Making Popcorn in Your Microwave
The microwave popcorn industry is a hustle.
Here's how to make popcorn in your microwave:
Go to the store, and spend a dollar to buy a thing of brown paper lunchbags. Also buy a bag of popcorn.
Put a handful of popcorn in the bag, and add a little canola oil if you want (if you don't have spray canola, you can toss the kernels in a bit of canola before you put them in the bag). Fold over the top of the bag. Put it in the microwave, and microwave it for about two minutes (depends on your microwave).
You now have popcorn to eat, which is a healthy and tasty snack. And if you want, you can put weird shit on it like mustard powder or real butter or whatever you like.
And it'll cost like ten cents a "pop."
THAT'S A HOUSEHOLD POWER TIP, FOLKS.
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Here's how to make popcorn in your microwave:
Go to the store, and spend a dollar to buy a thing of brown paper lunchbags. Also buy a bag of popcorn.
Put a handful of popcorn in the bag, and add a little canola oil if you want (if you don't have spray canola, you can toss the kernels in a bit of canola before you put them in the bag). Fold over the top of the bag. Put it in the microwave, and microwave it for about two minutes (depends on your microwave).
You now have popcorn to eat, which is a healthy and tasty snack. And if you want, you can put weird shit on it like mustard powder or real butter or whatever you like.
And it'll cost like ten cents a "pop."
THAT'S A HOUSEHOLD POWER TIP, FOLKS.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Wednesday, June 04, 2008
9 Comments:
But how will I know which end goes up? There's also no warning if the contents will be hot.
Think about it, Jesse.
According to food-nerd-guru Alton Brown, you can even staple the bag! As long as you only use two staples and they're not near each other, it's not enough metal to start sparking. I've tried it and it really works!
You can even draw a folksy, avuncular man on the bag!
I did this, and it looked sort of like Larry King, but the popcorn still tasted pretty good!
Jesse's become egotistical. He thinks he can tell us how to pop our corn and that we'll eat it up. I don't come here for that! Don't believe the hype, people!
Next he'll be telling us that we don't have to use iPods to listen to his podcasts.
Why go through all the trouble?
Down a shot of oil, a cup of corn, and chuck a match down your gullet and you're golden.
I just did this. It worked great.
Keep it up.
do you have any tips on how to lower my monthly electricity bill, mr. thorn?
You can also buy a bowl specially designed for popping corn in the microwave. It's a little more initial investment, but in the long run you produce less trash, you still save money, and some such bowls are designed so that you don't need to use any oil at all (though you'll probably want to salt and butter to taste after the fact so it tastes unlike packing material): http://cleverdad.blogspot.com/2008/06/frugal-healthy-microwave-popcorn.html
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