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[Foxfyre]

I knew someone who liked sugar on popcorn. I like it with butter and salt.

I skip the butter..;..just add salt. It isn't that I don't like it with butter, it's just easier to pop the corn, salt it, eat it.

So you use vegetable oil Foxfyre?

Coconut oil when I have it - a bit of canola oil when I don't. Those plus olive oil are the only fats I ever use to cook with. Air popping of course would be the best way to go but I just can't enjoy air popped corn like I do my old fashioned popped on the stove corn method.

We use something similar to this :

Have to add butter to the popcorn after, even if it's just butter flavored spray, so the salt will stick.

I would probably prefer just the bagged microwave popcorn, it's easier and less cleaning, but my employer has the popper, so that's what we use.

Read my post #31588 - that microwave stuff is not at all healthy.

I add the salt immediately after the corn is popped. There is just enough hot oil and steam on the corn so the salt sufficiently sticks.

I do like the looks of your popper but how do you stir it and how does the steam get out? Mine is like this one:

 

[saveliberty]

By the way, I dragged out my old whirly pop and pop all my corn on the stove now. Why? I read the label on the microwave popcorn we had been buying - a whopping 5 grams of TRANS FAT plus additional saturated fat. I had read that the packaging also puts out toxic fumes. So. . .decided maybe the convenience of microwave popcorn wasn't such a good idea.

Not sure where my Whirly Popper is.

 

[Dhara]

Your whirly popper? That sounds funny.

 

[saveliberty]

Your whirly popper? That sounds funny.

That is does, but I think it is the proper name of it.

 

[Dhara]

Your whirly popper? That sounds funny.

That is does, but I think it is the proper name of it.

My kids would love a whirly popper. To ride in!

 

[saveliberty]

There were Whirly Birds too. Diabolical playground equipment you pushed and pulled with your arms and feet while rotating.

 

[Dhara]

I thought they called helicopters, "whirly birds".

 

[saveliberty]

True, but also these.

 

[Dhara]

I don't see those in our playground. Must have been some liability problem.

 

[saveliberty]

I don't see those in our playground. Must have been some liability problem.

I used the term diabolical correctly.

 

[gallantwarrior]

We all need to chip in and buy some land. Have a commune.
Nah. we would kill each other.

Y'all don't need to buy any land. I have two hundred acres of birch and spruce forest. Oh,and some world class mountain views. You're welcome to lease a nice cabin (will build to suit).

 

[gallantwarrior]

Snow started about 7am, we are at 8" ten and a half hours later. Still coming down.

Snow started about 7am, we are at 8" ten and a half hours later. Still coming down.

Snow? I don't see no stinking snow. Send Alaska's snow back!

 

[saveliberty]

Snow started about 7am, we are at 8" ten and a half hours later. Still coming down.

Snow started about 7am, we are at 8" ten and a half hours later. Still coming down.

Snow? I don't see no stinking snow. Send Alaska's snow back!

Must be wicked witch snow, it is melting.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I would LOVE that house, Ringel.

Also;


You could get a propane tank for cooking and hot water, or a wood pellet stove for heat, cooking and hot water, composting toilet, home made solar panels and if you have a stream on the property with enough vertical drop you could install a cheap Pelton wheel to create electricity. If you're near enough to a power feed that can be hooked into you could do that except the cost goes up dramatically in installation, permits and construction fees.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I would LOVE that house, Ringel.

Also;


You could get a propane tank for cooking and hot water, or a wood pellet stove for heat, cooking and hot water, composting toilet, home made solar panels and if you have a stream on the property with enough vertical drop you could install a cheap Pelton wheel to create electricity. If you're near enough to a power feed that can be hooked into you could do that except the cost goes up dramatically in installation, permits and construction fees.

That's a lot like what I have. No water wheel but that might be possible. I'd have to calculate the wire drop for a quarter mile of wire, though. I also use a wood burning stove and keep a propane stove to keep the house from freezing when I'm not around to stoke the fire.

