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
It's dumb enough to be likely. I imagine also that since so many wavers with popcorn buttons just don't do a good job in general, it might be a general insistence (after numerous complaints) by recipe developers in many snacks and food companies: _"... also, make sure to include a disclaimer telling people to NOT use that fucking popcorn button, it's probably gonna screw them up and we'll start getting letters again."_
I think the company doesn't want to hear a bunch of complaints about the popcorn button. If they recommend to use it and it keeps destroying popcorn for example and people are going to ask for refunds.
@@takotako808 Well, the hot coffee/beverage came because someone got third degree burns from it (accidentally) spilling. McDonalds was sued because an elderly woman literally had the skin of her genital area being MOLTEN OFF HER BODY due to how hot it was. The coffee was served at 140 degrees CELCIUS (regular coffee is served at 80 degrees celcius and generally consumed at 60 degrees celcius). The lawsuit resulted into 3 actions for McDonalds, 2 which other companies have applied to avoid being sued: 1. No to-go beverage can be served above 90 degrees, this not only for consumer safety, but employee safety. 2. Recommendation to add warning labels to make people aware of their actions. Sometimes people are on auto-pilot, and since boiling water levels of temperature is basically as dangerous as carrying a mug filled with sulphuric acid, people need to be snapped out of the auto-pilot. Warning labels, how silly they sometimes may be, are one of the things that snap you out of the auto-pilot. 3. (the one other companies didnt apply, for obvious reasons) a multimillion payout to the elderly lady to cover healthcare expenses, pay for any service worker if she needs aid in hygienic matters etc, cover the costs of her lawyers etc and ofcourse a fine decided fair by the jury because she was a victim of a crime.
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.
So my college friends had a lovely anecdote about my friend who somehow ended up in her dorm with a microwave oven that had nothing but a popcorn button. That's right, it was a popcorn-centric machine, and so the story goes, she discovered she could cook anything, as long as she stood close by, clapping and stomping to satisfy the microphone-based sensor and keep the cook cycle running until she decided that the food was done.
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.
Wait, did you use the popcorn button or like a reheat button or leftovers button, lol. My microwave and my air fryer as well have like dozens of settings i never use. Tbf, the air fryer just has presets that have a temperature and time preset, but you can still change it after if you wanna play around with it.
@@Cman04092 I pressed the popcorn button. I thought I had a bad one because it asked for weight, but the largest available size value gave me a very specific time, perfect for a nice leftover plate
Today we are playing: Is it lit, or is it charred. Couldn't think of a better punny name at such short notice. Wouldn't be too hard to make a website that accepts reports from users through a form, but spreading word about it would require a bit of luck…
@@lemurkat oh my god I didn't even see that. It's funny how the brain just works like that, reading the word as a whole instead of every letter. For emaxlpe, you suhlod be albe to raed tihs prefertlcy, eevn touhgh It's jsut a jmubeld mses, aoccdrnig to rseacrh by cmarbidge uvernisty. It has nothing to do with the comment or video, but I figured i'd share this fun nugget of knowledge.
I just want to say thank you for making this. I’ve been dealing with extreme depression and anxiety the past several months, and this video inspired me to try an experiment for the first time in almost a decade. What I got from that experiment was not only a deeper understanding of my kitchen, but a food that was easy to make, filling, and inoffensive enough for me to eat when I feel like I can’t eat anything. I’m still struggling, but your goofy little popcorn video has helped me a lot. Thank you. Really, thank you.
Update; put in a bag tonight and it literally caught my apartment on fire. Just figured you guys would find this funny. I’m good and the apartments fine now but the smoke is literally still clearing four hours later
I got a similar feeling from this gentleman's videos. I don't even eat popcorns at home. His videos simply encourage experimenting with regular things around you. And it feels meaningful and valuable to use and understand your dishwasher or microwave better. I have been feeling rather glum seeing a lot of callousness and thoughtlessness on youtube and everywhere else. His most recent video popped up, and I'm reminded that there are people like this guy, who makes thoughtful, funny, scientific and approachable content, without the drama, the react. And the audiences who are also quite delightful.
@@ultimafhule That's really rough; I hope everything pans out for you. If you're feeling put off of popcorn for a bit, maybe get a little rice cooker. Make some jasmine rice and toss a fried egg or some furikake on it for when you need to eat something but really just don't want to. Tip for smoke smell: you may want to grab some OdoBan to help with any fabric things that decide they want to keep smelling like smoke that you can't just wash.
Finally someone talks about it. I've clung to my 8 year old microwave simply because of its perfect ability to cook popcorn right every single time with the popcorn button.
My microwave is almost perfect, it's the popcorn button plus 30 seconds, but pressing Start adds 30 seconds. So it's just Popcorn Button + double-tap the Start Button
It's funny how the old microwaves from the 90s and early 00's seem so much more fancy and advanced than the ones you're likely to see now on the market.
Back then, companies had pride of making the best products so you'd buy from them instead of their competitors. Nowadays, companies have greed encouraging them to make cheap products that break and cost little to make so you have to buy from them more often.
@@caelestigladii in the previous Clapper video, he said he was doing "no effort November" It's wild to me that this was "no effort" given the quality of the video.
The Sharp Carousel is an exception. It's just a fantastic machine. "Ahead of its time" or just better than we deserved. The bowing chef fed me thru my bachelor years.
Don't believe those who tell you to use the popcorn button. Don't even listen to them. If you've allowed a popcorn button propagandist to talk, _it's already too late._
I don’t just have a good popcorn button, I have a GREAT popcorn button. It pops the popcorn with less than 10 un-popped kernels, and it never burns it. Growing up we NEVER used the popcorn button, as an adult I tried it and was amazed that it worked.
Our way-old 80s giant microwave used to take 5 min to cook popcorn, so I got used to that growing up. Then one day in 2005 I used a commercial grade microwave at my workplace and out of habit set the timer for 5 mins, then walked away. Next thing I know the whole hallway is being filled with smoke as I aggressively barbequed an innocent bag of popcorn to death. True story. Seriously I should have known better. I mean, had I never used a modern microwave before? I guess not. Thick smoke lay all around me as I went to retrieve the burnt husk of popcorn that lay inside. All I wanted was a quick break yet here I'd caused this scene of total devastation. Brutal. It was a little embarrassing but I learned an important lesson that day - namely, that's it's not the friggin 80s anymore and commercial grade micros are even stronger than average ones so I should probably be careful with them. A valuable life lesson to be sure.
Honestly, I want a commercial grade microwave for personal use. Well, I'll do a little research to see if it makes sense, but they are so much better than a normie microwave.
The one I had as a kid you’d hit the popcorn button and add 30 seconds to pop all the popcorn and it wouldn’t be burned. When I got older and had a newer one I tried the same and burned the popcorn, yet there was still unpopped popcorn in the bag. So I still needed around 15 seconds.
Me too, especially the "reheat" button, which I now use all the time. It made me look closer at an old microwave I have sitting in storage: an old Litton "Meal-in-one" which did not even need a turntable and could use a temperature probe. That could be the subject of its own video.
Your microwave might be doing what other microwaves call a chaos mode. It was found that heating random points instead of a single point caused a more evenly heated result. This would explain why something with a small surface like a pat of butter would be slow to melt.
@alexvillalobos7137 nothing special about that, all microwaves used to require you to rotate the food manually, the turntable is a relatively new feature with a lot of microwaves even from the 90s and 2000s not coming with one.
Your conjecture that there "may be" a half wave rectified 50% cooking mode (@ 10 min, 12 sec) would be easy to confirm with an oscilloscope monitoring line current. But don't mind me, I am a nerd and an EE. I love your curiosity, and your humor, and attention to detail. THANK YOU Be Rad
just count between pops. generally, 2:30 is the best time to use for popcorn if you don’t want to sit by the microwave (even tho it’s really not a long time) Once you count 2.5-3 seconds between pops of kernels, your popcorn is efficiently done and not burnt, or have a burn taste.
I've always just used the dumb popcorn button that auto sets a time, and nothing ever gets burned. I guess I've just been lucky for every microwave and different popcorn I've ran into so far.
This. My microwave has 2 settings based on the size of the popcorn bag. Pops perfect every time. Have used it on every microwave I have owned and all have worked fine.
What surprises me more is that, despite having only single digit millions of subscribers, almost every new Technology Connections, Wendover Productions, Real Life Lore, and Tom Scott video consistently hits the top 5 trending videos each time says something about the dedication of their subscriber base. Small but loyal!
I’ve loved this channel for a long time. I love that it’s trending and the subscriber bases continues to grow for videos that really explain how things work. I mean, who else has stopped most rinsing most of their dishes, adding a bit of prewash and running the hot water for a few seconds before starting a load because of multiple dishwasher videos…dishwasher videos…and we watched them…all… the… way… through. Keep putting out the high quality content!!
It's like the BatSignal, those numbers... Imagine there's a dispensary or two out there with an actual 420 in the street address. "Yes, that's 420 Hemp-hill Street"...
I'm still convinced shrinkflation is the reason for the warning against using the popcorn button. Bags of popcorn have gotten smaller over the years and I feel like those buttons were designed for 3.5 oz. bags which stopped being a thing over ten years ago. I've been using the same microwave for fifteen years now. Popcorn bags used to come out perfectly in the beginning using that button but then they started burning and that's when I had noticed Pop Secret had gone from a 3.5 oz. bag to a 3.2 oz. bag. My store brand popcorn, for a time, was still 3.5 oz. bags and they popped perfectly with the button until they too inevitably shrunk. Now I just have it memorized that 1m52s will pop the bag size I get now perfectly
Thats possible, but an alternate theory is user control/agency. The company is motivated to sell product. If you buy product, hit "popcorn" and it comes out burnt, you are way less likely to blame your microwave and are more likely to blame the brand (thats my guess, people are irrational). If they tell you wishy-washy instructions and you burn it, you'll adjust their instructions, and if you suceed, you'll feel good about figuring out the problem and thus, feel good about the brand.
