| I use mine mostly for warming up shitty frozen burritos. It has an inverter and a humidity sensor and 20 or so different preset buttons that use them, with sub permutations. None of them work well at the job of warming up two shitty frozen burritos. What does work well is this: One minute at power 10, and 3 minutes at power 3. When others see me programming this in they think I'm a madman, and sometimes they even audibly question my sanity. And I'm not sure that they're wrong. --- The microwave I grew up with had a mechanical timer knob (with a simple mechanical bell), a second knob to set duty cycle (probably borrowed from an electric range), and a start button. It worked fine. I like being able to program things, but I'm usually standing right there anyway so I'm perfectly capable of turning the duty cycle knob down after about a minute passes and getting the same results that I do today. (And that method did in fact work fine back then, too, even though people also thought I was crazy when they'd see me doing that) And for bonus nachos: The timer also worked perfectly as a simple mechanical kitchen timer. Just give it a twist, avoid the start button, and it spins down until it goes "Ding!". |