You can't bake a proper pie in a microwave.
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A New Zealand developer named Nathan Broadbent has baked a raspberry pie using a Raspberry Pi. Broadbent decided to do so after spotting a thread on Reddit that suggested “Food items should have QR codes that instruct the microwave exactly what to do. Like high for 2 minutes, let stand 1 minute, medium 1 minutes.” The …
I have a Samsung microwave that is several years old and that has an optical scanner for scanning exactly these kind of QR codes. The idea was all microwavable food would eventually sport these codes.
Sadly the idea never caught on though, which was a pity as it was quite cool for the brief time that a small number of items did carry the codes.
Most things that need to be microwaved for distinct periods need something happening at the end of those periods, something the microwave can't do itself - eg stir, add water etc, so you need to be involved throughout anyway
From the video, it looked like the multi part timing didn't even work anyway, he programmed in 180 seconds, it stopped after 158.
And the fact that it starts automagically without checking if there's anything actually IN the cavity... I mean, who wouldn't, with this level of convenience, scan the barcode without reading the instructions before putting the thing in the oven, just to see how long it's going to take to cook. Never underestimate the laziness of people.
"Ooh! I fancy lasagne ping tonight, but I need to eat in the next 30 minutes or I'm not going to have time to shower before my big date... How long does this... *click* *scan* BOOM†."
†OK, microwaves don't go BOOM if you start them empty... more kind of fizz, pop, whirr, grind, fizz.
Its certainly a neat hack, the chemistry synthesis labs will like it.
MWs have other uses than just nuking day old pizza and heating ready meals, besides which there are about
a million of them in every WEEE "bin" owned by councils.
I've fixed them before, its really not that haKZEERRRT (thud) #include "DangerDangerHighvoltage.mp3"
Some of the time its just the HV fuse or magnetron which goes from old age, I've changed these but a more common fault is duff keypads and burns on the mainboard, etc.
This is particularly annoying with inbuilt ones as the replacement MW is often 5* as expen$ive as a generic el cheapo MW.
If you do have a particularly nice one which needs a new mag, it is possible to locate one from CPC and they do ship but be very careful when replacing them as leakage is highly likely if done wrong.
A good way to tell a bad mag is to look for cracked magnets, if seen then it is deader than dead.
Also worth checking is the end cap, usually if burned then it is toast.
Source:- Sam's RepairFAQ at repairfaq.org
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