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August 2, 2005 12:02 AM
Broken: GoldStar microwave button
Michael McKinley writes:
This was on a GoldStar microwave at a Holiday Inn I was staying at.
[a possible consume inteface problem]
What does "Q Defrost" mean?...
(also one the bottom of photo note the "Ez ON" button)
What does "Ez ON" DO?
Lets just hope our new presh vegetables makes up for such weird buttons. Or lets just see how far we can get with a spelling error on thousands of microwaves before we get fired!
What a truly terrible microwave! What's broken is that Goldstar could lowbid these crappy microwaves into your hotels.
wouldn't presh vegetables be on your food plate?
besides that, why is auto defrost blue and everythibng else black? if there is an obvious reason, i'm not picking up on it.
also, how many people do you think push power to turn off the microwave?
i noticed something after i posted:
timer
clock
time
all buttons. what does each one do? nobody knows.
What confuses me most about this microwave are the following three buttons:
"Time"
"Clock"
"Timer"
What's the difference? These buttons seem to be on all microwaves, not just microwaves with spelling errors. I'm always pressing the wrong one :(
Timer and clock switch between displaying the amount of time left on the timer, and the current time. Time is used to set the time. It's not exactly intuitive but that's what they do.
On MOST, not all, microwaves:
"Time" is to set the time you wish to heat your food, "Timer" is simply a timer. My mom has used this function on her microwave when the timer on her stove broke. "Clock" is to set the time of day. Sounds simple, but what is really broken is that I have seen microwaves with these three buttons and not all of them worked the way I have just described above. Some of the buttons were just cosmetic. I suppose the company that made the microwaves just wanted a presh new look.
New! Presh(TM) Vegetables! We take the vegetables that the major companies don't want, so you can get limp, rotten, freezer-burned vegetables!
Current selection: Mushy Carrots, Droopy Celery, Dead Beans, "Blecch!" Potatoes!
Why do they need all those other buttons when you have the "Food Plate" button? I'd think that pretty much covers whatever you may want to put in the microwave.
I assume Q defrost is "quick" defrost, for foods you want to defrost quickly and you don't mind if they ger a little hot around the edges.
BTW I think Chaos hit it on the nose for the time/timer/clock buttons, I was just about to post the same comment when I saw Chaos's post.
Hmm, maybe that's how it works on most microwaves but I happen to actually have one of these goldstar microwaves although mine says fresh instead of presh. I do have the q defrost button which I've never used. This this is a real piece of garbage but it was free, and it allows me to make popcorn in my upstairs office without walking downstairs. MMMmmm Lazy
Q MEANS QUICK, AND THE VEGETABLE THING, WELL UMMMMM WHO KNOWS THE MAYBE A CASE OR TWO OUT THERE IN THIS WORLD SOME WHERE, WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE TO PUT YOU YOUR VEGGIES IN THE OLD NUK, MAY BE TO HEAT THEM UP...UMMMMM I WONDER...COULD THAT BE THE CASE..?
Whats really messed-up is the goldstar.com website. It just shows pictures of motor-cyles, how unprofessional.;)
Lol!
I would not want to have to use that microwave. Q defrost? Presh vegetable? I wouldn't trust that company, the microwave may explode.
Well... it's confusing thigns like this that just drive me to memorize how long each item needs in the microwave and how to change things (such as a glass of water in the microwave to absorb some of the energy/heat) so I won't have to fumble with such complex buttons...
Then again, I managed to light a pudding cup on fire on a microwave, so I shouldn't talk. =x
Howdy screwu112,
This is the real GoldStar website:
http://www.goldstarappliances.com/
Yeah, I had similar situations with other company websites as well. Trickery!
i don't think I would want to have to press "time" when I'm inputting the time in my microwave.i just want to be able to put 1:00 and press start, not go through a complicated process with a microwave that I'm not familiar with and has typos on it, just to cook my beans.
is presh a word ? ........ some1 lookit up im to lazy ok ok did it mean fresh ?? i think so ..... ya it meant fresh
I'd say that Q probably stands for heat, weird I know but then most evry high school chemistry class is broken. So, heat defrost where you'd set a particular temp.
It says on the GoldStar website that Q Defrost is for 1 pound of ground meat. I don't know why they called it that, either. I'm guessing it means "quick."
My Goldstar above the range microwave recently popped a breaker and now no longer operates. The breaker has been reset, the unit has power to it. Any thoughts? It is only about a year old.
I thought the microwave thing was funny, but take another, much closer look at the individual buttons...
Wierd...I have one of these at my school, in the cafeteria. They must be cheap when they are defective.
question: why would you put "Presh" or fresh vegtables in a microwave. Maby frozen ones or the stuff you get in a can.
Anyone whant microwaved brocily (i now it is most likely misspelled)
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_@_v - mmmmmm! phunky presh vegetables!
Posted by: she-snailie_@_v at August 2, 2005 12:21 AM