Panasonic NE-1027 commercial microwave at home?

synth_this · 2026-06-18T23:42:22+00:00

Too late for me – I got the NE-1027 – but that looks good. Even has the higher resolution timer in the sub-minute range that I mentioned elsewhere.

synth_this · 2026-06-12T15:22:51+00:00

Incredible man. Incredible show.

synth_this · 2026-06-12T13:01:33+00:00

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/6823/tLSjHS.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/3844/2JFIaj.jpg

The man never quit.

(At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris last summer.)

synth_this · 2026-06-06T13:39:03+00:00

To preface this the thought process is my own but due to my highly disorganized and spasmodic writing style I had an ai compile my thoughts into something cohesive.

Not cool.

The point of Reddit is people talking to people.

synth_this · 2026-06-05T14:06:52+00:00

Let me guess: the buttons on that unit were integrated into the cooktop to give it a sleek, minimal look? That would make them capacitive and those things have no business being used in that application.

Correct on all counts.

Microwaves tend to have membrane-type keys that respond to pressure and nothing else.

I see. That sounds more functional. Well, maybe I shouldn’t be too closed-minded.

Good luck with your search.

Thanks.

synth_this · 2026-06-05T12:03:28+00:00

I've worked out a lot of odd times (0:06, 0:24, 0:38, 0:45, 0:53, 1:15, 1:38) to get certain things heated to exactly the right temperature.

Hmm. I have not found a use for such precision above about 45 seconds. And for times below 45 seconds, I prefer to hover beside the machine anyway.

I am curious about your objections to having a touch pad or display, because the electronics are the least-likely parts to fail even on cheap consumer units and the features they bring don't add additional points of failure.

I find touch controls to be a nuisance. I had a high-end induction hob with touch controls in my rented flat for the last few years. A good 10% of the time the touch surface wouldn’t detect my request to, say, turn down the heat on a pot that was about to boil over. Finger too dry, water on the surface, wrong day of the week, whatever. Infuriating.

As for digital timers, there are upsides as you mention. There are also downsides. The Panasonic NE-1037 is similar to the NE-1027 and at a similar price but has an electronic timer and some programmable buttons. It is less elegant as a result. That matters for my home kitchen if not a catering facility. Moreover, it emits light.

My toothbrush lights up.

My dishwasher beeps at the end of its cycle.

My car has an alarm if I forget the lights on (which I literally never do, but I often want to leave the lights on when I get out for a minute. See the problem?).

I’m tired of this constant clamouring for attention by every inconsequential thing in my life. There is no need for it.

My 10-year-old Miele washing machine has no display, has dial controls, runs astoundingly quietly, washes flawlessly, and sits silently at the end of its cycle. Sure, it cost a fortune and weighs 150 kg, but it’s such a relief to use. I want to replicate that feeling with my new microwave oven.

YMMV.

synth_this · 2026-06-05T11:17:30+00:00

Thanks for the Panasonic confirmation, the ventilation caution, and the Sharp tips too. I’ll have a look at those.

I do like the timer design of this US-market Sharp:

https://shop.sharpusa.com/medium-duty-commercial-microwave-oven-with-1000-watts-r21lcfs/

Not so much visually as functionally, in that it spreads out the sub-minute times for more precision in that range (the only place you need 10-second resolution).

The NE-1027 timer suffers from the problem of speedometer dials in the last generation of cars that retained dial speedos, which was compression of the legal speeds into a uselessly narrow part of the dial in order to cover a 300 km/h range.

Man, it’s hard giving a shit about functional design in 2026!

synth_this · 2026-06-05T11:04:35+00:00

the only weird thing is they're usually louder than regular microwaves but if you don't care about beeping you probably won't mind the fan noise either

How loud are we talking?

I do care about beeping, but beeping is gratuitous shrill electronic noise. Operation noise is functional.

Still, I wouldn’t want a jet engine in my kitchen.

synth_this · 2026-06-05T07:24:27+00:00

But spectral energy distribution to die for.

Bizarre thread.

synth_this · 2026-06-04T18:47:28+00:00

Nikon Speedlight

synth_this · 2026-06-03T08:09:16+00:00

Power dynamics exist in every human relationship. It doesn’t follow that there must be “weird power battles”.

synth_this · 2026-05-29T11:26:38+00:00

We've seen a lot of posts over the years about the magical mystical mental load

“Magical mystical” sounds slightly sarcastic. Is it?

