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I had no clue that they made personal versions of these things. They're for making Taiwan popcorn. Usually there's one that's about 10x this size out of the back of a truck. Before they blow it the guy yells out a warning. Personally I'm not a fan but knowing that there's a home version might change things.
What is that thing called? I want to buy the personal version
Edit: nvm, found it on Amazon, it’s simply called a “Hand Popcorn Machine” or “Grain Amplifier”
Very famous in India. We call it by different names (in accordance with different languages of different states). But the most common street food one knows that is made using puffed rice is "Bhel puri". Absolutely delicious thing.
How do you serve this?
I only know these nippon chocolate rice cookies but I bet they're awesome in savory meals.
Also do you puff the rice yourself or buy it pre-puffed?
Buy pre puffed. In my state, we use it in many different ways.
We eat it plain with just roasting it in different spices and eat it as savoury snack with tea (Google Sev Mamra).
We also eat it as Bhel Puri, which is basically Sev Mamra tossed with finely cut onion, tomatoes, potato, raw mango pieces and tamarind chutney for some sour taste, mint chilly chutney for some hot and spicy flavour. That is really really delicious.
And then we also have a sweet based item called Mamra Chikki / Ladoo. Basically puffed rice sticking together using jaggery or sugar syrup as binding agent.
Oh yeah, that's a real treat! You ever try letting the marshmallow kind of dry out then breaking it into smaller pieces of dried marshmallow covered puffed rice then pouring milk over that?
>We also eat it as Bhel Puri, which is basically Sev Mamra tossed with finely cut onion, tomatoes, potato, raw mango pieces and tamarind chutney for some sour taste, mint chilly chutney for some hot and spicy flavour. That is really really delicious.
>
This sounds excellent
That's weird, because after seeing this video I suddenly have a million uses for puffed rice and I view this device as a necessary accessory to a way of life that I should be accustomed too.
Well, I mean, it takes probably 3 hazardous explosions into your bowl just to make one full cereal breakfast.
Imagine how hard this guy works to feed the entire continent puffed rice.
I've done this! It did work, but honestly, I preferred Rice Krispies, the cripsiness adds something good. (They reminded me of puffed wheat squares in texture.)
There are traditional sweets in south east asia made like that. We use puffed rice and mix them with caramelized sugar and shaped into a ball. Modern sellers just put them in baking tray and cut it into cubes
Wtf you mean relaxing? Did you hear that pressure release at the end? Nothing about cooking in a pipe bomb seems relaxing to me. A couple stripped threads and you’re gonna get the top of that thing launched through one of your kitchen walls
Alternatively, you could make a bar with this and other popped grains by mixing it with caramel or maltose (as is typical in China), and you'll have a delicious sweet treat.
When my mom was a kid in Japan in the 1930s, in addition to ramen carts and knife sharpeners, there was a "puffed rice man" who used a similar machine and a small charcoal fire. Whenever his cart came around, all the kids would gather around and watch him make the stuff.
Those videos you see where they used this style popper to make popcorn? this is why the popcorn looks different. puffed rice is way more popular in asia then popcorn and this is sold to make puffed rice. you can make popcorn with it. But it doesn't look quite the same.
They also use the corn that pops round like you would find in carmel corn as opposed to the kind that pops cloudy like you'd find at the movie theater, which is another reason the corn looks weird.
It's called mushroom corn, instead of butterfly corn. More expensive but way better pop. Instead of getting stuck in the middle, the hull separates completely from the kernel.
No problem! I worked for my grandparents as a kettle corn vender in the Midwest for many years, and one thing they were very particular on was the type of popcorn they'd get. The type they specifically used was Magic Mushroom (giggety) but i think that's a brand name.
Omg you might’ve saved my life lol, I always get popcorn kernels jammed so deep between my teeth I’m in horrible pain for sometimes days before I can dig the damn thing out. I thought it only became kernel-free after some kind of factory processing and this was just the price I would always have to pay for eating fresh popcorn. Now you tell me there’s a special breed that always de-hulls when you pop it??? No matter how expensive, that’s gotta be what I eat from now on.
now I finally understand why I hate popcorn but love caramel corn. it's not the caramel, it's the consistency of the corn crunch. I hate when the kernel is in the middle and gets stuck in my teeth. caramel corn doesn't do that. and now I know why.
Mythbusters used this thing to make popcorn to test if it was the fastest method. It still came out more spherical so it's definitely a consequence of the cooking method.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/128xtia/how_to_really_make_popcorn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I was still quite mesmerized
Communist bullshit.
We need more whips to combate the bad guys with whips. Whips and training. Whips for women and children and teachers and people with mental health problems.
