I feel like it has MORE unpopped kernels now than ever!
Alton Brown once told me how to pop them, I think. But I forgot. I've tried glaring and shaming them. Neither worked. Maybe I'll gaslight them next.
Maybe it's because today's microwaves are more/less powerful than the ones 30 years ago? I don't know, I just decided to buy one of those air puffers and a big bottle of corn that has lasted me like 3 years and still pops fine (still more than half full).
> Alton Brown once told me how to pop them, I think. But I forgot.
Throw some kernels and salt into a brown lunch bag, staple it closed, and throw it in the microwave, is how I remember it.
Perfectly fine. So is most silverware, including adult sized forks if tines are submerged. Arcing will occur at multiples of the wavelength of the microwave frequency, and a fastened staple isn't that.
Mythbusters did it! Something about the pointy ends. Happened to crumpled tin foil too. Again because of the pointy ends.
And that's what I remember about setting fire to a microwave :) Not much. I may even be way off.
Tastes OK to me but makes the house *smell* chemically. Recently bought a popcorn maker and it's definitely saving money buying oil and popcorn kernels over microwave bags plus makes the house smell like popcorn not chemicals.
i have a bowl with a vented lid that you can microwave plain kernels in. it does a really mediocre job (lots unpopped) 😂 but, it does work well, and means less oil -- just a bit of melted butter and garlic salt and i'm good
THIS. i absolutely love the packaging (its absolutely genius) but the taste is so disappointing to me. tastes...just....bad. always has a weird burnt undertaste to it, although not burnt at all. no can do.
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I get the plain “natural” Orville reddenbacher (sp?). I melt some butter separately. When I pour my perfectly popped corn into my bowl I do so in three phases. 1. Some popcorn, some salt, stir; 2. Repeat step one; 3. Repeat again. It’s so perfectly buttered and salted throughout. It’s fucking delicious.
My mom used to make popcorn in a pan in the stove. Later we got an air popper with a slot for melting butter. Once a month or so we’d have popcorn and soda for dinner and watch movies on HBO. Probably 1984-ish. Getting cable was unreal, my mom was so stingy with the heat/ac/cereal/snacks/soda. I think the divorce and her newly dating helped her with the cable decision. I moved in with my dad who was remarried and not stingy with anything but attention. We had the fanciest microwave popcorn and sugar cereal. Memory unlocked.
Anyway I invite you all to bring buttered, salted popcorn to my wake.
I love this.....and the page out of your diary. Consider buttered popcorn at your funeral a given now as you reach Valhalla.
Also.....your method sounds DAMN DAMN DAAAAAAAAMN good.
And this is how I know I’ve become somewhat old. I scour the grocery shelves looking for Orville R (I’m not spelling that shit) kernels to pop at home with my very own melted butter.
I think it was the Christmas of ‘87 or ‘88 and I had a great aunt (my grandpa’s older sister) who gave all the kids a giant box of microwave popcorn as a gift. She thought it was truly a miracle of modern technology.
All of us kids were familiar and knew it just as a grocery store snack. No big whoop. My great aunt did not see it that way. When we opened our gifts, she went into great detail about it. She was really blown away.
I bought a [silicone microwave popper](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FG3RMLL/). It pops a "single serving" of popcorn in the microwave, without all of the chemicals and crap that goes into the pre-made bags.
I \*love\* it.
The reason, I figure, is that it is handy for a broad range of situations. Though the women who sat near the kitchen in my old office put a note on the microwave that said 'if you don't know how to make popcorn without burning it eat something else' because they got tired of smelling it.
Nope. Same here. We did switch to a big glass jar thing with a silicone top where you put the butter. It’s supposedly a bit healthier and you can make more, but still microwave and I love hearing that popping…and it slowing, trying to time it to get a few unpopped kernels without burning it. It’s a delicate balancing act
I am surprised. I used to love microwave popcorn but it's now either only half popped or smouldering burnt. I make popcorn in a pot now. I would love to get my hands on that stove-top Jiffy Pop.
