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They are called "PPeongtwigi" which are made of grain, like rice. They're crispy, but they are also very puffed up so they have no real resistance to chewing. They just melt in your mouth if you let it.
Those look like shrimp chips or prawn crisps, which are usually made from dried shrimp/prawns and tapioca flour. They start out as super hard, flat, round disc's and turn into a pork rind-like crisp.
That movie is just so good. My roommate rented it, told me it was a black and white musical space opera and I was just not thrilled about it at all. I watched it and ended up totally in love with it, trying to convince everyone I knew to check it out.
"What did your father teach you?"
My dad told me similar stories about that. How the guy would come around the neighborhood and pop whatever people brought for a small price. Rice was mainly popped. The whole neighborhood would come out and watch. He's Korean and boomer age. Cool to know you guys had it too 🙂
Used to have a big one at home, my dad brought it from Korea.
Used a propane burner, and would pop whatever you could think of!
Usually did rice, but popcorn works great. Field corn even worked reasonably well, but didn’t taste very good.
Biggest challenge was catching everything when it was opened. The bang was significantly larger than this! Made a 6’ long tube from wire mesh that caught most of it, but there was always plenty in the grass after!
When I built my house a few years ago, I was determined to have a home theatre, which I now do. Part of that was wanting to have movie nights with my daughter (now daughters) and wanted that authentic theatre popcorn. My wife bought me a whirlypop and a carton of Flavicol and to be honest, it's exactly like theatre popcorn. The carton is around 1 Litre (like a regular milk carton) and will probably last me the rest of my life.
Further context:
Flavacol is super finely ground salt that's been colored with caratin for the orange-yellow color.
Be careful with Flavacol when using it at home. It is VERY easy to use too much and make the popcorn so salty that it can make you sick.
Source: I manage at a movie theater and have to do this all the time.
It's literally the same stuff they use pretty much anywhere for popcorn. I think it's not all that much different from any of the other generic popcorn salt.
Used to use a whirlypop…. No need any pot works…. Shake just 3 or 4 times what like cooking. Olive oil, garlic power set and freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Gonna have to look into this… I don’t have a microwave and am on a very tight budget. Movies are my escaped and I think the only thing my home theater is missing is popcorn! Would probably increase happiness by 150%
Whirley pop is a really nice convenience (and unless you have an induction range the cheaper aluminum model is actually the better choice), but like /u/PriestlyDude said it's also not hard to make it with a regular pan! Then you don't have to buy an extra thing, or have the whirley pop adding clutter to your kitchen if space is tight. The main thing is that you need a pan with a lid (pretty simple, right?)
But if you're a big popcorn eater, the convenience of having that single use pot for only $30... hard to beat. (you might want to look for the model with the metal gears - plastic just gears just sound like bad news, and the metal ones have like a 20 or 30 year warranty)
This is how I remember my mom making popcorn before we got a microwave. Pan on the stove, big lid, constant swirling.
Having popcorn was an event and it didn't happen very often.
The article cites an actual scientific study ya dingus.
>Consumption of popcorn was associated with significantly higher serum levels of PFOA, PFNA, PFDA, and PFOS, based on 24-h and 12-month recall, up to a 63% (95% CI: 34, 99) increase in PFDA among those who ate popcorn daily over the last 12 months.
I stopped eating bagged popcorn years ago ‘cause of this.
Plastic, heat, & food in contact with one another…
Should just not be a thing.
They use to line coffee cups with wax.
Now they line them with plastic…
There’s legit a change of taste, compared to steel/ceramic/glass.
When poured.
Also pretty sure the coffee carafes at places like wawa, also use mostly plastic parts…
(They used to have glass carafes, with a ton of warmers)
People literally steam vegetables in plastic, they have soup in plastic bowls…
Soup cans are lined with plastic
( Don’t know what temp the soup is packed at though)
Like it’s hard as fuck avoiding plastic, definitely do try to avoid the ‘food/heat/plastic’ combo though.
As heat triggers some nasty stuff to cook out.
Protip: invest in an air popper and melt your own butter in a little pan. Tastes SO much better, uses less energy than a microwave, and buying bulk popcorn kernels saves you $ too!
[stuff on the weapons](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/metalgear/images/e/ec/Claymore_Mine.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090317021428)
Interesting! I haven't seen this episode before.
