> This will only work on microwaves with digital displays, so if you have one of those truly bizarre retro microwaves with dial controls, you're out of luck. Also, if you're over 59 years old, your experience will be incomplete.


Actually, quite a few microwaves will let you program in a 99 second countdown, rather than a 1 minute and 39 seconds one, so you may only be unlucky if you're over 100 years old.

Of course, you could always think about the intervening 41 years all in one go, if you don't have that feature.