Whirlpool AccuPop listens to your microwave popcorn for the proper bag

I do not know why it is so troublesome to make an ideal bag of microwave popcorn. My microwave has a one-touch popcorn setting that solely pops half a bag. And when I attempt to alter the timing manually, I wind up with a bag of charcoal. It appears like the key is to stroll across the microwave listening to cease the speedy popping.

This, too, is the key behind equipment large Whirlpool’s new AcuPop microwave expertise on show at CES 2014. It is a easy concept that solves an actual downside – the AcuPop listens as your popcorn cooks, detecting when the popping slows down. When it appears like your bag of microwave popcorn is within the candy spot, AccuPop stops heating it to maintain it from scorching.

There’s lots of fanciful kitchen tech right here at CES, however lots of it’s largely conceptual. AccuPop truly solves an actual downside. Hopefully, we’ll see it in use in much more microwaves sooner or later. As a result of let’s be sincere: Most of us People use our microwaves nearly completely for baggage of popcorn (and the occasional frozen burrito). Not that there is something fallacious with that.

Whirlpool’s AcuPop expertise might be accessible in high-end microwaves in February 2014. Additional data might be made accessible on the corporate’s web site, whirlpool.com.

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