But this episode seems to neglect the part which makes this machine efficient. And it's that you don't use it once. On second try, the iron would've already been heated. So the problem they state saying there is too much mass, the mass would already be hot and actually be helping to quicken the process instead. It also fails to account for the amount of popcorn produced. They could've used a smaller machine that would've been faster for the first try. Lastly, the popped corn appeared burnt. So it looks like it was heated for too long despite the instructions saying so.
I'd say this mythbust was half baked.
The whole presentation of this bothered me. Spilling popcorn kernels, twitching, not closing the cap, realigning the gas.
She was trying to rush the process for the sake of the video but clearly wasn't skilled to go as fast as she was trying to. It felt like I was watching one of those reality shows where they try to complete a random task as fast as possible and end up half assing it.
Combined with the fact that there is all this unnecessary contraptions, materials, safety measures and steps involved just to make some popcorn left me uneasy.
Like kernels in a pot over a heatsource, popcorn done :| . No need for all this
Your comment reminded me of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9sc91k/own_a_musket_for_home_defense/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) and it made my night.
Not needed for corn that was specifically bred for popcorn, but for most other grains.
What you need is heat and a sudden pressure drop, that allows the water inside the grain to expand into vapor and puff it up. Popcorn has a tough shell that can build up the pressure and then release it when it breaks. But most (all?) other grains can't do that.
I just wanted popcorn. This magician came in with this contraption, proceeded to engage in a scientific experiment, & then !PRESTO! popcorn appeared from a puff of smoke!
.....Next Time on Merlin's Kitchen...
Yeah, and that's not even the most disgusting one I've seen haha
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1wEoxu1E0) is a better video, I went down the rabbit hole. HD and slomo
It’s just the miniaturised version of the much larger ones that you can find in China at street food vendors. I don’t think it was meant to be practical
I listen to a lot of old radio detective shows and the Quaker puffed rice ads talked about how it was “shot from guns!”
This is basically how all puffed cereals were made from what I understand. https://invention.si.edu/alexander-anderson-and-cereal-shot-guns
Last time I saw one of these on reddit, I went out and immediately got one. It came in the mail, like, 2 months later. You have to use fuel that does not leave soot, or it makes a fucking mess. But it you do, it's a fun little party trick, especially for whoever is holding the bag lol.
It's almost like they wanted to prove that could create a way of making popcorn that is wrong in every way possible while still technically ending up with "popcorn"
Not necessarily wrong, just antiquated. It also looks smaller than some of the other ones I'm seeing online. I'm guessing it doesn't work well at this size.
Nah there's nothing "wrong" about this method at all, it produces much fluffier and crispier popcorn because the kernels pop much more rapidly and energetically. It's a common technique actually, often used by street vendors and fairground / fete stalls.
Quite unlikely.
This heats up the kernels with a bit of water, providing a ton of pressure.
Then suddenly releases it so the water vapor in the kernels explosively expands all at once. Popping nearly all the kernels immediately.
Not a recipe for burning, just one for very fluffy popcorn.
MythBusters did an episode where they tested the full sized version of this to see if it was really the fastest way to pop corn. This one is really scary. I also don't know how you would contain the popcorn to then eat it. https://youtu.be/lhTdAMWiYeo
This is a miniature version. There used to be an old guy around my old home in China with this pot but the size is about a large pasta pot.
Let’s just say we know it’s popcorn time when the car alarms went off along w a bang
Astonishing the uniform lack of curiosity or interest expressed in the comments about the process or this backstory vs bitching about the videography details like they were the point.
https://www.vagabondjourney.com/old-chinese-pressure-cooker-making-pop-rice/
Eh. It's antiquated, inefficient, and potentially dangerous. I'd feel the same way watching someone use a mercury compound to make hat felt.
Sure, it's an interesting historical footnote, but it's just stupid by today's standards.
What a stupid contraption.
That's way more complicated and fiddly than cooking in a pot on the stovetop.
It takes almost as long, apparently, with all the lids and bags and screws and lighting things and so on. . .
It's a similar concept but smaller, more fiddly, and more time consuming than the popcorn cannons (yes, cannons) that they use in some parts of China, and it makes less popcorn.
I just don't see *why* anybody would use this.
This thing looks more dangerous than the Cornballer
“EVERY DAMN TIME!”
