A while back I stumbled upon<\/a> a claim that it’s possible to make microwave popcorn using regular popcorn and a paper bag<\/a>. I was skeptical, I confess, but hopeful. It seemed like the perfect way to stop my husband messing up my good heavy-bottomed soup pot popping corn on the stovetop, and it would be significantly cheaper than store-bought microwave popcorn. The good old brown paper lunch sack being something of an unknown quantity here in my adopted homeland, I had to wait a week or two for said sacks to wing their way here from the States (where would I be without eBay?), but as soon as I could, I gave it a go.<\/p>\n And you know what? It worked.<\/p>\n There was a bit of trial and error involved, but after I adjusted the quantity of corn and the popping time a couple of times and switched to a double-bag method, I came away with a perfect bowl of popcorn. It was virtually indistinguishable from corn popped in an air popper — better, actually, than any microwave popcorn I’ve ever tasted. I’m a little embarrassed and ashamed that the snack companies had me so completely convinced that I needed some sort of magic equipment to succeed at making popcorn in the microwave. Tell me, did you know it was this easy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while back I stumbled upon a claim that it’s possible to make microwave popcorn using regular popcorn and a paper bag. I was skeptical, I confess, but hopeful. It seemed like the perfect way to stop my husband messing up my good heavy-bottomed soup pot popping corn on the stovetop, and it would be… Read More Live and learn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}