@@admiralrhino4049not consciously, but you’ll never associate your microwave with burning popcorn, you use it for lots of things. BUT you may associate shitty (burnt) popcorn with a new popcorn brand you bought for the first time and be less likely to get it again. As a dumb user, I’d probably be less likely to buy the same popcorn if I burned it a couple times, than a different brand that doesn’t get burned on me.
Precisely pleasing! The prolific play with the letter 'P' in this video is positively perfect! From the playful prose to the perfectly placed phrases, the producer's penchant for alliteration is palpable. It's a poetic panorama of words that pleasantly permeates the presentation. Bravo for the persistent pursuit of linguistic perfection, providing a pleasurable and picturesque viewing experience
I chose to read this out loud (to myself) and didn't stutter once... I'm kinda proud of myself... No wait... I pursued parlance of purveying this poem to mine person and prevailed without purporting to failure... Uhhh... Proud person...me...
My BiL's previous microwave had a "Potato" button. It was a bit older, but w/e. He was doing some seasonal maintenance to his above ground pool, he put in a potato in a paper towel, pressed "potato", and went outside. Came back in to flames coming out the fume hood (it was an over range model) and the potato was just a charred ember. "Push potato and WALK AWAY!" is a family meme now.
I think it was Mitch Hedberg that had a bit about having a microwave with "Plate of food" as an option. I had one of those, and I did always wonder how the appliance knew what kind of plate, and what kind of food lol
@@Skenjin Yup, the microwave never detected the moisture given off by the potato as it cooked, which is needed to determine how much the potato has cooked. The moisture was absorbed by the paper towel during cooking so the microwave couldn't tell when to stop.
So I love me some microwave popcorn, and I have tested all major brands on my own microwave. For whatever reason, my particular microwave just sets a time and heat level that is PERFECT for properly popping a bag of specifically Act II movie theater butter at 2 minutes exactly. Every other type of popcorn I either have to manually listen for popping or set a longer time myself, but so long as I only buy THAT specific brand and flavor, I can leave my microwave unattended and it will come out perfect every time without fail.
The comforting thought of fresh popcorn paired nicely with the unsettling realization that I have no idea if companies are allowed to just include microphones in products and not tell anyone.
The most rampant example I can think of are knock sensors on car engines, as that tech has been around since the 1970s. For the unaware, they are shielded microphones threaded into the tops of engines to monitor for misfires. They're tuned to hunt for high frequency pinging, and on top of being shielded, buried in the engine, and surrounded by body panels and sound deadening, the only thing they can hear is what is going on inside that engine. I used to read up on loonies that would cut the wires to them thinking the government was spying on them! Haha! People have forgotten those times in favor of fearing the infotainment console and over the air updates, which honestly is a valid concern (Looking at you, Ford).
@@lindseys3708 *watches FBI knock down our door and smuggle the Microwave to their lab for audio analyses of the contents of a data storage medium inside it*
The difference between the casserole, dinner plate, and pasta settings lets the microwave know how to more evenly reheat your food. Casseroles are usually an amorphous, unified, oobleck, amalgam of foodstuffs that tend to heat/reheat at roughly the same rate; so an even heating method is preferrable. Dinner plates tend to have varying reheating rates for each independent item, so a lower and slower process is needed to keep certain items from desiccating, and potentially burning, while others remain cold at their core. And the pasta setting is there purely to make the Italians sad. Love your videos. Keep up the interesting work!
I think I can explain the slow melting butter thing! I always purposefully melt my butter at a lower power setting. If you melt it at normal temperature it starts popping and splattering over before its finished melting. This usually happens for me when it's about half melted. So a microwave that can choose to melt butter slower is doing a pretty good job!!
That is exactly right. The lower power setting doesn't actually mean it puts out lower power. It puts out the exact same power but it cycles on and off, depending on what you set it to. And it works beautifully. Sadly, most people don't have a clue how or why this happens. Although most of this information comes with the microwave in a thing called an operators manual. They often also include some recipes and tips. Most people fail to read these though.
If it isn't cycling and only some foods take longer, either the magnetron operates at an unusual freq (unlikely), the geometry of the microwave is setting up an unusual wave pattern, or it a convection/venting thing Popcorn is coated in oil or butter and oils of course don't interact with microwaves very strongly, so that seems like a factor
This perfectly perfunctory yet passionate presentation on the performance of preset popcorn painted a positively profound picture of the position of those pompous popcorn partnerships.
I always go with 1:30 minutes and then double it and keeping hitting the +30 button every so often until the popping slows to almost a complete stop. Haven't had any popcorn pieces burn on me doing that.
This is what a dad says to his kids when they think he's disappointed in them for their life choices. He's not but he could have done it in a way that doesnt seem farcical or sarcastic or even satyrical. You're using profound way too much. once is too much when its a video about a microwave. But you are doing a tongue twister on purpose but it just takes away....like trying to do a haiku, most don't know how to do it without sounding contrived and forced. Its ok dad, he doesn't hate you
what a carefully crafted comment! can this cavernous caper of cacophonous chatter calm? this cautiously connected catalogue of creative comments compiled of convoluted conduct can cease coagulation!
Your pedantry really speaks to my heart and soul. So many people gloss over the finer details in their technology and its workings or clever unnoticed features that some engineers thought up only to be neglected or unknown.
I've seen lots of microwaves with a baked potato button. I don't think I have EVER pushed one. Even on baked potatoes. Quite honestly, I' usually just hit the 30 second button however many time I think appropriate.
I mean if the popcorn manufacturers actually cared they would do cook times by wattage but they don't so this whole video is kinda dumb but entertaining.
I saw the spider in your profile pic, chuckled and opened the replies to find people that commented on it, realized no one commented on it, and quickly scrolled my screen to make sure it wasn't actually on my end lol.
I love how this channel is basically "I learned the theory behind the thing, then here's my anecdotal evidence ymmv" which is exactly what I want from product reviews. Absolutely stellar work my good sir.
Depends on the air fryer, but mostly it's presets regarding temp and time. With my Instant brand one I have noticed that the difference between Bake and Air Fry is that Air Fry tells you to turn the food around 2/3 of the way through but Bake doesn't. Other modes in may also run the convection fan at different speeds as well.
Yes, please do an air fryer video! I've watched several already that talk about how it's just a new name for something old, but with how in-depth you go, I bet there's even more to learn about it. Thanks for another great video Alec!
@@InventorZahranI mean it is just a convection oven, but what makes them better is the smaller size leading to a more efficient and quicker cooker than a regular convection oven.
It truly is just a small convection oven, but the small size does affect both the cooking results and the convenience factor when compared to a full-size.
@@RayvenQ My toaster oven has a fan, it's an "air fryer" too. Small convection ovens are nothing new, but the stupid marketing for overpriced "air fryers" is.
@@NickCombsthe big difference is the basket, though. My recent full size convection oven replacement had an optional extra feature, namely a baking tray full of holes similar to an air fryer basket. That actually works really well.
I'm in shock, I always assumed the food options on microwaves were just programed to a specific time. I'm gonna mess around with all the options on my microwave tonight, how exciting!
The various food options are preset profiles for power levels vs pulse time. Microwaves don't really penetrate the -fool- *food* very far, so there is a tendency for foods to overheat on the outside. The power profiles allow some resting time between bursts of microwaving, which allows the heat to conduct (soak) into the center of the food. . "Vegetable" setting might apply 50% power in bursts of 15 seconds. "Reheat Coffee" might apply 100% power continuously. "Defrost Meat" might apply 75% power for 10 seconds, then 10% power for 20 seconds. . Also, higher-end microwaves have various sensors to detect the best time to change heating profiles and/or stop depending on the type of food selected. . Inverter microwaves can vary the power level dynamically, rather than just switching the magnetron on 100% and off 0% on a timer. Not all microwaves have sensors or inverter drive.
@@klaus6027 - 🤣 yes, that's absolutely true. For some obscure reason, your reply made me think of Photonic Induction... "oh, I popped that human". I've fixed my hilarious typo 😉
I have a Panasonic with a lot of fancy buttons I've never used. But I also have over 20 years experience just setting a time and pushing start, then checking it, and either eating it, letting it cool off, or cooking it more.
I just got a new microwave and I tried the POPCORN button for the first time. It has three time settings for the size of the bag!! I've tried two sizes and brands of popcorn and IT WORKS PERFECTLY. Never burns.
To me, a popcorn button itself seems overly fancy, yet somehow in the 2000s, my parents bought a new microwave with a timer you physically had to turn, and you had to visually monitor everything you put in it because the time in real life did not match the analog timer. One of the best parts of adulthood has been setting an exact time on a digital microwave and just walk away knowing real time and microwave time are aligned.
I'm happy for you, stranger. I had to move recently and I downgraded to an analog timer microwave. I usually prefer analog stuff, but this dial is so poorly designed that it's impossible to tell what it says. Did I just set it to 2 minutes or 3.5 minutes? Nobody knows! So we just crank it up and keep our hungry, watchful eyes on our food, ever vigilant - probably much like our ancestors did. But one day... one day I will rejoin you in the future. Pray for me, stranger.
That's always been my motto for learning computer software and systems; Just click everything! If you accidentally blow something up, that means it was poorly designed and not really your fault. This is how I end up learning lots of things, when starting a new job :)
One thing to note if you have a dumb sensorless microwave is that you can sometimes (idk the actual frequency of being able to do this with them) reprogram the popcorn button to automatically cook for however long you want. It still isn’t GREAT, but if you have a go-to brand that always takes the same amount of time with little variance it can save you a little effort. The reprogramming might get wiped after it loses power though, so keep an eye out for that.
Man, I wish there was a way to store information on a Microwave even if absolutely tiny. Power outages reseting the clock are annoying enough, but going through the effort of customising a setting only for it to reset on power outage is terrible. Like, even if it required me to go out and buy a USB or SD card to slot in just so it'd have storage space, please.
He calls his old microwave an antique. My kitchen microwave is from 1982. My parents bought it new in 82 and I've been using it nonstop ever since. When I moved my parents gave it to me. It works. Why buy a new one that won't be built as well?
