kettle corn

[AVAFREAK182]

just made some. yum.

where my kettle corn lovers at?

 

[TheVrolok]

<3

 

[KeithTalent]

It's ok, but I'm not a huge fan of the sweetness. I bought some truffle salt when I was in the United States of America about a month or so ago and I have been making popcorn with butter and some of the trufle salt. Now that is some awesome popcorn! :awe:

KT

 

[tranceport]

Wife loves it. It's not bad.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

It's ok, but I'm not a huge fan of the sweetness. I bought some truffle salt when I was in the United States of America about a month or so ago and I have been making popcorn with butter and some of the trufle salt. Now that is some awesome popcorn! :awe:

KT

Hm guess I'm not familiar with "trufle salt".

 

[lxskllr]

I don't like it. I initially thought it was good, and then proceeded to buy a big box. It's been sitting around for 3 years now. The sweetness got old very fast, and now I prefer plain, or buttered.

 

[D1gger]

I do not Like the sweetness of kettle corn. Just give me the regular popcorn with butter and salt please.

 

[SunnyD]

The ONLY sweet kind of popcorn that should exist is good old caramel corn.

 

[KeithTalent]

Hm guess I'm not familiar with "trufle salt".

It's just sea salt with dried truffle in it. Insanely delicious though when coupled with buttered popcorn, eggs, etc.

KT

 

[Ika]

I love it myself, better than most forms of popcorn.

 

[destrekor]

It has to be made in a kettle. The stuff is absolutely delicious.

Especially when you find a few popped kernels that also have a nice clump of sugar attached. It's like a little treasure, my personal little goldmine I just love finding.

See, for a year or so during high school I worked with one of my dad's coworkers that ran a kettle corn stand at random places, the main place I worked with them at was their :shudder: UofM stand.
Making it for 4 hours was like a small version of a fiery hell, surrounded by a frozen hell. So essentially, hell surrounded by hell, which was also located at the hell known as Ann Arbor. :shudder:
Which made finding the delicious little trinkets of treasure I affectionately labeled "sugar bombs" all the more joyous. Nom'd on fresh kettle corn all day.

 

[destrekor]

It's just sea salt with dried truffle in it. Insanely delicious though when coupled with buttered popcorn, eggs, etc.

KT

what the eff is truffle? I have a feeling it's not the same deliciousness that is chocolate truffles, considering that is well.. chocolate.

Oh.. is it that fancy expensive stuff, that's like... well hell if I know how to describe it. Like a weird fungus or something? Found at the base of a certain type of tree or something?

Don't really know much about the stuff other than some light wiki research I did forever ago, either was one of my random wiki tangents or was the subject of curiosity based on a post here forever ago. Or both... yeah, likely both come to think of it.

 

[KeithTalent]

what the eff is truffle? I have a feeling it's not the same deliciousness that is chocolate truffles, considering that is well.. chocolate.

Oh.. is it that fancy expensive stuff, that's like... well hell if I know how to describe it. Like a weird fungus or something? Found at the base of a certain type of tree or something?

Don't really know much about the stuff other than some light wiki research I did forever ago, either was one of my random wiki tangents or was the subject of curiosity based on a post here forever ago. Or both... yeah, likely both come to think of it.

Haha, yes indeed. Truly delicious! Not much to look at though.

KT

 

[lxskllr]

what the eff is truffle? I have a feeling it's not the same deliciousness that is chocolate truffles, considering that is well.. chocolate.

Oh.. is it that fancy expensive stuff, that's like... well hell if I know how to describe it. Like a weird fungus or something? Found at the base of a certain type of tree or something?

Don't really know much about the stuff other than some light wiki research I did forever ago, either was one of my random wiki tangents or was the subject of curiosity based on a post here forever ago. Or both... yeah, likely both come to think of it.

I don't know if it's still done this way commercially, but traditionally they used pigs to find them. They very well may still considering the price they go for. A buddy of mine bought 1/4# a couple years ago. If I remember right it was over $100 per pound.

 

[destrekor]

I don't know if it's still done this way commercially, but traditionally they used pigs to find them. They very well may still considering the price they go for. A buddy of mine bought 1/4# a couple years ago. If I remember right it was over $100 per pound.

I just returned to wiki (my procrastination skills are intense - so much so that I'll learn about anything that isn't what I am supposed to be learning ), and just saw that the black summer truffle can retail over $600/lb !!! Sweet jesus talk about fancy culinary items, that's just insane.

And didn't read through all of it but I do remember reading about the use of animals to search for specific varieties, and pigs definitely ring a bell.

 

[KeithTalent]

And didn't read through all of it but I do remember reading about the use of animals to search for specific varieties, and pigs definitely ring a bell.

Pigs are best at finding them, unfortunately they also love to eat them, so it is tough trying not to lose a few truffles to hungry pigs. Some dogs have been trained to hunt them, with some success, but pigs are still the best at it as far as I know.

KT

 

[AVAFREAK182]

first batch was so good i made some more!

 

[zinfamous]

popcorn should be salty...and maybe buttery/cheesy (I like the fake powder, or .."Real" powders...so long as it's not that BS liquidy shit they pump at the theater).

sweet corn is for wusses and communists.

 

[zinfamous]

Pigs are best at finding them, unfortunately they also love to eat them, so it is tough trying not to lose a few truffles to hungry pigs. Some dogs have been trained to hunt them, with some success, but pigs are still the best at it as far as I know.

KT

from what I heard, most are starting to prefer dogs...mainly because dogs don't eat the truffles when found, whereas you have to pull the swine back hard lest the bastard devour your $300 fungus. I think just about every truffle-sniffing pig will chow down if given about 2 seconds to think about it.

hell, you pretty much said all that. I only skimmed before replying...

 

[destrekor]

popcorn should be salty...and maybe buttery/cheesy (I like the fake powder, or .."Real" powders...so long as it's not that BS liquidy shit they pump at the theater).

sweet corn is for wusses and communists.

kettle corn is more American than you!

 

[DrPizza]

I <3 kettlecorn. If you make it yourself, you have some control over how sweet it is. I don't like it really sweet like caramel corn - just a hint of sweetness with just the right amount of saltiness.

 

[StageLeft]

Wife loves it. It's not bad.

Thread is about popcorn not sex.

 

[destrekor]

I <3 kettlecorn. If you make it yourself, you have some control over how sweet it is. I don't like it really sweet like caramel corn - just a hint of sweetness with just the right amount of saltiness.

You should have had the kettle corn we made. For the whole kettle it was a large scoop of sugar added while kernels were just beginning to pop in the oil. Once flipped into the bin, I don't really know how much salt we added.

But it was perfect. Could taste the fine layer of sugary glaze that coated (most) pieces of the popcorn, and the well distributed salt added after popping gave the whole work a masterpiece level of sweet/salt flavors. The perfect exercise for the palate, as neither overwhelmed the senses but both readily detectable.

Unless you found the few of my favorite sugarbombs. Then it was an explosion of sugar, but a few more bites with an even mix settled the palate.