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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.

Yes, regularly AND I leave the remaining time on the microwave. It's pure chaos over here.

Microwaves stop by themselves? /j

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

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.

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

I hate the beep in every form so far, and I avoid using microwaves every chance I get.

Mine makes a little music sound, and when I hit the "stop" button it makes a different music sound. If I hit it at just the right time, it makes a nice melody by combining both sounds. I recreated a similar sounding one to it here.

beepbox.co project with the following melody:

A ........ ####.... ........ ........
Ab........ ........ ........ ........
G ........ ........ ........ ........
F#........ ....#### ........ ........
F ........ ........ ........ ........
E ........ ........ ........ ........
Eb........ ........ ........ ........
D ....#### ........ ........ ........
Db........ ........ ........ ........
C ........ ........ ........ ........
B ........ ........ ........ ........
Bb........ ........ ........ ........
A ####.... ........ ........ ........

Ofc. Otherwise it beeps.

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

I used to stop my microwave a few seconds before it finished, like many others, due to the annoying unstoppable beeps. But then I got this smaller unit that happens to let out the faintest confirmation of doneness that I ever did, or rather almost didn’t, hear. I don’t mind it now.

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

It beeps 5 times if I don't. Super fuckin annoying, are those beeps.

The beep from the microwave hurts my ears. So I stop about 1 second before it beeps.

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

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.

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!

No, if I wanted to microwave something for 57 seconds I'd put 57 seconds in. I don't practice brinksmanship

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?

Yeah because the thing beeps as if the house is on fire. I'd rather have it stay silent. And 1-3 seconds is not really enough to have any measurable effect.

I time it right so that I can run towards the microwave “in slow motion” and pretend I’m stopping a bomb from going off, 1 second before it blows. My kid loves it. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah. My microwave makes five beeps whenever the timer runs out, regardless if I open the door or not.

In terms of appliance beeping aggravation, I've yet to have one that tops an old slow cooker I had. When you turned it on, it just had a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep that lasted for multiple seconds and made me want to throw it out the window every time I had to use it. It was like a goddamn siren alerting the whole apartment complex to the possibility of pot roast in 4-8 hours.

No, my microwave has a nice chime instead of a beep

Yes, because of the stupid turntable. 1:30, the water isn't hot enough. 2:00, the water is too hot and cup is at the back of the oven. The right amount of time, for tap water, in the summer, is 1:47, that puts the water at the front of the oven at the right temp, but I don't want to punch in 1:47, so I just hit the 2 to start and run the oven for 2 minutes, and then pull the door open at 1:47. Also, no beep that way.

Commercial microwaves, like in a restaurant, have a row of numbered buttons that can be programmed for time and power setting. That's the best way to control a microwave.

Well yeah that's when the bomb goes off, gotta stop it

No, but I don't wait for the beeping to stop.

🙂‍↔️🫸 Stopping the microwave after 29 seconds to prevent the beep

🙂‍↕️👉 Stopping the microwave after 29 seconds because its a prime number

No, unless I want to set it up for period shorter than what is available but that hardly ever happens.

I usually leave and come back when it beeps.

If I don't stop it before the last second, the universe will blow up.

Sometimes

god forbid we let people customize these things. we'll jam AI into the fucking appliances before we let people have actual QOL advancements.

Only if I hear popping noises (and I am not microwaving popcorn)