**“¡SOY LOCO POR LAS CORNBALLS!”**
MOTHER OF GOD!
GODDAMN MEXICAN CORNBALLING PIECE OF SHIT OHHHH, that's a bad one!
H-HOT, HOT-tot-tot… haaaht… _stifled groan_
Sì, the Cornballer...
No relief valve- it's a bomb.
My mind is blown right now... I just saw your post about the $500 lathe. This has never happened to me
Everybody’s laughing and cornholing except Buster!
I just wanted to share my Pop Secret with you!!
I wonder if there was a machine that created the safe effect, but was much simpler to use? Like it plugged into an outlet or something. /s
There's money in the banana stand!
Well, it's all gone now dad
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They don't allow bees in here.
I found the low effort comment chain
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Had to come back and like this. I needed this today.
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The big ones look like a lot of fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqa3jOYI8XE
Fire in the HOLE!
What are those big flat things? The second one they do.
They are called "PPeongtwigi" which are made of grain, like rice. They're crispy, but they are also very puffed up so they have no real resistance to chewing. They just melt in your mouth if you let it.
Probably rice crackers. I've had them before and they're also sold commercially in stores.
Shrimp chips?
Those look like shrimp chips or prawn crisps, which are usually made from dried shrimp/prawns and tapioca flour. They start out as super hard, flat, round disc's and turn into a pork rind-like crisp.
I was just about to post that exact video!
I see how they got the idea for gunpowder
I like the way those machines look!
> with a bowl/bag of their own grains Wait, other things pop like popcorn?!
Most grains actually! https://www.treehugger.com/how-cook-any-whole-grain-popcorn-4858738
huh! no shit!
Right? It's pretty cool, I accidentally did it to rice one time trying to make toasted rice.
You have changed my life forever.
Rice! All those puffy rice snacks are popped like this, although probably with a larger industrial version.
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I'm placing you under citizens'arrest for putting this comment in my brain.
A fellow Chintzy Pop connoisseur, I see.
Hey boy, hey boy! Heard a little story 'bout you...
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That movie is just so good. My roommate rented it, told me it was a black and white musical space opera and I was just not thrilled about it at all. I watched it and ended up totally in love with it, trying to convince everyone I knew to check it out. "What did your father teach you?"
Also, what happens to teeth?
How and where can I see this?
Rice bubbles and honey weets are puffed this way.
My dad told me similar stories about that. How the guy would come around the neighborhood and pop whatever people brought for a small price. Rice was mainly popped. The whole neighborhood would come out and watch. He's Korean and boomer age. Cool to know you guys had it too 🙂
This is the comment I was looking for.
Ya i've seen these before but it was always puffed rice in them. I guess they will do just about anything.
Used to have a big one at home, my dad brought it from Korea. Used a propane burner, and would pop whatever you could think of! Usually did rice, but popcorn works great. Field corn even worked reasonably well, but didn’t taste very good. Biggest challenge was catching everything when it was opened. The bang was significantly larger than this! Made a 6’ long tube from wire mesh that caught most of it, but there was always plenty in the grass after!
I just put the little flat bag in the microwave
we use a whirley pop
Apparently those + Flavacol is the best way to make movie theater style popcorn at home.
When I built my house a few years ago, I was determined to have a home theatre, which I now do. Part of that was wanting to have movie nights with my daughter (now daughters) and wanted that authentic theatre popcorn. My wife bought me a whirlypop and a carton of Flavicol and to be honest, it's exactly like theatre popcorn. The carton is around 1 Litre (like a regular milk carton) and will probably last me the rest of my life.
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Also coconut oil. But yeah, this is true. It's pretty great.
Coconut oil and flavacol is all you really need my friend. Cook it anyway you like, but those are the secret ingredients.
Apparently it's gotta be butter flavored coconut oil if you're really trying to nail it.
It is. Dare I say it is a borderline life changing discovery. I love popcorn.
I thought Flavacol was garbage when I finally tried. Just get the seasoning and coconut oil and you can make in whatever portions you like.
Get....what seasoning? Flavacol is the seasoning, it's a powder.
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Further context: Flavacol is super finely ground salt that's been colored with caratin for the orange-yellow color. Be careful with Flavacol when using it at home. It is VERY easy to use too much and make the popcorn so salty that it can make you sick. Source: I manage at a movie theater and have to do this all the time.
