Depends on how shitty of a microwave it is. If it’s a cheap low power microwave it might not even start popping till 3+ minutes.
Bottom line, whatever you’re microwaving just stick around and pay attention. I was working at a school and overheard students talk about how much better warm chocolate chip cookies are, and one girl said she always warms them in the microwave if they’re room temp. One of her classmates was intrigued and said he’d give it a try. At some point in the evening he threw a few dry ass Chips Ahoy in the microwave and set it for 5 minutes.
The smell of burnt cookies is almost as bad as burnt popcorn. At least there wasn’t a fire.
As a lover of mayo, this hurts to overlap in some fucked up Venn diagram with those people.
But I’m included in the circle that will gladly buy a plastic grocery bag of home made tamales from some random abuela I run into at a convenient store in some town I’m passing through. God those are amazing!