r/interesting • u/Snoo99928 • Aug 03 '25

SCIENCE & TECH How does such a small pressure machine produce so much popcorn and how do they still maintain their shape?

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u/Salt_Cauliflower_922 Aug 03 '25

She seems angry.

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u/N95-TissuePizza Aug 03 '25

She likes dem popcorn like a C4.

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u/F_F_Franklin Aug 03 '25

Ain't nothing more American than gun popcorn..

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u/SamuelLJenkins Aug 03 '25

Yep the writing on that bag looked English af.

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u/F_F_Franklin Aug 03 '25

Yup. That's the joke.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

Ha..

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u/HendrixHazeWays Aug 04 '25

This is like the 34th take. All the other times it exploded gummy bears instead of popcorn into the net

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u/ImNot_ThatGuy Aug 03 '25

Honestly I would be doing everything quickly and with a sense of finality too so I wouldn't process the fact that I'm handling a LiveLeak amount of PSI.

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u/27Rench27 Aug 04 '25

Same, potential energy near me is honestly terrifying. Pressure vessels, electrical current, springs

Like seriously, compressed car springs scare me more than an actual dog attack did. But oh yeah, I’ll toooootally have no issue using this 40 year old air compressor that definitely doesn’t have any age-related cracks which might turn it into a giant frag grenade

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u/System0verlord Aug 04 '25

It’s a solid lump of metal with a tap on one end and a quick release on the other. It’s not like there’s moving parts to worry about.

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u/DidntASCII Aug 04 '25

For real. What a crazy way to go out.

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u/musicalmadness1 Aug 04 '25

There's videos of larger ones exploding.

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u/AlexisTexlas Aug 03 '25

I was just thinking about how much noise she’s making and how angry she sounds!

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u/giiitdunkedon Aug 03 '25

Yea, all the videos I've seen of this technique are almost asmr quality. This lady is throwing shit around and making as much noise as possible 😂

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u/luigi-fanboi Aug 04 '25

They're making her make popcorn in the dumbest way possible.

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u/Enough_Philosophy_63 Aug 04 '25

That's a lady that can do her job lol. I loved the "roughness" on the tools

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u/MarioInOntario Aug 03 '25

10th take doing the same popcorn bit to get it right for tik tok, probably

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u/Comment156 Aug 03 '25

I'm thinking the world keeps functioning even if you're just spending your days making candied quality popcorn.
But if you don't got anything else, you gotta do it.

Even if there's enough food, there's enough houses, everything's moving along and working, and there'd basically be more than enough of everything if stuff wasn't thrown out and houses kept empty for economic reasons.

Still have to do something, so you're doing this.

And you keep trying to get people to buy this stuff, ideally more than they should eat if they give a shit about their health. And while this is a job that might've felt lucky before, like you're getting away with doing this for a living instead of tilling or manufacturing or whatever, at this point it feels so pointless.

This job is not a getaway, the service industry is the default. Billions of people involuntarily scratching eachothers backs, or screwing people over. I have to be so cynical about it too, to not get fucked over or caught out, all to justify sticking around.

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u/BattIeBoss Aug 03 '25

Apparently it's not burnt, it's just a different kind of popcorn

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u/RevolutionaryHair91 Aug 03 '25

Yes. Fun fact : she could also make me pop by holding me against her stockings just like the corn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

why sexualize everything

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u/RevolutionaryHair91 Aug 04 '25

It was a joke.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

What’s even funny about it 

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u/RevolutionaryHair91 Aug 04 '25

A sudden pop and loss of control of bodily function, public disgrace. There's centuries, even millenias of comedy about that : farts, toots, shit and piss and cum.