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- DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32The REAL way to make popcorn is to throw some kernels in a kettle with some coconut oil and cooking it up on the stove. :)
- floyd427, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Good Eats did a good episode on making your own popcorn, microwave and otherwise. Alton Brown rocks the culinary science
- cquinnd, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22"Even the term 'nuke' says it all"
Only if you are the type of person who believes every marketing term is connected in reality to the use of a buzzword for a completely different application of technology. You are probably also opposed to the idea of a nuclear family, or nuclear magnetic resonance scanners, without understanding that neither has anything to do with nuclear energy.
It's not the microwave that is the problem. It is the quality of the food put into it, and the effort made to prepare it.
The same could be said for anything you decide to cook on an electric or gas stove, down to cooking over a wood fire. - 09F911029D74E, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11If I don't eat industrially produced microwaved popcorn, the workers will have died in vain.
- Vanadium, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Ugh... diacetyl is not a "pollutant" as the article implies. Diacetyl is quite natural and is frequently found in beer production. One of the first "off" flavors you learn in beer judgeing is diacetyl. In some particular styles diacetyl is actually a desired characteristic. Diacetyl is produced naturally during the fermentation process. See the wikipedia article for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacetyl
- drmsucks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Don't eat the staples!
- LeeMaple, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I use safflower oil, might have to try the coconut. I love making real popcorn for people the first time and their eyes go wide and they say "This is better than the movie theater.." Popcorn not made on the stove is a travesty.
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10D-I-Y organic microwave popcorn ... brilliant!
Lets just hope that the nuked brown paper bags don't emit a poisonous gas ... - Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9 There is nothing wrong with microwaving food if you do it in glass containers.
However,it's the pre-packaged foods that I don't buy...And this includes microwave popcorn with fake butter.
- zarex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8There's nothing wrong with regular microwave popcorn, even with the diacetyl. It takes extreme levels of this agent many years to have an effect - just like many natural and artificial food components.
- neel360, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11"It's a serious lung disease which, until recently, has only been known to effect popcorn factory workers. "
Affect [verb, trans.]: have an effect on; make a difference to
Effect [noun]: a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
There's a difference, people. Come on! - jpbleuu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7i must agree. making popcorn on the stove is about 1000 times better.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8put your birkenstocks back on and change your bong water. your computer monitor is using up the planets resources, MAN.
- sovereign3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Butter might make you fat, but at least it doesn't give you cancer.
- melonhedd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Shut up
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I only got as far as "You'll also be avoiding genetically modified corn stocks and the ugly payload of pesticide residue which comes in every bowl of store-bought popcorn." before I had to stop reading!
OH NOES! Genetically modified! It must be EVIL! EVIL I tells ya! - TheGeek27, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Goddamned alarmist nutbags. One dude gets sick from popcorn fumes, and everyone is running to the hills, claiming the sky is falling. They just happen to leave out the detail that this guy was eating 2-3 bags of popcorn every damn day. And that much of anything is of course going to end up having some negative side effects.
Everyone, calm down. Enjoying some microwave popcorn every now and again isn't going to kill you. - cheesehead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I just put raw popcorn in a paper bag. Can't remember how long it takes. You'll know if it was too long
- airencracken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Whirlypop ftw.
- robbiedo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Air Popped popcorn. Spray a little Pam and shake on some grated Parmesan cheese, and some cayenne to the cheese if you want a kick.
- bightchee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I have ditched microwave popcorn after two things occurred: Newman's Own discontinued its white cheddar cheese microwave popcorn and I discovered where to order the white cheddar cheese powder for myself. Now I air-pop all my popcorn.
For all others who may be interested: http://www.annies.com/products/cheese_powder_white_cheddar.htm - mandarin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5you sure the staples wont spark?
- liquidjamm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Alton Brown is the man!
- woozlewuzzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've found that using only a little coconut oil (teaspoon or maybe a little more) along with vegetable oil (make the total oil amount 3 Tbsp) to 1/3 to 1/2 C of popcorn to give good flavor from the oil without having so much cholesterol from the coconut oil. I believe the cocnut oil smokes at a lower temp, too - so mixing keeps the air in the kitchen a little clearer.