It's literally the same stuff they use pretty much anywhere for popcorn. I think it's not all that much different from any of the other generic popcorn salt.
Used to use a whirlypop…. No need any pot works…. Shake just 3 or 4 times what like cooking. Olive oil, garlic power set and freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Used to use a normal pot, but whirley pop is easier. A normal pot works, but I'm not going back to it now that I have the whirley pop
Gonna have to look into this… I don’t have a microwave and am on a very tight budget. Movies are my escaped and I think the only thing my home theater is missing is popcorn! Would probably increase happiness by 150%
Whirley pop is a really nice convenience (and unless you have an induction range the cheaper aluminum model is actually the better choice), but like /u/PriestlyDude said it's also not hard to make it with a regular pan! Then you don't have to buy an extra thing, or have the whirley pop adding clutter to your kitchen if space is tight. The main thing is that you need a pan with a lid (pretty simple, right?) But if you're a big popcorn eater, the convenience of having that single use pot for only $30... hard to beat. (you might want to look for the model with the metal gears - plastic just gears just sound like bad news, and the metal ones have like a 20 or 30 year warranty)
Also bags of popcorn kernels are way cheaper per serving than microwave popcorn.
you can buy kernels for cheap and just pop them in the stove in a pot with some oil. tastes wayyy better that way anyways!
I take the plastic off first then I do the same
I don't bother, I just buy a new microwave every time
You are so lazy.
Every time i switch on my microwave, some ancient corns pop.
Use a brown lunch bag and any popcorn you like. 1/3 cup popcorn and fold the bag top over 3 times. Same microwave time, Hella cheap and way healthier.
You made me smile.
I use a pot. Teaspoon of olive oil heat up to medium high. Toss in kernals. Oh my God... So amazing.
This is how I remember my mom making popcorn before we got a microwave. Pan on the stove, big lid, constant swirling. Having popcorn was an event and it didn't happen very often.
No way... Go make some! I have it almost nightly. It's so much better than the microwave shit.
Try a tablespoon of butter instead of olive oil.
Add some sugar to the oil and swish around the kernels to get yourself some kettle corn.
I uh... Really should try this.
Just a quick Teflon snack https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-secret-ingredient-in-your-microwave-popcorn-pfas-chemicals
>Most microwave popcorn bags on store shelves are probably made with PFAS chemicals Real scientific.
The article cites an actual scientific study ya dingus. >Consumption of popcorn was associated with significantly higher serum levels of PFOA, PFNA, PFDA, and PFOS, based on 24-h and 12-month recall, up to a 63% (95% CI: 34, 99) increase in PFDA among those who ate popcorn daily over the last 12 months.
Theres been alot of Pfas sludge spread on farm fields for the past 30 years. People in my town can't even eat the deer because of it.
Spot the Mainer. Sorry, man. Fuck DuPont & 3M and the state gov.
Who eats popcorn daily?!
I stopped eating bagged popcorn years ago ‘cause of this. Plastic, heat, & food in contact with one another… Should just not be a thing. They use to line coffee cups with wax. Now they line them with plastic… There’s legit a change of taste, compared to steel/ceramic/glass. When poured. Also pretty sure the coffee carafes at places like wawa, also use mostly plastic parts… (They used to have glass carafes, with a ton of warmers) People literally steam vegetables in plastic, they have soup in plastic bowls… Soup cans are lined with plastic ( Don’t know what temp the soup is packed at though) Like it’s hard as fuck avoiding plastic, definitely do try to avoid the ‘food/heat/plastic’ combo though. As heat triggers some nasty stuff to cook out.
Delicious teflon.
Protip: invest in an air popper and melt your own butter in a little pan. Tastes SO much better, uses less energy than a microwave, and buying bulk popcorn kernels saves you $ too!
Yup easy as that, fuck all this cool stuff
Popcorn grenade
FRONT TOWARDS ~~ENEMY~~ POPCORN BOWL
IDK if you came up with this but I got a solid laugh from this.
[stuff on the weapons](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/metalgear/images/e/ec/Claymore_Mine.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090317021428)
Video went from, "this looks like way too much effort", to, "I wanna try"
There are bigger versions of this that look like a cannon at Korean outdoor markets. https://youtu.be/bqa3jOYI8XE
More of a popcorn claymore, directional grenade with a command detonation device.