@@christo930 Well, chances are that 1982 unit has no support, parts and other available information. That said, my Mom received her parents' old 1975-ish Panasonic and we used that from when I was in elementary school (I was in 5th Grade, there-abouts, maybe 6th) and it lasted to about 2017 or 2018. When we moved, a microwave came with the place and the old Panasonic beast was retired. My unit was also retired and both were in e-waste. Mine was rusted on the inside, so we decided not to use it. The timer was falling apart (it was an old flip-card clock style with an alarm clock in it that started the microwave automatically and it also had a plug in thermometer probe for some settings which I thought was neat) It had a list of cooking options in two radio tuner-style displays (like in an old radio receiver). It was an awesome machine.
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It's insane how much effort went into the creation of that Sharp microwave. It has so much character & depth to it's custom sensor settings & animations. I wish more modern things would go this direction instead of the current fads of "everything is connected to the Internet" nonsense
For 13 years of my life I had a microwave that perfectly popped popcorn every time you press the popcorn button so I never really understood why people said press the popcorn button
I love how even though he's supposed to put in no effort at all he still does subtitles for these videos because he cares for his viewers. Now that's some effort I can respect.
Well, if you have lines like "popcorn people put a purportedly proper popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn"... you make sure the captioners can enjoy it too.
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.
I love how often the time on the different microwaves is exactly 4:20. That can't be accident which means he is constantly resetting the time before each take😅
I have one of the "bad" popcorn buttons (it asks for weight) but it works pretty well. Almost everything popped, not scorched. So even the bad ones can be fine if you're lucky.
Mine also asks for weight but it's bad. It still needs an additional 10 to 15 seconds to really get all kernels. I do use it because it beeps when it's 10 seconds away from stopping so I can get ready to start as soon as it stops and start listening for the 2 second gap.
When me and my wife were teenagers, we had someone get us a hotel room to party in. We made popcorn in the microwave and press the popcorn button as we watch TV. The popcorn caught on fire smoked out the whole hotel and everybody had to evacuate. they kicked us out of the hotel because we burned the sink where we put the burning popcorn and put it out. What a night
This inspired me to try the "Sensor Reheat" on my microwave. It actually worked great, but it's very unnerving to think "Man, it's been in there for a while, how much longer is left?" and then seeing that the microwave's display just says "Casserole"
The sensor reheat works great on ours! Partway through cooking, it changes power level and starts a timer so that you can see how much time is left. The timer varies, but it's usually between 30-90 seconds.
20 years ago I worked at Lowe's and sold microwaves. I remember the vendors coming in and teaching us about their products. I learned that 99% of the microwaves out there just cycle the power on and off for different intervals to get the "power levels." So, 50% power meant that the microwaves magnetron was turning on half the time. However, there were two manufacturers at the time that actually did have the ability to adjust and change the level of the magnetron without cycling it. Whirlpool was one of them. And Whirlpool makes KitchenAid. So likely, your guess is correct. It's running at half power or a preset percentage of power. It was not a feature on all models of course. But, they did have it on their upper echelon series.
Yup, it's basically an implementation of pulse-width modulation, (a good compariosn would be analog to digital signals, where digital transmitted as 0 & 1's (or on/off) while analog transmitted in waves) basically instead of being able to smoothly turn it's power level up/down to desired frequency, it instead does the on-off to create the same effect. Well, at least in theory anyways, since it greatly depends on various factors. But if done well, it achieves the same effect with little-to-no noticeable difference (well, at least when it comes to re-heating your food that is).
My newer KitchenAid microwave has perfect popcorn button as well. Older Whirlpool popcorn button still required selecting size of bag, but did fairly well.
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy Meanwhile my microwave has a hot spot right in the middle. If I center my chicken pot pie on the dish, it cooks the middle perfectly. Otherwise the edges will burn.
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy In dense materials, things further from the center have to cook first. Otherwise, each microwave has a number of "hot spots" which are usually not near the walls or bottom. That's why microwaves usually rotate, to move the food across the hot spots. Raising a microwave bag +might+ move it up into a hot spot or two.
@@carlcarlson5553while they may just have been on youtube since a very young age or using someone else’s account who is older than them, their profile says they’ve been on youtube for 9 years!
@carlcarlson5553 I have a similar experience and I've been on this Earth for 18 years. I wouldn't say I'm too young to have had an older microvave in the past... I'd just say I've been lucky 🤷
@@an8nymous791yea bro this guy is crazy to think 2 million subs is a small channel lol todays algorithm is so hard to find those 50 to 10k subscriber channels compared to old TH-cam
@@pintadocachorrao Would it make watching content totally unrelated to your interests more normal? I don’t even eat popcorn yet somehow I sat through this whole thing. 😂
@@Prockskiit's not that long, even. his regular videos are often over half an hour in length. and yes, it's normal to learn something new and fascinating, you didn't know it even exists before watching them. like how street lights turn on and why they're on for a bit after a power outage, and such.
@@Ohmyadeline Its "long" in the sense that I have no interest in this topic at all and usually would click off to watch something more up my street. I was just suggesting that it took me a lot longer to kind of snap out of the trance this put me in and was not in fact some kind of pointer to my general attention span.
Here are the takeaways with time codes: 1:14 proper popping performance 1:19 the popcorn people put a purportedly proper popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn 3:00 proper popcorn popping prowess
Hi Alec, I'm sure you get way too many comments to read them all, but I wanted to thank you for your sound design choices. It's such a good mix of soothing and interesting. I have ADHD and listen while I work to avoid falling into distractions, and your videos are perfect for when I need to focus (because of the softness) and for when I finally get a break and can learn in earnest about heat pumps (interesting because of your great scripts). Thank you.
This video sparked a great family debate about that 'Popcorn button' on our microwave. Now, we're wondering about the 'Pizza' button. Future family feud or kitchen revelation? Time and frozen pizzas will tell! 🍿🍕
only way to reheat pizza is in a hot hot skillet with some oil, then add a sploosh of water and cover steam for a minute.... crispy crust and gooey cheese every time
The other "secret" microwave trick I discovered is not using full power on things that take a long time to heat through. In fact, most things I cook at half power and double time now, since it tends to be more even heating
@@voodootrois When I bought my microwave I didn't even know it was an inverter unit. Over time I learned that certain things, like meats especially appreciate being heated slowly so I use 10% and 20% all the time and the results are wonderful. Years later I learned that is indeed an inverter unit and when I need a new one that's absolutely the type I will buy again.
The most useful secret I discovered about microwave ovens is that they are only useful for quickly reheating food. For every other purpose, a regular oven is better. I'd rather have a toast iron than a microwave.
Now that you've mentioned it, yeah, when are you going to get around talking about air friers? You are literally _the_ perfect person I know qualified to talk about them.
Air fryers have a terribly silly name, but are actually kinda awesome. They are essentially small powerful convection ovens with a convenient basket instead of a rack. Hard vegetables like potatoes, pumpkins or carrots get soft in 15 minutes and any kind of frozen snack gets super crunchy without any additional fat. They are suprisingly versatile and only require occasional cleaning. What it can't do is frying of cause.
When I'm done upgrading my kitchen, or maybe the whole home in general, I will need a stamp that says "kitchen by Alec" or "technology connections approved" since all my appliances will be chosen due to your recommendations. Sensor microwave, induction stove to replace gas, I know how to use the dishwasher now, and how to set my water heater for maximum efficiency. Will eventually replace all my windows, and get a heat pump instead of a gas furnace when the time comes. Excellent video as always, thank you for your great research and insight.
10 years ago we had a perfect microwave with a perfect popcorn button. One too many door slams broke the microwave emitter so we had to replace it and we’ve never had an adequate successor
I have mixed feelings about this video. It feels lovely no-effort, but clearly a fair amount of effort went into writing and researching this video 😂. This channel is perfect for perusing popular practical appliances with perfect presentation and a personable personality. (Then again, this comment only took 3 minutes, maybe the script wrote itself)
That microwave with a build in convection oven mentioned at the very end is what I have and it works absolutely perfect every single time. We don't even use the oven anymore, it's so much more convenient.
Is that something new in America? I can’t remember not having this kind of microwave in the eu. Maybe eu brands first launch in the eu. Same with front loading washers.
my younger sister brought her microwave with a convection oven after she finished her studies in Japan. Wondered why she had to go all through that (bringing it home, buying a transformer to get it to operate safely without damaging it due to voltage differences of japan and philippines), but seeing her using all of the features that it came with was worth it without a doubt.
What if it runs the microwave, convection oven, and air fryer all at the same time? Because I want my food to be forged in the fires of mount doom itself. One Magnetron to heat them all!
I just realized that the moisture sensor is possibly why sensor reheating doesn’t work well in my microwave. It’s not because the microwave sucks, it’s because I habitually use a microwave cover so that any sauces won’t splatter. (Even if there’s no sauce, it’s just become a habit) Interesting findings here, I’ll have to try it on something that doesn’t use a sauce without a cover.
Or use a cover that has little holes in it to let the steam out. I usually loosely cover my leftovers with a paper towel while reheating, and my sensor reheat works just fine.
The popcorn button on mine has always worked great, but I’ve never used any of the other shortcut buttons. I too am now inspired to go try them. “Side Dish (8 - 12)”, here I come!
The slower melting of butter is almost definitely a feature; I've heard people recommend home chefs use their microwaves to bring frozen sticks of butter to room temperature in a pinch, and when you're doing that you don't actually want it melting.
You'll need a microwave with an inverter (allowing lower than full power of magnetron) AND a microwave safe dish (which does not heat up).@@katebowers8107
@@katebowers8107 Yes, please post a video. I imagine you could get this to happen if you unknowingly had bubbles of water or air in the butter. If someone is selling butter with pockets of air in it, please tell the public so that we can avoid buying it.
