My microwave has an option to turn off all the beeps, and it's a landlord special so I imagine others can do the same. Check your model and see if it has that option.
For mine, I literally need to hold down I think the number 3 for 5 seconds. It's in no way obvious.
Our new one has the option to not have a clock and just be blank so it’s extra annoying when somebody leaves the timer on and the screen stays on blinking ‘cook time’.
it's not just about the microwave returning to clock function. It's also about the microwave being returned to it's normal standby state so that pushing the buttons functions as expected for the next person.
I don't wear a watch, especially not while I'm busy in the kitchen
My phone is usually on my pocket, and it's easier to just turn my head than to reach into my pocket, pull out my phone, and turn it on. And also wash my hands if, again, I'm doing kitchen stuff in the kitchen.
The microwave is in the kitchen, which is a different room than the living room.
Even within a few hours of setting it, it's usually off by at least a few hours. My microwave is usually pretty accurate to within a few minutes, even after days.
I just can't wait for microwave to have an integration with AI. I just need another internet connected device that can recommend a nice laxative after scanning what it just cooked. Not only that but it could integrate with my smart fridge and make sure that it orders food that is just about to expire from Instacart. And with its partnership with Doordash, the microwave could just stop working and order a replacement meal for me.
I've got a newer (5yo) Maytag that has a silent mode that you can choose either with end beep or without. It resets every power outage which is my only gripe.
Specifically bought my current microwave because of the mute feature. The old one would continue to beep even after opening the door. The new one is always muted.
yeah, but then it's blinking and i have to press stop to clear the blinking remaining time for the clock to display. I MUST HAVE MY CLOCK. ahem. sorry i don't have any anals that i need to retent or anything.
i once, i swear once pressed open at such a precise time i did not have to press any other buttons to get to the clock and (and this is the important bit) the microwave made no sound. i mean aside from the door clanging open and me squealing and pooting a little. it felt like i had just pumped exactly twenty moneys and i will never reach such heighths again
yeah it was one of those moments where i almost wish i put those creepy wiretaps in the room so at least SOMEONE could have witnessed the high point of my life. i thought about waking the wife up, which would have defeated the point of defeating the alarm, which made me laugh, which actually defeated the point of defeating the alarm. my wife did not wake up, so hey, i didn't have to share my queso. success!
Mine has a setting for sound off, which is great because it is a horrific loud beep, three times that doesn’t stop even if you try to interrupt it with a button or by opening the door. Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
Even an analog switch on the back would be simple and easy to add.
I know a lot of them do have ways to turn sound off. But many don't. And a simple switch on the backside would make things so much easier.
Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it's a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.
mine is this way as well. it will count inputs as setting the clock and if you put an invalid time in has a hissy fit and isn't clear what it is asking of you. The amount of times my grandfather has tried to use it after losing power and got frusterated because he was trying to cook something and the clock wanted to set the time as something stupid like 30:22 or something like that is annoying.
Then there’s me LOSING MY DAMN MIND because I can’t figure out how to clear the one second off of the microwave and being INFURIATINGLY MAD at the jerk who left one second on the microwave.
I used to have a microwave that you could stop at 0 if you hit the right time. Before the finish beeps but still at 0. It was like a frame perfect press though, really hard to get.
Also at my work there's someone who likes to leave it at 0:01. When I come in in the morning and it displays that I don't know the time. Gr. Use the little red button kthx
I had an old microwave that had a beep but a second after the cycle end so you had a whole second long window to open it peacefully. Beautiful lost technology.
My current one insists on beeping exactly 3 times whether I open the door or not. Fucking annoying. 30 y/o one at my dad's doesn't and it makes it a 1000x better device
Make sure you're interrupting it by hitting cancel, as it releases a burst of radiation if you just open the door. Not sure if it would have any health effects, but you need to hit cancel to clear the remaining time anyways.
This is not prudent. Microwaves generate microwaves. The reason they beep that way, is theres a countdown timer to make sure it is safe to open the door. Obviously the dangers are not very high otherwise they would always lock, but if you will notice, there is also a lock feature.
