Popcorn

In my opinion there is something inherently wrong with popcorn that isn?t coated with toffee. I am talking about the ghastly salted variety or heaven forbid the butter drenched offerings to be found in cinemas and theatres far and wide. You might just as well eat polystyrene packing chips such is the lack of flavour in these offerings, no, for me it has to be toffee popcorn and plenty of it. Luckily this delicacy can be found outside the walls of the local picture house thanks largely to companies like Butterkist who have kindly put toffee popcorn in bags and sent it to shops far and wide. So it was that I found myself in Tesco on the look ...  Read the complete review

Popcorn, the faithful companion to the cinema goer since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. It is incredibly simple and yet so wonderfully addictive. Popcorn are little kernels of corn that are popped (lol, what a great description). They pop open under prolonged intense heat (a frying pan on medium heat is all you need) and turn into very light mini polystyreney bombsites, which then become a great vehicle for other flavours. The practice of making popcorn is said to date back many thousand years to the native Americans, apparently some tribes believed the popping sound was an angry god escaping the corn. Not sure if I believe that but certainly ...  Read the complete review

I buy popcorn from the local continental store or from Tesco, whichever I'm at when I need some. Each bag, containing around 8 portions, costs 65p or less and each portion will fill a standard mixing bowl with ease. I use a machine for my corn which makes it all very easy though I have tried using a pan with oil and found more of them did not pop in the end. I find microwaving popcorn to be hit and miss, too little time and not enough pops, too much time and the taste is ruined by burning. My recommendation is to use fresh corn, now I know this is a contradiction in terms, the corn is dried, but the newer it is the better the ...  Read the complete review

Popcorn is a puffy maize snack inverted from the kernel via the application of heat. Although very tasteless in its freshly-popped form, it comes in a wide variety of tasty flavours, the most popular being toffee, butterscotch, sweet and salted. There's something for everyone here. It has a unique chewy, fluffy texture and at its heart, is a pretty original idea. Its status as a cinema-exclusive snack is rather unusual, as it can be easily applied to almost any situation to improve it. Although arguably that might well be attributed to its associaton with mindless grazing, and ethos as a secondary activity to a more prevalent, yet still passive ...  Read the complete review

Due to just reading a review by Lorrainek858 and since I love Popcorn, I thought I would do my own. You can buy popcorn in 2 different ways (not including bag sizes and so on!) You can buy the already popped bags, 0r the natural kernals, which you pop yourself. You can also buy Popcorn machine and I had one of these years ago. It was a massive contraption and totally unnecessary. Now when I make my own Popcorn I just cook it in a saucepan. So first of all the natural kernals. These can be bought at most supermarket and cost around 40p-70p for a 500g bag. They look like little shiny seeds. how I cook them is to add a little vegetable oil ...  Read the complete review