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Every microwave I’ve ever seen was like this.

Is this some EU vs US thing?

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I’m in Australia, generally, we have cooking instructions and microwaves that talk about wattage and time. Never duty cycle.

Eg a sauce packet says 600w 30sec. Press power button until 600w and put it in 30 seconds.

I know there’s duty cycles, you can hear them. I don’t know if that’s how it’s converted as a fraction of the 1500 watt maximum (40% duty cycle = 600w) but you hear it turn on and off most on the defrosting preconfigured buttons.

Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all just the same underneath with regional translations.

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Well, you ARE an honorary EU member, makes sense that you’d use the clearly more sensible system ;D

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I am joking, it just seems more sensible to me because it’s what I know.

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This is more interesting than I would’ve thought. I’m also sick right now so I may not be of entirely sound mind.

This is what I recognise as a standard Mikrowelle control panel like I’ve been using all my life:

You punch in a wattage, turn the knob to set the time, and then you press start. Older models would have a knob for setting watts too. Note the lack of a “popcorn” button.

And this seems to be the standard when I ask Duckduckgo for “microwave”:

Wot?

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It might be, where I live in the US all microwaves with a power setting ask you to set the power from 1-10 (implied to be percentages/10) with no hint as to the wattage except the label so you have to hunt for it.

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