The microwave that came with my house is the first time I’ve ever had a microwave that had perfectly working popcorn setting. It has never burnt a bag of microwave popcorn.
Have a new ge with settings like that. nukes everything.
Have a LG at a different place with fancy settings and it sings to me and sometimes sends me texts. Works perfectly every time.
Microwave popcorn is just nasty though…
Air-popper + microwave for the butter.
No microwave, but my hot air popper gets it perfect every time.
Vast majority of bag instructions state “DO NOT USE POPCORN BUTTON” so no. Also I don’t eat much popcorn.
There’s two popcorn buttons. One setting is just an average of time to pop the standard popcorn bag.
The other is a humidity sensor that stops the microwave once it senses a whiff of steam from the bag.
Great video on it below.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
If someone has a non YouTube link I’ll edit my comment to post that one.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work well in either a) dry climates and/or b) high altitude. We have to add about 45 secs to the popcorn mode or it stops short for us. Took a while to get that right.
Fortunately, this is normal at high altitude. Normal cooking rules don’t apply and always have to be modified. Lol.
No idea what your talking about. I live at 6,000 feet in a place with low humidity and the popcorn button on my microwave works perfectly.
Technology Connections is the best. I was hoping to see this video here.
I was looking for a comment linking this video and I second the recommendation.
I use an air popper
I do popcorn at 30% power until the first pop and then switch to full power until the popping is really slow; it really cuts down on unpopped kernels.
You can do 50% power, but I feel that the slower 30% power really helps to get every kernel up to a nice baseline before you go full power.
Yeah, I don’t have a piece of shit microwave, the button makes perfect bags every time, regardless of brand or type.
The quality of the button is almost directly proportional to the quality of the microwave. Basic ones just are a timer, which is useless. As you work your way up you get various sensors for things like humidity and even microphones to determine kernel pop timing.
The quality of all of those programmed buttons is directly related to those more advanced sensors.
Yes, I do, however it is not perfect. Microwave popcorn is more art than science and it takes years of experience to know when to stop the cycle. Too short and you’re left with a plethora of unpopped kernels. Too long and it burns.
There are many buttons on my microwave. I have paid no attention to any of them but I know hitting the one at the bottom-right makes numbers go up by 30s per boop, while food go warm.
My microwave popcorn recipe is:
- Put in
- Boop liberally so you know it’s over 5 mins, probably 4–5 days
- When popcorn pops average about one every 3s, start counting to five
- If you reach five, serve
That’s an ominous “if”…
I see we share the same brain cell.
When I want a quick bag, sure do. Kirkland (Costco) popcorn is great and dirt cheap.
But when I want great popcorn we use our popcorn popping machine with some coconut oil, flavocol, and butter topping. This is the recipe the movie theaters use.
The Flavacol is key. More important than anything else if you want theater-style popcorn.
I use a whirly pop with a little oil and then just the butter salt (Flavacol I guess?)
Still tastes good, but much healthier.
It’s gotta be Flavacol or nothing if you want it to actually taste like theater popcorn.
Is that different than “Butter flavored theater salt”?
Completely different. Flavocol is a commercial product and a trade secret. You have to buy it online.
The only difference I can tell is that it’s the commercial version.
Ok
This … This is the way
[My microwave is] full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand.
I try it to see if it works. Most of the time it’s too long but sometimes there’s that perfect microwave that has the steam sensor and it pops with no kernels.
Yes, but I never let it run for the full amount of time. I have to stand there and listen for when the kernels stop popping, otherwise it will burn.
Yes, I like to live dangerously.
