What do you season your popcorn with?

Lightbringer · 2019-07-20T11:49:46.000Z

Boaz:

For gods sake it’s Budget light forum

It’s obvious to me that Nutritional value and popcorn should not be allowed in the same thread .

Use light butter, then

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tempo · 2019-07-20T12:19:37.000Z

What is your serving size of popcorn, how much do you prepare in 1 session and eat for yourself all on your own?

Ormbett · 2019-07-20T12:51:33.000Z

tempo:

What is your serving size of popcorn, how much do you prepare in 1 session and eat for yourself all on your own?

How long is a string?

xevious · 2019-07-20T13:39:37.000Z

Popcorn can be healthy or unhealthy, depending on how you season it. There’s nothing wrong with unhealthy if you do it sparingly.

I have tried a number of different toppings and found that the absolute best popcorn is lightly salted with butter, over a very high quality white popping corn. It’s fun to do other toppings, like grated cheese and spices… but the “mostly plain” way is my favored way.

I absolutely cannot stand microwaved popcorn packets. Now, it is possible to microwave naked kernel popcorn and it comes out decently. But AFAIC, stove top is the best way. I don’t live in a high humidity area, but the baking technique sounds like an interesting way to achieve a nice crispness.

deleted-200707 · 2019-07-20T15:09:27.000Z

stovetop is fun and exiting…………………………………ifn you leave the top off

Nev · 2019-07-20T15:31:27.000Z

Boaz:

Yeah no off topic posts in these all important threads

For gods sake it’s Budget light forum

It’s obvious to me that Nutritional value and popcorn should not be allowed in the same thread .

But

Lets ask Barbie what she thinks …

I know Barbie has eaten way too many processed foods and because of it has become 100% plastic … Many have even speculated that this has also contributed to her total loss of genitalia .Even so she still remains beloved by Ken and millions of young children .

Where are my cat pictures??…

Proof that too much soy leads to aggression >

This dog was fed Purina Soy blend for weeks before he turned on one of Barbies friends after a sleep over .

I think this is when Billy Jack made Barbie drive her car into the lake … I could be confused .

Think this last picture says it all …

Don’t put beer on your popcorn kids !

@ the second picture ,
That’s not aggression

brad · 2019-07-20T15:58:54.000Z

“”“One of the earliest recipes for popping corn came from Daniel Browne during the 1840s. His method required one to “Take a grill, a half pint, or more of Valparaiso or Pop Corn, and put in a frying-pan, slightly buttered, or rubbed with lard. Hold the pan over a fire so as constantly to stir or shake the corn within, and in a few minutes each kernel will pop, or turn inside out.” He adds that salt or sugar can be added while the popcorn is still hot. The problem with this method was that butter tended to burn before reaching a high enough temperature and lard produced popcorn that was soaked with grease. It wasn’t until the second half of the nineteenth century that an efficient method for popping corn was developed. These newly invented “poppers” were made from boxes of tight wire gauze attached to a long handle; they were meant to be held over an open flame. Poppers offered several benefits, including the ability to contain the popped kernels while also keeping hands away from an exposed flame. “””

“”“The popcorn variety of maize was domesticated by Pre-Columbian indigenous peoples by 5000 B.C.E. It is a small and harder form of flint corn, most commonly found in white or yellow kernels. The stalks produce several ears at a time, though they are smaller and yield less corn than other maize varieties. The “pop” is not limited exclusively to this type of maize, but the flake of other types is smaller by comparison. Popcorn likely arrived in the American Southwest over 2500 years ago, but was not found growing east of the Mississippi until the early 1800s due to botanical and environmental factors. Today the Midwest is famous for its “Corn Belt,” but prior to the introduction of the steel plow during the 19th century, soil conditions in that region were not suitable for growing corn.

Evidence of popcorn’s first “pop” did not appear until the 1820s, when it was sold throughout the eastern United States under the names Pearl or Nonpareil. Its popularity quickly began to spread throughout the South and by the 1840s popcorn had started to gain a foothold in America. Prestigious literary magazines like New York’s Knickerbocker and the Yale Literary Magazine began referencing popcorn. By 1848, the word “popcorn” was included in John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms. Bartlett claimed that the name was derived from “the noise it makes on bursting open.”“”

Lightbringer · 2019-07-20T16:45:59.000Z

chinooker:

stovetop is fun and exiting…………………………………ifn you leave the top off

The edible variant of “52 pickup”…

Leif · 2019-07-20T17:21:47.000Z

raccoon city:

I want to apologize to everyone about how confrontational I have been in this thread.

