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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days agoThose instructions are for the lowest common denominator of microwaves.
That affects the overall cook time, not the bit about stopping when the popping slows. Even making it on the stove, you need to take the pot off the burner once the popping slows or you’ll burn what’s already been popped.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I feel like you stopped reading after the sentence that you quoted. Here, let me repeat the rest for you
They have sensors to detect that for you. Sometimes using literal microphones
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
I feel like you don’t understand why that is irrelevant to anything I said. If you have a good sensor microwave, you wouldn’t be burning your popcorn. If you don’t have a sensor or your microwave is shit, you need to pay attention.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Maybe I misunderstood.
Whan you say “follow the instructions”, which instructions are you saying to follow?
Instructions on the internet, instructions on stovetop popcorn, or instructions on microwave popcorn?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
Either one; but just the part about stopping it when the popping slows. The time the microwave bags tell you to cook is based on a certain wattage and assumes you don’t have a sensor; but they also mention when to stop the microwave as general rule of thumb that doesn’t change if your microwave is more or less powerful.
Like, if the bag says 3 minutes and you just let it go the whole time, you only followed half the instructions, ya know?