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The instruction manual is 44 pages long https://www.fisherpaykel.com/download/user-guide/Kitchen/Coo...

Took me 10s to find page 18 which has everything needed to use it as a microwave.

Sometimes I think users are getting too spoiled and simply refuse to RTFM.

Not to mention the article complains about the UI for an oven, confuses the oven with a microwave and then gives advice for designing iphone apps.

Do you really think that it's reasonable to require users to read user manual in order to use a _microwave_?

It's a multipurpose oven, not a microwave.

He really should've told near the end. Anyway, I assume you press the power button, because that is the established standard for microwaves in the last 10 years or so. Probably there might be a timeout and then it starts automatically.

This is indeed something you have to learn though, first time I encountered this kind of microwave it baffled me as well.

Where the article seems to go wrong is with the very idea that this is a microwave. It's not. It's a combination of microwave and grill hence the hinging of the door not matching a typical microwave.

I've seen plenty of microwave ovens which open the same way as one without a grill, and which have the same typical microwave interface.