this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025

295 points (92.5% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

27371 readers

3676 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!

Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...

2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...

3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...

4. No Porn/Explicit

Content

-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...

5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts

-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...

6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.

Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)

Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

295

Which one are you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

85 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've gotten down air frying my frozen microwave breakfast sandwiches down to a science. They never felt right in the microwave no matter what I tried.

Preheat to 350° F, set to 6 minutes, turn on turn reminder.
Separate the bun, sausage, egg, and cheese while you wait for pre heat to be done. Set then in the fridge.
Once preheated, put the sausage on a bun and egg on a bun in the basket and put it in the air fryer. Leave the cheese in the fridge for now.
After 3 minutes the turn reminder will go off. The sausage and egg are cool enough to touch base handed still. Flip the sausage. Flip the egg too, but put the cheese under the egg as well.
When it's done it's hotter so you might need to use something to grab it instead of using a your bare hands.

Perfection.

When I've tried just nuking it in full for X seconds in the microwave there is always something frozen in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The dumb "nuke it on full for 90 seconds" one. No thought put into it, I just know it will be edible by my standards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most microwavable food is already edible because it is a dumb idea to use a microwave for much more than reheating food, because it requires time and microwaves consume a ton of power for the heat they provide. The advantage of microwaves is that they have very little heatup time which makes it good for short blasts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Palatable" would have been a better choice of words. I'm generally not very picky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Cooking in the microwave is wild to me. I'm Mexican and we treat it as a reheating machine with a clock and a bunch of buttons that do nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Double time, half power. Everything just tastes better, it's heated more evenly and less dried out/mushy

The amazing thing is I can't get people to try it... Every time I mention it people look at me like I'm crazy to suggest they wait an extra 3 minutes for their food

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

80% of people probably have no idea that microwaves have power settings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If the instructions give me any nonsense I just do the math and use the power level function.

I bought a microwave to make my life easier, I'll be damned if I'm gonna flip food over because someone doesn't understand how to write instructions involving the power level button

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lower power basically does this automatically. Do extra time on lower power and it's way better with no additional effort required

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Interesting bit of trivia. Microwaves don't actually have "high" or "low" settings. The magnetron, the microwave's core component, only has two states - on and off. It can't power the magnetron at 10% power level.

Instead, the "power" settings just control how often the magnetron is activated. So maybe at full power it's on 100% of the time. At medium it's 10 seconds on, 10 second off. At low it's 3 seconds on, 10 seconds off. That kind of thing. The "power" setting is just a glorified timer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You're not qualified for this topic. You're only allowed to share trivia about trees and erections

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Unless you have a modern microwave with an inverter, which will power the magnetron constantly with varying levels of power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yep, that's what I meant by doing it automatically.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Double time half power gang. It's so much better. I can wait an extra 90 sec for it to be evenly heated.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

deep microwave lore here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep ,90 secs at 100% does it for most things in mine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't use the microwave that often, but doesn't that result in explosion all the time?

And don't we use Watt for that instead of percent?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mine is only 1000w so I dunno if things pop in higher powered ones. Only things that rupture at 90 secs in mine are cheap chicken franks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rice starts popping after 5 seconds on 850W in my microwave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmm. Maybe there is a frequency variation between machines. Mine is barely warm at 1 minute

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am in Germany, maybe ours work differently. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes.

See this comment by me: https://feddit.org/comment/3984361

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obligatory netshaq post about the reheat function https://youtu.be/dpf3bxQVLu8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Love it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Too complicated. Put it on the never buy again list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I wish I had an inverter microwave. That’s the one I am.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neither. I'm 2m30s or 80% for reheating a meal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Same. Calm, long heating for the most even results. When you know what makes microwaves work, it just makes sense. But it all depends on what type of results you're looking to get, and what type of thing you're heating. 🤷‍♂️

load more comments