I wouldn't bother if he does honestly, his content is toptier, a 30 sec ad that I can skip wouldn't affect the quality of his content, and he gets money. WIN-WIN
I wouldn’t mind. He should get compensated for the time he spent making the video I’m watching, and sponsorships are a really effective way to do it for everyone. Apparently it works out without them though, so I assume he has other means, which is nice.
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
Definitely this
It's dumb enough to be likely.
I imagine also that since so many wavers with popcorn buttons just don't do a good job in general, it might be a general insistence (after numerous complaints) by recipe developers in many snacks and food companies: _"... also, make sure to include a disclaimer telling people to NOT use that fucking popcorn button, it's probably gonna screw them up and we'll start getting letters again."_
I think the company doesn't want to hear a bunch of complaints about the popcorn button. If they recommend to use it and it keeps destroying popcorn for example and people are going to ask for refunds.
Wouldn't that be more on the microwave than the popcorn? That would be like blaming a grease fire on the brand of bacon your cooking.
@@takotako808 Well, the hot coffee/beverage came because someone got third degree burns from it (accidentally) spilling.
McDonalds was sued because an elderly woman literally had the skin of her genital area being MOLTEN OFF HER BODY due to how hot it was. The coffee was served at 140 degrees CELCIUS (regular coffee is served at 80 degrees celcius and generally consumed at 60 degrees celcius).
The lawsuit resulted into 3 actions for McDonalds, 2 which other companies have applied to avoid being sued:
1. No to-go beverage can be served above 90 degrees, this not only for consumer safety, but employee safety.
2. Recommendation to add warning labels to make people aware of their actions. Sometimes people are on auto-pilot, and since boiling water levels of temperature is basically as dangerous as carrying a mug filled with sulphuric acid, people need to be snapped out of the auto-pilot. Warning labels, how silly they sometimes may be, are one of the things that snap you out of the auto-pilot.
3. (the one other companies didnt apply, for obvious reasons) a multimillion payout to the elderly lady to cover healthcare expenses, pay for any service worker if she needs aid in hygienic matters etc, cover the costs of her lawyers etc and ofcourse a fine decided fair by the jury because she was a victim of a crime.
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.
Sounds like it's just needing a little encouragement!
Amazing! I also have to clap repeatedly to get my dishwasher to work (my wife says she appreciates the applause)
@@internziko😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha this is so wonderful and whimsical.
@@internziko hmm i need one of those , how can i find one of these ?
I used to have a microwave with only one working button - the potato button. So I had to time everything in potatoes.
its clearly an american microwave.
@@zombieblaster5754isn't a corn-related button still more fitting then
Should be good for boiling, mashing, and sticking things in a stew.
so bananas measure size, potatooes measure time, anyone know the arbitrary food to measure weight?
microwave made in ireland
I appreciate the dedication to have the clock at exactly 4:20pm in every shot involving a microwave
at 3:39 it says 5:40 AM for whatever reason
Watching this at 4:24 pm
Fuck im late :(
Nice
Nice, 420 likes
I'll take, things stoners notice, for $400🎉
So my college friends had a lovely anecdote about my friend who somehow ended up in her dorm with a microwave oven that had nothing but a popcorn button. That's right, it was a popcorn-centric machine, and so the story goes, she discovered she could cook anything, as long as she stood close by, clapping and stomping to satisfy the microphone-based sensor and keep the cook cycle running until she decided that the food was done.
Amazing
That is wild
Wtf
I think I found it, it was called the menumaster micro-popper. Really crazy that it exists. Probably for movie theaters or something
I will think about this at least once a week for the rest of my life
What I’m hearing is that the most expensive microwaves have a built-in Clapper.
Time to hack the firmware.
Still a better "acoustic monitoring system" than Stockton Rush built.
@@danielbishop1863
Too soon
An inverse Clapper. It turns off if you DON'T clap twice every two seconds
If you're ever stuck in a giant microwave on the popcorn setting, you can just clap your way out. Great, I'm sure this will come in handy some day.
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.
Wait, did you use the popcorn button or like a reheat button or leftovers button, lol.
My microwave and my air fryer as well have like dozens of settings i never use. Tbf, the air fryer just has presets that have a temperature and time preset, but you can still change it after if you wanna play around with it.
@@Cman04092 I pressed the popcorn button. I thought I had a bad one because it asked for weight, but the largest available size value gave me a very specific time, perfect for a nice leftover plate
@@BillyMcBillface well, if it does a shit job on actual popcorn at least now you can use it for a "reheating the leftovers" button instead, lol.
@@BillyMcBillfaceinteresting! Thanks for the science lol
I didn't know that button existed
"Do NOT use the popcorn button."
George Orville, 1984
Doubly plus ungood
I'm thinking that you mean George OrWELL, the author of "1984".
@@craigcorson3036 The joke was that Orville (like on the popcorn) sounds similar to Orwell
@@Overdrive-19 Not a joke. Jokes are funny.
@@craigcorson3036 Was funny (in my opinion).
- Walter, 72
Someone should create a website ranking every microwave’s popcorn button so people can look online to see if theirs is good.
Today we are playing:
Is it lit, or is it charred.
Couldn't think of a better punny name at such short notice. Wouldn't be too hard to make a website that accepts reports from users through a form, but spreading word about it would require a bit of luck…
Real
The 'Science-Anime' Dr Stone is pretty good. Watch it if you havent. Watch it and then help me figure-out some of the science cause science is cool
Done.
@@idontknoq4813 You refer to my comment??
I've never felt more inspired to microwave popcorn in my life. Sadly my microwave does not even have a pppcorn button.
Mine asked me for the size of the bag so I was deeply disappointed
pppcorn
Yep i saw that but decided not to correct myself.
good, it's beautiful @@lemurkat
@@lemurkat oh my god I didn't even see that. It's funny how the brain just works like that, reading the word as a whole instead of every letter. For emaxlpe, you suhlod be albe to raed tihs prefertlcy, eevn touhgh It's jsut a jmubeld mses, aoccdrnig to rseacrh by cmarbidge uvernisty. It has nothing to do with the comment or video, but I figured i'd share this fun nugget of knowledge.
Impressive to know that at least ONE popcorn company wants you to experiment with the popcorn button
Impressive to know that every other one doesn’t
What a riveting experience to be had making new discoveries with the popcorn button
Trail's end allows you to experiment too!
The popcorn hoax 🍿
popcorn gate
I just want to say thank you for making this. I’ve been dealing with extreme depression and anxiety the past several months, and this video inspired me to try an experiment for the first time in almost a decade. What I got from that experiment was not only a deeper understanding of my kitchen, but a food that was easy to make, filling, and inoffensive enough for me to eat when I feel like I can’t eat anything.
I’m still struggling, but your goofy little popcorn video has helped me a lot.
Thank you. Really, thank you.
Oh wow, that's cool
Update; put in a bag tonight and it literally caught my apartment on fire. Just figured you guys would find this funny. I’m good and the apartments fine now but the smoke is literally still clearing four hours later
I got a similar feeling from this gentleman's videos.
I don't even eat popcorns at home. His videos simply encourage experimenting with regular things around you. And it feels meaningful and valuable to use and understand your dishwasher or microwave better.
I have been feeling rather glum seeing a lot of callousness and thoughtlessness on youtube and everywhere else. His most recent video popped up, and I'm reminded that there are people like this guy, who makes thoughtful, funny, scientific and approachable content, without the drama, the react. And the audiences who are also quite delightful.
@@ultimafhule That's really rough; I hope everything pans out for you. If you're feeling put off of popcorn for a bit, maybe get a little rice cooker. Make some jasmine rice and toss a fried egg or some furikake on it for when you need to eat something but really just don't want to.
Tip for smoke smell: you may want to grab some OdoBan to help with any fabric things that decide they want to keep smelling like smoke that you can't just wash.
@@ultimafhuleOh dear, I wish you the best for that!
"Why do we even HAVE that lever?!"
Wrong lever
You threw off my groove!!!
What, the self destruct lever? You know… for… “reasons.” Lol
"Strange... that usually works."
"So does this!"
For curious check
Finally someone talks about it. I've clung to my 8 year old microwave simply because of its perfect ability to cook popcorn right every single time with the popcorn button.
My rental house has one of those as well - perfect every single time.
This is life goals for me, i would name that microwave Elizabeth
3:34 and he appears, just like D.T filming him self infront of a N.S.A
My microwave is almost perfect, it's the popcorn button plus 30 seconds, but pressing Start adds 30 seconds.
So it's just Popcorn Button + double-tap the Start Button
@@mariokarter13mine does it perfect but I always add 10-15 sec, I like mine just so slightly overcooked lol
This guy can really make me watch a 12 minute video about a button on a microwave
I liked the scene @ 2:17
I'm 3 minutes in and I don't even own a microwave
@@lettus143 yikes
Ummmmmm actually it’s 13 minutes long 🤓☝️
no, you chose to
learn accountability for your actions/choices
1:24 lmao try to say that 3 times in a row fast
“Latent Heat of Popcornization”
I came here immediately hoping that someone would make a latent heat joke and I'm thrilled that the internet did not disappoint! ☺️👍🍿
Superlative 😂😂😂❤❤
Yeah, we need this slogan on some merch.
@@DeviantOllamDude, why do I see you freaking everywhere on TH-cam? You really get around...
Didn't even describe the refrigeration cycle
It's funny how the old microwaves from the 90s and early 00's seem so much more fancy and advanced than the ones you're likely to see now on the market.
Probably because we don't need all that
Back then, companies had pride of making the best products so you'd buy from them instead of their competitors.
Nowadays, companies have greed encouraging them to make cheap products that break and cost little to make so you have to buy from them more often.
ikr
@@jessiehogue. And East Europe is still using appliances shat out by a factory using convict labour in Siberia in the 50's.
@@Cotac_Rastic Did they make good appliances? :P
I love how your "low effort" content is still so informative and polished.
“Ten years of practice for one minute on stage” is hardly low effort.
@@caelestigladii in the previous Clapper video, he said he was doing "no effort November"
It's wild to me that this was "no effort" given the quality of the video.
