• CPMSP@midwest.social
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    3 hours ago

    My friend introduced me to eating popcorn with chopsticks for practice and I’ve been doing it ever since.

    No buttery fingers, no fistfuls of corn. Just a slow and forced-portioning pace.

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    14 hours ago

    Pop-corn enthusiasts, how do you make them? Ready-made microwave shite, or from kernels? If from kernels, do you use a special air-frier, or just pan with oil? I use the air-frier but I find that my biggest problem is getting the butter taste in them afterwards. I’m dripping a butter-tasting rapeseed oil afterwards, but this tends to not reach the bottom layers if I make a lot.

    What’s your approach?

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      Microwave is okay in a pinch.

      Kettle style with the built in stirrer, a touch of canola and salt can be very good.

      I prefer air popped, with a 1:1 ratio of butter tbsp per 1/3 cup kernel batch, and dusted with fine popcorn salt.

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      12 hours ago

      I’ve been looking into this air fryer / self-stirring cooking pot “Delonghi Multifry”. Could work to get it mixed with butter while air frying.

      Although I’m mostly thinking about air frying breaded chickpeas, noodles / spätzle, gnocchi and potatoes. Not to save on oil mind you, just to avoid having to get off my ass and stir the pan all the time.

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    23 hours ago

    Where’s us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

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    They forgot the 3rd mode. When all the popped kernals are gone, and all you have left are the unpopped kernals that you still eat anyways.

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      19 hours ago

      The partially popped ones are the best. I’d eat a whole bowl of those. No idea how you would successfully cook them that way.

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        7 hours ago

        Oh man I love the partially popped ones. I love finding a cluster of them in the bottom of the bag.

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      1 day ago

      My parents used to warn me that I might end up cracking a tooth on the kernels. I still eat them anyway. Probably gonna regret that one day lol.

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    23 hours ago

    The secret third phase is scraping the last few kernels across the butter/salt film on the bottom of the bowl.

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      24 hours ago

      The transition happens at the exact moment that my fingers first touch the popcorn

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah phase 1 is optional, some of us only wish that we were that sophistumicashiated as all that!

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    1 day ago

    It starts when the popcorn begins to cool enough that both it’s safe to ram mouthfuls and it’s a race against the clock to finish before it becomes cold.

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    20 hours ago

    Tangential, but anyone passing by this comment and doesn’t like popcorn after working at a theater?

    Whenever I see a bowl of popcorn it reminds me of that smell of popcorn and coke mixed together in a garbage can. It’s not so bad that I don’t eat it at all. But if I do, I have very little.

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      19 hours ago

      My first job was at a theatre. The black jeans they had us buy to work there never lost the smell of popcorn butter. I kept them for a few years thinking they’d lose the smell after enough washings, but no.

      I know that coke/popcorn/garbage mix smell, and how stupidly heavy a full trash bag gets when there’s too many full sodas in it.

      I don’t eat popcorn often, but I remember we got it for free as employees in a small-sized cup. A few of us would make popcorn “parfaits” that consisted of popcorn, butter, and intentionally too much salt for several layers.

      That and the slightly over-syruped coke we’d also get for free worked oddly well together.

      I assume that this will ultimately be the cause of a massive heart attack, but the free snack smell-memory outpaces the garbage memory for me.

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      13 hours ago

      I’m a fist-stuffing guy

      Sure, but how do you eat your popcorn?

      Also eating the half popped kernels is absolutely a phase. Especially if it involves gradually lowering your standards of what a half popped kernel is until youre just biting off the point of the kernels

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    1 day ago

    I’ve never done the second.

    I don’t like popcorn enough to justify getting that shit everywhere by uncontrollably grabbing and stuffing it in my mouth. For me, it’s something to slowly munch on.

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      24 hours ago

      Eh, the messiness is wholly dependent on the person. Me? I can get fistfulls in my mouth without dropping a single kernel or breaking any pieces off (that fall away, anyways). The mess comes from forgetting my fingers are fucked over with salty butter…