If Microwaves didn't auto-stop...

[AlphaCentauri]

... when you open them before the beep, how many of you all would have horrendous radiation disfiguration/ poisoning from opening the door too early?

I know I'd be dead by now.

[Chymeraxe]

I surpisingly use the oven more than I do the microwave, so I guess I might be ok.

[STEM]

When I open it before the beep with a 0 on the screen, I feel like an accomplished man

with a hot pocket to top it!

[Sh0T-D0wN]

At 11/10/09 09:56 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote: I know I'd be dead by now.

That's why I always stand next to/behind the microwave when I first open it.

[Sensationalism]

I'd be soo dead.

[Goldfire64]

My parents had an old microwave in the basement that didn't stop if you open it. And i foolishly reached in there several times. I have yet to have any gaint mutant claws for hands.

[Blush]

Yeah, I might be looking like the dudes from the hills have eyes right about now.

[devil003]

Seeing as I practically hide behind the counter when the damn thing's on, my guess is that I'd be fine.

My parents traumatized me as a little boy, that thing is devil's machinery.

[ViZi]

I would look like a gay fish..

[oddzooka]

I never let the timer get to "0".
My patience is so thin, im like "how much is 5 seconds gonna cook it anyway?"

[Timmy]

I always set the timer for longer than the recommended cooking time, then eyeball whatever food I am cooking. Rarely does the time ever get to 0.

Plus my microwave is incredibly old and low-power, so I need to give everything an extra minute or two.

[ChocEliteBar]

At 11/10/09 10:03 PM, oddzooka wrote: I never let the timer get to "0".
My patience is so thin, im like "how much is 5 seconds gonna cook it anyway?"

It surprisingly does a lot.

I would be scarred if it didn't stop automatically. For life.

[studmuffin7]

I microwaved a bowl of my diarrhea before. Didn't smell very good :/

[Chdonga]

I have one of those futuristic microwaves that cooks food by vibrating it a million miles an hour to heat it up so it doesn't give off radiation when you open it up. And either way you can hear the turntable stop rotating when its done.

[Lucy]

I'd definitly be dead.

[MegamanZero360]

I'd probably be dead, but good thing I stack up on RadAway!

Fallout 3 reference.

[UnkutAcid]

My hot-pocket would go ape-shit.

[HecticCircleCrap]

I would press stop before opening it.

Common sense.

[disingenuous]

At 11/10/09 09:57 PM, OfficeMan wrote: I would look like Sammy Sosa by now if that were to happen

Ugh, he looks so friggin' creepy now.

Anyway, I never let the microwave get to 0. I usually set things to a few extra minutes, because I hate stopping it and starting it again. I feel like the food loses a little something.

[boloneyman]

At 11/10/09 09:57 PM, STEM wrote: When I open it before the beep with a 0 on the screen, I feel like an accomplished man

with a hot pocket to top it!

Damn that sounds like a fun. My microwave keeps beeping once it hits zero whether the door is open or closed so I can't do that.

I would probably have another me growing out of my chest is the radiation didn't stop.

[Evark]

I'll be the boring guy that points out that microwaves wouldn't irradiate you, nor give you radiation sickness. They are somewhat more powerful than radio waves, but less powerful than infrared radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#H ealth_effects

They do not cause cancer. Pretty much the most dangerous effect would be your skin and some outer muscles cooking. Or cataracts in your eyes. That's why people always tell you not to get close to the microwave screen and stare through it.

Which, by the way, that screen is pretty much perfect at stopping the waves. They have a wavelength of several inches.

So, uh... yea I'd have tons of cataracts and perhaps a couple minor burns. I usually only take things out when I'm done heating them, and I doubt I'd be stupid enough to leave an oven on that was actively burning my muscles if I was done cooking the food.

[AlphaCentauri]

At 11/10/09 10:31 PM, Evark wrote: I'll be the boring guy that points out that microwaves wouldn't irradiate you, nor give you radiation sickness.

I do feel the need to point out that after you said all your science business, this topic came to a screeching hault.

[Dawnslayer]

At 11/10/09 10:18 PM, HecticCircleCrap wrote: I would press stop before opening it.

Common sense.

This. Or if there's no stop button, unplug it.

[DaMiStudios]

Probably we would both get bad radiation poisoning at around age 20, as a very rogh guess..........
Hank is baaaaaaack!!!!

[theshadowwolf]

My face would melted.

[Evark]

At 11/10/09 11:16 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote: I do feel the need to point out that after you said all your science business, this topic came to a screeching hault.

Ha ha, I noticed that. SORRY FOR RUINING EVERYONE'S FANTASY OF HORRIBLE RADIATION MUTATIONS.

... I mean c'mon though. You can still cook your flesh uniformly. You wouldn't even necessarily notice the burn, because it'd be heating the parts of your body with more water (since it excites polarized molecules (mostly water)) that are usually found beneath your skin.

[Anozke]

If my 1000 watt microwave didn't have an autostop feature, then nothing would happen. I always like to hear the beep before I extract the cooked contents.

[Gian]

It's all fake, you don't mutate when you do that. I always put my penis in front of the microwave when I open it, and it is still a fucking baby penis. Sorry to disappoint you.

[Mecha-Bear]

At 11/10/09 09:57 PM, Chymeraxe wrote: I surpisingly use the oven more than I do the microwave, so I guess I might be ok.

Pretty much this.

[silentwings100]

At 11/10/09 10:09 PM, studmuffin7 wrote: I microwaved a bowl of my diarrhea before. Didn't smell very good :/

LOL

But yeah if a microwave didn't autostop when you open it I'd be dead. My parents had a microwave that would let out a loud annoying beep when it hit 0 so they would usually stop it before it hit 0 and seeing that all the time as a little kid I grew accustom to doing that. Even now that I've moved out and have a microwave that doesn't give that loud annoying beep I still open the door to stop it at 1 or 2 seconds left