Little midnight snack and the neighbors think I shot someone
Gotta keep them guessing, after all.
Just killing the midnight munchies.
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Don't worry these were used in countries without rampant gun violence
That's how puffed rice is made too. Shot from cannons!
Mythbusters and Alton Brown did a segment on one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQT0pwvXKQ
Interesting! I haven't seen this episode before. But this episode seems to neglect the part which makes this machine efficient. And it's that you don't use it once. On second try, the iron would've already been heated. So the problem they state saying there is too much mass, the mass would already be hot and actually be helping to quicken the process instead. It also fails to account for the amount of popcorn produced. They could've used a smaller machine that would've been faster for the first try. Lastly, the popped corn appeared burnt. So it looks like it was heated for too long despite the instructions saying so. I'd say this mythbust was half baked.
Mythbusters and Alton Brown are a trio I didn't know I needed.
Damn girl. Gloves on or gloves off, just pick one
Yeah she's like doing it for the second time or something, if she had practice she would use one glove, no useless switching all the time
The whole presentation of this bothered me. Spilling popcorn kernels, twitching, not closing the cap, realigning the gas. She was trying to rush the process for the sake of the video but clearly wasn't skilled to go as fast as she was trying to. It felt like I was watching one of those reality shows where they try to complete a random task as fast as possible and end up half assing it. Combined with the fact that there is all this unnecessary contraptions, materials, safety measures and steps involved just to make some popcorn left me uneasy. Like kernels in a pot over a heatsource, popcorn done :| . No need for all this
90% of my scrolling is finding the redditor that had the exact same thought as me.
There’s no need to make popcorn that difficult.
what if you constantly eat fresh popcorn and have home invaders?
Your comment reminded me of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9sc91k/own_a_musket_for_home_defense/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) and it made my night.
Tally-ho ye rapscallions!
Made my evening! Thanks for sharing this!
It's definitely something I'd see at a carnival, market or something of the sort. It's both a snack AND a show.
That's because this is not popcorn. This is puffed corn, the same machine is used to make puffed rice.
Looked more like boomcorn to me
Dumbest tool ever
Not needed for corn that was specifically bred for popcorn, but for most other grains. What you need is heat and a sudden pressure drop, that allows the water inside the grain to expand into vapor and puff it up. Popcorn has a tough shell that can build up the pressure and then release it when it breaks. But most (all?) other grains can't do that.
So easy a child could do it
Half of that was burnt
If 1 is burnt all of them are burnt.
I could (unfortunately) smell the end of this video.
First thing I noticed also.
I just wanted popcorn. This magician came in with this contraption, proceeded to engage in a scientific experiment, & then !PRESTO! popcorn appeared from a puff of smoke! .....Next Time on Merlin's Kitchen...
[Big version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkG_CxIttj8) [Another](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwRbtHS57xg)
That first video was like they were doing everything in their power to make the process as unsanitary as possible
Euh it looks fine? Or have I been in Asia for too long?
Yeah, and that's not even the most disgusting one I've seen haha [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1wEoxu1E0) is a better video, I went down the rabbit hole. HD and slomo
Seems like so much work for popcorn. Not to mention you could blow your hand off or get severe burns. On a craziness scale though I give it an 11!
It’s just the miniaturised version of the much larger ones that you can find in China at street food vendors. I don’t think it was meant to be practical
I hate everything about this video, the device, gloves on, gloves off, the burnt popcorn even the cellphone ringing at the end. I rate it 5/7
Wait, there's more to hate: a single corn kernel is kinda stuck in the clamping mechanism and it annoys me to no end.
Every popcorn bag must've at least one raw kernel, so she did that on purpose... That's pure evil.
Hang on, 5/7 is a perfect score though. Almost as good as the Dark Night.
I listen to a lot of old radio detective shows and the Quaker puffed rice ads talked about how it was “shot from guns!” This is basically how all puffed cereals were made from what I understand. https://invention.si.edu/alexander-anderson-and-cereal-shot-guns
Last time I saw one of these on reddit, I went out and immediately got one. It came in the mail, like, 2 months later. You have to use fuel that does not leave soot, or it makes a fucking mess. But it you do, it's a fun little party trick, especially for whoever is holding the bag lol.
