What's the deal with the popcorn button?

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  @colinboice · 2 years ago

  My two cents was that there was a lawsuit regarding a popcorn button fire and the popcorn companies wanted no part of the liability that comes with popcorn buttons

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  @fireblade696 · 2 years ago

  Someone should create a website ranking every microwave’s popcorn button so people can look online to see if theirs is good.

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  @terrytowells5500 · 2 years ago

  I used to have a microwave with only one working button - the potato button.  So I had to time everything in potatoes.

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  @HyperBird1 · 10 months ago

  How did he know it was November

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  @BillyMcBillface · 2 years ago

  When you said “use the popcorn button”, I was about to reheat Thanksgiving leftovers. I said “Why not” and used it to reheat. It somehow made them the perfect temperature. Thanks for telling me to use the popcorn button.

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  @GreatGamerspheanx · 2 years ago

  Impressive to know that at least ONE popcorn company wants you to experiment with the popcorn button

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  @barrybrown5430 · 2 years ago

  About 30 years ago there was a microwave that did one thing: make popcorn. It had two buttons: start and stop. It used a sound sensor to determine when to stop. We discovered we could make the microwave stay on indefinitely as long as we clapped quickly, thus expanding its heating repertoire to include soups, leftovers, frozen meals, and so forth. Kind of silly watching us applaud the microwave doing its thing, but at least it worked. Presumably, this sound sensor technology was patented because we couldn't find another microwave with this feature until fairly recently.

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  @Ilovecatsfrfrfr · 10 months ago

  crazy how its been November for a whole year now

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• AN

  @andrew2473 · 2 years ago

  “Latent Heat of Popcornization”

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  @lemurkat · 2 years ago (edited)

  I've never felt more inspired to microwave popcorn in my life. Sadly my microwave does not even have a pppcorn button.

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  @Overdrive-19 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Do NOT use the popcorn button.&quot;<br>George Orville, 1984

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  @HiJakOG · 8 months ago

  the pixel chef animation goes pretty hard

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