My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

parpfish 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> It’s about staring blankly at the buzzing white box, waiting for the four dreadful beeps that give you permission to eat.

I thought it was near universal that everybody staring at the microwave was engaged in a game of chicken where you try to open the door as close to zero as possible while preventing the beeps.

The beeps must not sound.

I have no idea why it’s important to prevent the beeps, but it feels like a deep primal compulsion. Our ancestors must have learned that the beeps attracted sabretooth tigers or something

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Groxx 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Those extremely rare moments when you open the door literally on zero, with no sound, and the display showing 0s, are like half of the reason I use a microwave. Man vs machine at its most visceral, it makes me feel alive

	▲	parpfish 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The only thing that comes close is trying to stop the fuel pump on a nice round dollar amount.

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db48x 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You know that you can remove the piezo beeper from the microwave, right? Or add a series resistor to lower the volume.

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messe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Excellent article. "Tradwife futurism" is a brilliant term.

I'm worried I'm going to burn a hole in my wallet searching for a pyroceram skillet that I'll end up using for a week and then forget about it.

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db48x 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

I’m suddenly in desperate need of a pyroceram skillet too. I’d love to be able to make proper cheeseburgers with grilled onions one at a time without using a stove or grill.

On the other hand my brother in law got himself one of those smokers that burns wood pellets. I could buy one of those and eat nothing but smoked pork shoulder for the rest of my life.

	▲	rescbr 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I now need a pyroceram skillet too! But as the solo meat-eater human in my apartment, I ended up buying a gas-canister camping grill to barbecue steaks on my terrace on weekends and then I reheat the rare steaks through the week in the microwave. They get the Maillard reaction and flavor, they get to the correct doneness point when blasted with RF later on. Cats get happy with the barbecuing, I also grill mushrooms and tofu for my wife and it’s very easy to clean afterwards.

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crtasm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the 1990s, the first microwave our family owned came with a small cookbook and I made an edible cake.

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jonstewart 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Using an ISI Whip and a microwave to make cake is a well-known molecular gastronomy technique. Here’s one that doesn’t require the ISI Whip: https://www.seriouseats.com/microwave-rocky-road-sponge-cake...