So, it is more health conscious to way for all the beeps.
Also, the holes in the window are there, rather than full open glass, because microwaves are bigger than the holes, so they dont pass through.
114 Comments
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 95 pts · 135d
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 135d
Just because you can hear it doesn’t mean everyone can. Beeps are interruptive too.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 135d
my grandfather cant even hear the beeping, let alone if the microwave is running.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 135d
Agreed that companies need to lower the note of their beeps to old-man hearing tones.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d
they make some devices that electrocute you when running and when they're done, stop.
OHDB_Global@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d
This is comforting. Thank you.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 135d
And increasing beeping volume would be good. First beep should be nearly muted. 4th beep should be judging.
Klear@quokk.au · 3 pts · 135d
Also hum of a microwave is fairly easy to tune out.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 135d
My microwave has an option to turn off all the beeps, and it's a landlord special so I imagine others can do the same. Check your model and see if it has that option.
For mine, I literally need to hold down I think the number 3 for 5 seconds. It's in no way obvious.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 135d
Mine doesn't have any kind of mute option, I checked the manual.
janus2@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 135d
I had one like that. I de-soldered the beeper lolfuckthat
obvs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d
Try holding down the "2″ or "3″ for 5–10 seconds.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 13 pts · 135d
Appliances should never ever beep, change my mind. What happened to the good old "bing" or "brrrrrrring"?
Beeping makes my skin crawl!
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 135d
My ADHD brain can barely remember putting something in the microwave. I need the beep to remind myself to check it
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 133d
they're suggesting a different noise, not that it's supposed to be silent
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 135d
It’s probably way cheaper to add a speaker than an actual, physical bell. But I agree. My microwave dings and I’m fine with that.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 135d
Or make idk, a bamboo rod sound or something calming
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 135d
Y'all better be clearing the timer so it returns to clock mode afterwards
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 135d
Our new one has the option to not have a clock and just be blank so it’s extra annoying when somebody leaves the timer on and the screen stays on blinking ‘cook time’.
Oaksey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 135d
I’ve said it before, but they should have a time out option of say like 5 or 10 minutes, when it automatically goes back to standby.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
I agree, but they don't.
obvs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d
I do NOT set the clock on my microwave. Damn ghostly lights keeping me up in the middle of the night.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d
You sleep in your kitchen?
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 135d
Do you actually use your microwave to find out what time it is?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 135d
Uh, yeah, it's got a built-in clock.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Mine does too but even though it (and my oven) tell the time I look at my watch, phone, or the dedicated clock in my living room
baronvonj@piefed.social · 10 pts · 135d
it's not just about the microwave returning to clock function. It's also about the microwave being returned to it's normal standby state so that pushing the buttons functions as expected for the next person.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 135d
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
Huh. That's fair.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 135d
You sound way too reasonable. What's the catch?
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d
My microwave and oven clocks are never correct because I don't use them.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 135d
Does your stove not have a clock? They're fairly standard now
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
Not while it's running.
Neither does the microwave, while it's running.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 135d
Mine does.
Even within a few hours of setting it, it's usually off by at least a few hours. My microwave is usually pretty accurate to within a few minutes, even after days.
pedz@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 135d
My previous microwave oven had a mute button. That thing stayed permanently silent. Unfortunately I have never found a new model that can be muted.
Cue a Technology Connection video about how old microwave ovens were better.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 135d
I just can't wait for microwave to have an integration with AI. I just need another internet connected device that can recommend a nice laxative after scanning what it just cooked. Not only that but it could integrate with my smart fridge and make sure that it orders food that is just about to expire from Instacart. And with its partnership with Doordash, the microwave could just stop working and order a replacement meal for me.
...said no one ever.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online · 5 pts · 135d
I've got a newer (5yo) Maytag that has a silent mode that you can choose either with end beep or without. It resets every power outage which is my only gripe.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 135d
Many if not most microwaves can be muted, but they usually don't have a special button for it.
