• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A long long time ago, I lived with a roommate who tried to set a timer for thirty minutes on our microwave.

    He instead set the microwave to run for thirty minutes.

    The steam dome thingy inside did not last for thirty minutes.

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        2 months ago

        Neither.

        That roommate was a separate person. As described in another comment, he tried to set a timer that would not cook anything, only start beeping in thirty minutes. Instead, he set the microwave to run - which is to say, cook - for thirty minutes, which melted the non food item inside the microwave.

        I apologize for the ambiguity of my phrasing.

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      2 months ago

      He tried to set it for 30 minutes and instead set it for 30 minutes. Sounds like he got exactly what he wanted, metal soup

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          2 months ago

          This is the correct interpretation. I guess perhaps “run” could be a bit ambiguous, apologies to the others for not being clear.

      • 5too@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Many microwaves have a timer that can run without microwaving things.