Clearly we all have different ideas about what is healthy and what isn’t.

It’s probably best if we don’t discuss that any further, as Mr. Admin recommends.

You have nothing to apologise for. However, back to lights …

raccoon · 2019-07-20T17:50:09.000Z

Boaz:

Yeah no off topic posts in these all important threads

For gods sake it's Budget light forum

It's obvious to me that Nutritional value and popcorn should not be allowed in the same thread .

Apparently nutrition is a controversial topic, and that type of topic is not allowed on BLF.

I know it sounds silly, but that's where we are right now.

pinkpanda3310 · 2019-07-22T00:29:32.000Z

Sorry your thread got derailed RC.
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……or maybe not….

pinkpanda3310:

My popcorn is usually seasoned with a little blf drama

raccoon city:

EDIT: I guess I should contribute really. I’m one of those that rarely eat popcorn. Not because of health / nutrition reasons. More because of dental reasons. If I were to have it just a bit of salt is fine. When i was little i used to like Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Frumious · 2019-07-22T04:49:36.000Z

I pop mine over an Emisar D4 on turbo.

pinkpanda3310 · 2019-07-22T06:18:25.000Z

The D4v2 does it automatically in muggle mode

jeff51 · 2019-09-03T20:38:07.000Z

Back to the subject in question.

I mix white and yellow popcorn kernels.
Air pop it (yes, yes, I know).
Use the air popper to pre-heat the serving bowl – hot as you can stand it.
Land o Lakes real butter – salted. From sticks - not tubs.
Kosher salt from a salt grinder.

And when I don’t have a doctor appt. for a few months —-
The best vanilla ice-cream I can find.
A heavy (and large) glass mug from the freezer.
And my current root beer of choice. Not the fancy boutique kind. They suck at R-B-Fs.
Root Beer Floats.
Nothing is better with popcorn.

Sometimes I live on the edge and make the float using coffee ice cream and root beer.

Then a Deadpool/Godzilla/Alien/Predator movie on the video with the subwoofers on +6db.
Cat on the lap, wife at my side, latest BLF light on the sideboard (ya’ never know).

On the subject of serving size. Whatever is placed in front of me is the serving size, unless you don’t finish yours. Then that’s mine too.

Once, on a bus road trip in college, we found some theater supply place that sold 40 gallon bags of pre-popped corn. This was in the 70s before too much plastic found it’s way into the food chain.
That’s the only bag I couldn’t finish.

All the Best,
Jeff

varbos · 2019-09-03T21:05:35.000Z

I just put a little bit of bacon on my popcorn

polarweis · 2019-09-03T22:16:22.000Z

Raccoon, how populair is popcorn where you live? Like here its mostly chips. I only eat horrible cinema popcorn thats not very fresh when i go to the movies.

Lightbringer · 2019-09-04T00:05:06.000Z

Nah, it’s not stale, it’s aged. Needs to be, to keep the popcorn from tasting too gamey.

Preserves the whole cinema experience…

raccoon · 2019-09-04T07:34:51.000Z

polarweis:

Raccoon, how populair is popcorn where you live? Like here its mostly chips. I only eat horrible cinema popcorn thats not very fresh when i go to the movies.

I think popcorn is reasonably popular in California and the United States.

Everyone in my family likes it.

We generally watch movies, at home, and enjoy our popcorn.

Macka17 · 2019-09-04T08:32:20.000Z

I always go the Salted Caraaamel.
For Ice cream. Yoghur. cake. Popcorn.

Been using it since it first came out here in Aust. and not yet tired of it.
Bat. As above says.
Plain would be the best if S/C wasn’t avail.

neo71665 · 2019-09-04T12:15:31.000Z

Sounds weird but I like cheap hot sauce on pop corn. Stuff like Louisiana hot sauce. Not for the heat (cause the stuff is like drinking water) but more for the vinegar and mild pepper flavor.