It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn't common. There's rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.
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Really? First thing I do after a power outage is turn off the sound on the microwave. I'm not putting stuff in for hours, I've not forgotten about it. If I'm not taking it out of the microwave immediately it's because I'm busy. Settle down, machine.
Yes, regularly AND I leave the remaining time on the microwave. It's pure chaos over here.
My partner does the same thing! The amount of times I've looked at the microwave and wondered why time is standing still is too damn high!
I am triggered, please for the love of god and anyone who lives with you JUST CLEAR IT
I mash the stop/clear button until it makes more beeps than the microwave would have made if I let the time expire.
This is how my wife is. However, weve recently (6 months now) gotten a new microwave and i havent had to clear the time off once. There's no way shes changed her ways, so this must have a feature to clear remaining time after so long
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Stay away from my family!
Microwaves stop by themselves? /j
I have my microwave on silent so I actually prefer to let it finish so I don't need to press a button to clear those few seconds to have a useful clock back
There's such a thing as a beepless microwave 😮?
Basically every microwave iv seen in the last 25 years has a way to turn off the beeps.
Read the manual for the shit you own. It's wild sometimes how hidden options can be.
man microwave
WHAT BRAND OF MICROWAVE DO YOU HAVE?
I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn't just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.
Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)
LG #1675079
For older ones I owned, you can open up the control panel and take out the little speaker puck as an irriversable alternative option.
HOW
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I hate the beep in every form so far, and I avoid using microwaves every chance I get.
Someone at work does this and doesn't clear the remaining time. Pisses me off. Press the stop button for the love all that is holy. Look, I know it's petty.
It beeps 5 times if I don't. Super fuckin annoying, are those beeps.
I used to stop my microwave a few seconds before it finished, like many others, due to the annoying unstoppable beeps. But then I got this smaller unit that happens to let out the faintest confirmation of doneness that I ever did, or rather almost didn’t, hear. I don’t mind it now.
I have this annoying microwave that beeps 5 times when it hits zero, even if I open the door in the middle of it. Kinda rude honestly
The beep from the microwave hurts my ears. So I stop about 1 second before it beeps.
People who leave those few remaining seconds just hanging there for the next person to have to deal with are called “microdanglers.”
Me in the break room stopping the microwave before the beeps:
Here future microwave user, have these free nine seconds I'm leaving you.
Me finding the timer is not cleared when I want to use the microwave:
Ugh, now I have to press the reset button before I can enter the length of time to warm my lunch. Who was the accursed person who left time on here?
Yes, because of the stupid turntable. 1:30, the water isn't hot enough. 2:00, the water is too hot and cup is at the back of the oven. The right amount of time, for tap water, in the summer, is 1:47, that puts the water at the front of the oven at the right temp, but I don't want to punch in 1:47, so I just hit the 2 to start and run the oven for 2 minutes, and then pull the door open at 1:47. Also, no beep that way.
Commercial microwaves, like in a restaurant, have a row of numbered buttons that can be programmed for time and power setting. That's the best way to control a microwave.
That's the best way to control a microwave.
I remain fond of the analog knob myself.
Me too, and it comes with the added benefit of usually having a pleasant "Ding!" instead of the shrieking "BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP!" that digital microwaves have. The downside is that you completely lose the precision of a digital timer, which some people (not me) consider a must have in a microwave.
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If you time it right, you can stop my microwave on 0. I also like to avoid making noise if I can. So every time I microwave anything it’s a little minigame for me.
Our microwave doesn't beep until like 5 seconds after finishing, it's just silent. I think that's a pretty good feature.
Never knew how much I needed this, holy shit. Mine beeps when it finishes but also beeps again if I haven't opened the door in, idk, some amount of time. Which I get why it's a gesture and sometimes I actually do find it useful but often I'm like "I KNOW, GIMME A MINUTE"
My parents have one of these, and it drives me nuts when I visit. I understand that feature on something like an oven where it’s still cooking. But the microwave stopped. Nothing’s going to burn. So stop rushing me!
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Are you me?
Yes.
No, my microwave has a nice chime instead of a beep
No, unless I want to set it up for period shorter than what is available but that hardly ever happens.
I usually leave and come back when it beeps.
No, if I wanted to microwave something for 57 seconds I'd put 57 seconds in. I don't practice brinksmanship
Only if I hear popping noises (and I am not microwaving popcorn)
If there's cheese I'll let it pop 2 or 3 more times before stopping it.
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No, but I don't wait for the beeping to stop.
Turning off the sound of my microwave was an ability I was not aware I had. It’s so small of a thing but amazing.
Wait that's a thing?!
Now you have a new feature required on your next one if you can’t already do it.
Sometimes
Well yeah that's when the bomb goes off, gotta stop it
Yes especially at night cuz I don't wanna wake up my parents and my sibling lol
No. I like the BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
Only if I think I set it for too long.
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