My mum's microwave...
... had a timer that you could set in advance. Not a bad idea; you could set it to nuke something nice and hot in time for you coming home from work. Brilliant.

So all you did was set the day, hour and minute you wanted it to switch off at, and the cooking time. You could even set a couple of different cooking times so that it could nuke something, let it stand, then nuke it again. Back up a minute, *day*?

Yes. Day. You could set it up to two weeks in advance.
(gordonjcp, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 15:31, 4 replies)

Ace.
So you could go on holiday to Prague to enjoy the Christmas markets, safe in the knowledge that there would be a lovely plate of hot, mouldy chocolate waiting for you on your return?

Mouldy?

What?!

Oh ...
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 15:43, closed)

Very useful
Especially if you want to make a steven segal 'under siege' style napalm bomb!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 15:47, closed)

That was a betamax, you fool.
Easily done, they are similar sizes.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 16:48, closed)

I was in a hotel recently
where there was a fire alarm at 2.30am, because someone had put a pizza in the microwave, accidentally (or incorrectly) set the timer delay, and then fell asleep. So the oven switched on in the middle of the night and nuked the pizza, the smoke alarm triggered, and we all had to stand around in the car park for 30 minutes. Stupid gadget.
(Smale is stuffed, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 10:26, closed)