- Orat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Microwave ovens do not "nuke" anything. They excite liquids and some solids in food with nonionizing radiation, causing the food to heat up, albeit often unevenly. The term "nuke" generally refers to the effects of ionizing radiation and it appears from the context of your statement that this is what you believe microwave ovens produce. My apologies if I am wrong.
There is nothing wrong with GMO corn, and certainly nothing in it that is going to harm you. There is a lot wrong with your apparently uninformed perspective of it. Even Europe, which is notoriously anti-GM food, has approved GMO corn for human consumption.
Information > Ignorance - MLisa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Thanks for the affect/ effect info! More useful to me than the popcorn news.
- randomizer9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I prefer the good ol' fashioned electric popper with the clear top that you flip over when its done, great for serving a horde of movie-watchers.
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Oh please. I bet you don't own a TV and plow your own fields with a plow towed by your 15 wives, too, right?
- Leadhyena, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Vanadium, this is misleading. The problem is with _heated_ diacetyl, not the liquid form found in beer. The boiling point of this chemical is 88C, which is easily reached in the microwave, and the steam that comes out of the bag is in face dangerous for your lungs. People who get the "Popcorn lung" have irreparable scarring that can only be repaired currently using transplantation. I'd call that pollution.
Oh, and it's judging, not judgeing. Digg gives you a good spell-check; please use it! - LeeMaple, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Haven't owned a microwave for 5 years.. I cook food.. Popcorn was meant to be made in a pan with oil.
- yodaj007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Alton Brown suggests using peanut oil, if I remember my Good Eats correctly.
- mikeeeeeee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not only was he making 2-3 bags a day for YEARS, he would always inhale the steam right after microwaving it. So as long as you don't inhale ridiculous amounts of microwave popcorn steam, you're safe.
- imbetterthanu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Indeed. This is the method we use: Large metal bowl. Mix in 3 tablespoons of peanut oil (high smoke point), 1/2 cup of kernels, and 1/2 teaspoon of popcorn salt (yes...add the salt before popping). Cover the top of the bowl with foil and poke ~ 8 holes in the top. Turn stove on med-high and shake the bowl constantly. The corn is done once the popping stops. Add melted butter afterwards if you'd like.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3yes
- sovereign3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You should note that "effect" can be used as a verb in some contexts. However, this is not one of those occasions.
- teethman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have never seen diacetyl in the listed ingredients. Whats up FDA?
- hydrokayak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I buy all of my popcorn from my local Boy Scout troop. Being an Eagle Scout myself, I see the need to pay a little extra for my corn. It's free of diacetyl too, which makes it better still.
- bib4tuna, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i have a hot air popcorn pumper from the 70s--you know, the yellow base with the amber colored horn coming off the top.
now thats some good popcorn, no oil either so its not as bad for ya. - Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oh no!!!! not the ATOMS!!!!1
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Support your argument that GM crops are "dangerous *****."
- TheCosmicFool, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Something tells me Annies powder stock is about to experience the digg effect
- super_duper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is nothing wrong in microwaving food in plastic containers. It is a HOAX. On the internet, it's spread so wildly because someone stuck Johns Hopkins University on there for credibility.
Very small amounts of chemicals are found to leach out, but it's in extremely small quantities, not enough to harm you.
Source: http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/articles/Halden_dioxins.html - mobislink, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did any one else see a woman's naked ass on the lower right of the web page with a smiley face drawn on it.
- WoollyMittens, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So that will teach you when you are brewing popcorn??? WTF? Beer?
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"Fake way" (paper bag + microwave) tastes the same, sometimes better, and you don't need oil.
Air popped corn, made using another "fake" method tastes pretty good too.
Microwaving isn't fake. Just new. - Haapi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Beer production? I'm a dead man.
- Leadhyena, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's how I make it, LeeMaple, and I have a microwave oven. Just like the taste better. Plus, kettle corn is the bomb, and it is really easy to make in the pot.
- woozlewuzzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It is probably listed as imitation butter flavor or something similar
- mojo31979, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wow, a man ate 2 bags of fake buttery popcorn everyday for 10 years, and he died at the tender age of fifty-something!
- fgsfds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The requirements for artificial ingredients are stricter than the ones on natural additives. Diacetyl is completely natural.
Of course, with the information age at hand there is no longer a physical space limitation on what information can be provided. Mandating that EVERYTHING present in the product be listed online would be a reasonable reform. -
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