Higher end brands might have a microphone to listen for delay between pops
NGL, that’s pretty damn dope!
threeonefour@piefed.ca 9 hours ago
The Technology Connections video has already been posted, but for a quick written answer:
Cheap microwaves wire that button to mean “run for 2 minutes” which will probably ruin your popcorn. Mid-ranged brands will sense moisture. Higher end brands might have a microphone to listen for delay between pops which is what the popcorn bags instruct people to do.
Popcorn makers tell you to listen for pops manually because it’s easier than writing “if your popcorn button sets a time or asks for bag size, don’t use it because it’s not using any sensors to determine when to stop and will burn your popcorn.”
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Why would you lie
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Humans learn to lie before we learn to talk. It’s in our very nature to lie and lie often.
Society itself is held up loosely by a web of agreed apon lies.
Fallibilist@feddit.uk 15 minutes ago
We learn to hit eachother at you young age as well but nobody would use that to justify hitting people once they’re adults.
Blibittyblah@futurology.today 9 hours ago
Do you know a microwave with a legitimate pop button? I like to pop the corn.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Not sure about microwaves popping the corn, but there was this guy Jimmy who was cracking the corn, but honestly I couldn’t be bothered with it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 55 minutes ago
Not sure about guys named Jimmy cracking the corn, but there was this chicken in the corn so the corn cain’t grow nah-ah, but I don’t really know too much about it honestly
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Nope. Someone got a patent on the idea in early days of microwave popcorn and they have effectively killed it by asking too high of a price to use.
But there are phone apps that will listen to the pop rate and tell you when it’s done.Blibittyblah@futurology.today 4 hours ago
My god it does NOT need an app. It better be free.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 hours ago
If someone can’t count a few seconds to know when to stop I don’t think they should be making popcorn.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Free. (But with in-app purchases) ;-)
4am@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Patents only last 20 years. I’d be more concerned about when it expires and they actually have a plausible reason to put a listening device in your microwave
s3rvant@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
No. I ended up switching to this guy and has been awesome:
Blibittyblah@futurology.today 8 hours ago
I have one that air pops into a bowl. It usually works but occasionally there will be one that pops really hard and blows some of them out of the bowl. If you were to stand by when this happens you would be hit by popped pop corn, and in your shock, you would likely scream like a small child who stubbed their toe or realized Santa wasn’t real and therefore neither was the American Dream or hope for Humanity at this scale.
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
My dogs come running when I get out the air popper because there’s always a kernel or two that lands in the bowl before popping and sends a bunch flying. Yes I scream like a child every time which makes the dogs flinch, but not enough to stop them from hoovering up all the popcorn.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I must just be lucky. My popcorn button just puts my microwave on for 2m40s and my Kirky Sig movie theater butter popcorn comes out great every single time. I’d say one in 50 bags has had an issue with it being slightly overdone, if that. I appreciate that the button does 2:40 because I would never hit 2:40, it would either be 2:30 or 3m.
Blibittyblah@futurology.today 1 hour ago
TIL “Kirky Sig” 😂
snooggums@piefed.world 2 hours ago
The longest I have ever had a bag pop properly without starting to get the burning scent is 2:30 but most need stopped at 2:15. 2:40 would be burnt in the last three microwaves I have used.
criticon@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Mine uses moisture and also asks for the weight of the bag and it’s ok, as it it never burns them, but it’s kinda conservative, it leaves. Afew unpopper kernels. I mostly use an air popper tho
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s not the microwaves fault. There is a small percentage of kernels that will never pop. That’s just how they are, and nobody knows which ones it will be until they bite into it during a movie.
criticon@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
No because i can press the +30 seconds before it finishes and more a few more pop without burning if I wait a few extra seconds (usually 10-15l