As of this weekend we now keep a mug of water in our microwave. This is not quite as daft as it seems.
The thing is, Funsize has reached a height where she can just about reach some of the buttons on the microwave, and said microwave has a really convenient feature where, with the press of a single button, you can switch it on for 30 seconds at full power.
But running a microwave with nothing in it is a bad idea - basically, you've got a load of energy being pumped into a reflective chamber with nowhere to go. (Normally, whatever you're cooking absorbs much of that energy, which is why it gets hot. And yes, that's a vast simplification.)
And so, we now have a mug of water in the microwave. That way, if FS pushes the button, we'll end up with slightly warmed water. Which isn't the perfect solution, but is probably something we can live with.
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