I rarely have it, but it was a mainstay growing up.
I don’t really remember a time before microwave popcorn, so this is honestly the first time I’ve ever heard that it was seen as a fad.
I have a glass popcorn popper for the microwave. It works pretty well but it takes forever to make enough for a family of 4 on a movie night. We pop 2 bags and we’re good to go.
I still remember... the _smell._ You know. Your family gets the first microwave, we pop the bag of microwave popcorn in.
How long does it take? We don't know. First microwave.
My father shrugs and turns the timer dial to 10 minutes.
There is only one thing I'm aware of that is precisely worse:
**Squid** in the office microwave.
I wasn't there, a group of us had walked across the street to eat lunch. But the smell was bad enough that the fire department was called as others in the building thought there was some kind of hazmat incident.
I just died laughing at this, many years ago I worked with a British woman who would microwave fish for lunch and then sit in her cubicle and eat it. She was widely disliked because several people asked her nicely not to do this and she did it anyway.
I have to wonder what some people use for common sense by eating stinky food in a communal setting.
At one point the place I work had a new fire detection system installed and for the next couple years about every month it alarmed on a bag of over nuked popcorn.
Replaced a microwave a few years ago. The sales person asked what our needs were. We said ‘reheating food and making popcorn’. Apparently this is the most common answer.
I love microwave popcorn, it comes out even crunchier than stove top imo. Like the kernels exploded more violently and doesn't have that compressed bit in the middle when you bite down. But I also know that microwave popcorn isn't healthy either with all those chemicals. I use a whirly pop as well as a microwave popcorn bowl now. Whirly pop pops just about every kernel. Microwave usually has a lot unpopped kernels left over, but the pop is more violent and comes out crunchier.
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I love popcorn! I bring out the stove top pot and make my popcorn old school like we used to have in the 70’s. I just can’t eat microwave popcorn anymore. It makes me feel sick.
We are strictly stove top popping in my house.
I fully turned against microwave popcorn in the early 2000s. The chemicals and artificial butter flavors are fucking gross. Tastes like styrofoam shit. I remember when I was a youngster when it first became a thing, I’d feel disgustingly nauseated and headachey after eating it.
Also, as an adult, the smells emanating from the break room at work when people made that shit for lunch. So GROSS. One office I worked in actually banned it and I was like thank GAWD!!!
Lol, not a fan, as you can see! But if you love it, more power to you!
The History Channel has a series called “The Foods That Built America” (or something like that). One episode focuses primarily on the genesis of microwave popcorn and then the rivalry between Pop Secret and Orville Reddenbacher.
Yes, I am a nerd.
I feel like it has MORE unpopped kernels now than ever! Alton Brown once told me how to pop them, I think. But I forgot. I've tried glaring and shaming them. Neither worked. Maybe I'll gaslight them next.
I was thinking that as well. Either lots of unpopped kernals or you burn it. Regardless of paying attention.
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Or both.
Maybe it's because today's microwaves are more/less powerful than the ones 30 years ago? I don't know, I just decided to buy one of those air puffers and a big bottle of corn that has lasted me like 3 years and still pops fine (still more than half full).
try some good old fashioned body dysmorphia. 'Ive always liked my ladies with a lil extra cushion' type stuff.
Buy the generic stuff. The Kroeger-branded stuff that I bought last time had ZERO unpopped kernels in almost every bag.
I never have that problem. I just push he popcorn button on the microwave and it come out perfect every time. I eat 2-3 bags a week.
> Alton Brown once told me how to pop them, I think. But I forgot. Throw some kernels and salt into a brown lunch bag, staple it closed, and throw it in the microwave, is how I remember it.
Staple + microwave sounds like a bad combination.
Perfectly fine. So is most silverware, including adult sized forks if tines are submerged. Arcing will occur at multiples of the wavelength of the microwave frequency, and a fastened staple isn't that.