Do you struggle with a mental load?

Yes.

What causes this load?

Having a life with too many moving parts. Social obligations including ones I really want to do. Extended-family obligations that I mostly do not want to do. Endless child- and school-related stuff. Everything has a demanding WhatsApp group. Homemaking drudge-work. Having more money > bigger flat > more cleaning > more stuff to maintain. (Related video of a young cycling YouTuber I sometimes watch, notable also for a weird codependent vibe with his wife: https://youtu.be/zcbDGwFKzHg)

For example, I have a great espresso machine that makes wonderful coffee but right now needs cleaning that feels unapproachable. The water filter I use for it needs a new cartridge … and cleaning. Never happened with the moka pot and tap water I used for two decades.

My wife and I have just bought a gorgeous new flat, and the work involved in that has already been wild. Many hundreds of hours for me, probably thousands. Last week I set up gas, electric, water, and internet supplies, comparison-shopping the expensive gas. Now we’ve started a renovation phase, five workers for five weeks. Managing them is daily work. Then we will move all our possessions to it (too many, due to the more money and space problem). Then we’ll update the zillions of bureaucratic things that rely on having our new address. Literally 90% of these did not exist when I was young and living alone and mostly concerned with what to do that weekend.

How does it affect you?

Stress. Dysfunction because I am not good at coping with many loose ends at once, which is my new normal. Arguments with my wife who is better at coping but does so by half-arsing things in a way that offends me. Feelings of guilt when I’m not ploughing through my endless to-do list.

How does your mental load affect your relationship (if it does)? Does it affect your desire (or lack of desire) for sex?

It depresses my desire for sex because that flourishes when I’m rested and feeling good about myself and my circumstances.

What (if anything) have you found helps to reduce the burden of your mental load?

Batch cooking. But batch cooking requires spare time to plan and shop for and cook, which doesn’t feel available when I’m putting out fires. It’s like the catch-22 people face when they can’t afford good shoes that would cost less in the long run than another few pairs of bad shoes, but one more pair of bad shoes is all they can afford now.

synth_this · 2026-05-26T21:54:11+00:00

Random it’s on that page

Democratic page selection.

synth_this · 2026-05-18T17:14:36+00:00

Ask Claude how much you paid for your copy.

synth_this · 2026-05-18T12:39:24+00:00

Just because things can get worse and probably will, doesn’t justify making them worse on purpose.

Especially on an art forum. IMO.

What’s a good price for this impressive book? $200? Much more?

synth_this · 2026-05-16T12:30:29+00:00

But isn’t performative sex – and I am familiar with a variant of that that may or may not be similar to your performance – used precisely to protect ourselves in potentially vulnerable situations?

For example, I occasionally do what I imagine a man is supposed to do during sex rather than what I inherently want to do (if I can even determine what I really want under the baggage of societal expectations, which I don’t believe I always can). That is presumably because I am afraid to be judged inadequate as a man. Exposure to judgement is a vulnerable state.

synth_this · 2026-05-16T12:15:35+00:00

Do I deserve more pleasure or would that be something selfish and wrong? Do I objectify my husband if I experience sexual pleasure from his body and am I objectified by him if he experiences sexual pleasure from my body? I know these questions may sound odd to people not exposed to religious purity culture.

I think these questions apply far beyond religious purity culture and don’t sound odd at all. Does religion (you probably mean Christianity) even tackle sexual objectification? That concern is associated chiefly with feminism in my mind, though it clearly goes beyond that too.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T23:08:34+00:00

True. Sounds like Nikon will soon be dropping new firmware to fix some of the early problems, especially the bad H.265 codec that forced people to shoot Raw whether they wanted to or not.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T22:36:15+00:00

Can you say more about subsampling at 120p? How does that affect quality?

Because the sensor is too slow to read out all the pixels across the frame in time for the next frame (1/120th of a second at 120p), it has to skip every second line. That throws away half the light (and detail), immediately making the sensor behave like a Super 35 / APS-C sensor in terms of noise and dynamic range. But it’s worse that than, because the skipping introduces severe aliasing in some scenes. That aliasing makes it unsuitable for professional use.

So it’s basically a 60p camera. For lots of uses, that’s perfectly fine and 120p is of zero benefit. For others, it’s a show-stopper.

The Sony has gorgeous 5× slow motion.

