Americans too lazy to microwave their popcorn

[colonelciller]

Couple tablespoons of bacon grease, a tall stainless steel pot with a lid, and some good popping corn is all you need.

Then, when it's done, season it with salt and pepper.

coating a potentially healthy food in 2 tablespoons of bacon grease... tasty

exposing your arteries to two tablespoons of bacon grease... subtract two weeks from your lifespan

 

[dank69]

coating a potentially healthy food in 2 tablespoons of bacon grease... tasty

exposing your arteries to two tablespoons of bacon grease... subtract two weeks from your lifespan

The last two weeks of your life aren't worth it anyway.

 

[dank69]

Ever watch an air popper?

Still don't see it?

 

[lokiju]

I just had some microwaved popcorn last night

My microwave has a popcorn button.

Never once has it burnt it. Comes out perfect every time.

 

[pontifex]

The toys have gotten lame over the years. They were pretty shitty when I was a kid, but you always had the hope you'd get the tattoos. Now, they aren't even worth opening. It's just some paper garbage that's about as fun as playing with the box label.

pretty much everything has gotten lame over the years in the name of making more money.

 

[PingSpike]

For pre-pooped popcorn it is hard to beat Albertson's (that's a western grocery chain) store brand.

Call me old fashioned if you want, but I prefer to poop my popcorn myself in the privacy of my own home.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

needs more butter

 

[pmv]

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."


Given the short amount of time that each of us has to be alive, we can't afford to be wasting it on things like waiting for popcorn kernels to heat up. There are far more valuable, memorable, and meaningful things to be done.



NEF.

Like posting on ATOT popcorn threads?

Reading these threads makes me realise I am a non-popping popcorn kernel in the microwave of life.

 

[ElFenix]

To all the microwave or old-fashioned popcorn cookers out there, what do you do when you have a hankering for some caramel/cheddar popcorn? Do you go make your own caramel and roll them around in the kettle? Do you melt your cheddar then add your maltodextrin?

Please... spare me the outrage.

act ii used to make a microwave caramel corn. it included a big slab of caramel that you put on the corn in the bag right after popping. all the heat in the corn would melt the caramel and turn it into a big melty awesome mess.

you could probably do the same with individual caramels or you could just make some caramel fresh and add to fresh corn.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Presto-Pop...-04820/5969519

Is this model any good?

air poppers suck. if you're going to get a cheap popcorn appliance, get a stir crazy
http://www.walmart.com/ip/West-Bend-...ndingMethod=rr

 

[Sonikku]

I have a microwave, but never use it. Everything that comes out of a microwave either tastes awful or has a terrible texture/consistency.

You're probably doing it wrong. Every read that fat manual that came with your microwave? You would be surprised the things you could cook with it and cook well with the right settings and run times.

 

[Nintendesert]

Meh, microwave.

I use one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Popcorn.../dp/B001CMRP80

Same!

I got it for my birthday for the home theater, I put some virgin coconut oil and some Flavacol and it's delicious!

I can't bring myself to eat any popcorn other than this type now.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

slightly off topic but if you buy popcorn from the theater do you finish it before the movie starts or do you wait for the movie to start before you start munching?

the drive in theater gives you a huge tub of popcorn for something like $5 or $6. couldn't even finish it because i also ate 3 cookies, nachos with cheese, curly fries, and a frosty, and a diet coke. and a footlong hotdog.

 

[DrPizza]

I think the answer is pretty simple for what the article notes (bagged popcorn prices are up): price.

My typical shopping trip at the store is a lap around the outside of the store. Except for occasionally running low on dog or cat food, and very occasionally going down the frozen food aisle, or getting some sort of pasta, I don't go down the aisles of the store. But, recently, I thought, "potato chips sound really good for a change, with our hamburgers." Shortly afterward, my thought was, "a bag of potato chips is $4.29? Wtf did that happen? Oh look, popcorn, $1.19 for the same number of ounces." (I got the chips.)

 

[sixone]

Call me old fashioned if you want, but I prefer to poop my popcorn myself in the privacy of my own home.

Allow me to thank you, on behalf of society.

 

[Jeff7]

Like posting on ATOT popcorn threads?

Reading these threads makes me realise I am a non-popping popcorn kernel in the microwave of life.

See that? This person right here gets it.



