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As a counter-point, I have the world's best microwave. There is only one button that I use - the add 1 minute button. Put the food in, hit the "add one" button
by antiismist 19y ago
As a counter-point, I have the world's best microwave. There is only one button that I use - the add 1 minute button.
Put the food in, hit the "add one" button once or twice, and that is it. The microwave starts automatically. As far as I can tell, it took 40 years of microwave UI development to get to this point.
- graywh 19y agoUsed to use a microwave with only 3 buttons, start (that performed similarly), defrost, and cancel. The cancel button worked as you expect and the defrost wasn't hard to use. The start button added 30 seconds until it got to 3.5 minutes, then 60 seconds. Easiest thing to use ever. My microwave now has a similar quick start feature of hitting 1-6 for that many minutes and a plus 30 second button. This is how we operate it about 90% of the time.
- TrevorJ 19y agoI had a microwave once that only had one nob that you turned and that was it. I've never seen another setup that was that simple and effective on a microwave.
- jmtulloss 19y agoThat's how my current microwave is, and it's great. Not only that, but the numbers on the knob no longer have any bearing on actual time increments, so I don't have to think at all. Just turn the knob an arbitrary amount, and hopefully I'll take it out on time. Brilliant.
- antiismist 19y agoOK, so the ideal microwave has just 1 nob. You turn it, and that gives you the time. And as soon as you let go, it starts up. Can't get simpler or easier to use than that. For the nob, I would want some type of exponential scale for time. Most people care about the difference between two and three minutes, but the difference between 20 and 21 minutes is inconsequential. Would that be confusing though?