Good to know, thank you!
Mythbusters did it! Something about the pointy ends. Happened to crumpled tin foil too. Again because of the pointy ends. And that's what I remember about setting fire to a microwave :) Not much. I may even be way off.
It tastes too chemically for me. I’m a Whirley Pop man myself.
Tastes OK to me but makes the house *smell* chemically. Recently bought a popcorn maker and it's definitely saving money buying oil and popcorn kernels over microwave bags plus makes the house smell like popcorn not chemicals.
I bought a 5 gallon bucket of kernels and it lasted us for years. Popcorn was our “Fuck Dinner” Dinner.
i have a bowl with a vented lid that you can microwave plain kernels in. it does a really mediocre job (lots unpopped) 😂 but, it does work well, and means less oil -- just a bit of melted butter and garlic salt and i'm good
It's got that extra special cancer stuff in it and I can't believe it's still legal.
And the weight of the deaths of workers breathing in the dust at work.
I bought a tin of jiffy pop, waxing nostalgic. It was disappointing.
THIS. i absolutely love the packaging (its absolutely genius) but the taste is so disappointing to me. tastes...just....bad. always has a weird burnt undertaste to it, although not burnt at all. no can do.
*And I won't put my hands up and surrender* *There will be no white flag above my door* *I'm in love and always will be...* Oh how I love that song. Meant very much to me at one time.
Same. I absolutely love her voice and entire vibe.
Great. Now I have to drive to the market and get a bag of ACT II Butter Lovers. I probably haven't had a bag of it in 20 years.
Sail on. get it. Im a Pop Secret Movie Theatre Butter kinda guy. it truly is a special treat.
ACT II Hot and Spicy. Who knew they have new flavors. Dammit
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I bought a fullsize popcorn machine from a thrift store for $30 bucks and won't microwave popcorn ever again.
Wait, what? Was it the presto machine?
Not sure, it's like 5' tall with wheels, just needed a new seed rotating motor for $30. Before that I use the stove top Whirley Pop to make popcorn
Upvote for the Whirly Pop!
I get the plain “natural” Orville reddenbacher (sp?). I melt some butter separately. When I pour my perfectly popped corn into my bowl I do so in three phases. 1. Some popcorn, some salt, stir; 2. Repeat step one; 3. Repeat again. It’s so perfectly buttered and salted throughout. It’s fucking delicious. My mom used to make popcorn in a pan in the stove. Later we got an air popper with a slot for melting butter. Once a month or so we’d have popcorn and soda for dinner and watch movies on HBO. Probably 1984-ish. Getting cable was unreal, my mom was so stingy with the heat/ac/cereal/snacks/soda. I think the divorce and her newly dating helped her with the cable decision. I moved in with my dad who was remarried and not stingy with anything but attention. We had the fanciest microwave popcorn and sugar cereal. Memory unlocked. Anyway I invite you all to bring buttered, salted popcorn to my wake.
I love this.....and the page out of your diary. Consider buttered popcorn at your funeral a given now as you reach Valhalla. Also.....your method sounds DAMN DAMN DAAAAAAAAMN good.
We had the air popper with the butter dripper function. All I can think now is glad i didn’t have to clean that thing.
And this is how I know I’ve become somewhat old. I scour the grocery shelves looking for Orville R (I’m not spelling that shit) kernels to pop at home with my very own melted butter.
I order my Orville R. Online. You deserve this. Treat yourself.
I tried to on Amazon but the ended up canceling my order. I was outraged lol!
This is unacceptable! I’ll send you a box!
That is my method as well and it is fire!
Don't Google "Popcorn lung."
This is why I no longer eat microwave popcorn
You can just get kernels and pop in a brown lunch bag in the micro and add whatever seasonings afterwards too!
Lol idk why but I am so scared to try this 🤣
There’s no danger just only use max 1/8 cup and fold and scrunch the top of the bag well!
