Okay, I was wrong

My microwave is not getting more powerful as time goes by.

Rather, the instructions on a particular type of microwaveable meal are wrong. Way fucking wrong. About as wrong as the instructions for a microwaveable meal can be without somehow adding a refridgeration step.

Okay, Company A makes several types of microwaveable pasta meals. (Fuck you, I can't cook for shit, and I like microwaveable pasta.) Type 1 pasta meal, according to the instructions for cooking, takes 4 to 5 1/2 minutes in the microwave. I have never had a problem with this type.

Type 2 pasta meal, again, according to the instructions, also takes 4 to 5 1/2 minutes in the microwave. In two different microwaves (one at home, one at work), it barely goes two and a half minutes before fountaining pasta sauce into the air, and then all over the microwave.

I'm serious. I just got done cleaning the microwave.

And now, I have no mid-shift meal.