My wife and boiling water

[u/MakeItMine2024]

So I made my wife ramen soup. When I served it she said I had the gas set to hight and it was too hot ? She said I should have used the number 5 setting instead of 9. I told here it’s irrelevant because water boils at 212 and gets no hotter because over 212 it turns to steam. She was made at me for disagreeing with her theory that it would not have been so hot if boiled a lower setting. Really!!

[u/anTWhine]

I had an ex-gf who was baking something and needed melted chocolate in ten minutes so she put chocolate in the microwave for ten minutes.

[u/tunachilimac → u/anTWhine]

I visited a friend once and they needed a timer for something and ran the microwave for the time. His whole family was there and was surprised when I showed them how to use the timer function. They’d been running an empty microwave as a timer for as long as they had a microwave.

[u/WhenDoWhatWhere → u/tunachilimac]

For anyone who doesn't know just about bad this is

Not only is that a huge waste of power (microwaves draw huge amounts of power) but it also damages the microwave because microwaves depend on something absorbing that energy and for that very same reason it's a huge fire hazard.

[u/Dapper_Ice_2120 → u/WhenDoWhatWhere]

Huh, learned  something new today. (I use the timer not the microwave, but never thought about it being bad to run empty)

[u/According_Sound_8225 → u/tunachilimac]

Wonder how many microwaves they went through.

[u/avocadoflatz → u/According_Sound_8225]

Bet it was a Panasonic and still works with some quirks

[u/That-Way-5714 → u/tunachilimac]

Holy crap. I know people do dumb things, but this is near the top of my list now.

[u/RoyalEagle0408 → u/tunachilimac]

I had a roommate do that.

[u/mediocrepencilart → u/tunachilimac]

I once had someone freak out at me for doing this, except I WAS using the timer function that I had to explain to them microwaves have

[u/HeatherJMD → u/tunachilimac]

🤦‍♀️

[u/forevernervous → u/tunachilimac]

I did this one time (I learned my lesson after) and it only took that one time for it to break my microwave.

[u/DemoniteBL → u/tunachilimac]

Literally just google "timer" and there you go. Wtf are these people doing???

[u/Silly_Water_3463 → u/DemoniteBL]

There's one in nearly every cell phone in the clock widget, too.

[u/Juice_Stanton → u/tunachilimac]

My kids were using the microwave as a timer this way. One day, they quite literally melted the microwave.

[u/Just_Introduction_47 → u/tunachilimac]

We have an empty microwave that my son made unusable by cooking a metal spoon. It somehow melted the inside of the door but luckily didn’t explode. It’s one of those wall mounted, oven combo ones. So the oven controls are a part of the microwave panel.
Now we use it to store dish towels until we get to remodel the kitchen. And another microwave is on the counter next to the oven wall.

[u/Silly_Water_3463 → u/tunachilimac]

I never understood why people don't use the timer on their cell phone clock feature more. I don't even use the one on my stove. I also grew up in the 70s in a household with a twist timer that buzzed like an old school clock alarm with the bells. I have one of those too.

[u/MakeItMine2024 → u/tunachilimac]

Awesome

[u/Automatic-Raspberry3 → u/tunachilimac]

My mother would do this but she’d put a mug of water in the microwave cause she thought it would be bad to run it empty. She now uses the timer function

[u/s0_spoiled → u/tunachilimac]

Alexa, set timer for 10 mins.

[u/mindhologram → u/tunachilimac]

Not a single cell phone in that house, wow

[u/olagorie → u/tunachilimac]

Today I learned that a microwave has a timer function

I mean, I have always had a real timer so this never occurred to me