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[–] 19 points 5 days ago (24 children)

Do you know a microwave with a legitimate pop button? I like to pop the corn.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    No. I ended up switching to this guy and has been awesome:

    https://a.co/d/06A84yWM

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    My god it does NOT need an app. It better be free.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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