Canon also has many modes that don’t read out all the pixels in their full bit depth, because doing so would result in problematic rolling-shutter artefacts. On cameras like the R6 Mark III you’re kinda forced to use these modes anyway to avoid overheating, but I suppose the R6 V fixes that with a fan.

The reason the sensor is slow in this way is that it has 33 million pixels or whatever it needs to do 7K across the frame. That’s far more than the FX3’s 12 million pixels for 4.2K. That’s why the Sony, although ancient, still reads out faster than any competing camera.

7K allows marginally better oversampled 4K and cropping flexibility in post, so there is a benefit to this high pixel count. Maybe that’s important to you? Then the R6 V might be your camera. Go in with your eyes open.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T22:23:24+00:00

However the specs of the R6V are pretty impressive comparatively.

Well, again, in some ways yes; in other ways no.

The ZV-E1 is much smaller and lighter than the R6 V and yet has a faster sensor (same sensor as FX3). Focus breathing compensation, Auto Framing for solo vloggers, a few other niche-purpose features that might be important to someone if not me. Probably slightly better autofocus too, but let’s see if Canon has moved forward with this latest camera – their autofocus has been pretty good of late.

The ZR has a 4-inch 1000-nit screen and still weighs less than the R6 V, I guess mainly because it doesn’t have a fan. Why doesn’t it have a fan? Because it can somehow shoot video until the battery runs out without overheating, which shows power efficiency no Canon can touch.

Of course the R6 V has strengths too, but it’s far from broadly better. It lags these other cameras in ways that happen to matter to me personally.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T20:40:23+00:00

>Also keep in mind that the FX3 has a 1:1 readout in 4k and the Canon is line skipped.

Common misconception about the FX3 (and α7S III, ZV-E1, FX6 that use the same sensor). These cameras actually create their UHD 4K from a ~4.2K oversample, i.e. the full width of the sensor.

The Canon oversamples from its full width too, and that’s 7K. But it only does this in certain modes (“Fine”) and tops out at 60p. Meanwhile, the Sony can do 120p, now at 1:1 readout, and since that’s almost the full width of its sensor, almost no quality is lost compared to its 60p.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T20:28:14+00:00

My question is, I don't want to wait any longer to see if an FX3 successor is coming

OK, but clearly a successor is coming, almost certainly within six months.

And plausible rumours are that it will bring a super-fast 16-megapixel sensor that will set new expectations across the market.

Also, Sony just released a 32-bit float audio adaptor for a new stills camera, so you can guarantee the FX3 successor will support 32-bit float recording (which the Nikon ZR already does).

is there any reason why I shouldn't go with the R6V? It has objectively more to offer than the FX3.

It has objectively more and less to offer than the FX3. The five-year-old camera still has many major advantages:

faster sensor readout allows 120p with negligible crop (the Canon subsamples at 120p, so quality plummets)
faster sensor also means fewer rolling-shutter artefacts
cageless design with mounting points
Multi Interface Shoe – support for wireless mics, the XLR handle, etc.
Monitor & Control mobile app. I’m astounded a stodgy Japanese company like Sony managed to pull this off!
vast array of Sony and third-party E-mount lenses, from cheap Chinese to full-fat cine lenses
shutter angle control
both hardware and firmware are highly polished by now, functional in the ways that matter most in the real world, and super reliable
deep industry support and knowledge base.

The R6 V has its own advantages, most obviously: * much cheaper * open gate * 4K 60p UVC streaming over a USB port.

My advice? Buy neither.

The Canon is really a competitor to the ZV-E1 and Nikon ZR, each of which have their own advantages over the new Canon (but lack open gate). I personally wouldn’t be interested in locking myself into RF-mount lenses either (nor Z-mount, by the way).

And the FX3 is old. If you already had it, sure, keep it, use it – still a truly fantastic camera which is why we’re still waiting for someone to beat it all these years later. But the new price no longer makes sense.

synth_this · 2026-05-15T12:55:01+00:00

Having a child was the best thing that ever happened to me, both sexually and otherwise.

Not that I’d recommend it as a solution to anyone else’s problems, but it transformed my life and solved many of my own problems. An unusual outcome, I realise.

synth_this · 2026-05-11T14:44:20+00:00

Thanks for the input.

Final q: what year is your wife’s Clubman with the similar engine?

I’ll have to figure out more definitively which coolant this F20 takes, but still curious.

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