Popcorn

[Boz]

I love popcorn. And nothing is better then popcorn popped over a campfire! However, I don't get to do that often so I pop it over the stove! ! I just heat up about 1/3 cup of oil and let it warm. Then I'll dump popcorn in and watch it pop (glass top lol). Then once it's popped I dump it in a big paper bag along with some popcorn salt and shake it up. BAM! Delicious homemade popcorn!

And if I don't eat it all then I'll eat it tomorrow! I love "stale" popcorn too!

So, what's your favorite and how do you like it made?

 

[pamnock]

We went to a pioneer arts festival yesterday and got kettle corn made with maple syrup - it was to die for! I also love caramel corn.

Pam

 

[irishbunny]

I love really salty popcorn, my favourite is the one I can get in my local cinema, so salty. I also like the salty popcorn you just get in a bag and throw in the microwave. I hate popcorn with anything sweet on it like toffee or chocolate.

 

[slavetoabunny]

Hubby loves popcorn, but I had to stop when I got braces. For some reason, I never went back. I haven't eaten popcorn in 7 years!

 

[SunnyCait]

Kettle corn! And I can't make it. I have to wait for fairs or amusement parks or our local Ayr Days celebration. Good thing it was this weekend, we bought about 30 dollars worth of the stuff! LOL

 

[Boz]

Oh yeah! Carmel corn is sooo yummy too! I really only like the homemade stuff though!

No popcorn in 7 years?! That's madness!

Cait, you know you can buy kettle corn in the store? It's probably not as good as stuff at the fairs though but still!

 

[anneq]

Mmm I love kettle-korn, but I also like to make mine over the stove (white kernel)..no butter (yuck) and a good dose of salt. Can't stand the microwave stuff, but hubby and the kids will eat it.

 

[LionsRawr]

I like it with butter and sugar on it................So bad for me but sooooooooooooooo good :biggrin2:

 

[whaleyk98]

Popcorn? Yuck.

 

[SunnyCait]

You CAN?! WHAT?!

Now I have to go to the store so I can check this out. LOL. That would save me a lot of tears.

 

[BethM]

I LOVE POPCORN!!!

But I mostly stopped eating it a year or two ago. I gave up the microwave stuff when that thing came out about the butter-flavored chemical that gave people "popcorn lung." I think most brands changed their flavoring.
In my apartment, the kitchen was right next to the living room, and making popcorn on the stove scared Amelia so much, I didn't do it very often. Now, the kitchen is down the hall from the living room, and I could close the door to the bunny room, but I'm just too lazy to make it.
Which is REALLY sad, because popping popcorn on the stove is SO easy. I remember making popcorn by myself on the stove when I was in grade school.

One of these days, I will just make some. I have heard that it's really good popped in bacon grease. Or with cut garlic in the hot oil. YUM!

 

[nermal71]

Ok here's one a friend used to make. I can only eat it in small doses though as it is sweet. Make your popcorn on the stove...put it in a brown paper bag and sprinkle with several tablespoons of ovaltine....shake it really well and eat it. I know it sounds odd but it is really very good.

 

[wabbitmom12]

I happen to live in the county that produces the most popcorn, per acre, in the world. We take our popcorn SERIOUSLY! A long standing family tradition is to have it for supper on Sunday night. Maybe cut up a few apples to eat, too, and a piece of chocolate or fudge. MMMMM!

Here's my fave: Baby Black Jewel popcorn, airpopped, with real butter and salt. TDF!!

 

[Dwarf_Angel04]

wabbitmom12 wrote:

A long standing family tradition is to have it for supper on Sunday night. Maybe cut up a few apples to eat, too, and a piece of chocolate or fudge. MMMMM!

That's the same with my family. The grandparents grow their popcorn out in the garden. Sunday to them is normally church, eating out and then popcorn for dinner. Not too hungry? Pop some corn!

 

[wabbitmom12]

Dwarf_Angel04 wrote:

wabbitmom12 wrote:

A long standing family tradition is to have it for supper on Sunday night. Maybe cut up a few apples to eat, too, and a piece of chocolate or fudge. MMMMM!

That's the same with my family. The grandparents grow their popcorn out in the garden. Sunday to them is normally church, eating out and then popcorn for dinner. Not too hungry? Pop some corn!

Totally!

In our case, my dad, and his dad before him, grew up on farms. Large families, not much money. Sunday night was family time. Popcorn just seemed to fit into that, and it's cheap. If you have a cup of popcorn kernels, you can feed 5 people, no sweat!

We even have a family tradition of what you put your popcorn in, started by my grandpa. We use large, old fashioned, silver dishpans! (Isn't that a hoot?) You can easily get 2-3 poppers of corn in them. My mom spent many hours at flea markets to buy the same types of dishpans for all 4 of us kids to use in our own homes. Grandpa used to make a big dishpan of popcorn every night for his snack.

I knew my future daughter-in-law was THE ONEfor my son when she said they ate popcorn everySunday night for supper. With real butter and popcorn salt. A girl after my own heart.

 

[Gordon]

Has anyone ever heard of popping sorghum kernels? I've been wanting to try it, ever since seeing it done in Ethiopia, on an episode of Bizarre Foods!

 

[Gordon]

http://www.popghum.com/sorghum.html

 

[BethM]

wabbitmom12 wrote:

I happen to live in the county that produces the most popcorn, per acre, in the world. We take our popcorn SERIOUSLY! A long standing family tradition is to have it for supper on Sunday night. Maybe cut up a few apples to eat, too, and a piece of chocolate or fudge. MMMMM!

Here's my fave: Baby Black Jewel popcorn, airpopped, with real butter and salt. TDF!!

I bought an air popper once, then returned it after the second time I used it. The popcorn was so dry and flavorless, it was like eating styrofoam. Yech.

 

[Brandy456]

I once baught that popcorn in the tray you could make over a fire, ended up catching the tray on fire and just threw it in.. make pretty flames though.

I like the ones made at theaters or those poppy-machines. I put flavor powder on them too

 

[Gordon]

Brandy456 wrote:

I once baught that popcorn in the tray you could make over a fire,  ended up catching the tray on fire and just threw it in.. make pretty flames though. 

I like the ones made at theaters or those poppy-machines.  I put flavor powder on them too

Sounds like you had the heat up too high. :shock:

Yep, the cinema popcorn is nice, with the flavor shakers they have. I like to mix it all up.