And you know, so much of human progress has come from making food convenient. It used to be that you had to go find your food. Out in a forest, or on a grassy plain. And sometimes that food would actively attempt to avoid being eaten. So you needed to then expend a lot of energy just to catch it.
Then we figured out how to make plants grow where we wanted them. Then we figured out how to store them so that winters weren't so bad.
And we also figured out how to make meat stay in one place, so that finding it was no longer a problem.
Even lazier, we were able to kill it too without it even fighting back.

Now, we've got the food, already dead, and ready to be eaten, just sitting still on a bunch of shelves, inside a building, out of the weather.

And look at how this has helped our species to advance.



Clearly, ready-to-eat popcorn is just another small step in the progress of our civilization.

 

[Doppel]

I am eating some pre-made toffee popcorn right now, but really cracker jack has existed for many years. As has smart food.

 

[Howard]

reads like an onion article D:

No, Onion articles are by far better-written.

 

[RossMAN]

That reminds me... be right back. Time to go burn some popcorn.

For the full effect make sure to do this at work, your co-workers will adore you

 

[CZroe]

Or a hot-air air popper.

 

[Via]

Every time I walk past the stand for this

I have to resist the urge to knock it over.

 

[dawp]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Presto-Pop...-04820/5969519

Is this model any good?

I have one one of those presto hot air poppers that is, probably, over 20 yrs old, works wonderfully and gets used about 2 or 3 times a week and sometimes daily.

here is one like what I have

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-PRE...UOUS-POPCORN-W-BUTTER-MELT-TRAY-/110978219081

except I lost the butter/measuring tray some time ago.

 

[Cerb]

This sort of thing makes me hate young people more than ever. You had to discover stove top popping?!?! Aaaarg!

Um, yes. It's pretty much unheard outside of groups of people that really care about their food's tastiness. And I don't see how you'd just "know" it, since most people bought their popcorn prior to having convenience popcorn. IE, unlike TV dinners that replaced home-cooked meals, Jiffy Pop and microwave popcorn replaced either not having any, or buying somebody's popcorn, already cooked.

You guys will turn anything into a flamefest. Coffee and rice cooker got nothing on this.

Coffee does! It's a great way to use the air popper .

To all the microwave or old-fashioned popcorn cookers out there, what do you do when you have a hankering for some caramel/cheddar popcorn? Do you go make your own caramel and roll them around in the kettle? Do you melt your cheddar then add your maltodextrin?

Totally different thing. To make good home popcorn, you need the corn, oil, and something to make it in. You're dealing with a $50 kitchen gadget to improve the quality by a great deal.

Sweetened/coated popcorn is basically going to be impossible without using something the size of a small oven.

Also, that's just plain guilty pleasure junk food stuff. Might as well go all out buy a tin, because the popcorn is just a vehicle for the flavor enhancers and sugar .

That's the problem. My mother gets me a big assed tin of Popcorn Factory popcorn every year for Xmas. It isn't something I want, and it would never occur to me to buy some, but I start eating that crap, and I can't stop. I pig out on it, my fingers are covered in crap, I feel disgusting, and am no longer hungry for real food. Bad stuff...

:biggrin: It's funny because it's true.

coating a potentially healthy food in 2 tablespoons of bacon grease... tasty

exposing your arteries to two tablespoons of bacon grease... subtract two weeks from your lifespan

It also doesn't taste that good. I tried it once. Deodorized coconut oil > * (the "virgin" type stuff will burn, so yes, you actually want the cheaper stuff).

 

[ImpulsE69]

I'm not buying it... I know at least 2% of this thread microwaves kittens.

 

[notposting]

We use our microwave. But for popcorn, we use an air popper.

Oh, and our microwave turns 30 tomorrow.

 

[PingSpike]

slightly off topic but if you buy popcorn from the theater do you finish it before the movie starts or do you wait for the movie to start before you start munching?

the drive in theater gives you a huge tub of popcorn for something like $5 or $6. couldn't even finish it because i also ate 3 cookies, nachos with cheese, curly fries, and a frosty, and a diet coke. and a footlong hotdog.

I usually don't finish it at all. I get a size small (small for a horse, so pony size I guess) and then toss it aside after I either get a stomach ache or start to feel completely disgusted with myself. I think that's how I finish most of my meals actually.