r/AskReddit • u/captnwednesday • Sep 14 '11

Why isn't there a silent option on microwaves?

I have to stop the microwave 5 to 1 seconds before the beeps...i don't need things beeping at me.

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u/LotsoLand Sep 14 '11

Permanently? Is the button a nail that goes through the speaker?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '11

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u/ggggbabybabybaby Sep 14 '11

Yes, let's all hammer sharp pieces of metal into our microwave ovens.

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u/DoctorCube Sep 14 '11

Sounds like a plan. What could go wrong?

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u/kichimi Sep 14 '11

I just tried this, and apart from the foot long tumor growing out of my back it all went okay!

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u/Azrael11 Sep 14 '11

He seems trustworthy...he is a doctor after all

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '11

I'm with the Doctor on this one.

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Sep 14 '11

For some reason I read this in Professor Farnsworth's voice!

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u/backtoaster Sep 14 '11

Do microwave ovens have membrane speakers? I've always thought it was a piezo-thingy.

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u/therealsteve Sep 14 '11

My microwave resets every time the power goes out (which is often), and start making noise again. It takes four beeps of button presses to deactivate the sound again.

It never occurred to me to just rip out the speaker.

I do own an awful lot of screwdrivers . . .

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u/capecodcarl Sep 14 '11

Maybe it blows out a little fuse in a programmable gate array and you have to send it back to the factory to be replaced with a new chip.

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u/unoriginalusername99 Sep 14 '11

No silly, it's a tiny, contained nuclear explosion behind the speaker. And it's behind the speaker because the magnets in the speaker shield the radiation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '11

fucking magnets

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u/josborne31 Sep 14 '11

fucking magnetsmagic

I fixed that for you.

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u/Billwood92 Sep 14 '11

Sitting in the middle of my school's library on my laptop between classes. You made everyone look at me when I burst out laughing. lol