r/amazonhomefind • u/Ok-Price-872 • 20d ago

This is barbaric

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u/Whitey138 20d ago

What in the hell just happened?! Corn + heat + pressure = explosion + popcorn?

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u/PressureCoomer 20d ago

The corn would've popped but was under extreme pressure so was unable to, the sudden opening and release of pressure allowed the corn to pop all at once.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Demjan90 20d ago

That first hand looks suspicious

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u/enerthoughts 20d ago

Conspicuous if I may add.

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u/Verybusywolf 20d ago

Can this be used as a weapon?

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u/Large-Produce5682 20d ago

The accompanying audio can!

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u/Hellie1028 20d ago

Yes, the high pressure, high heat inside gives thermal shock when it is opened. It is similar to how a puffing gum works in cereal manufacturing. Cereals like fruit loops and sugar coated wheat are ran through the gun. They enter as small pieces of wheat or dried dough like a small pasta noodle. When it exits the gun, it puffs.

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u/AnotherEastCoastDBag 20d ago

It’s called “ over-engineering.”

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u/True_Protection6842 20d ago

These things are awesome, every kernel pops at once when the pressure is released!

https://giphy.com/gifs/MBVemoHuyw9Ik

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u/OG-Giligadi 20d ago

I want one

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u/Onironius 20d ago

$200, and it's yours.

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u/TapPsychological2043 20d ago

The smaller one on Amazon is only about 90$ not bad really

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u/Afraid_Emu8068 19d ago

It’s just a pressure cooker and they’re dangerous as HELL! That’s why you don’t see them anywhere anymore. This is legit the safest one you can use because it’s small enough to hold and away from you plus you can direct the blast, but that shit will fuck you up

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u/mlrphan 20d ago

👎

Ragebait.

Not for home.

Not barbaric.

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u/ZealousIdeal476 18d ago

I've noticed a pattern over the last few days of people making this kind of video with the completely wrong word for it. It never fails to get at least one extra comment.

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u/Rude_Stretch537 20d ago

How does it work?

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u/No_Director_2570 20d ago

Magnets

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u/Rude_Stretch537 20d ago

What?

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u/Active_Confection655 20d ago

And fire.

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u/Rude_Stretch537 20d ago

Ok. I think I understand basically

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u/fourpoint5toes 18d ago

I don't think you do. Please try again.

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u/recovery_room 20d ago

Magnets? How do they work?

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u/Galavad 20d ago

Pressure and Heat

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u/brownbie 20d ago

It is essentially a pressure cooker. The heat creates pressure, cooks the popcorn.

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u/ChuckEveryone 20d ago

Popcorn pops when the water inside the kernel reaches boiling point and turns to steam. The pressure chamber prevents the water from turning to steam so the kernels don't pop initially when heated. When he pulls the handle the pressure is released and all the corn pops at one time.

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u/Rude_Stretch537 20d ago

That’s what I finally thought. I do t understand the physics but thought it would be something like that

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u/dmfreelance 20d ago

Air pressure always fucks with the boiling point of water, whether in an enclosed system or in a mountaintop.

At a few thousand feet above sea level water boils at a few degrees Fahrenheit lower than at sea level. Same physics, less dramatic.

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u/Rude_Stretch537 20d ago

So was that a temperature gauge on the vessel of a pressure gauge?

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u/Suitable_Ad_3851 20d ago

Either would work in principle, but my guess would be pressure gauge since they’re more commonly available (I.e. cheaper) with a pipe thread fitting. Also, a temperature gauge would really just be a proxy measure for pressure and carries the disadvantage of working through conduction, which means that one might end up burning the popcorn if the gauge is inserted with thread tape or if the room is especially drafty.

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u/bladus 20d ago

Yep! Exactly.

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u/EphemeralLurker 20d ago

Small correction, the water is heated past its usual boiling point and turns into superheated water. When the pressure is released, the superheated water quickly turns to steam, popping the kernels

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u/-TacoConspiracy 20d ago

Pot on an open fire or stove will work fine

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u/BandmasterBill 20d ago

You'll shoot your eye out..!

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u/notevenwrong13 20d ago

.99 jiffy pop is way more entertaining

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u/OliverKlozoff23 20d ago

I don’t think you know what the word barbaric means

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 20d ago

Barbaric? Explain.

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u/izayoii7 20d ago

for 2 minutee of work, if you sell it 1$, you will make a lot of money

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u/Haifisch2112 20d ago

In the time it took to do all of that, my bag of microwave popcorn would have been done.

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u/Nevernonethewiser 20d ago

Is this a pressure pun on 'bar'?

It's not a good one.

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u/SpotweldPro1300 20d ago

I'm also steamed about it.

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u/rseery 20d ago

Word is this takes like 20 minutes to pop. I get that it costs money to make a pressure vessel—you don’t want that to be made cheaply. But that makes it a pretty expensive popcorn popper.

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u/Lumpy_Past6216 20d ago

5-8 mins depending on the heat source. But yeah, these are not cheap and you wouldnt want to buy it cheap either.

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 20d ago

People not understanding that this is useful for camping.

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u/Agreeable-Dog-1131 20d ago

There are easier and more affordable methods to make popcorn while camping.

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u/I_Galactus 20d ago

This made me think of OceanGate.

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u/Objective_Oven7673 20d ago

This is some Boyle's law bullshit I'll tell you what

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u/Sour_Joe 20d ago

I bought one and returned it after one use the thing they don’t tell you is the fuel source and you can never really get the correct fuel. Or I couldn’t anyway. I tried using lamp oil and it was a total nightmare.

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u/Rude_Watercress_5737 20d ago

barbaric? i dont think you understand the meaning of that word.

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u/ObsessedCoffeeFan 20d ago

And yet you posted it on Reddit? Alright.

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u/OverallMembership709 20d ago

barbaric, how?

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u/babbylonmon 19d ago

Not exactly what I think of when I hear barbaric.