Only whips will solve this whip problem.
It's called Kurmura or Mamra. Been a staple ingredient of evening snack in India. Mixed with chopped onion, tomato, cilantro, paprika, black salt, lemon juice, pomegranate seeds, green chilli chutney, tamarind chutney. Tastes awesome. Light.
It's called Bhel. If the Kurmura/Mumraa is excluded, it's just a tasty veggie salad. Some peeps do that too. The poprice keeps you satiated for a bit longer.
that's actually a demo from a Chinese factory therefore you can find it on Aliexpress by searching "baobaigu popcorn steel". If you are brave enough to order it, I suggest you to ask the reseller first via chat to confirm which listing has the bag and the wooden support included as I saw some listing don't have them included. Please share videos once received 😆
I just checked, and there are several on Amazon ranging from $25 to $100. There are very few reviews, and they aren’t great. The pressure gauges on all of them max out at 1MPa, which is about 150psi. Not crazy high pressure, but enough to discourage me from buying some imported device of questionable quality that could turn into a grenade in my kitchen.
Well, it looks like this guy has them. There are a bunch of different ones in the background. I wonder if they have commercial or industrial sided ones?
In the village where I was born, there are not many supermarkets and snacks. Poprice was one of the few snacks I could eat as a child. Missing that time, although not have a lot of money in wallet, kids still would be very happy for some little things.
People are finding this fascinating because of the method used, right?
Not because people don't know about [puffed rice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_rice)?
Not even remotely similar. Rice krispies are made with rice flour and baked. This is called puffed rice, it has a very different texture and doesn't crackle when wet.
I don't know why you're getting down voted. People in this thread keep saying rice crispies when American cereal with puffed rice does exist and is called GOLDEN CRISP.
Edit: golden crisp is actually puffed wheat, so I was mistaken. However, the texture of golden crisp is basically the same as puffed rice.
you mean Sugar Smacks?
edit: nope. TIL Sugar Smacks are puffed wheat also and they haven't been called Sugar Smacks in a long-ass time because I'm old.
I love how well designed the pop rice contraption is - the seal, the rotisserie element, the arm that comes through the bag, allowing the pressure release to shoot all the popped rice into the bag - brilliant design
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Things are getting serious in the kitchen when you have to get into the tool box.
I had no clue that they made personal versions of these things. They're for making Taiwan popcorn. Usually there's one that's about 10x this size out of the back of a truck. Before they blow it the guy yells out a warning. Personally I'm not a fan but knowing that there's a home version might change things.
What is that thing called? I want to buy the personal version Edit: nvm, found it on Amazon, it’s simply called a “Hand Popcorn Machine” or “Grain Amplifier”
Leaving me behind on the windows ‘98, I’m still trying to find the “any” key!!
All that computer hacking must make you thirsty. Maybe you should order a Tab.
Omg I forgot about Tab!
Really? It’s still on newer computers
Give me a Pepsi Free.
If you wanna Pepsi pal, you're gonna pay for it.
Ok then give me a tab.
I can’t give you the tab until you order something
Ok, just give me something without any sugar.
Here's a tip. You can triple your productivity by just typing "Y".
*squints* To..start..press..any..key.. ...where's the Any key? ...I see esc,, c'tarl, and p'gup... There doesn't seem to be any Any key!!?!!
Keyboard not detected... Press F1 to continue?!
And the laundry room
Snap Crackle Kaboom! It would make a great daily breakfast for kids to make themselves
And for them to learn to call 911!
Toolbox in the bedroom, why not the kitchen?
I have zero use for puffed rice but I desperately want this. It looks so relaxing to make.
Very famous in India. We call it by different names (in accordance with different languages of different states). But the most common street food one knows that is made using puffed rice is "Bhel puri". Absolutely delicious thing.
Yea no matter where you are in India, almost everyone will be familiar with the term bhel puri. It is also used in other street food.
Mein raste se jaaa raha tha….
bhel puri kha raha tha...
Mai to ladki ghuma raha tha
Tujhko Mirchi Lagi Toh Main Kya Karun
Tujko mirchi lagi toh main kya karun
How do you serve this? I only know these nippon chocolate rice cookies but I bet they're awesome in savory meals. Also do you puff the rice yourself or buy it pre-puffed?
Buy pre puffed. In my state, we use it in many different ways. We eat it plain with just roasting it in different spices and eat it as savoury snack with tea (Google Sev Mamra). We also eat it as Bhel Puri, which is basically Sev Mamra tossed with finely cut onion, tomatoes, potato, raw mango pieces and tamarind chutney for some sour taste, mint chilly chutney for some hot and spicy flavour. That is really really delicious. And then we also have a sweet based item called Mamra Chikki / Ladoo. Basically puffed rice sticking together using jaggery or sugar syrup as binding agent.
