Remember a timer!

Know thyself and set a timer. I don't allow myself to do stuff like that without setting an alarm.

Beep, beep, beep,

Beep, beep, beep,

What's that for, again?

Better turn it off
- "Why does it smell burnt? I am sure I set a timer!"
- MultiTimer for Android and iOS: Set as many labelled timers as you like.
  
  Android (not sure about iOS) you can also label your native alarm app alarms.
  
  Can recommend 👍👍
- I’m gonna turn it off now, and get to it right away. Where does the burn smell come from?
20 minutes later: silences timer because I’m too focused on something else.

2 days later: … crap.
- "Guess I'm re-washing that load of laundry."
I have graduated to even screwing up my timers. Now the timer doesn't get silenced until the thing it is timing gets accomplished. Unless I'm distracted and fail to use that rule, then it's back to square one of course.

Edit: whoops, two people already said basically this. Guess I'll leave it
- I love when my timer goes off and I have no memory of setting it. Which critically important thing am I forgetting now?
- I usually press the "+1 minute" button and then the "pause" button. That way it stays in the tray of my phone and I'm too OCD to not get rid of it as soon as possible. Then of course you have to adhere to the rule of only removing the timer once you did what you set the timer for...
Everyone’s gotta learn the hard way.
- Oh yes, that rule I set for my self is written in ~~blood~~ moldy laundry.
Yep! My fridge has a one-tap 30-min timer specifically for drinks in the freezer (you can also then adjust the time with more taps). Needless to say, it is one of the most used functions of my fridge (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
- Don't know wheter it is a "smart fridge" but that's one smart fridge!

FUCK I put a snack in the freezer like... 5 days ago? And completely forgot about it until now

This will happen again I can't fetch it right now

Jo when you home buddy? Set a timer.
- This. I put protein shakes in the freezer bc they taste better the colder they are. They aren't good though if you freeze them then let them thaw, so it's a pretty high risk game. I try to remember to set a 30 minute timer on my phone whenever I do it.
- Smartphones have location-based reminders. Just ask Siri or whatever Google calls theirs this month.
I’ve forgotten about thin mints in the freezer for so long that I had purchased another pack the next Girl Scout cookie season and only found them when I put newly purchased package in the freezer.

You mean my roommate wasn't trying to make beer slushy all over the freezer daily?

No I wasn’t

That's why I always set a 1 hour timer. Or I will definitely forget.

Sometimes I set a timer and when it chimes I've already forget what it was for lol
- On most smartphones you can give titles to timers.
- instinctively silences timer without addressing what the timer was for
- Why the fuck did I set a timer?!
- Neville?
- My phone lets me label timers. Get an app that can do that.
- Yeah, and that’s when I needed to step up to setting named alarms rather than timers or reminders.

B and C. Nothing should be on Facebook.

Now try something in the oven.

YES, A TIMER IS NECESSARY!

Me: I'm gonna season and dry the wok for a few minutes while I do the dishes.

does dishes

walks out of room.

air quality alert from filter goes off saying bad air quality.

Shit the wok!
Good thing my oven has an integrated timer. In fact, it won't work without setting the timer. Never thought about how much grief that must have saved me already.

I've learned the hard way (multiple times) that if beverage goes into freezer a timer of one hour MUST be set on my phone or smart speaker, because I gaslighted myself into believing it's illegal to put drinks in the freezer and if someone finds out I'll be arrested.

Bomb has been planted.

It's even faster to put it in ice water and the worst that can happen if you forget about it is your drink gets warm again.

Add salt to the ice water so it melts colder and it will cool your drink faster.

My ex. Never me. I'd drink soda warm before id risk it bursting.

My ADHD absolutely can't handle that clean up.

If you get lucky it supercools before freezing and the shock of the vessel breaching is enough to freeze the rest of it mid-explosion. The one time I've had a bottle burst (luckily the cap gave way first), that happened and I was left with a bottle with frozen liquid holding the cap a few cm above the bottle and minimal dripping.

Get a drink with more alcohol in it. It will survive longer

Roughly 1 degree below 0°C per degree (percent) of alcohol is the rule of thumb I was taught

Obviously it won't work for cold drinks, but for warm drinks, I got my wife a few of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Ember-Temperature-Control-1-5-hr-Battery/dp/B0BHBTQB3X

She still forgets her drinks, but now when she finds them, they've usually maintained the desired temperature.

I just stick it in a zip lock so if I forget about it there's no clean up

The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am. No way a ziploc would contain that force.
- The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am.
  
  Top-tier sentence right there. Very well written, it just keeps getting better (or worse, for you)
- Ah, yea I'm using this for one can not giant bottles lol

So many exploded cans and bottles in my youth but also the magic when you got it and your coke was in slushie form and then you added booze.

Chefs kiss

My family had a recipe for brandy slush that used the alcohol to prevent the mix from freezing solid. It was a big hit at summer parties.

I've been using the "kitchen timer" function on my microwave non-stop since I found it

I do the same thing by only putting my drink in the freezer when I'm cooking something else on a timer like in the microwave.

❌ Randomly when I just want a cold one?

✅ When I'm making a hot pocket.

get a wife. you leave one drink to long in the freezer a few dozen times and they never let you live it down.

One of the bathrooms in my apartment has an extractor that, for some reason, is controlled independently from the lights. I broke it within the first month because I kept forgetting to turn it off.

hey, there's nothing wrong with having an accidental sorbeit

I'll remember because by the time I put it in there I'm close to dying of thirst, but still won't drink something at room temp. So forgetting and then remembering my crippling dehydration is generally a pretty good egg timer for it

I have timers/alarms for everything. At least one hundred.

What drink?

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I didn't forget but I put it all the way in the back to speed up the process and ended up with a slushy

If it’s the first one I never forget.

Even better I'll just put for or five cans of this beer up here to cool faster.

This is me, but with my bong. :(

Thank you

I'll just boil water for hot tea instead... where'd all my water go?

our sink is close to the stove.
It has a extentable head.
It can be used to fill a pot thats already on the stove.
sometimes this takes more than 3 seconds for large pots.
so you can just hang the head of the faucet in the pot for half a minute, the hose is just long enough.

Then you go and fetch mop and bucket, and dry socks.

every single time.