If you can make popcorn, can you make popwheat, popbarley, poprye etc?

[MichaelD]

I am eating microwave popcorn for lunch. (yuck...ran errands on lunch hour...no time for food ) and I got to wondering about something.

We take corn and when we heat it, the water inside boils and gets released as steam, causing the kernel to "pop." Can you take other grains like wheat, barley, rye etc and pop them too?

I'd try it but *snaps fingers* I'm fresh out of whole-earth-grains.

 

[Rallispec]

i doubt it. i dont even think all Corn pops... only certain types of corn pop.

 

[Fausto]

LOL.....that is such a "Duuuude. I am SO wasted right now!" kinda question.

 

[Rallispec]

haha...


like.. wouldnt it be cool if, like.. you know.. like, we all jumped in this giant, like, you know.. huge microwave and we, like, popped, like popcorn and started to like, uh, like eat oursevles or something.

 

[MichaelD]

Heh, I realized it sounded kinda loopy after I read it.

[SeanPenn]Um, like Mister Hand? If a tree falls in the woods, and like, nobody is huffin'fumes, was the tree ever there?[SeanPenn]

I'm still curious though; I want my popwheat!

 

[MichaelD]

Hey!!!! Waitaminute, you CAN pop wheat! I remember my Kellogg's Sugar Smacks! They are "Delicious Puffs of Frosted Puffed Wheat!"

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Hey!!!! Waitaminute, you CAN pop wheat! I remember my Kellogg's Sugar Smacks! They are "Delicious Puffs of Frosted Puffed Wheat!"

They do that by shooting them out of cannons no? :Q

 

[Moonbeam]

Puffed wheat, puffed rice, puffed oats. Corn puffs etc.

 

[geno]

Does puffed == popped?

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't know. I thought it sounded good though.

 

[Basilisk6]

It's probably because corn and popcorn are different things. Popcorn is a particular species of corn that has a hard outer covering and a very water absorbant starch center. The kind of corn we eat off the cob doesn't have this hard surface. Here's a link that explains how popcorn actually pops. The reason that you can't pop wheat, barley, or rye would probably be that there is no variant species of these grains that possesses a nature similar to popcorn(i.e. you pop popcorn, not corn, and popwheat doesn't exist).

 

[ATLien247]

What about Pop-Tarts?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Basilisk6
It's probably because corn and popcorn are different things. Popcorn is a particular species of corn that has a hard outer covering and a very water absorbant starch center. The kind of corn we eat off the cob doesn't have this hard surface. Here's a link that explains how popcorn actually pops. The reason that you can't pop wheat, barley, or rye would probably be that there is no variant species of these grains that possesses a nature similar to popcorn(i.e. you pop popcorn, not corn, and popwheat doesn't exist).

*FINE!* Just go and take all the magic out of it for me! j/k

BTW, did you know your nick is a species of lizard?

 

[Shelly21]

I've seen poprice before.

It was done with this ancient looking thingy that looks like a cannon. It is actually sealed tight during cooking.
The "cannon" thing is set on a hot grill with charcoal and turned mechanically for a set time. With the a couple pounds of
rice in it.

When it is done, The "cook" place a hemp bag over the sealed mouth of the cannon. Opens it with a loud banging sound due to
the built up pressure.

The cook then dump the bag of puffed rice in a large pan and mix it with carmalized sugar syrup which quickly harden the rice to the
shape of the pan. It is then cut to cubes and served hot.

This predates rice crispy treats.....

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
What about Pop-Tarts?

:Q