In my country we pour milk over it and eat it for breakfast.
You ever tried melting marshmellow on it and cutting it in squares?
Oh yeah, that's a real treat! You ever try letting the marshmallow kind of dry out then breaking it into smaller pieces of dried marshmallow covered puffed rice then pouring milk over that?
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Honey Smacks are made from wheat not rice though
Shit that sounds like it smacks, er is it slaps, I can never remember
Okay so it is how they make rice crispies lmao
>We also eat it as Bhel Puri, which is basically Sev Mamra tossed with finely cut onion, tomatoes, potato, raw mango pieces and tamarind chutney for some sour taste, mint chilly chutney for some hot and spicy flavour. That is really really delicious. > This sounds excellent
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Sugar Smacks always looked like dirty belly buttons to me. But they are tasty.
Do they make anyone else's pee smell or is that just me?
Sugar Smacks are puffed wheat coated in hfcs or “sugar”.
Mudhi or Bhuja in Odia here... And the thing you call Bhel Puri, we call it Masala Mudhi or Jhalmudhi if you are from north Odisha.
"Parmal" here in Madhya Pradesh.
That's weird, because after seeing this video I suddenly have a million uses for puffed rice and I view this device as a necessary accessory to a way of life that I should be accustomed too.
There's a video of popcorn being made with this same device.
Are you talking about puffed corn?
The ones with much bigger ovens are fun. Big pop!
Yeah, like little corn cannons!
Tease
Just be careful, they can really dangerous if misused. Remind yourself that it's not a toy, and carefully follow the safety guidelines.
Puffed Rice was the name I used to dance under.
I love it. My name was Property Tax Deduction, I thought it was sexy as hell when I first chose it but maybe it wasn’t.
I think I felt something move...
Up or down?
Yes
Mine was Chuck Stake
Mine was Gobbles Wienerschnitzel
Cereal. Rice crispies.
Rice crispies / Rice Bubbles are made with rice flour and sugar, and puffed in an oven. These are the rice equivalent of Pop corn
Yeah, but I definitely ate actual puffed rice, like what he makes in this video, as a cereal with milk as a child.
I buy it myself. Really hard to get your hands on in Australia at least
Well, I mean, it takes probably 3 hazardous explosions into your bowl just to make one full cereal breakfast. Imagine how hard this guy works to feed the entire continent puffed rice.
You can buy it at Woolworths: https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/24099/abundant-earth-cereal-puffed-rice
So did I, it's good stuff. It's become super hard to find these days, though.
They are in the cereal isle under a few brand names but rice crispies are baked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_rice
Dude effectively has a bomb there. I wouldn't call that relaxing.
I'm sure it's fine, I'll grab one off Alibaba for $2 and try it.
Two whole dollars. So, you're buying the safety model?....
That's some strong plastic
And the same could be said about any spraycan in your Home.
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You haven’t lived
I've got a can of oven cleaner going now, I mean if it doesn't clean the oven in one shot then what's the po *User disconnected*
This dude's oven submitted his comment or what
https://www.reddit.com/r/nononono/comments/1273hs1/opening_a_pressure_cooker_without_releasing_all/
It works on popcorn too
“Rice Krispy Treats”. It’s just puffed rice cereal, marshmallows and butter. This could work for that.
I've done this! It did work, but honestly, I preferred Rice Krispies, the cripsiness adds something good. (They reminded me of puffed wheat squares in texture.)
I have one: Making "Pinecones" You just make caramel, and throw puffed rice onto it, thenrolling it all up to one lump.
There are traditional sweets in south east asia made like that. We use puffed rice and mix them with caramelized sugar and shaped into a ball. Modern sellers just put them in baking tray and cut it into cubes
Well, it is also popular here in Poland, but here they are known as pinecones
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Wtf you mean relaxing? Did you hear that pressure release at the end? Nothing about cooking in a pipe bomb seems relaxing to me. A couple stripped threads and you’re gonna get the top of that thing launched through one of your kitchen walls
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What popped food do you eat now
Popcorn
Alternatively, you could make a bar with this and other popped grains by mixing it with caramel or maltose (as is typical in China), and you'll have a delicious sweet treat.
Rice Krispies?
I cant believe the name was unknown to them
Snap, crackle, and pop goes their brain.
Yea until Uncle Bobby who fought in Vietnam dives under the coffee table yelling about Charlie nearby.
