The Cake Slicing Speeded Things Up,

now let's slow them down,

and watch popcorn popping 1,250 times slower than real time, at 1,300 frames per second, the kernel leaps from the heating element, full of starch and joy, and explodes into its fluffy final form before tumbling down in a cloud of steam, before it pops, the pressure inside reaches around 135 psi and its internal temperature hits 356 degrees fahrenheit, if that is not slow enough at 30,000 FPS—1,250 times slower than real time—you can watch the kernel's insides expand peel the hard hull apart, video credit: Warped Perception/ YouTube.