What's the deal with the popcorn button?

I consider slow melting butter a feature. Too often I pull out a stick and its poorly melted.

Is this a repost??

Hmmm... I am considering, if I would get a better result, if I reduce the power a bit?

I worked with a guy who claimed to have a patent for the popcorn button

Gotta disagree about the oz popcorn button we had a microwave back in the early 2000's that did it that way it was actually pretty accurate

My pet peeve with microwave ovens is that you set a power and a duration rather than a power and a total energy. Recommendations on food packaging often list a number of different durations for different power settings, none of which may be close to what's available on your oven anyway. They could just say "150 kJ at 700 W" and you're good with entering 150 kJ and whatever is the closest available power setting.

Ok, I just got back from the store. 2 for 1 Orville Redenbacher's. Just popped up a bag of Kettle Korn via the popcorn button on my Samsung microwave (sense cooking). I think the steam sensor was opposite the steam event, as the I had to stop the cycle at about 20s remaining. That said, I'll reserve judgement until I have better statistics. My wife thinks that I'm popping nuts!

Never get your popcorn from Uncle Joe's discount cornhole! 😱

I subscribed because of alliteration!

2nd for the Air Fryer. I was looking at them recently and there are just too many choices.

PS: While watching this I am eating bacon from the Sharp you have on screen. It is great on sensing bacon cook times regardless of how many strips.

PAHPCORN

You should do like no effort Fridays.
All your content is fun but this seems less scripted.

At home? My illusion of this being where you live and work is shattered

You bear a resemblance to Palmer Luckey, except that you're very cool.

Popcorn People Prefer Prior Preperation and Planning, Packaging Prevents Piss Poor Proper Popcorn Performance Purportedly

Or just not be a student and cook popcorn normally in a saucepan, Then can add real butter and not the powdered butter

Pretty proper popcorn publication, pal.

The butter one might be because, in my observations, [a block of] butter becomes rather explosive.
Although why the butter explodes I'm not entirely sure.

Imagine reading the user manual for appliances...

Your videos are so professional! Great video again

my microwave just pops up the timer and you can change it to what the bag says

Low effort November you say, the clocks you set you do.

Popcorn button must be an US American thing

My microwave alternates between microwave and broiler modes when you use the popcorn button. Works great on big bags and homemade microwave popcorn. Its garbage for small bags though

Popcorn... button?

Amazing. Here in the UK, I don't recall ever seeing a popcorn button on a microwave!

We recently moved here and I ain't got a clue how these special functions on a microwave work and what fancy sensors it might have or not.

When I was in college the dorm microwave had a bad popcorn button. I wasn't the one who figured it out, but the smoke detectors worked.

Cool. This video really popped! (I'll see myself out.)

A true no effort November video would have all the flubs left in. :D

Push the button, Frank.

My mom's microwave is so old that no photos of a microwave like it exist anywhere on the internet. It has features of "on" and "for how long". That said... the bastard's got tons of power and despite the fact I once destroyed the glass on the bottom by microwaving a twist tie... it works great to this day. Been in use almost every day since the mid 1970s. It cost like $400 back when it was new.

now i want popcorn

Finally all my doubts are answered, great vid as always but wait, what abt the other buttons?

I've been using the popcorn button on various microwaves for at least 20 years now, but I've learned to pay attention to that moment when it starts the time countdown. At that point I apply my own subjective pops-per-second & time-between pops quotient to choose the correct moment to stop the microwave. Maybe I just don't want the microwave making these kinds of choices without my input. :)

The alliteration is delightful!

Extremely helpful video on account of I have this exact microwave.

How much popcorn you had to eat to make that research.

I never even noticed there was a reheat button on my microwave! I'm going to try it tonight.

Our microwave has a moisture sensor, but it usually heats up food for way too long unless you're reheating several items. However, the popcorn feature is spot on every time.

The best microwave I've ever owned is the giant Panasonic microwave that you could cook a whole pizza in. It has both a sensor reheat and an inverter.

Peter Piper popped a pack of popping popcorn, a primer for popping popcorn packs Peter Piper perused...

The bigger mystery is why this video has over a million views and only 5 likes

Oh my god I can't wait for am air frying video. I can almost taste it. Hot.