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A long long time ago, I lived with a roommate who tried to set a timer for thirty minutes on our microwave.
He instead set the microwave to run for thirty minutes.
The steam dome thingy inside did not last for thirty minutes.
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Are you that roommate? Or are you saying he tried to set it for 30 seconds?
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Neither.
That roommate was a separate person. As described in another comment, he tried to set a timer that would not cook anything, only start beeping in thirty minutes. Instead, he set the microwave to run - which is to say, cook - for thirty minutes, which melted the non food item inside the microwave.
I apologize for the ambiguity of my phrasing.
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He tried to set it for 30 minutes and instead set it for 30 minutes. Sounds like he got exactly what he wanted, metal soup
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He wanted a 30 min TIMER not a 30 min cook.
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This is the correct interpretation. I guess perhaps "run" could be a bit ambiguous, apologies to the others for not being clear.
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Many microwaves have a timer that can run without microwaving things.
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