29 seconds because its a prime number

Yes.

My LG microwave sings to me when it finishes. So I don't mind it at all. And it's only 3-5 seconds long

Ofc. Otherwise it beeps.

I replaced the microwave with an air fryer, still have the microwave but it lives in a cupboard and only gets used a couple of times a year.

As the air fryer cools for a few seconds before it finishes I usually don't stop it early. I will often open it early to check on the food though.

Of course! I'm not going to let a fucking oven tell me when my food is ready. Fuck you, Skynet, this is how the rebellion against the machines starts!

god forbid we let people customize these things. we'll jam AI into the fucking appliances before we let people have actual QOL advancements.

Yeah because the thing beeps as if the house is on fire. I'd rather have it stay silent. And 1-3 seconds is not really enough to have any measurable effect.

Depends on what I'm putting in. There are some plates of leftovers that I've made often enough to just know how long it'll take, so the time is exactly what it needs to be and I can wander away for a second to check the mail or whatever. Popcorn obviously comes out when it's done. If I'm warming a drink in a mug, I'll stop it early if the handle is at a more convenient angle, since otherwise I'm liable to burn myself.

I'm just hit the god damn stop/cancel button if you want to stop it before the timer reaches zero.

If I don't stop it before the last second, the universe will blow up.

I time it right so that I can run towards the microwave “in slow motion” and pretend I’m stopping a bomb from going off, 1 second before it blows. My kid loves it. 🤷‍♂️

Almost always.

Only when microwaving something that might overflow… like oatmeal.

Aside from that… I want every last second of microwaving that I can get and beeping!

Only if I'm standing across the room and my brain calculates that the time it takes to close the distance is within the time remaining on the countdown and I get to do a badass flip, twirl, and slide to stop it just in the nick of time so I get to pretend I have super hero level reflexes.

I cannot do badass flips but the point still stands. I can twirl and slide though, as long as I'm wearing socks.