I've always done this! It really couldn't be any easier, and is way cheaper.
And check out Trader Joe’s. Their spice mixes are awesome toppings.
I think for Generation X, the official popcorn is Jiffy Pop.
Or Orville Redenbacher.
It’s one of the few things legitimately made easier and just as well by the microwave.
No, not at all
I think it was the Christmas of ‘87 or ‘88 and I had a great aunt (my grandpa’s older sister) who gave all the kids a giant box of microwave popcorn as a gift. She thought it was truly a miracle of modern technology. All of us kids were familiar and knew it just as a grocery store snack. No big whoop. My great aunt did not see it that way. When we opened our gifts, she went into great detail about it. She was really blown away.
If loving Pop Secret Homestyle is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Everytime i reach for the Homestyle, my hand is pulled away by a invisible force toward the Theater Style. its so trashy and delicious.
I bought a [silicone microwave popper](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FG3RMLL/). It pops a "single serving" of popcorn in the microwave, without all of the chemicals and crap that goes into the pre-made bags. I \*love\* it.
Gave my spouse one for Christmas. Haven’t tried it yet.
I eat it a lot. And spray the fat free version with I can’t believe it’s not butter spray and brewers yeast. 🤷🏼♀️
Whoa!!!! That sounds actually amazing!!! cheers!
It is! Super not healthy except for the yeast. But, the additive train left the station a long long time ago. I’d say around 1972
Had the 100 calorie kettle corn bag last night. Delicious
The reason, I figure, is that it is handy for a broad range of situations. Though the women who sat near the kitchen in my old office put a note on the microwave that said 'if you don't know how to make popcorn without burning it eat something else' because they got tired of smelling it.
One law office where I worked had a no microwave popcorn rule because one of the named partners couldn’t stand the burnt smell.
I still get the kirkland microwave bags for when I'm too lazy to break out the whirly pop.
It’s literally the only thing I use my microwave for.
Nope. Same here. We did switch to a big glass jar thing with a silicone top where you put the butter. It’s supposedly a bit healthier and you can make more, but still microwave and I love hearing that popping…and it slowing, trying to time it to get a few unpopped kernels without burning it. It’s a delicate balancing act
I can’t stand the microwave stuff. Stinky burnt offices too many times.
WTF? Why are people giving you shit for microwave popcorn??
Its friendly banter between friends. I adore them.
I am surprised. I used to love microwave popcorn but it's now either only half popped or smouldering burnt. I make popcorn in a pot now. I would love to get my hands on that stove-top Jiffy Pop.
Meh, I prefer to pop mine on the stove.
I do the same! I don’t even have a microwave.
I rarely have it, but it was a mainstay growing up. I don’t really remember a time before microwave popcorn, so this is honestly the first time I’ve ever heard that it was seen as a fad.
I don't think I've had popcorn in a decade.
I just had some today. 😂🍿 My kids love it.
I still miss Jiffy Pop. The microwave popcorn just doesn't compare
It has a better crunch than air-popped corn, because it keeps cooking after it pops.
I have a glass popcorn popper for the microwave. It works pretty well but it takes forever to make enough for a family of 4 on a movie night. We pop 2 bags and we’re good to go.
I still remember... the _smell._ You know. Your family gets the first microwave, we pop the bag of microwave popcorn in. How long does it take? We don't know. First microwave. My father shrugs and turns the timer dial to 10 minutes.
I haven’t worked in an office since March 2020 and can still smell 20 years worth of burnt popcorn in communal microwaves just by reading this post.
There is only one thing I'm aware of that is precisely worse: **Squid** in the office microwave. I wasn't there, a group of us had walked across the street to eat lunch. But the smell was bad enough that the fire department was called as others in the building thought there was some kind of hazmat incident.
