What happens if you microwave popcorn upside down?

What happens if you microwave popcorn upside down?

It absorbs the microwaves, which raises its temperature high enough to cook the kernels by conduction. … If you were to cook a microwave popcorn bag upside down, you would simply have far fewer (and less evenly) popped kernels in the bag.

Why shouldn’t you use the popcorn button?

Seriously, don't do it. Even the popcorn bags have a warning on them telling you not to. The popcorn setting on many microwaves has only a preset time and no humidity sensor, which means that the microwave can't tell when something's burning.

Can you cook 2 microwave meals at the same time?

A microwave on the other hand is very efficient at transferring energy from the magnetron (the thing which produces the microwaves) to the food. … If you have twice as much food the same amount of energy will be transferred every second but it will be shared out over twice as much food, so it will heat up slower.

What does the popcorn button do?

My microwave oven has a "POPCORN" button. Its manual reads: Touch this pad when popping popcorn in your microwave oven. The oven's sensor will tell the oven how long to cook depending on the amount of humidity it detects from the popcorn.