do microwaves in other countries have different quick setting buttons? are american microwaves the standard? do people outside the u.s. have a potato button, is what i want to know.
Mexican here, we have potato button
I’m in Brazil and here we don’t have a potato button, we have a rice button.
I’m from the Netherlands and we have a potato button:)
In Scotland and we have a potato button but not on all microwaves just the nice ones.
In France I had a microwave with a chicken button and a breadloaf button
I’m from England and I didn’t know potato buttons were even a thing
Potato Button:
United States
Mexico
Canada
Netherlands
Posh Scotland
Rice Button:
Brazil
Breadloaf Button???:
France
No Dedicated Carbs Button:
England
okay i got sick of waiting for answers so i hopped onto some international versions of amazon and here is what i found:
australian amazon only sells books?? what the fuck
same for chinese amazon but that’s not as surprising
german microwaves have a potato button, but only when there are buttons. most of these things have dials. like… what. only weird fancy american microwaves have dials. also i saw a yogurt button.
indian microwaves seem to generally feature a ‘stuffed veg’ button instead of a potato-specific button. there is also a rice button. but do you know what else is standard. A GODDAMNED CHICKEN TANDOORI BUTTON. FUCK ME.
german and indian microwaves both had beverage buttons, which was not a surprise, but they also both had pizza buttons, which WAS a surprise. the indian microwaves called it a bread snack but it was clearly a picture of a pizza. why is the pizza button more universal than the potato button??
japanese microwaves have rice buttons and not potato buttons. no surprises there. the big surprise is that they also favor the dial. for that matter india had a lot of microwaves with dials, too. what gives. why the dials. where are your flat, easy to clean buttons.
according to italian amazon, in italian you call a kitchenaid stand mixer a “robot da cucina”. that is the cutest fucking thing i have ever heard. but back to microwaves. once again i’m seeing a lot of dials. you know these aren’t real ovens, right? why are you adjusting the strength so much. keep it on high and hit the one minute button. stop complicating things with dials. a lot of these are just rebranded german microwaves, so there is a potato button, and also a yogurt button.
see above for spain. y’all just have the same microwave. spain’s amazon is a lot less intuitive than every other country’s. i don’t know why. spanish amazon, please fix your menu system. it is wrong.
This concludes my fact-finding mission. Australia, why are your microwaves so mysterious.
I love the words “potato button”
I deeply admire the OP’s devotion to cross-cultural microwave studies and potato button data.
What I want to know is, has anyone actually ever used the potato button???
