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.

  • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        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.