(unlike here in the pic, it is impossible to lift the lid with just one hand - as you cant really get the thumb beneath it, as it sits flush against the glass turntable) …
had they only used it ONCE (once, FCOL!) before committing to production, they’d have noticed that changing the grooves a bit would have made all the difference in the world.
But no … you need 2 hands to lift the lid off, set it aside, come back and take the plate out …
with just a tiny bit of care, it’d be possible to lift it of with one hand, using the other to take the plate out.
Can’t you grab it with your fingers where they are in the picture and your thumb on the side instead of under it? Essentially ‘pinching’ the top.
I know it’s a different shape, but grabbing it like this:
I have this one, which is designed to grab from the top, but I’m pretty sure I usually grab it like the person in the first picture.
Ok, I have to admit I had no idea such a product as a “microwave lid” existed until I saw the above posts. I will sometimes use an upside down plate for this purpose, but that has the similar problems to what @Al128 complained about – it’s difficult to remove the plate, it’s usually hot from the steam trapped under it, or you’ll get burned by the steam that gets released when you pick it up.
the prominent top ridge is slanted to the outside (thus slippage-prone), instead of slanting to the inside (to give the finger something to hook into) …
again, handling the “Micro-shlit” once, should have stopped that project ice-cold in the tracks - and that is worrisome, as IKEA stuff is normally “pretty-good” (for what it is). This item feels like a typically proverbial chinese product w/out any review-process in place.
now, what is that? … voices from young folk stepping on my grass? … pardon me, I will be out for a few minutes yelling at “youth”.
When I was driving a rental car in England I had my phone hooked up to my car’s Bluetooth to use my own GPS as well as listen to my music as I drive.
For whatever reason and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off, BBC traffic reports would automatically play every 30 minutes and would completely override whatever I was listening to at 2X the volume and it was the most annoying thing to intrude. The worst part? Supposedly it would just be a 20-30 second traffic update but for some reason it would often continue to play whatever BBC radio program they took the traffic report from for minutes at a time so I had to listen to inane radio host chatter when I was desperately trying to listen to my GPS until some computer somewhere realized they went too long and suddenly turned it off.
When our new hospital opened the doors in the passageways had handles on both sides but only opened one way. After a number of the handles had been wrenched off (presumably by muscular visitors) they were replaced by brass plates.
There was then some discussion about the hygiene of touching the plates and we were told that brass is a natural antimicrobial.
It’s a feature of RDS (Radio Data System), a European data standard for FM radio that’s been around even before modern media systems in cars. The feature is called TA (traffic announcement) or TP (traffic programme), and you can switch it off and on. But granted, easier said than done in a rented, unknown car.
I recently bought a floor standing humidifier, because the humidity can easily drop below 20% here in the winter, and it’s not possible to add a humidifier to the furnace. I have no complaints about its performance.
However, it does not have anything to indicate how much water is left in the tank. I can understand even a simple floating plastic bead in a tube would make the tank more complex and likely to leak, so I guess forgivable.
What it does do is show a letter on a seven segment LED display to indicate the tank has no water in it. For anyone who has ever been inside a car, what letter would you choose to display when a tank is empty?
Maybe it’s supposed to mean “Fill up the tank, you dummy!”
Or maybe it was designed to be sold in an Arabic-speaking country (“empty” = “farigh” in Arabic).
For situations like that I like to put a countdown timer on my cell phone to keep your home humidified. (Except a countdown timer on my phone would not keep your home humidified.)
I’ve had a Craftsman 1/4 sheet sander for about 30 years. Works well, but the pad is damaged due to me accidently going over some nails with it, and a replacement pad is no longer available.
I love DeWalt cordless tools, and own a bunch of them that use the 20 V battery packs. I noticed DeWalt makes a cordless 1/4 sheet sander, so I immediately purchased it. Five seconds after I first used it I noticed a major design flaw: the weight of the battery hanging on the side makes it very unbalanced. (My old corded one was perfectly balanced.) You need to use both hands when using this stupid thing - one hand on the main grip, and the other hand on the bottom of the battery pack (to exert an upward force) to counteract its weight. After a couple minutes of use, I boxed it back up and returned it to the store. I then purchased DeWalt’s corded 1/4 sheet sander. It is perfectly balanced, just like my old one.
Kipling may have something- look at their web page (Kipling USA).
Not small by any means, but if you don’t mind a large bag, their Defea model is quite possibly the perfect bag. Main part easily large enough to hold a large wallet and an ereader and a cosmetic pouch. I think I may have once put an iPad in it but that was tight
Small Velcro pockets at each end. I keep a small flashlight at one end. Zipper pocket on the back (I keep papers there when traveling). Two substantial zipper pockets on the front - great for earbuds etc. Each of those has a very slim pocket - just big enough for something like a transit card or parking ticket. Satchel handles. A removable, adjustable shoulder strap. I’ve owned several (the main zipper tended to break after a couple of years).
Naturally they “improved” them a couple years ago. Smaller, less outside pockets. Which would be fine, except they got rid of the original.
Finally remembered this grievance: Saltine cracker packaging.
They’re sold in long tubes that can’t be resealed. So if you eat a few, the rest are guaranteed to go stale, they are nasty after a couple of days.
One brand used to include a wire clip that mitigated this a little but no more. Plus tou often need to tear that sleeve to get the crackers out, making it impossible.
I could swear I once saw some where the pound came with 8 half tubes versus 4 long tubes, which would at least reduce waste a little.
I always put the opened sleeve in a ziploc bag. I don’t eat a lot of crackers, so by the time I go back in, the crackers are kind of stale anyway. There are a few brands that have half size sleeves. It’s a much better option. Ritz, Club House are two that come to mind. I think one of the regular saltine brands does too. My issue is that saltines just don’t taste very good anymore.
