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    It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn’t common. There’s rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.

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      Really? First thing I do after a power outage is turn off the sound on the microwave. I’m not putting stuff in for hours, I’ve not forgotten about it. If I’m not taking it out of the microwave immediately it’s because I’m busy. Settle down, machine.

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    I have kids that I enjoy keeping asleep. There is no reason for that fucking beep to ever occur.

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    Someone at work does this and doesn’t clear the remaining time. Pisses me off. Press the stop button for the love all that is holy. Look, I know it’s petty.

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      Not petty, totally fair. In my case, the microwave is the most visible clock from the couch, so I am always annoyed when it’s 00:02 instead of the time. But then again, the power goes out frequently where I live, so it’s not so reliable as a clock in the first place

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    I have my microwave on silent so I actually prefer to let it finish so I don’t need to press a button to clear those few seconds to have a useful clock back

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        I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn’t just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.

        Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)

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        LG #1675079‌

        For older ones I owned, you can open up the control panel and take out the little speaker puck as an irriversable alternative option.

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    I have this annoying microwave that beeps 5 times when it hits zero, even if I open the door in the middle of it. Kinda rude honestly

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    People who leave those few remaining seconds just hanging there for the next person to have to deal with are called “microdanglers.”

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    No. But my wife does and doesn’t reset the display so it’ll just show 3 rather than the time.

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    Of course! I’m not going to let a fucking oven tell me when my food is ready. Fuck you, Skynet, this is how the rebellion against the machines starts!

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    If you time it right, you can stop my microwave on 0. I also like to avoid making noise if I can. So every time I microwave anything it’s a little minigame for me.

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    Me in the break room stopping the microwave before the beeps:

    Here future microwave user, have these free nine seconds I’m leaving you.

    Me finding the timer is not cleared when I want to use the microwave:

    Ugh, now I have to press the reset button before I can enter the length of time to warm my lunch. Who was the accursed person who left time on here?