The Air popper item

Sep 17 03:48 UTC 1992

  
  Since entering the last item on the making of popcorn, (that is,
the food, not our illustrious and brilliant fw), I have discoved that
there is a definite difference between popcorn popped in oil and 
popcorn that is air-popped. (yes you could call this the Air-popper
item). I have become a big fan of air popped corn due to the lack
of oil taste. (noticed this watrue when I last attended a movie
at the Michigan).

  What do you prefer: Air popped or oil popped popcorn?

response 2 of 48:

Sep 18 02:42 UTC 1992

Very rarely, except when visiting customers.  Usually i air dry my
hair, and lately that's been taking *forever*!  Wash the hair
some time between 7 and 8, and it's not dry yet by *noon*!

Oh, popcorn the food, yeah.  Hm.  I used to infinitely prefer the
oil popped kind to the air popped kind.  Nowadays i'm kinda burned
out on the stuff (isn't that sad?) so i don't do much of either kind.

response 4 of 48:

Sep 18 13:14 UTC 1992

and what about that "sweet corn" over at showcase cinemas? who likes that,
and exactly what is it that they're putting on it?

response 6 of 48:

Sep 19 11:26 UTC 1992

Come to think of it, her hair did appear to be rather oily the last time I
saw her...

response 8 of 48:

Sep 20 05:06 UTC 1992

 hahahahahaha

response 10 of 48:

Sep 20 14:22 UTC 1992

I'm an old fashioned popcorn eater, I stick with butter (and a bit of salt)
on my popcorn.  I've gotten a hot air popper, though.  When I'm trying to 
watch caloric intake, hot air popped corn is a great snack in the evening
while vegging out in front of the tube.  (W/o butter at that point, of 
course.)

On a related topic, one of my neighbors works at the U, as a geneticist, I
think.  At heart (and by appearance) he's a farmer.  He has a couple of
"farms" near here, where comes up with his own hybreds of popcorn.  We just
were given a couple of his "Amazin' Pop" this last week, but haven't gotten
around to trying it yet.

response 12 of 48:

Sep 21 04:40 UTC 1992

  "Would you like butter on that?"

  "No, just give me the same greasy yellow shit
   you put on everyone else's popcorn.."

[someone I know actually said that to the person working 
 the theater concession stand..  I was a taken aback a bit
 until I found out that he knew the person he was addressing]

response 14 of 48:

Sep 27 19:51 UTC 1992

Some of the microwave popcorn is "ok" and some isn't, but I've had so
little experience with micro-pop thatouldn't name brands.
  
I prefer (and remember) oil-popped corn (corn oil) as performed
in a large stainless steel skillet, some butter sprinkled over it, and
then tossed with a slight amount of salt.
  
I do have, btw, some of that yellow-junk-powder from a popcorn
company. It's a salt-butter-flavor powder, and in fact, it's a pretty
fair seasoning accompnaying the peppercorns, ground pepper and regular
salt on my table, as well as Mrs. Dash ...
  
I've tried the air-popped popcorn and it is "alright" but somewhat
tasteless, imo, (given what I'm used to anyway). And as for putting
grated cheeze - someone gave some parmesan cheeze one day and I got
rather turned off, real fast. Maybe some other topping, but not parmesan
cheeze for this palette.

response 16 of 48:

Oct 1 15:41 UTC 1992

Ts, we don't buy commercial microwave popcorn.  We buy the regular
popcorn in a big plastic bag and pop it in our microwave corn popper.
I think it turns out great, considering how bad I think microwave
popcorn generally is.  It's close enough to oil-popped that I'm not
willing to spend the time popping with oil any more.

response 18 of 48:

Oct 2 04:21 UTC 1992

the popcorn god who lived next door to me in the dorm sophomore year
said he always kept his unpopped popcorn in the fridge.  he said it
popped better that way.

response 20 of 48:

Oct 2 14:59 UTC 1992

  Hmmm..  I would've thought that frozen popcorn wouldn't pop very well..

response 22 of 48:

Oct 3 15:02 UTC 1992

Pops just fine.  My mom kept hers in the freezer (non frost-free and frost
free).  I have noticed that with the air popper we have more non pops with
different brands/types of popcorn and a few more than I got with an oil
popper, but not enough to really complain about.

response 24 of 48:

Oct 5 12:57 UTC 1992

my rationale (apparently incorrect) for not freezing was that it seemed
the moisture in the kernel could freeze, expand, and perhaps crack, causing
the kernel to not pop (or only partly pop later on..)