• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    I have a popcorn popping machine like what they have in theaters. I was going to sell it because it takes up way too much space and I need the money, but then I tested it out and it is one of my favorite things. When I have cravings, I flood it full of perfectly cooked, salted, and oiled popcorn within minutes, and fill an 8 qt Instant Pot pot because cylinder shapes hold more popcorn than bowl shapes can.

    Sometimes the adult thing to do is have popcorn for dinner.

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    14 hours ago

    Very burnt popcorn is such a horrific smell and it takes so long to go away.

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    20 hours ago

    Make it in a pot. The taller the pot, the less popped corn will be touching the bottom, so less is burnt as the others take time to finish. 👌

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    16 hours ago

    I feel like bananas are the same way:

    too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, too green, perfectly ripe for an hour, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown, too brown

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      23 hours ago

      I make stovetop popcorn in the microwave.

      The real trick is to actually read the god damn directions, which tell you to not let the time go all the way and stop the process once the kernels are popping longer than 1 second apart. If, once it starts popping, 1 full second goes by without a pop, it’s done.

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        19 hours ago

        Technology concessions did an episode on this. Those instructions are for the lowest common denominator of microwaves.

        If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.

        • Those instructions are for the lowest common denominator of microwaves.

          That affects the overall cook time, not the bit about stopping when the popping slows. Even making it on the stove, you need to take the pot off the burner once the popping slows or you’ll burn what’s already been popped.

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            15 hours ago

            I feel like you stopped reading after the sentence that you quoted. Here, let me repeat the rest for you

            If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.

            They have sensors to detect that for you. Sometimes using literal microphones

            • I feel like you don’t understand why that is irrelevant to anything I said. If you have a good sensor microwave, you wouldn’t be burning your popcorn. If you don’t have a sensor or your microwave is shit, you need to pay attention.

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                Maybe I misunderstood.

                Whan you say “follow the instructions”, which instructions are you saying to follow?
                Instructions on the internet, instructions on stovetop popcorn, or instructions on microwave popcorn?

                • Either one; but just the part about stopping it when the popping slows. The time the microwave bags tell you to cook is based on a certain wattage and assumes you don’t have a sensor; but they also mention when to stop the microwave as general rule of thumb that doesn’t change if your microwave is more or less powerful.

                  Like, if the bag says 3 minutes and you just let it go the whole time, you only followed half the instructions, ya know?

    • TheTrashGoblinObserver@piefed.zip
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      Some of us live in the future. A future where every time I make popcorn my blueteeth speakers crackle so I can’t hear my cryptobro podcast and go all in on bitcoin in 2018.