Popcorn Hack
January 18th, 2007
I love the idea of extending ‘hacks’ to the real world as opposed to the computer/electronic world. It isn’t really something I’d given much thought to till today.
My Mum dropped off a care package of stuff that she’d been saving up the past year (we don’t get much of a chance to see each other). Anyway amongst this pack was a couple of packets of microwave popcorn.
I love microwave popcorn but we don’t have a microwave. I’m not sure why we don’t either. We’re not morally opposed to them - I don’t think. But we just don’t have one anymore.
So I’ve got these two packs of microwave popcorn and I’m thinking to myself tonight I just feel like some microwave popcorn. Is there a way to use it without a microwave. the simplest answer is usually the right one of course but I still thought I should check online and see if there is indeed a way to use microwave popcorn without the microwave.
Like I said before the simple answer of just tipping the contents into a saucepan certainly occurred to me but I thought maybe someone had a different way of doing it.
Turns out no.
However I did find an entry on a blog that refers to it as a Popcorn Hack and I just like that idea. Taking a normal item and ‘hacking’ it to suit your purposes. We all do it. Use something a little different than it’s instructions intend to make it suit our purposes.
One thought I had was using the ripping feature on Windows Media Player to help us with minimising our luggage. With the recent dramas of having to move so abruptly we are going to have to live very leanly in regards to having our stuff around us.
I can fit around fifty CDs onto a DVD when they are ripped to Mp3. So now we’re not going to have to lug around 300 odd CDs I’m just going to burn them all to DVD and we’ll either play them on the computer or transfer them to the iPod! I can then pack all the CDs away in storage!
Is that a life hack?
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That’s a brilliant ‘hack’.
With regards to the popcorn, I always wanted to get a microwave popcorn pack, and put it on a heated cooker to see what it would do…
One day, I might just do it…
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In Australia we don’t have those popcorn packets that you can put on the stove top and they expand - like the one in Scream (or was that Scary Movie?) which is most disappointing!
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I think you are talking about Jiffy Pop. I didn’t realize that was still around…
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That’s the stuff Mr Fab! We never had it here in Australia at all - it always looks like a fun way to make popcorn.
In case anyone was wondering - in the pan worked but not as well as in the microwave - it was a little harder - not so fluffy
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Sorry, time for me to blame you again, Lee.
Before I left the house today, I had to take a pack of microwave popcorn with me! And yes, I pop it at work, during lunch - it was lovely…
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Nav at one of the places I used to work they banned popcorn because too many people were burning them and having fire alarms! I kid you not!!!
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I assume you’re already aware of lifehacker.com
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Dan - I remember kind of seeing it or hearing about the site ages and ages ago but it wasn’t until your link that I actually went and looked - thanks for that! Dan had some similar experiences as me with IKEA - go check out his blog!!!
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