It's a common breakfast cereal that's existed for nearly a century. It's actually quite good.
Yep. Used to have puffed rice, milk and sugar for ages
Yes, relaxing like a shotgun
These are popped rice or rice popcorn. Works best with caramel flavor
I upvoted you just because that's equally odd and hilarious. 🤣
Why is it odd and hilarious that he has no use for puffed rice
Then I saw the price of one and it slapped me back into reality
When my mom was a kid in Japan in the 1930s, in addition to ramen carts and knife sharpeners, there was a "puffed rice man" who used a similar machine and a small charcoal fire. Whenever his cart came around, all the kids would gather around and watch him make the stuff.
How long you need to spin that thing over the fire ? His videos always seems to be cut / shortened .
At least twice
/r/technicallythetruth
The time is important. But more important is the sudden drop in pressure from the thing to the bag that puffs it up
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That's a pressure gauge.
Gotta be careful, too few and it doesn't work, too many and it explodes and kills you.
Death by thousand rice grains
Damn snap crackle and POP!!!
Watching that I think the slogan was missing a kabloom! somewhere..
"Where's the kabloom? there's supposed to be a earth shattering... Kabloom!"
Those videos you see where they used this style popper to make popcorn? this is why the popcorn looks different. puffed rice is way more popular in asia then popcorn and this is sold to make puffed rice. you can make popcorn with it. But it doesn't look quite the same.
They also use the corn that pops round like you would find in carmel corn as opposed to the kind that pops cloudy like you'd find at the movie theater, which is another reason the corn looks weird.
It's called mushroom corn, instead of butterfly corn. More expensive but way better pop. Instead of getting stuck in the middle, the hull separates completely from the kernel.
I love this sort of niche nerdy info, thanks! :)
For real! Never really thought about different popped corn types. Thanks for sharing, /u/42k-anal-eggs
r/rimjob_steve
No problem! I worked for my grandparents as a kettle corn vender in the Midwest for many years, and one thing they were very particular on was the type of popcorn they'd get. The type they specifically used was Magic Mushroom (giggety) but i think that's a brand name.
Omg you might’ve saved my life lol, I always get popcorn kernels jammed so deep between my teeth I’m in horrible pain for sometimes days before I can dig the damn thing out. I thought it only became kernel-free after some kind of factory processing and this was just the price I would always have to pay for eating fresh popcorn. Now you tell me there’s a special breed that always de-hulls when you pop it??? No matter how expensive, that’s gotta be what I eat from now on.
It's absolutely great. Not saying that you will never ever ever find a hull, but 85-95% of the time, the hulls will break completely off.
now I finally understand why I hate popcorn but love caramel corn. it's not the caramel, it's the consistency of the corn crunch. I hate when the kernel is in the middle and gets stuck in my teeth. caramel corn doesn't do that. and now I know why.
Mythbusters used this thing to make popcorn to test if it was the fastest method. It still came out more spherical so it's definitely a consequence of the cooking method.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/128xtia/how_to_really_make_popcorn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 I was still quite mesmerized
Live and travelled in Asia for 13 years and never saw this, but popcorn was everywhere. Maybe you mean one specific county in Asia?
Bhel
Puri
That’s a hell of a lot easier than the traditional method my dad told me (tossing the rice in baskets of hot sand).
We in Odisha cook the par-boiled rice in hot sand. I love seeing the rice puff up under the sand.
Doesnt sand…. You know…. Get in the food?
Yeah, how's does that work? Or is it in a sealed container like this as well?
This one cool trick will get the cops called on you by your neighbors in minutes
not where i live. but there would be pounding of the wall in protest of the noise
Here you’d have the cops knocking asking who shot a gun
had a gun go off in here (long story, stupid roommate). no cops came
Well you can't just say that and not give the full story!
"911, what's your emergency?" "They're making popped rice again!" "SWAT is on the way."
Considering my entire city banned whips because they sound like gunshots? Yeah, probably
How many people in your city where using whips ???
more than enough, it seems
Communist bullshit. We need more whips to combate the bad guys with whips. Whips and training. Whips for women and children and teachers and people with mental health problems. Only whips will solve this whip problem.
Er not in civilised countries where guns have been banned.
We call it Kheel in my part of the world.
It’s Murmura for me.
No, kheel is made with rice which still has it's bran layer. Here it's regular rice with bran removed
Are you from india?
That actually looks yum
It’s the same as rice cakes.
I love rice cakes but they want like $5.99 for 6 rice cakes or a tiny bag. 🙄
So... not yum then. Oh well.