So many out-takes for being "no effort" 🤣
@@Reactor89
Yeah, but some were barely bloops. For example, there was nothing wrong with how he said “seconds.”
@checksanity I have a feeling that's OCD kicking in.
What was "wrong" with it was the stressing of the "e" in "seconds".
The Sharp Carousel is an exception. It's just a fantastic machine. "Ahead of its time" or just better than we deserved. The bowing chef fed me thru my bachelor years.
Getting yelled to NEVER use the popcorn button while I'm still a part of this family really brings me right into the thanksgiving vibe
Don't believe those who tell you to use the popcorn button. Don't even listen to them.
If you've allowed a popcorn button propagandist to talk, _it's already too late._
a part of
Whatever you do, don't press the button.
Toss in a handful of grapes and silverware, then hit the popcorn button. It's about sending a message.
@@Vexas345 "YOU NO LET ME USE POPCORN BUTTON ME BURN YOUR HOUSE VIA POPCORN BUTTON"
I don’t just have a good popcorn button, I have a GREAT popcorn button. It pops the popcorn with less than 10 un-popped kernels, and it never burns it. Growing up we NEVER used the popcorn button, as an adult I tried it and was amazed that it worked.
Same my microwave popcorn button works great
Same as well. Mine has a setting for how many ounces you're popping.
Maybe people just need to buy better microwaves
What brand/model?
Impossible, this must be a lie
Now try the pizza button on leftover pizza 👀
The alliteration from 1:19 to 1:24 is phenomenal. Well done.
This video was essentially a 14min mic test. I can’t say I noticed any popping P’s
Literal perfection
Perfectly performed! 😏
And, at 3:00 to 3:02!
And I expected to see some practice performances in the bloopers, but not a one! Peter Percival Patterson's pet pig Porky loved it!
Love your channel! One question I have about your microwaves. Why is it always 4:20pm? Is it always 4:20 in the afternoon at technology connections?
IYKYK lol
Our way-old 80s giant microwave used to take 5 min to cook popcorn, so I got used to that growing up. Then one day in 2005 I used a commercial grade microwave at my workplace and out of habit set the timer for 5 mins, then walked away. Next thing I know the whole hallway is being filled with smoke as I aggressively barbequed an innocent bag of popcorn to death.
True story.
Seriously I should have known better. I mean, had I never used a modern microwave before? I guess not.
Thick smoke lay all around me as I went to retrieve the burnt husk of popcorn that lay inside. All I wanted was a quick break yet here I'd caused this scene of total devastation. Brutal.
It was a little embarrassing but I learned an important lesson that day - namely, that's it's not the friggin 80s anymore and commercial grade micros are even stronger than average ones so I should probably be careful with them.
A valuable life lesson to be sure.
Honestly, I want a commercial grade microwave for personal use. Well, I'll do a little research to see if it makes sense, but they are so much better than a normie microwave.
@@Gandhi_Physique I think the commercial grade ones are cool. And fast!
The one I had as a kid you’d hit the popcorn button and add 30 seconds to pop all the popcorn and it wouldn’t be burned. When I got older and had a newer one I tried the same and burned the popcorn, yet there was still unpopped popcorn in the bag. So I still needed around 15 seconds.
Did they call you Fireguy after that?
@@positivelynegative9149 I was known as Firestarter or popcorn-killer for a little bit lol
I have never been so excited to try the buttons on the microwave I have never used such as "Popcorn," "Beverage," "Potato," and "Reheat."
Me too, especially the "reheat" button, which I now use all the time. It made me look closer at an old microwave I have sitting in storage: an old Litton "Meal-in-one" which did not even need a turntable and could use a temperature probe. That could be the subject of its own video.
Having a button just for potato is CRAZY
Who microwaves potatoes that often
@@ereviscale3966 it's the easiest way to bake a potato.
Mine has a pizza button 🤣
Your microwave might be doing what other microwaves call a chaos mode. It was found that heating random points instead of a single point caused a more evenly heated result. This would explain why something with a small surface like a pat of butter would be slow to melt.
All microwaves have hot and cold spots in them, that is why they almost all have a rotating carousel.
@@blaster-zy7xxmy glass plate broke so now when I heat stuff up some parts get super hit and other stay cold. I manually turn the plate 2-3 times 😂
@alexvillalobos7137 nothing special about that, all microwaves used to require you to rotate the food manually, the turntable is a relatively new feature with a lot of microwaves even from the 90s and 2000s not coming with one.
@@joemamr710That makes it special as all microwaves now have the turntables.
Your conjecture that there "may be" a half wave rectified 50% cooking mode (@ 10 min, 12 sec) would be easy to confirm with an oscilloscope monitoring line current.
But don't mind me, I am a nerd and an EE.
I love your curiosity, and your humor, and attention to detail.
THANK YOU
Be Rad
just count between pops. generally, 2:30 is the best time to use for popcorn if you don’t want to sit by the microwave (even tho it’s really not a long time) Once you count 2.5-3 seconds between pops of kernels, your popcorn is efficiently done and not burnt, or have a burn taste.
I've always just used the dumb popcorn button that auto sets a time, and nothing ever gets burned. I guess I've just been lucky for every microwave and different popcorn I've ran into so far.
I do too. I just wait to hear the singular wet fart pop and it's done. I can literally count the kernels on one hand and not a one burned
This. My microwave has 2 settings based on the size of the popcorn bag. Pops perfect every time. Have used it on every microwave I have owned and all have worked fine.
@@Piledriver2006 your popcorn is farting? Can you document this?
my issue is that it doesn't pop enough
The fact that Technology Connections makes it onto trending even in No Effort November just shows how great this channel is
What surprises me more is that, despite having only single digit millions of subscribers, almost every new Technology Connections, Wendover Productions, Real Life Lore, and Tom Scott video consistently hits the top 5 trending videos each time says something about the dedication of their subscriber base. Small but loyal!
@@meltingtomato that makes sense, usually when TC makes a vid I want to watch it - he knows his audience, unlike some other youtubers.
@@meltingtomato single digit million subs is not "small", but yeah it's smaller than the Minecraft channels and e-girl farming simps
@@marcogenovesi8570100%, more so small in relative terms, because 2m subs is still a lot.
I’ve loved this channel for a long time. I love that it’s trending and the subscriber bases continues to grow for videos that really explain how things work.
I mean, who else has stopped most rinsing most of their dishes, adding a bit of prewash and running the hot water for a few seconds before starting a load because of multiple dishwasher videos…dishwasher videos…and we watched them…all… the… way… through.
Keep putting out the high quality content!!
Every microwave set to 4:20 is a really nice touch and must have been a lot of effort.
4:20 yooo 😝
It's like the BatSignal, those numbers... Imagine there's a dispensary or two out there with an actual 420 in the street address. "Yes, that's 420 Hemp-hill Street"...
No effort November failed
I noticed that too
@@rubberduck2078damn :(
time to start efforting all over the place
2:48 i can’t believe it took that microwave 10 months, 10 days, 1 hour & 27 minutes to pop one bag of popcorn!
I'm still convinced shrinkflation is the reason for the warning against using the popcorn button. Bags of popcorn have gotten smaller over the years and I feel like those buttons were designed for 3.5 oz. bags which stopped being a thing over ten years ago.
I've been using the same microwave for fifteen years now. Popcorn bags used to come out perfectly in the beginning using that button but then they started burning and that's when I had noticed Pop Secret had gone from a 3.5 oz. bag to a 3.2 oz. bag. My store brand popcorn, for a time, was still 3.5 oz. bags and they popped perfectly with the button until they too inevitably shrunk. Now I just have it memorized that 1m52s will pop the bag size I get now perfectly
Thats possible, but an alternate theory is user control/agency. The company is motivated to sell product. If you buy product, hit "popcorn" and it comes out burnt, you are way less likely to blame your microwave and are more likely to blame the brand (thats my guess, people are irrational). If they tell you wishy-washy instructions and you burn it, you'll adjust their instructions, and if you suceed, you'll feel good about figuring out the problem and thus, feel good about the brand.
@@HyenaEmpyema gotta give people at least some credit, i think most people would realize it was the microwave.
@mrpc5971 why would most people blame the popcorn brand? It's literally just a bag of kernels
1m50s soon
@@admiralrhino4049not consciously, but you’ll never associate your microwave with burning popcorn, you use it for lots of things. BUT you may associate shitty (burnt) popcorn with a new popcorn brand you bought for the first time and be less likely to get it again. As a dumb user, I’d probably be less likely to buy the same popcorn if I burned it a couple times, than a different brand that doesn’t get burned on me.
Precisely pleasing! The prolific play with the letter 'P' in this video is positively perfect! From the playful prose to the perfectly placed phrases, the producer's penchant for alliteration is palpable. It's a poetic panorama of words that pleasantly permeates the presentation. Bravo for the persistent pursuit of linguistic perfection, providing a pleasurable and picturesque viewing experience
Bravo ❤
I chose to read this out loud (to myself) and didn't stutter once...
I'm kinda proud of myself...
No wait...
I pursued parlance of purveying this poem to mine person and prevailed without purporting to failure...
Uhhh... Proud person...me...
During no effort november no less
P 🍍 😻
The entire video was ruined for me when he used the incorrect pronunciation of primer. I want my money back 🤣
My BiL's previous microwave had a "Potato" button. It was a bit older, but w/e. He was doing some seasonal maintenance to his above ground pool, he put in a potato in a paper towel, pressed "potato", and went outside. Came back in to flames coming out the fume hood (it was an over range model) and the potato was just a charred ember.
"Push potato and WALK AWAY!" is a family meme now.
That's awesome. I love family memes.
I think it was Mitch Hedberg that had a bit about having a microwave with "Plate of food" as an option. I had one of those, and I did always wonder how the appliance knew what kind of plate, and what kind of food lol
Probably the paper towel that was at fault.
@@Skenjin Yup, the microwave never detected the moisture given off by the potato as it cooked, which is needed to determine how much the potato has cooked. The moisture was absorbed by the paper towel during cooking so the microwave couldn't tell when to stop.