It's often some secret button combination. READ YOUR MICROWAVE'S MANUAL.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 135d
Every microwave can be silenced. Sometimes it requires a soldering iron.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 135d
A shotgun also works well.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 135d
Like this one?
prex@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 135d
Of course there is one.
Thanks for looking it up
hopesdead@startrek.website · 14 pts · 135d
There is a mute function.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 135d
No there isn't.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d
Mine has it and is currently muted
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 135d
Specifically bought my current microwave because of the mute feature. The old one would continue to beep even after opening the door. The new one is always muted.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 2 pts · 135d
Same, but mine doesn't save it on power loss and it's jaring.
demlet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
Where's the challenge in that?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 135d
yeah, but then it's blinking and i have to press stop to clear the blinking remaining time for the clock to display. I MUST HAVE MY CLOCK. ahem. sorry i don't have any anals that i need to retent or anything.
i once, i swear once pressed open at such a precise time i did not have to press any other buttons to get to the clock and (and this is the important bit) the microwave made no sound. i mean aside from the door clanging open and me squealing and pooting a little. it felt like i had just pumped exactly twenty moneys and i will never reach such heighths again
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
Squealing and pooting?
You are a unique person.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
i was excited dude what do you do
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
When I'm excited? God's honest truth? I rapidly pat my chest with both hands as quickly as possible. I don't know why.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
yeah it was one of those moments where i almost wish i put those creepy wiretaps in the room so at least SOMEONE could have witnessed the high point of my life. i thought about waking the wife up, which would have defeated the point of defeating the alarm, which made me laugh, which actually defeated the point of defeating the alarm. my wife did not wake up, so hey, i didn't have to share my queso. success!
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 11 pts · 135d
newb. I save the world by stopping it on 0:00 before the screen goes away.
night_petal@piefed.social · 9 pts · 135d
I hate it when people leave time on the microwave like this. It annoys me to no end, much more than the beep.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 135d
Mine doesn't have enough electronics to beep. It does have a literal bell, though.
dukatos@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 135d
Is that microwave safe?
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 135d
As long as it’s not inside the inner box where the tingle beams bounce around.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 135d
Bomb diffused. Counter terrorists win!
demlet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
I would expect nothing less from MacGyver.
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 134d
My wife does this... And then doesn't clear the timer. Ever. Not once. Fucking annoying.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 134d
Divorce.
null@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 135d
More kitchen devices need to follow what ricecookers are doing and play a charming melody when finished.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 135d
As far as I can tell thats a Korean appliance thing, so maybe try an LG or Samsung microwave.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 135d
Japan likes that stuff too. As far as I can tell if you really wanted to you could get pretty much everything in your house to play music at you.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 135d
That sounds like some nightmares I’ve had.
HashTagBringBackTheBells
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
My sometimes lying rice cooker does a high pitched beeping. So high pitched my husband who can't hear high pitched sounds can't hear it.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 135d
Your rice cookers have electronics in them?
Horrors beyond human understanding.
grill@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 135d
Every time I think I am special, I find out there are a gazillion people like me.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 134d
Skill issue. Its possible to open it at exactly 0 seconds and it won't beep
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 134d
You have much to teach us oh wise one
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d
Mine doesn't have a way to disable the beep so I opened up the case and de-beeped it by desoldering the piezo.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 135d
Honestly, though, if a stopwatch counts milliseconds, I'm gonna see how close to 0 I can get without letting it hit 0
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 135d
I found out my microwave has a mute function. That's my discovery of the year
jeffep@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
Do you set the timer to 61s as well?
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 135d
Strider@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
Any sound output should always, always have a volume control or on/off toggle. Sound is very subjective.
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 135d
Hop boy, don’t buy Samsung appliances then! They like to play songs instead of just a beep!
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 135d
Mine doesn't even let you interrupt the beeping. If it goes off it's doing the whole sequence whether you like it or not.
daannii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
There are videos on how to disable it permanently
It does require a little disassembly. I have considered doing this but I use the timer on the microwave a lot when baking things.
proudblond@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 135d
Mine has a setting for sound off, which is great because it is a horrific loud beep, three times that doesn’t stop even if you try to interrupt it with a button or by opening the door. Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 135d
THIS NEEDS TO BE MAINSTREAM.
