What's the deal with the popcorn button?

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• urda@lebowski.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always enjoy this dude’s videos

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  • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He's on the Fediverse now, give him a follow!

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    • ShootBANGdang@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He should do a video on the Fediverse (if he hasn’t already)

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• marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Watched this earlier today. Was a good episode. Most of his November eps have been great.

  I’m impressed with his kitchen aid microwave

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta have that no effort November

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  • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    except for the 2x5 numberpad :p

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    • marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooh didn’t catch that. wtf

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• Lenggo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This was cool but it made me a little sad to finally know that my 15 year old microwave is just as dumb as I always knew and the button just starts a timer, nothing fancy.

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  • buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s not forget that most popcorn has been hit with the grocery shrink ray so that button is utterly worthless now

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• PottedPlant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I purchased that Sharp microwave in the 90s, don’t know, lost track of it, moved across country into a house with a built-in microwave that is also a Sharp.

  Ever since I saw his videos I feel like I somehow won the microwave feature lottery.

  It’s a good unit, weird they aren’t all as good or better.

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hoe much microwave popcorn is consumed in USA families generally?

  I’ve never seen a microwave with that setting. I can’t even think of anyone that would need it, let alone over engineer an appliance over.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We like popcorn in the US. A good chunk of the local grocery store aisles are dedicated to it.

    But honestly, we put corn in fucking everything. Tortilla chips, fuel for cars, sugar for everything under the sun.

    People of off the boat, saw what the indigenous people were consuming, and then decided that corn and tobacco were the best things ever. Were easing up on the tobacco these days though.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah the tobacco thing was way earlier than over here. Though it does get more strict.

      Thing is that too include a special microphone in a microwave to listen to popcorn pop is both incredibly specific and over engineered. And I absolutely love every but of that.

      My thing is though, does one use it?

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  • EssentialCoffee@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen many microwaves without a popcorn button since the 90s. We usually skip over the few that don’t when we need to shop for a new microwave (which I’ve bought two microwaves in the last twenty years, so not a common expense). I’d consider it a basic function, not over-engineering.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d consider it a basic function, not over-engineering.

      If there’s a microphone installed specifically for that it kind of is, though.

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  • poopsmith@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally, 1-2x/month.

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is common enough here. I go through periods of buying microwave popcorn every once and a while and stop. I use the microwave button every time.

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• poopsmith@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This video inspired me to try out the sensor reheat setting on my microwave today and it worked pretty well at reheating chili!

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks ill check it out

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• sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought it was the button to distill your own moonshine. Didn’t work. 1 star.

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