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My wife prefers the popcorn button and I prefer to mash +30secs. You have to hit the popcorn button three times to get the right setting, but then they're both cooking for two minutes.

She gets there in four presses and it takes me five, but +30s is right next to Start so I'm not sure one is better than the other. I guess she's causing less wear on the button

Don't buy a microwave with just a dial. My last one had an actual keypad of buttons, I could just press 2 + Start and it was wonderful. Nowadays I have to scroll over hells creation to get the right setting, or change the clock, and it's awful

I've never had a microwave where the popcorn button doesn't burn it, so no.

I use the popcorn butter.

I don't have a microwave oven.

I try it to see if it works. Most of the time it's too long but sometimes there's that perfect microwave that has the steam sensor and it pops with no kernels.

Yes, but my microwave's popcorn button is customizable, so it's easier.

I use an air popper

Works great! Just make sure is a sensor microwave

Yep, worked great.

Sacrilege making popcorn in a microwave

Microwave popcorn is just nasty though...

Air-popper + microwave for the butter.

I try to, but it doesn't seem to work in any logical kind of manner. You just kind of have to push it and some other buttons randomly before it starts to do something.

Unfortunately my fiancée does not like pocorn

My LG microwave suffered a major malfunction and broke the magnetron. I replace it but the humidity sensor apparently broke also so my popcorn button and with other features dependant on that sensor don't work.

Just another example of the enshitification of consumer products. Now I have to cook my popcorn like a savage. I don't know how many bags of popcorn I ruined because my attention span is shorter than the 1-2 seconds between pops.

Yes, I do, however it is not perfect. Microwave popcorn is more art than science and it takes years of experience to know when to stop the cycle. Too short and you're left with a plethora of unpopped kernels. Too long and it burns.

Have a new ge with settings like that. nukes everything.

Have a LG at a different place with fancy settings and it sings to me and sometimes sends me texts. Works perfectly every time.

I never did until one of my kids used it and it did OK. Ours leaves a bit more unpopped kernels than timing it manually, but pretty minor difference.

So the button is being used, especially when the kids wanna do their popcorn.

Only when I’m out of real popcorn. A little interdimensional snack isn’t too dangerous as long as I eat it with plenty of salt.

No microwave, but my hot air popper gets it perfect every time.

Nope. 1,200 seconds for popcorn. No more, no less.

Vast majority of bag instructions state "DO NOT USE POPCORN BUTTON" so no. Also I don't eat much popcorn.