So I love me some microwave popcorn, and I have tested all major brands on my own microwave. For whatever reason, my particular microwave just sets a time and heat level that is PERFECT for properly popping a bag of specifically Act II movie theater butter at 2 minutes exactly. Every other type of popcorn I either have to manually listen for popping or set a longer time myself, but so long as I only buy THAT specific brand and flavor, I can leave my microwave unattended and it will come out perfect every time without fail.
The comforting thought of fresh popcorn paired nicely with the unsettling realization that I have no idea if companies are allowed to just include microphones in products and not tell anyone.
If it’s just a basic microwave it’s not sending the sound anywhere. I doubt even the app controlled ones do.
It's really going to blow your mind when you learn that every speaker is a microphone and every microphone is a speaker
Only concerning if it connects to The Internet of Things. Ie: its smart and can connect to your smartphone for whatever reason.
The most rampant example I can think of are knock sensors on car engines, as that tech has been around since the 1970s. For the unaware, they are shielded microphones threaded into the tops of engines to monitor for misfires. They're tuned to hunt for high frequency pinging, and on top of being shielded, buried in the engine, and surrounded by body panels and sound deadening, the only thing they can hear is what is going on inside that engine. I used to read up on loonies that would cut the wires to them thinking the government was spying on them! Haha! People have forgotten those times in favor of fearing the infotainment console and over the air updates, which honestly is a valid concern (Looking at you, Ford).
@@lindseys3708 *watches FBI knock down our door and smuggle the Microwave to their lab for audio analyses of the contents of a data storage medium inside it*
The difference between the casserole, dinner plate, and pasta settings lets the microwave know how to more evenly reheat your food. Casseroles are usually an amorphous, unified, oobleck, amalgam of foodstuffs that tend to heat/reheat at roughly the same rate; so an even heating method is preferrable. Dinner plates tend to have varying reheating rates for each independent item, so a lower and slower process is needed to keep certain items from desiccating, and potentially burning, while others remain cold at their core. And the pasta setting is there purely to make the Italians sad. Love your videos. Keep up the interesting work!
Nothing should have a pasta button
@@nitroAlewhat does the pasta button do
@@milkflysmake italians sad obviously
Let's not even talk about the pizza button... There are already enough wars going on as it is.
Reheated pasta? Might as well call for "Bachelor Tears" in the recipe
This feels like a pro microwave's popcorn's button propaganda. Im here for it
Fan service is just one thing that makes this channel great.
Agreed! The fan episode was fantastic!
I think I can explain the slow melting butter thing! I always purposefully melt my butter at a lower power setting. If you melt it at normal temperature it starts popping and splattering over before its finished melting. This usually happens for me when it's about half melted. So a microwave that can choose to melt butter slower is doing a pretty good job!!
He mentioned his microwave magnetron doesn't alternate on and off (which is what 50% power is).
I came here to explain why you shouldn't melt butter too quickly. Good job!
That is exactly right. The lower power setting doesn't actually mean it puts out lower power. It puts out the exact same power but it cycles on and off, depending on what you set it to. And it works beautifully. Sadly, most people don't have a clue how or why this happens. Although most of this information comes with the microwave in a thing called an operators manual. They often also include some recipes and tips. Most people fail to read these though.
If it isn't cycling and only some foods take longer, either the magnetron operates at an unusual freq (unlikely), the geometry of the microwave is setting up an unusual wave pattern, or it a convection/venting thing
Popcorn is coated in oil or butter and oils of course don't interact with microwaves very strongly, so that seems like a factor
There will always be water in butter, but higher quality butter doesn't splat nearly as much. Especially in a hot pan.
This perfectly perfunctory yet passionate presentation on the performance of preset popcorn painted a positively profound picture of the position of those pompous popcorn partnerships.
Pleasant un-pedantic prose from you, pal! :)
Okay, there's no point to me even trying. This post wins.
It's my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me "P".
@@TheChangBI am Q and m better than you
Perhaps partially premeditated prose posted past paramount purveyance permeates pleasurable playfulness. Please people, partake!
I always go with 1:30 minutes and then double it and keeping hitting the +30 button every so often until the popping slows to almost a complete stop. Haven't had any popcorn pieces burn on me doing that.
Fellow furry :3
Perfect presentation, profoundly practical! Prolific popcorn pointers provided, particularly pleasing. Persistently perceptive, profoundly persuasive.
I Hate burnt popcorn. Tastes like ash. I always stop my microwave as soon as the popping slows (regardless how much time left on the screen)
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Persnickety!
Prathanks profor prothis
This is what a dad says to his kids when they think he's disappointed in them for their life choices. He's not but he could have done it in a way that doesnt seem farcical or sarcastic or even satyrical. You're using profound way too much. once is too much when its a video about a microwave. But you are doing a tongue twister on purpose but it just takes away....like trying to do a haiku, most don't know how to do it without sounding contrived and forced.
Its ok dad, he doesn't hate you
what a carefully crafted comment! can this cavernous caper of cacophonous chatter calm? this cautiously connected catalogue of creative comments compiled of convoluted conduct can cease coagulation!
Your pedantry really speaks to my heart and soul. So many people gloss over the finer details in their technology and its workings or clever unnoticed features that some engineers thought up only to be neglected or unknown.
IDAHO
I've seen lots of microwaves with a baked potato button. I don't think I have EVER pushed one. Even on baked potatoes. Quite honestly, I' usually just hit the 30 second button however many time I think appropriate.
IDAHO
I mean if the popcorn manufacturers actually cared they would do cook times by wattage but they don't so this whole video is kinda dumb but entertaining.
I saw the spider in your profile pic, chuckled and opened the replies to find people that commented on it, realized no one commented on it, and quickly scrolled my screen to make sure it wasn't actually on my end lol.
I love how this channel is basically "I learned the theory behind the thing, then here's my anecdotal evidence ymmv" which is exactly what I want from product reviews. Absolutely stellar work my good sir.
turns out I have a chaotic evil popcorn button
I'd love an air fryer episode, I'm actually curious to know what the difference is between each cooking mode.
Depends on the air fryer, but mostly it's presets regarding temp and time. With my Instant brand one I have noticed that the difference between Bake and Air Fry is that Air Fry tells you to turn the food around 2/3 of the way through but Bake doesn't. Other modes in may also run the convection fan at different speeds as well.
I refuse to use that word. It's a miniature convection oven.
Best Buy had a recall on a model of theirs. It was a very popular model.@@n325aej
@@AdroSlice Same here, I wish they'd just call it there - there is no frying involved!
Mine has one mode. There’s just a dial for time and a dial for temperature
Yes, please do an air fryer video! I've watched several already that talk about how it's just a new name for something old, but with how in-depth you go, I bet there's even more to learn about it. Thanks for another great video Alec!
You clearly don't own an air fryer.
@@InventorZahranI mean it is just a convection oven, but what makes them better is the smaller size leading to a more efficient and quicker cooker than a regular convection oven.
It truly is just a small convection oven, but the small size does affect both the cooking results and the convenience factor when compared to a full-size.
@@RayvenQ My toaster oven has a fan, it's an "air fryer" too. Small convection ovens are nothing new, but the stupid marketing for overpriced "air fryers" is.
@@NickCombsthe big difference is the basket, though. My recent full size convection oven replacement had an optional extra feature, namely a baking tray full of holes similar to an air fryer basket. That actually works really well.
I'm in shock, I always assumed the food options on microwaves were just programed to a specific time. I'm gonna mess around with all the options on my microwave tonight, how exciting!
I know, I’m thinking of all the years wasted with a fancy microwave, lol
The various food options are preset profiles for power levels vs pulse time.
Microwaves don't really penetrate the -fool- *food* very far, so there is a tendency for foods to overheat on the outside. The power profiles allow some resting time between bursts of microwaving, which allows the heat to conduct (soak) into the center of the food.
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"Vegetable" setting might apply 50% power in bursts of 15 seconds. "Reheat Coffee" might apply 100% power continuously. "Defrost Meat" might apply 75% power for 10 seconds, then 10% power for 20 seconds.
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Also, higher-end microwaves have various sensors to detect the best time to change heating profiles and/or stop depending on the type of food selected.
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Inverter microwaves can vary the power level dynamically, rather than just switching the magnetron on 100% and off 0% on a timer.
Not all microwaves have sensors or inverter drive.
@@johncoops6897 "Microwaves don't really penetrate the fool very far" I mean, if you throw it hard enough...
@@klaus6027 - 🤣 yes, that's absolutely true.
For some obscure reason, your reply made me think of Photonic Induction... "oh, I popped that human".
I've fixed my hilarious typo 😉
I have a Panasonic with a lot of fancy buttons I've never used. But I also have over 20 years experience just setting a time and pushing start, then checking it, and either eating it, letting it cool off, or cooking it more.
I just got a new microwave and I tried the POPCORN button for the first time. It has three time settings for the size of the bag!! I've tried two sizes and brands of popcorn and IT WORKS PERFECTLY. Never burns.
To me, a popcorn button itself seems overly fancy, yet somehow in the 2000s, my parents bought a new microwave with a timer you physically had to turn, and you had to visually monitor everything you put in it because the time in real life did not match the analog timer.
One of the best parts of adulthood has been setting an exact time on a digital microwave and just walk away knowing real time and microwave time are aligned.
I'm happy for you, stranger. I had to move recently and I downgraded to an analog timer microwave. I usually prefer analog stuff, but this dial is so poorly designed that it's impossible to tell what it says. Did I just set it to 2 minutes or 3.5 minutes? Nobody knows!
So we just crank it up and keep our hungry, watchful eyes on our food, ever vigilant - probably much like our ancestors did. But one day... one day I will rejoin you in the future. Pray for me, stranger.
I had a microwave like that in college, though it never occurred to me to check whether the time was accurate.
This was actually way more inspirational and deep than it is allowed to be. Go out there, live life, push a button.
Thank you
IM GONNA PUSH THE BUTTON!