There is very little reason that with the digital behemoths that microwaves are now, that a simple "sound off" setting can't be done.
I would also love a "sound off for this cycle" option, but that might be being too needy
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Even an analog switch on the back would be simple and easy to add. I know a lot of them do have ways to turn sound off. But many don't. And a simple switch on the backside would make things so much easier.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 135d
Most microwaves already have this feature, it's just not obvious how to use it. Read your microwave's user manual.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 135d
mine has a way to change the clock to 24h and the ability to calibrate the hot keys, but sadly doesn't seem to have a sound control.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 135d
Well, time to disassemble it (safely discharge the capacitors!), find the beeper on the control board, and de-solder it.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 135d
After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it's a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 135d
mine is this way as well. it will count inputs as setting the clock and if you put an invalid time in has a hissy fit and isn't clear what it is asking of you. The amount of times my grandfather has tried to use it after losing power and got frusterated because he was trying to cook something and the clock wanted to set the time as something stupid like 30:22 or something like that is annoying.
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 135d
Never disassemble a microwave unless you know exactly what you're doing. Like a CRT monitor, the capacitors are big enough to kill you.
Many microwaves have some sort of button combo that'll mute it.
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Yeah I should have mentioned that. Definitely watch YouTube videos and be super careful to follow safety precautions.
Even unplugged capacitors can hurt you pretty bad and possibly kill you.
It's easy to not injure yourself as long as you know about this and how to avoid it. But don't go in blind.
obvs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
Then there’s me LOSING MY DAMN MIND because I can’t figure out how to clear the one second off of the microwave and being INFURIATINGLY MAD at the jerk who left one second on the microwave.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 135d
Hit start?
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Then the bomb goes off. Fool.
You hit clear.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 135d
my settings -> signal off, no?
demlet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
Looks like I found my people.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 133d
I just got an old one that dings instead of beeping. much nicer
AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 133d
I used to have a microwave that you could stop at 0 if you hit the right time. Before the finish beeps but still at 0. It was like a frame perfect press though, really hard to get.
Also at my work there's someone who likes to leave it at 0:01. When I come in in the morning and it displays that I don't know the time. Gr. Use the little red button kthx
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Mine has a setting but it doesn’t get saved after a power outage which occurs a couple times a year.
traceur402@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 135d
I had an old microwave that had a beep but a second after the cycle end so you had a whole second long window to open it peacefully. Beautiful lost technology.
modus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
I turned off all sounds on my microwave and surprisingly it's really disorienting. Not having the aural feedback on the buttons pissed off everyone.
los0220@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d
My current one insists on beeping exactly 3 times whether I open the door or not. Fucking annoying. 30 y/o one at my dad's doesn't and it makes it a 1000x better device
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d
Mine beeps when I open it, like its telling me, "I'm beeping whether you like it or not".
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 133d
Who is the actor and why do I recognize him?!?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 135d
Make sure you're interrupting it by hitting cancel, as it releases a burst of radiation if you just open the door. Not sure if it would have any health effects, but you need to hit cancel to clear the remaining time anyways.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 135d
Nothing bad would happen, cooking a human would take quite a bit longer.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 135d
My cancel button doesn't clear the time, it's exclusively a stop. Reset button is on the numbers section for some reason..
Man_kind@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 134d
This is not prudent. Microwaves generate microwaves. The reason they beep that way, is theres a countdown timer to make sure it is safe to open the door. Obviously the dangers are not very high otherwise they would always lock, but if you will notice, there is also a lock feature.
So, it is more health conscious to way for all the beeps.
Also, the holes in the window are there, rather than full open glass, because microwaves are bigger than the holes, so they dont pass through.
This is the extent of my microwave knowledge.
krisevol@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 133d
You can mute the microwave. Most microwaves have volume settings.