Burnt Popcorn and an argument with Bonnie / Need an answer / Please help.

[Bonnie]

you tell him Sweet Lola!! lol

[ZZTOM]

I just love reading your threads!!!

[Mr_Draco]

I say you go and check the date on the box of the popcorn, these things have a exp date for a reason.

We have 3 microwaves (one we broke the plate in, one is a cheap a** model that didn't come with one, and the other is one of those cabinet versions and we have to take the plate out for a full bag of popcorn to fit inside) all three cook popcorn just fine without the plate.

[Bonnie]

ok, in this situation do yall think it would be the same test using a minibag vs the regular size bag that was used before?

[ddunerider]

Originally Posted by coolman

Try not to get every kernel popped you cheap bastard and you won't burn it. LOL

OMG thats funny!!

[Bonnie]

the new popcorn burned without a plate just like the other bag!!!!!!! HA

[68 Z/28]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

the new popcorn burned without a plate just like the other bag!!!!!!! HA

Told him you were right Bonnie

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by PQ

Ok. So here's the deal.

Our microwave plate broke. You know the one that rotates?

So we have been using it with no plate. Fine. All is good.

We had a box of microwaveable popcorn bags. Well, about every other one will burn and it's driving me crazy. SOOOOOOO...............


Bonnie says, we need to get another plate for the microwave. Ok, no problem there, I agree. Buuuuuuttttt............ Then she says, that's why the popcorn is burning. I point out that our microwave at work didn't even come with a plate. And I've made bagged popocorn in microwaves without rotating plates before with no problem.

I say it's old popcorn. She says it's no rotation in the microwave.

I think my theory is more plausible.

So what is it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Why did you agree to get another plate if you thought the popcorn had nothing to do with it?


Anyways the other bag burning basically confirms it was the plate. My guess (and I'm not a Microwavism expert) is that different microwaves are set up differently, some need the rotating plates, some don't.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Zeus

Why did you agree to get another plate if you thought the popcorn had nothing to do with it?

Anyways the other bag burning basically confirms it was the plate. My guess (and I'm not a Microwavism expert) is that different microwaves are set up differently, some need the rotating plates, some don't.

Simply because there is a little knoby thing in there.

[Sweet Lola]

I am completely LMAO! She is right; she is always right! Just agree, go get another plate...then if it burns YOU WERE RIGHT! Got'ta use some of that reverse psychology. You are wrong though just so you know.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

Ah, and here ladies and gentlemen...we see a classic example of an excuse to drive the Camaro.

Originally Posted by Xanthos

Its a funny story involving a fan and a paint mixer.
- X

Plate broke so we went to the ceiling fan. lmao

Originally Posted by Paul SS

Um... how did the microwave plate break?

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

I've got a funny story about burning popcorn...

It was...my senior year in High School. I was the then-editor of the yearbook for that year, and it was just after school had let out. We had just sent in our section and barely met the deadline the night before (at ~5...and school let out at 2 - anyways)...

We decided to put in a bag of popcorn, and I got up to go do it. Threw it in the microwave, set it for 3 minutes...and walked back to the computer. I was messing around in Photoshop (suprised?), and didn't pay attention to the high-power microwave frying the popcorn. Smoke started coming out of the machine, and it smelled terrible!.

And....the fire alarm went off. Yep...whole school, 2000+ people, emptied out -- after school.

I felt like such a prune. I was all red-faced and embarrased. Our advisor was laughing his ass off, and my fellow students in the club thought it was funny, too.

I later found out that it was a not-so-routine fire drill...but I had a week to feel like a doofus.

So that's what you told them when they asked who pulled the fire alarm?

Originally Posted by coolman

Pq I do have to say, thank you. I was in a bad mood all week and read many threads that made it even worse. You helped to get me back on track just in time for the weekend.

Originally Posted by Mr_Draco

I say you go and check the date on the box of the popcorn, these things have a exp date for a reason.

We have 3 microwaves (one we broke the plate in, one is a cheap a** model that didn't come with one, and the other is one of those cabinet versions and we have to take the plate out for a full bag of popcorn to fit inside) all three cook popcorn just fine without the plate.

Thank you.







HOWEVER,,,,,,,,, I just cooked two bags of popcorn. The first without a plate. BURNT

The second cooked up just right.
(I hate admitting when I'm wrrr.... Wrrrr.....WRRRRRRR........ Well, you know.)

So what have we learned tonight?

ME? Not a damn thing.

[PQ]

I still have a faster car.

[DGthe3]

so, it turns out you're both wrong. Its not old popcorn, and its not the rotation of the plate. Its the spacing of the popcorn (or any other food) above the bottom of the microwave.

Still, an entertaining thread

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by PQ

The second cooked up just right.
(I hate admitting when I'm wrrr.... Wrrrr.....WRRRRRRR........ Well, you know.)

You wrrr.....wrrrent right. That's it...you weren't right. That's all.

I got'cher back!

Originally Posted by PQ

I still have a faster car.

THAT'S the spirit!!!