On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:34:26 GMT, ScratchMonkey
> wrote:

>"DawnK" > wrote in
:
>
>> Yeap, my Sharp does all those quite well, too! Also the popcorn
>> button is nice, too.
>
>Is that a sensor thing? Does it know when to kill power just before the
>corn starts to scorch?
>
>I'm suddenly envisioning a microphone that measures time between pops!

My "new" m'wave has a popcorn button (as well as half a dozen others),
but they're just some kind of programmed time/power cycle settings.
The automatic button burns popcorn. And this after years of getting
the settings exactly right on my old (lower-powered) machine. :-(