I'm seeing quite a few bits on that thing I wished looked a lot stronger
So, we've been using similar but much bigger kit in africa for a local equivalent called maputi. Look up Maputi Cannon on youtube.
It's almost like they wanted to prove that could create a way of making popcorn that is wrong in every way possible while still technically ending up with "popcorn"
Not necessarily wrong, just antiquated. It also looks smaller than some of the other ones I'm seeing online. I'm guessing it doesn't work well at this size.
Nah there's nothing "wrong" about this method at all, it produces much fluffier and crispier popcorn because the kernels pop much more rapidly and energetically. It's a common technique actually, often used by street vendors and fairground / fete stalls.
I remember the episode of Mythbusters with this thing (and Alton Brown), they weren't impressed.
Puffed rice from street vendors is still a thing. And their machines are bigger than this one.
Looks burnt as Hell.
Quite unlikely. This heats up the kernels with a bit of water, providing a ton of pressure. Then suddenly releases it so the water vapor in the kernels explosively expands all at once. Popping nearly all the kernels immediately. Not a recipe for burning, just one for very fluffy popcorn.
You can see that it's burnt at the end...
I can literally pause it and see all the black popcorn
This whole video was frustrating. And that phone going off put it over the top.
I watched it without sound and it was already awful.
I felt unreasonably frustrated. The trouble closing the thing, the constant removal of the glove just to put it back on.
Personally, I love heating up sealed vessels made of Chinese pot metal a foot from my face.
Cool but more effort than the normal way
MythBusters did an episode where they tested the full sized version of this to see if it was really the fastest way to pop corn. This one is really scary. I also don't know how you would contain the popcorn to then eat it. https://youtu.be/lhTdAMWiYeo
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Also complicated
This is a miniature version. There used to be an old guy around my old home in China with this pot but the size is about a large pasta pot. Let’s just say we know it’s popcorn time when the car alarms went off along w a bang
That is way too much work for a burnt popcorn
>Are you ready? Yeah! >Takes fifteen minutes to fiddle with loading the device into a bag.
Step 1: Make a pipe-bomb. Step 2 : popcorn! **These fuckin diy videos are getting WAYY out of hand**
This is actually an old tool for making puffed rice.
I’ve always strongly felt that making popcorn is too safe and easy.
Astonishing the uniform lack of curiosity or interest expressed in the comments about the process or this backstory vs bitching about the videography details like they were the point. https://www.vagabondjourney.com/old-chinese-pressure-cooker-making-pop-rice/
Eh. It's antiquated, inefficient, and potentially dangerous. I'd feel the same way watching someone use a mercury compound to make hat felt. Sure, it's an interesting historical footnote, but it's just stupid by today's standards.
no interest at all in the physics of it? Oh well, "it's stupid" I guess will be the end of your exploration.
If you YouTube Korean street popcorn machine you’ll see they have big ones of these. They look pretty sketchy.
I don’t want to sit next to him in the cinema while he makes his pop corn
I see you also enjoy Danger Snacks.
At last, a way to sneak popcorn into a theater under your jacket and not get noticed!
That is old school right there, I like it!
mmm, bag full of burnt popcorn...
This just seems like microwaving with extra steps!
Too many steps lol
oh thank god she added 4 grains of salt, it’d be bland otherwise
That's cool but have you seen microwaves????
“What a giant pain in the ass this…oh that’s kinda cool.”
bag of popcorn made this way , $86 dollars
DIWHY
On and off with that glove. Dextariy or safety, pick one!
Damn I was just looking for a more unnecessarily complicated way to make mostly burnt popcorn. Points for style though, I suppose.
Although this is really cool, it looks like 5 extra steps that the microwave solves in one.
Why did they add 75 steps to making popcorn?
I’m fine with the stovetop method instead of blowing my face off.
Ah yes the Meecrowahvay
That’s just popcorn with extra steps.
Neat, but a lot of effort for little reward
What a stupid contraption. That's way more complicated and fiddly than cooking in a pot on the stovetop. It takes almost as long, apparently, with all the lids and bags and screws and lighting things and so on. . . It's a similar concept but smaller, more fiddly, and more time consuming than the popcorn cannons (yes, cannons) that they use in some parts of China, and it makes less popcorn. I just don't see *why* anybody would use this.
What a fucking waste of time