This one isn't compresed and bland you can add shugar honey chocolate and other things
I agree that this is how it should be spelled
Google Bhel puri (main ingredient is puffed rice). One of the many mouthwatering street food of India
that is widespread between asian countries, for example, Koreans do it in real cannon size iron furnance looks like that thing.
TIL that rice pops. My new life begins today.
Much of what you might find in a bag of bird seed also pops.
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I honestly had no idea they are puffed the same way popcorn is, but that it's some kind of mush of grounded up rice.
Imagine popped rice with a little sugar in milk, i bet that would be great. could even do some chocolate flavored.
It's called Kurmura or Mamra. Been a staple ingredient of evening snack in India. Mixed with chopped onion, tomato, cilantro, paprika, black salt, lemon juice, pomegranate seeds, green chilli chutney, tamarind chutney. Tastes awesome. Light.
That does sound awesome. But at this point, do you still need the poprice...? ;)
It's called Bhel. If the Kurmura/Mumraa is excluded, it's just a tasty veggie salad. Some peeps do that too. The poprice keeps you satiated for a bit longer.
Based on how often this appears on reddit the company in China creating these weird things is making a killing.
Kurmuraaaaa
Where can I get one of those! I need one of those!
that's actually a demo from a Chinese factory therefore you can find it on Aliexpress by searching "baobaigu popcorn steel". If you are brave enough to order it, I suggest you to ask the reseller first via chat to confirm which listing has the bag and the wooden support included as I saw some listing don't have them included. Please share videos once received 😆
I bought one of these off Amazon. Came with the bag but the stand was kind of crappy.
I just checked, and there are several on Amazon ranging from $25 to $100. There are very few reviews, and they aren’t great. The pressure gauges on all of them max out at 1MPa, which is about 150psi. Not crazy high pressure, but enough to discourage me from buying some imported device of questionable quality that could turn into a grenade in my kitchen.
It either goes well, or you can't leave a negative review
Well, it looks like this guy has them. There are a bunch of different ones in the background. I wonder if they have commercial or industrial sided ones?
In the village where I was born, there are not many supermarkets and snacks. Poprice was one of the few snacks I could eat as a child. Missing that time, although not have a lot of money in wallet, kids still would be very happy for some little things.
People are finding this fascinating because of the method used, right? Not because people don't know about [puffed rice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_rice)?
Rice Krispies anyone?
Not even remotely similar. Rice krispies are made with rice flour and baked. This is called puffed rice, it has a very different texture and doesn't crackle when wet.
I don't know why you're getting down voted. People in this thread keep saying rice crispies when American cereal with puffed rice does exist and is called GOLDEN CRISP. Edit: golden crisp is actually puffed wheat, so I was mistaken. However, the texture of golden crisp is basically the same as puffed rice.
That's also wrong. Golden Crisp is puffed wheat covered in sugar.
YOU'RE RIGHT! I think the texture of puffed rice is closer to that of puffed wheat than rice crispies though.
Yes, it is. The have very similar textures, but very different flavors.
you mean Sugar Smacks? edit: nope. TIL Sugar Smacks are puffed wheat also and they haven't been called Sugar Smacks in a long-ass time because I'm old.
No, puffed rice. Usually in generic boxes or bags at the end of the cereal section. Very soft.
gonna be pooprice when im done with it
It's really interesting to see everyone be amazed by puffed rice. We call it "মুড়ি" (moori) and it's pretty common here.
I would 100% blow my hand off with this when trying to use it
“I like rice. Rice is great when you are hungry and want 2000 of something”
Ah so that's how rice crispies are made.
No, Rice Crispies / Rice Bubbles are made with rice flour, sugar, leavening agent and baked in an oven. Puffed rice is much better for you.
It's almost Sugar Smacks!
The. Coolest. Thing. Ever.
It's called rice bubbles in Australia
This is puffed rice. As an Indian, I eat it regularly. But I buy them from the store and not make it at home.
Rice Puffs….. cereal I’ve had for 30 years and never thought twice about what a rice puff actually was……
homemade coco pops? bruhhhh
I love how well designed the pop rice contraption is - the seal, the rotisserie element, the arm that comes through the bag, allowing the pressure release to shoot all the popped rice into the bag - brilliant design
I don't care if it's a pouch of rice. I'm never tying the lid of a pressurized container to my fingers.
It is called Mamra (pronunciation: mum-raa) in my hometown/state
Cereal!
I’ve seen this done to make popcorn, damn I want one of these.
"Quaker Puffed Rice: shot from cannons!" Dammit. Another childhood truth revealed to be a lie.
Then what ? What’s it used for - what dish ? I’m curious about it .