microwave popcorn: satan's snack

Intern in another department a while back put some microwave popcorn in for 20 rather than two minutes. Smell (and flames in the microwave) so bad that the entire floor was evacuated for about 30 minutes, and about a half-dozen industrial fans were brought in to (unsuccessfully) get the odor out.

 

Look, the article said: it was a "consumer who developed lung disease from the fumes of microwaving popcorn several times a day for years."

Who the hell eats that much of the shit anyway?

 

Evil ... thy name is Orville Redenbacher!

(I can't believe it took 39 posts.)

 

They're trying to kill us, I swear!

 

I also have an air popper. And Bubbler, you're right. The pieces that the butter hits shrivel up like slugs after you salt them.

 

I've used this for cooking before. I'm sure it would work on the air-popped popcorn.



I guess this post would make more sense if I actually posted the picture.

 

You can salt air-popped popcorn?

Not me. There is no adhesion whatsoever. The salt just bounces right off. When you have finished eating the popcorn, 98 percent of the salt is sitting in the bottom of the bowl.

And without salt, air-popped popcorn is . . . cardboard.

And I hope those kettle corn lovers know how many calories are in those things. We're talking Dairy Queen milkshake territory.

 

There must be a hell of a lot of people here who microwave popcorn four times a day... otherwise this thread should have died long ago.

 

i have a lifetime supply of buttery micro. popcorn with your name all over them. just send a PM to claim.

 

Try working at a health centre where all you smell near the microwaves is that god awful burnt popcorn or really greasy smell of microwave popcorn...every day.

 

That just goes to show you that Tom P...y is a blob of a man with high BP whose idea of exercise is short sprints to the kitchen for the safer snack called potato chips.