That's always been my motto for learning computer software and systems; Just click everything! If you accidentally blow something up, that means it was poorly designed and not really your fault. This is how I end up learning lots of things, when starting a new job :)
It is actually how hackers became good at hacking, pushing buttons.
Especially the big red ones.
One thing to note if you have a dumb sensorless microwave is that you can sometimes (idk the actual frequency of being able to do this with them) reprogram the popcorn button to automatically cook for however long you want. It still isn’t GREAT, but if you have a go-to brand that always takes the same amount of time with little variance it can save you a little effort. The reprogramming might get wiped after it loses power though, so keep an eye out for that.
Man, I wish there was a way to store information on a Microwave even if absolutely tiny. Power outages reseting the clock are annoying enough, but going through the effort of customising a setting only for it to reset on power outage is terrible. Like, even if it required me to go out and buy a USB or SD card to slot in just so it'd have storage space, please.
Bro nobody gonna reprogram their microwave lol
I did this! Super easy to change too, just as simple as changing the clock 😂
you do it every time you choose the time. so. everyone does it every day@@noom5076
0:27 makes me think of the sound that’s like pull the lever crunk wrong lever.😂
Why do we even HAVE that lever?!? *Slap*
The alliterative aspect of these assessments is always appreciated.
Amusing that you use assonance to applaud alteration.
@@ratamacue0320Alteration? Ambiguous..
He calls his old microwave an antique. My kitchen microwave is from 1982. My parents bought it new in 82 and I've been using it nonstop ever since. When I moved my parents gave it to me. It works. Why buy a new one that won't be built as well?
This comment was whimsically weird, wonderful and a winner. (couldn't resist)
@@christo930 Well, chances are that 1982 unit has no support, parts and other available information. That said, my Mom received her parents' old 1975-ish Panasonic and we used that from when I was in elementary school (I was in 5th Grade, there-abouts, maybe 6th) and it lasted to about 2017 or 2018. When we moved, a microwave came with the place and the old Panasonic beast was retired. My unit was also retired and both were in e-waste. Mine was rusted on the inside, so we decided not to use it. The timer was falling apart (it was an old flip-card clock style with an alarm clock in it that started the microwave automatically and it also had a plug in thermometer probe for some settings which I thought was neat) It had a list of cooking options in two radio tuner-style displays (like in an old radio receiver). It was an awesome machine.
Positively Perfect, Passionate and on Point Popcorn Presentation Partner ! Packed with all the Prime Particulars, you should be Pretty Proud of your Painstaking Project !
Please part with petty puns!
Im so glad yall noticed, cuz i loved the use of the p's
i went to the comments exactly for this reason 😭
I love English
Who else thought of the principle that spits his Ps from That’s So Raven 😅
It's insane how much effort went into the creation of that Sharp microwave. It has so much character & depth to it's custom sensor settings & animations. I wish more modern things would go this direction instead of the current fads of "everything is connected to the Internet" nonsense
its custom
@@NoName-zn1sbIt's not, the sharp microwave really is like that. He even made a video about it!
agree
It was designed during the "bubble" years of Japan.
@@muuid1sk exactly. I saw that video he did on microwaves & that specific microwave. It was surprisingly awesome for a video on microwaves
For 13 years of my life I had a microwave that perfectly popped popcorn every time you press the popcorn button so I never really understood why people said press the popcorn button
I love how even though he's supposed to put in no effort at all he still does subtitles for these videos because he cares for his viewers. Now that's some effort I can respect.
Some folks have hyper diligence. Even with the explicit intention to half ass something they get an itch to keep refining it.
I usually have subtitles off because no one does them, they are now on thanks, it helps with accents and when the ears don’t work.
@@roaming_data I learned long ago to turn on CC for any TC video, and watch alllll the way to the end.
And they're accurate subtitles! Most people who add them use the script that they already typed rather than what is actually said in the video.
Well, if you have lines like "popcorn people put a purportedly proper popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn"... you make sure the captioners can enjoy it too.
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.
You can fix that by only eating popcorn
@@cleopatraonlyfanshe can fix it by just stop eating at all.
@@cleopatraonlyfans damn, solid point
I love how often the time on the different microwaves is exactly 4:20. That can't be accident which means he is constantly resetting the time before each take😅
Date is wrong but the time is always 4:20 lol.
It also said "42069" on the scoreboard of the pinball machine in that video
Right? That sounds like a lot of effort for no effort november haha
sounds like too much effort for no effort November, he just cant let himself make low quality content smh
Nice.
he got around to talking about air fryers 👍
the good ending
wtf would we do without TH-cam?
Read probably.
We would burn our popcorn
Wait 1-2 seconds between pops.
Idk bro 😢
hey, i know you
I never thought I would call a microwave “cute” but that popcorn animation on the Sharp Carousel has me second guessing myself edit: 2:54
Not to mention the bowing chef
it's adorable for sure
It also has a bowing chef for - i think - completing the inbuilt recepies.
Didn't expect you here
My reaction to this was, "there's someone, somewhere, who's job it was to create that animation, how do they feel about that today?"
I have one of the "bad" popcorn buttons (it asks for weight) but it works pretty well. Almost everything popped, not scorched. So even the bad ones can be fine if you're lucky.
Mine also asks for weight but it's bad. It still needs an additional 10 to 15 seconds to really get all kernels. I do use it because it beeps when it's 10 seconds away from stopping so I can get ready to start as soon as it stops and start listening for the 2 second gap.
@@42Caiotry to lie the weight
@@roxinim6479 it has preset options.
@@roxinim6479often they only have options for the most common sizes
When me and my wife were teenagers, we had someone get us a hotel room to party in. We made popcorn in the microwave and press the popcorn button as we watch TV. The popcorn caught on fire smoked out the whole hotel and everybody had to evacuate. they kicked us out of the hotel because we burned the sink where we put the burning popcorn and put it out. What a night
This inspired me to try the "Sensor Reheat" on my microwave. It actually worked great, but it's very unnerving to think "Man, it's been in there for a while, how much longer is left?" and then seeing that the microwave's display just says "Casserole"
The sensor reheat works great on ours! Partway through cooking, it changes power level and starts a timer so that you can see how much time is left. The timer varies, but it's usually between 30-90 seconds.
@@beezany Every military pilot: "It doesn't work at all."
@@beezany Glad he had the same microwave, always wondered why it beeped halfway through then showed a timer on the sensor options.
20 years ago I worked at Lowe's and sold microwaves. I remember the vendors coming in and teaching us about their products. I learned that 99% of the microwaves out there just cycle the power on and off for different intervals to get the "power levels." So, 50% power meant that the microwaves magnetron was turning on half the time. However, there were two manufacturers at the time that actually did have the ability to adjust and change the level of the magnetron without cycling it. Whirlpool was one of them. And Whirlpool makes KitchenAid. So likely, your guess is correct. It's running at half power or a preset percentage of power. It was not a feature on all models of course. But, they did have it on their upper echelon series.
😂90% of salespeople are clueless.
@@barry1122 and 90% of statistics are made up.
Yup, it's basically an implementation of pulse-width modulation, (a good compariosn would be analog to digital signals, where digital transmitted as 0 & 1's (or on/off) while analog transmitted in waves) basically instead of being able to smoothly turn it's power level up/down to desired frequency, it instead does the on-off to create the same effect. Well, at least in theory anyways, since it greatly depends on various factors. But if done well, it achieves the same effect with little-to-no noticeable difference (well, at least when it comes to re-heating your food that is).
@@barry1122yup he’s talking 20 years ago
Inverter microwave
Dude, you make the most mundane stuff just awesome. I think I love you..... thanks!
A very belated thank you!
My newer KitchenAid microwave has perfect popcorn button as well. Older Whirlpool popcorn button still required selecting size of bag, but did fairly well.
If your microwave doesnt popp all the corns, try putting an extra plate under the bag. This elevates the bag and makes it pop more corns!
But things further away from the center cook faster. I don’t understand the logic here with what you said, it goes against previous experience
Word on the street is to microwave a glass/cup of water for 1 minute then pop the corn.
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy Meanwhile my microwave has a hot spot right in the middle. If I center my chicken pot pie on the dish, it cooks the middle perfectly. Otherwise the edges will burn.
@@Jaysaflamethis actually makes sense considering the reason popcorn pops is because of moisture inside the kernel.
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy In dense materials, things further from the center have to cook first. Otherwise, each microwave has a number of "hot spots" which are usually not near the walls or bottom. That's why microwaves usually rotate, to move the food across the hot spots. Raising a microwave bag +might+ move it up into a hot spot or two.
The amount of care and dedication you went into including as many Ps as possible was hilarious.
The precision and poetry present in such a playful and purely pretentious display of percussive *P* sounds was powerfully pleasing to perceive.
@@DarthRayjperfection!
it's called alliteration
HEY THANKS?@@HyenaEmpyema
But where’s the P in that?
The popcorn button always seemed like such a risk to me for no reason.
It's for the thrill. Grab life by the horns and don't be afraid of burnt popcorn.
Live a little
Your opinion has been biased by big popcorn. All those warnings on the bag have slowly seeped into your subconscious
A risk? What's the worst that could happen?
(he said standing before the burning wreckage of his house)
Mine's right next to the self-destruct button so...
My kind of video! The microwaves always read 4:20.
When you really want a snack
1:25 LOL, I can only imagine the number of takes you had to do to get those tongue twisters out. Well done!
Exactly 😂😂
I was like
what he said
I cannot help but appreciate the attention that went into making all the microwaves say 4:20 when showing the time. So silly, well done!
This is the kind of special attention to detail an audience full of geniuses such as ourselves deserves.
I was hoping someone else caught that 🌬️
Came to the comments to look for this. I think he’s trying to tell us something.
he's super Canadian
@@zachhoyI believe he is from Illinois, actually. I used to live nearby and recognize some of the places he has gone on location/driven around.
I've been blindly using the popcorn button all my life and it works every time.
you are probably young with a newer microwave.
