You’re not wrong there, the capacitor can indeed be dangerous!

I happen to be quite well experienced in repairing and rebuilding microwave ovens though, and it’s not like I leave the thing disassembled for random people to come along and stick their fingers in the wiring.

The modification I mentioned is fairly simple though, just take out the light bulb so that doesn’t stay on when the door is open, and bypass whatever timer circutry they have, whether it be analog, digital, or even subscription based digital bullshit these days.

Underneath the hood of every microwave oven is a sequence of 3 safety switches all activated by the mechanics of the door latch, required by law, to make damn sure it can’t emit radiation when the door is open. Take proper advantage of that knowledge and knowing the internals of a microwave oven, and it’s pretty easy to bypass the timer.

The only true danger with such modification is if you fuck up and forget your popcorn or frozen pizza or whatever, as the microwave will end up running indefinitely until you open the door. Used responsibly though, it’s just fine, but you gotta keep an eye on your own food and an eye on your own watch/clock.

Kids in the house though? Nah, I wouldn’t trust that sort of mod near kids for even 5 seconds.

We gotta go test these things in the back yard…

Honestly not as dangerous as you might think. Just keep the kids and pets away, and watch your own timer for your frozen pizza…

Remove the light, obviously. Bypass the control circuit…

Geez, didn’t Electroboom teach you anything?

Don’t do these things at home, obviously…

I don’t even need a timer for the microwave oven. I just rig that shit up where when you close the door, it cooks, and when you open it, well it stops cooking.

Don’t ask why, had to temporarily fix things for my mom. At least we didn’t have kids around the place…

Edit: AI can suck my nugz…

https://usdictionary.com/definitions/hack/

See definitions 3 and 5 for reference, I believe the term fully fits.

My late father had a little more class than that though. He would go behind the local Piggly Wiggly right after they tossed out food that was just past official expiration date, and he’d basically go dumpster diving.

He didn’t do this willy nilly either, he was always observant on what foods he found that were still viable and edible. It’s amazing yet very disappointing how much perfectly good food goes to waste every single day when we have so many people in the world starving… ☹️

Fair enough.

In recent times, I heard a joke that loosely goes something like this…

Back in the day, I used to be able to go to the store with $20 and get 2 steaks, 3 loaves of bread, a sack of potatoes and a tub of butter.

Not today though, too many fucking cameras!

😂🤣

Back in like 2021, we ordered a medium pizza from Domino’s, for ‘half price’, if we used their app. So I did…

By the time we got there (no delivery, we had to drive there ourselves), they doubled the price, literally because we used the app…

I’m just gonna drop this link, because we got pizza delivery coming, and I don’t want the aliens to know…

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/conversions/numberstowords.php