Every tried making it in a pot? It's long and it's a pain in the ass.

I wonder how many people remember how people did it before. Jiffy Pop was very popular. It came in an aluminum pie pan container with popcorn and you'd put it on the stove. I remember it always tasted like shit, half the kernels were scorched, the rest tasted like smoke. It was hard not to burn that stuff, and if you went easy half of it wouldn't pop. It just didn't compare to the movie theater.

Microwave popcorn definitely leveled things up, especially when brands like Orville Redenbacher showed up. It was around this time VHS rental and HBO on cable were getting to be popular, so with that and good quality microwave popcorn, the 1980s were really a great time for watching movies at home.

Also loud

Today I learned I'm older than microwave popcorn. Now I feel 10 million years old.

It wasn’t even bad, like at all. They used to make jokes about people who couldn’t handle making jiffy pop.

I find it very easy and the popcorn are much tastier. I really dont like the taste of microwaved popcorn.

And employees in break rooms around the world have cursed them ever since.

I bought one of those popcorn in a pan, I was excited making it on the stove. It was a massive fail, the popcorn had all the issue your named.

1/4 cup of kernels. Brown paper lunch bag folded well on top. Set microwave for three minutes. When pops are less than every two seconds, remove, add butter, salt and serve. You're welcome.

Gotta get corn in everyone’s mouths at all times!!!! Yum yum yum!!! That excess corn we continually grow can’t just sit there!!! Eat up you fat Americans!!! Not sweet enough for you??? Have some yum yum corn syrup in your… well, everything!! Bread, soda, granola bars, tomato sauce, chips and pasta!! yes it looks healthy but it’s still so tasty sugary sweet! Mmmm mmmm!! Gotta have the kids sayin, “mama mama I nee’ my sugary corn suuryp!!”

Have you heard of a Whirlpop

I’ll still make jiffy pop once in a while it has a great flavor

Honestly a bigger fan of stove top popcorn for no particular reason other than the fun of watching it expand and shaking it till popped.

No clue who downvoted you, solid advice. Also you can still cook popcorn bags just by emptying them into a pot and cooking it stove top. It came in handy when my sister didn’t have power to run her microwave.