Well it doesn’t say “no meth”, so you’re in the clear, here.
I would accept a placard explaining that microwave popcorn does in fact require monitoring. The amount of times you get woken up at 3am by a fire alarm cuz some fuckwit set it for 5 minutes and walked away… I get the ban.
Surely everyone knows the proper way to microwave popcorn, right? Set to 2 min, at around 1:30 listen for the pops, and if there aren’t any for 3 sec, stop the microwave (don’t force open, hit “cancel” or whatever). For my microwave, it’s usually around 1:45-1:50, but each bag is different.
Boom, you should have <10 unpopped kernels (probably <5) and no burnt popcorn. Oh, and if you forget to turn it off, no fire risk either, but it might have a little bit of a “roasted” flavor with a couple of the popped kernels burning, but it should be mostly fine.
Or just set it to 1:45 or 1:50 and accept that it’s non-optimal. But you’ll want to get the popcorn out of the bag quickly, so I don’t see the point.
Depends on how shitty of a microwave it is. If it’s a cheap low power microwave it might not even start popping till 3+ minutes.
Bottom line, whatever you’re microwaving just stick around and pay attention. I was working at a school and overheard students talk about how much better warm chocolate chip cookies are, and one girl said she always warms them in the microwave if they’re room temp. One of her classmates was intrigued and said he’d give it a try. At some point in the evening he threw a few dry ass Chips Ahoy in the microwave and set it for 5 minutes.
The smell of burnt cookies is almost as bad as burnt popcorn. At least there wasn’t a fire.
it might not even start popping till 3+ minutes.
Sure. The first time you make popcorn, hang out until you know roughly how long it takes. The 3 sec rule works on pretty much anything though.
Once you know the rough timeline, then set it to just a little longer (10-20 sec) and then you can go to the restroom or something while waiting (or prep other snacks). Then you’ll never have to worry about burning popcorn.
don’t force open, hit “cancel” or whatever
I don’t think the timer on the microwave at my job has ever been reset. People just push the “start+30” button and jank it open when they’re bored of waiting. It never reaches zero and nobody presses stop.
Yep, I can’t think of a microwave that doesn’t immediately auto-shutoff when you open the door. No difference in just opening it vs shutting it off unless the parent comment has a reason I’ve never heard of.
They absolutely should, but that mechanism usually works with a little switch, and those can get sticky. Just build a habit of hitting cancel first and you won’t have issues.
Can’t ban morons, needed to ban popcorn instead.
This argument I use for guns.
… fuck that’s actually convincing.
The big difference being that in the US you do not have a constitutional right to pop corn.
Fish it is!
Nah fam, people like that are the reason we had to evacuate the dorms every month or so in the middle of the night during the winter months.
That and idiots making toast. Not sure how people routinely fucked that up so badly.
How do you make meth in a microwave? Asking for a friend.
Rules that that are how you get residents breaking policy and bringing home appliances into the dorm and straining the circuit.
Just set a policy of watch the microwave, and enforce it. Making college students work around stupid policies is just going to cause more issues down the line lol
Exactly. Treat them like adults, which covers both the rules and consequences for breaking them.
How do you enforce it?
Same way every other penalty is enforced. threat of eviction if rules/terms are not followed.
Student’s are entitled to live in the dorms. Sure they pay money but, they agree to follow guidelines. Just like if caught supplying alcohol to minors or partying. Repeat offenses = eviction
I’m not saying a one off should equal eviction but, but there should be a punishment, even if its a warning first.
Every time you walk past throw a few kernels in there, close the door and just walk off.
Then when the next person uses it they will go crazy with a few random kernels that just keep coming from nowhere