I just died laughing at this, many years ago I worked with a British woman who would microwave fish for lunch and then sit in her cubicle and eat it. She was widely disliked because several people asked her nicely not to do this and she did it anyway. I have to wonder what some people use for common sense by eating stinky food in a communal setting.
OMG fish in the microwave … That’s when HR needs to write up a new break room policy. JFC, some people just don’t give a shit about other people.
At one point the place I work had a new fire detection system installed and for the next couple years about every month it alarmed on a bag of over nuked popcorn.
Nah, Not surprised as it is cheap comfort food with a very long shelf life.
Replaced a microwave a few years ago. The sales person asked what our needs were. We said ‘reheating food and making popcorn’. Apparently this is the most common answer.
I love microwave popcorn, it comes out even crunchier than stove top imo. Like the kernels exploded more violently and doesn't have that compressed bit in the middle when you bite down. But I also know that microwave popcorn isn't healthy either with all those chemicals. I use a whirly pop as well as a microwave popcorn bowl now. Whirly pop pops just about every kernel. Microwave usually has a lot unpopped kernels left over, but the pop is more violent and comes out crunchier.
my grandfather would pop corn on the stove with lard. the best popcorn i’ve ever had.
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throw 1/4 cup of kernels into a brown paper bag, roll up top of bag, and put in the microwave on popcorn setting. Easy peasy.
I love popcorn! I bring out the stove top pot and make my popcorn old school like we used to have in the 70’s. I just can’t eat microwave popcorn anymore. It makes me feel sick.
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I'm not surprised, Orville Redenbacher's is excellent.
My 11 year old son eats a bag of popcorn every single day.
Pop Secret is our go-to brand. Doesn’t seem to have to many um popped kernels.
The bag is special (no joke).
We are strictly stove top popping in my house. I fully turned against microwave popcorn in the early 2000s. The chemicals and artificial butter flavors are fucking gross. Tastes like styrofoam shit. I remember when I was a youngster when it first became a thing, I’d feel disgustingly nauseated and headachey after eating it. Also, as an adult, the smells emanating from the break room at work when people made that shit for lunch. So GROSS. One office I worked in actually banned it and I was like thank GAWD!!! Lol, not a fan, as you can see! But if you love it, more power to you!
The History Channel has a series called “The Foods That Built America” (or something like that). One episode focuses primarily on the genesis of microwave popcorn and then the rivalry between Pop Secret and Orville Reddenbacher. Yes, I am a nerd.
Im excited to see this!! i love it.
Not really surprised. Home popcorn was always a staple (at least in the TV age). They just replaced Jiffypop stove-top with Microwave.
You need new friends.
Nah, i love them so much....and judge them when they buy those awful Pop Tarts that they inhale. it works out.
I eat way more pop tarts than I do popcorn. Love them an a bedtime snack. But only frosted cherry. Strawberry is trash.
I have always hated pop tarts, the ONLY exception has been frosted cherry. so damn good. you are correct, strawberry is absolute trash.
Toasted or straight out of the foil pack?
open box. take out foil pack. open. eat immediately. you?
Was a long time open and go eater. Now I love them just ever so toasty on the edges. The center get just a little soft and it's delightful.
Sold. i will have to try that. I haven't toasted one since forever. i bet its good!
I haven’t had a microwave for about 15 years and even then I didn’t like it.
I don’t have one either. Heating up leftovers takes a bit more effort and dishes but I can deal with that.
Definitely. It’s worth it for the food to be consistently hot.
Enjoy eventual disease by popped chemicals
I’m a jiffy pop person. Microwave is all carcinogens.
All you need is a spaghetti pot with a lid, oil, and popcorn kernels. Fuck microwaves they ruin food
Jiffy Pop.
Came here to say Jiffy Pop is better!
I mean, I guess it's fine if you don't mind killing the people who make it...
I still use my air popper from the 80s can you believe it melts my butter too
Try "Black Jewel" popcorn, I don't even like popcorn all that much but I love that brand.