That’s so nice! Glad you’re enjoying your popcorn 🍿
@@carlcarlson5553while they may just have been on youtube since a very young age or using someone else’s account who is older than them, their profile says they’ve been on youtube for 9 years!
Boldly you mean lol
@carlcarlson5553 I have a similar experience and I've been on this Earth for 18 years. I wouldn't say I'm too young to have had an older microvave in the past... I'd just say I've been lucky 🤷
"Daring to use the popcorn button" sounds like a line from a forgotten Seinfeld episode
It's nice to see small 2 million subscriber channels like this who are still daring enough to make how-to videos for microwave ovens.
You call that small? I watch videos with 5000 views or even as low as 15. But its hard to find those
@@an8nymous791 bro... joke much?
@@Em4gdn1m Yeah I do. 2 million is actually very common and small for many so I wasnt sure if he was serious.
@@an8nymous791yea bro this guy is crazy to think 2 million subs is a small channel lol todays algorithm is so hard to find those 50 to 10k subscriber channels compared to old TH-cam
Why does nobody detect the sarcasm in the original post
I have no idea how I was able to just get sucked in to this for so long but it’s weirdly hypnotic.
You clearly don't own an airfryer
@@pintadocachorrao Would it make watching content totally unrelated to your interests more normal? I don’t even eat popcorn yet somehow I sat through this whole thing. 😂
@@Prockskiit's not that long, even. his regular videos are often over half an hour in length.
and yes, it's normal to learn something new and fascinating, you didn't know it even exists before watching them.
like how street lights turn on and why they're on for a bit after a power outage, and such.
The air fryer reply is a reference to something unrelated. Also how short is your attention span that 13 minutes seems "so long"?
@@Ohmyadeline Its "long" in the sense that I have no interest in this topic at all and usually would click off to watch something more up my street. I was just suggesting that it took me a lot longer to kind of snap out of the trance this put me in and was not in fact some kind of pointer to my general attention span.
Here are the takeaways with time codes:
1:14 proper popping performance
1:19 the popcorn people put a purportedly proper popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn
3:00 proper popcorn popping prowess
Perfection
2:19 - 420
@@LowTide941 Probably pedantic, but prolonged plosive pronouncements placate pop-corny people disproportionately, period. Please prevent prefixing with oppressively perpetual p's!
Say that 5 times fast
You are the hero we didn't ask for, but needed!
Hi Alec, I'm sure you get way too many comments to read them all, but I wanted to thank you for your sound design choices. It's such a good mix of soothing and interesting. I have ADHD and listen while I work to avoid falling into distractions, and your videos are perfect for when I need to focus (because of the softness) and for when I finally get a break and can learn in earnest about heat pumps (interesting because of your great scripts). Thank you.
This video sparked a great family debate about that 'Popcorn button' on our microwave. Now, we're wondering about the 'Pizza' button. Future family feud or kitchen revelation? Time and frozen pizzas will tell! 🍿🍕
The pizza button reheats pizza perfectly!
ask LGR. he had a computer with a pizza button.
The other buttons just adjust the power level
only way to reheat pizza is in a hot hot skillet with some oil, then add a sploosh of water and cover steam for a minute.... crispy crust and gooey cheese every time
@@beamshooterhuh. That's an interesting idea.
"Proper popcorn popping prowess"
I expected this to feature in the bloopers.
Your alliterative ability is indeed amazing.
The other "secret" microwave trick I discovered is not using full power on things that take a long time to heat through. In fact, most things I cook at half power and double time now, since it tends to be more even heating
I do this for everything except when it is already stated to do so on the package....Half power and double the cook time.
I honestly just use the default. I just use the quick buttons.
This is an especially valid strategy for inverter microwaves.
@@voodootrois When I bought my microwave I didn't even know it was an inverter unit. Over time I learned that certain things, like meats especially appreciate being heated slowly so I use 10% and 20% all the time and the results are wonderful. Years later I learned that is indeed an inverter unit and when I need a new one that's absolutely the type I will buy again.
The most useful secret I discovered about microwave ovens is that they are only useful for quickly reheating food. For every other purpose, a regular oven is better. I'd rather have a toast iron than a microwave.
Do NOT use the popcorn button! 0:22
Now that you've mentioned it, yeah, when are you going to get around talking about air friers? You are literally _the_ perfect person I know qualified to talk about them.
The video should be about the marketing genius that rebranded “small convection oven” to “air fryer” 😁
Ahh, air fryers: the appliance that I DESPERATELY want to hate, but it far too useful for me to do so. It's quite the dilemma.
Air fryers have a terribly silly name, but are actually kinda awesome. They are essentially small powerful convection ovens with a convenient basket instead of a rack. Hard vegetables like potatoes, pumpkins or carrots get soft in 15 minutes and any kind of frozen snack gets super crunchy without any additional fat. They are suprisingly versatile and only require occasional cleaning. What it can't do is frying of cause.
I need a microwave oven with p.p.p.p certification. And that obviously stands for proper popcorn popping prowess.
The norm shall be established.
When I'm done upgrading my kitchen, or maybe the whole home in general, I will need a stamp that says "kitchen by Alec" or "technology connections approved" since all my appliances will be chosen due to your recommendations. Sensor microwave, induction stove to replace gas, I know how to use the dishwasher now, and how to set my water heater for maximum efficiency. Will eventually replace all my windows, and get a heat pump instead of a gas furnace when the time comes.
Excellent video as always, thank you for your great research and insight.
holy shit lol that's a genuinely *_brilliant_* merch idea 😂
maybe install a reverse beeper on your car as well?
You also need an electric kettle😂😂
Great idea for potential sponsorships.
@@moenchen-008 he need a pulse jet powered kettle, like the famous one on youtube
10 years ago we had a perfect microwave with a perfect popcorn button. One too many door slams broke the microwave emitter so we had to replace it and we’ve never had an adequate successor
"The popcorn people put a purportedly proper popcorn preparation primer on every package of popcorn." I appreciate what you did there.
"no effort November" by the way
I was so looking for this comment!!
I have mixed feelings about this video. It feels lovely no-effort, but clearly a fair amount of effort went into writing and researching this video 😂.
This channel is perfect for perusing popular practical appliances with perfect presentation and a personable personality.
(Then again, this comment only took 3 minutes, maybe the script wrote itself)
love this alliteration! could have become a Haiku if it werent "no effort month"...😂
Part of the reason I watch, really, the language-creativity.
That microwave with a build in convection oven mentioned at the very end is what I have and it works absolutely perfect every single time. We don't even use the oven anymore, it's so much more convenient.
Is that something new in America? I can’t remember not having this kind of microwave in the eu. Maybe eu brands first launch in the eu. Same with front loading washers.
my younger sister brought her microwave with a convection oven after she finished her studies in Japan. Wondered why she had to go all through that (bringing it home, buying a transformer to get it to operate safely without damaging it due to voltage differences of japan and philippines), but seeing her using all of the features that it came with was worth it without a doubt.
@@StijnNLDutchmy grandma had it for decades in the US
@@StijnNLDutchit's very common in Netherlands actually, most combimagnetrons have it
What if it runs the microwave, convection oven, and air fryer all at the same time? Because I want my food to be forged in the fires of mount doom itself. One Magnetron to heat them all!
I just realized that the moisture sensor is possibly why sensor reheating doesn’t work well in my microwave. It’s not because the microwave sucks, it’s because I habitually use a microwave cover so that any sauces won’t splatter. (Even if there’s no sauce, it’s just become a habit) Interesting findings here, I’ll have to try it on something that doesn’t use a sauce without a cover.
Or use a cover that has little holes in it to let the steam out. I usually loosely cover my leftovers with a paper towel while reheating, and my sensor reheat works just fine.
3:35 an internet connected microwave sounds like a horrible idea.
The untouched buttons have always been a curiosity of mine. Thank you for laying it to rest, I’m off to go play with my microwave!
Ok dioxazine_stars bedtime now
The popcorn button on mine has always worked great, but I’ve never used any of the other shortcut buttons. I too am now inspired to go try them. “Side Dish (8 - 12)”, here I come!
Read your bible! (KJV, preferably) ♥
@@abel6298 Sorry to break it to ya, but Jeezy boi didn't know what a microwave was. The microwave manual is much more helpful literature here.
I'm gay
The slower melting of butter is almost definitely a feature; I've heard people recommend home chefs use their microwaves to bring frozen sticks of butter to room temperature in a pinch, and when you're doing that you don't actually want it melting.
Slow melting butter is good-mine has made butter explode.
@@katebowers8107 That's awesome. Please do it again and post a video.
You'll need a microwave with an inverter (allowing lower than full power of magnetron) AND a microwave safe dish (which does not heat up).@@katebowers8107
@@katebowers8107 Yes, please post a video. I imagine you could get this to happen if you unknowingly had bubbles of water or air in the butter. If someone is selling butter with pockets of air in it, please tell the public so that we can avoid buying it.
Our microwave at home is adjustable between 300 and 900 watts of power so different power modes are not that uncommon
I'm very pleased with your commitment to making sure that popcorn is always being made at 4:20.
OMG, I would have never noticed, but you are not wrong sir. This is absolutely hilarious. Nice work. Both of you. 🌿🌽🌿
It's the best time for a little snack
shouldn't it be more like 4:30? 4:35?
Lol, I was just about to comment thing as I randomly noticed that.
Damn, I thought I was special for noticing 😂
I’ve always used the popcorn button and had no issues. My roommate on the other hand, refuses to use it and ends up burning his popcorn every time😂
We need to appreciate that he has never done a paid sponsorship. Nothing but pure education from him.
he should get sponsored by defunct decades-old hardware manufacturers
I wouldn't bother if he does honestly, his content is toptier, a 30 sec ad that I can skip wouldn't affect the quality of his content, and he gets money. WIN-WIN
there is no shame in being paid for your work
@@facundoestrada7026just hope that they won’t influence his opinions on vids.
I wouldn’t mind. He should get compensated for the time he spent making the video I’m watching, and sponsorships are a really effective way to do it for everyone. Apparently it works out without them though, so I assume he has other means, which is nice.