 

[Montrovant]

I knew someone who liked sugar on popcorn. I like it with butter and salt.

I skip the butter..;..just add salt. It isn't that I don't like it with butter, it's just easier to pop the corn, salt it, eat it.

So you use vegetable oil Foxfyre?

Coconut oil when I have it - a bit of canola oil when I don't. Those plus olive oil are the only fats I ever use to cook with. Air popping of course would be the best way to go but I just can't enjoy air popped corn like I do my old fashioned popped on the stove corn method.

We use something similar to this :

Have to add butter to the popcorn after, even if it's just butter flavored spray, so the salt will stick.

I would probably prefer just the bagged microwave popcorn, it's easier and less cleaning, but my employer has the popper, so that's what we use.

Read my post #31588 - that microwave stuff is not at all healthy.

I add the salt immediately after the corn is popped. There is just enough hot oil and steam on the corn so the salt sufficiently sticks.

I do like the looks of your popper but how do you stir it and how does the steam get out? Mine is like this one:

I like a lot of salt on my popcorn, the oil/steam aren't enough for me.

The metal bar you can see in the picture spins around, moving the kernels. The top of the clear plastic cover has holes in it to allow steam to escape in ours.

 

[Foxfyre]

I skip the butter..;..just add salt. It isn't that I don't like it with butter, it's just easier to pop the corn, salt it, eat it.

So you use vegetable oil Foxfyre?

Coconut oil when I have it - a bit of canola oil when I don't. Those plus olive oil are the only fats I ever use to cook with. Air popping of course would be the best way to go but I just can't enjoy air popped corn like I do my old fashioned popped on the stove corn method.

We use something similar to this :

Have to add butter to the popcorn after, even if it's just butter flavored spray, so the salt will stick.

I would probably prefer just the bagged microwave popcorn, it's easier and less cleaning, but my employer has the popper, so that's what we use.

Read my post #31588 - that microwave stuff is not at all healthy.

I add the salt immediately after the corn is popped. There is just enough hot oil and steam on the corn so the salt sufficiently sticks.

I do like the looks of your popper but how do you stir it and how does the steam get out? Mine is like this one:

I like a lot of salt on my popcorn, the oil/steam aren't enough for me.

The metal bar you can see in the picture spins around, moving the kernels. The top of the clear plastic cover has holes in it to allow steam to escape in ours.

You can't apply the salt with a salt shaker--too slow. Just use about a quarter handful of salt and distribute over the top of popcorn immediately when it has finished popping--I do pour the popcorn into the bowl first. Shake and the popcorn will be plenty salty. And yes, there is some residual salt in the bowl when the popcorn is all gone, but not a big deal--salt is plentiful and cheap. And you save a couple of hundred calories and some money from not using all that butter. But if calories or fat intake is not a concern, the butter is good. I just enjoy my popcorn without it.

Oh, and I just wipe out my Whirly Popper with a paper towel and stick it under the cabinet beside the stove. I wash it after every four or five uses or so.

 

[Gracie]

We all need to chip in and buy some land. Have a commune.
Nah. we would kill each other.

Y'all don't need to buy any land. I have two hundred acres of birch and spruce forest. Oh,and some world class mountain views. You're welcome to lease a nice cabin (will build to suit).

Lease a cabin? How much is the lease? You'd hafta teach us the wild alaskan ways of compost toilets and stuff. And do you do tree houses? I'd be skeered of bears. Lots of bears in alaska, isn't there? Or...really thick logs for the cabin.

 

[Kat]

Read my post #31588 - that microwave stuff is not at all healthy.

??? There isn't a 31588 post in here..is it about microwave popcorn?

 

[Foxfyre]

Read my post #31588 - that microwave stuff is not at all healthy.

??? There isn't a 31588 post in here..is it about microwave popcorn?

Whoops sorry. I mean Post #31558. (These dang people who insist on reading what I write. . .grumble. . . grumble.. . . )