Your microwave isn't very good!
My lovely girlfriend has a microwave with a twisty dial on the front for setting the cooking time.

I have a digital type one, but a fairly minimal looking one so it doesn't have numbers etc just up and down arrows hidden in the door recess and a start & stop button on the front.

However if you press the start button it "quick cooks" for 30 seconds.

Last week the GF was microwaving something that required several minutes cooking time. I became vaguely aware of an audible pattern;
Beep beep beep beep, muffled swearing, click of door opening, slam of door closing, beep of button and then 30 seconds of microwave whirring.

After about the 10th cycle of this I went to investigate to discover her using the quick cook button and then having to open, close and restart the microwave every 30 seconds.

I then demonstrated that not only does the up arrow let you choose how long to cook for but pressing the quick cook button more than once adds 30 seconds repeatedly so a few presses would quickly set the oven to cook for a few minutes.

Apparently my microwave is crap for that not being obvious.

I also had to get my own dinner.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 17:53, 4 replies)

( broadsword now that's fresh, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 17:58, closed)

I think I might have
just went off in my trousers.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 18:31, closed)

That is fucken awesome!
But i'm sure if i tried that i'd have a chair buried in my ass!
( jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 5:49, closed)

I am constantly amazed by how many ways people manage to get microwave controls wrong when a timer dial is so simple and perfectly suited for the task.

My grandfather's microwaves (two of them for some reason, both different models, both equally confusing) have no timer controls at all except for the start button which you have to press repeatedly to add more time. If you want to cook something for ten minutes you have to sit there jabbing the button 20 times with the oven beeping so loudly that you can hear it from the other end of the house with every button press.
(longbeast mrp, Sat 17 Jul 2010, 18:10, closed)