Comments on: Freshly made Popcorn

By: Kae

Kae — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:25:58 +0000

omg u named ur hamster as cat (in japanese)?? thats so cute!!!

By: Xin Bei

Xin Bei — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:57 +0000

Hi! I love your website! You are definitely NOT a Noob Cook with all these cool recipes! =D

Anyway, I wonder is there any other ways of making the caramel coating of the popcorn so that it doesn’t harden so quickly and also is smooth enough to coat the entire batch of popcorn and also not that sticky?? :?: Hehe… U made me wanna go make some popcorns right now!

I tried using a wok rather than a pot and that way, the corns can pop more evenly and there were less wastage of corns which was burned and didn’t pop. I used oil rather than butter, too. It’s not much of a difference… :-)

Cheers!

ps: I hope to see more recipes (and pictures of Neko Chan, your hamster food reviewer which name says ‘Cat’ in Jap =P ) soon.. =D

By: wiffy

wiffy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:59:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing your tips! :-) So far I didn’t have the problem of my butter burning. I also heard that mixing butter and olive oil half-half will reduce the chances of burning.

Oh, now that you mentioned it, I hope leo and JK didn’t get frozen corn/corn nibblets. :| It’s supposed to be the dry type sold in dried goods section.

By: lorraine

lorraine — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:11 +0000

hello, i love popcorn too! been experimenting with it recently and hmm was wondering if its ok to give to my hamster ok. guess its fine!:)

i use oil instead. i don’t use butter cos i read some where that butter starts to brown and burn at 125 or 150 degrees c. not sure which, but its still less than the 180 degrees c needed to pop popcorn. i also use a pot with oil, when it starts to get hot i’ll toss in the popcorn, close the lid put fire to medium and start to swirl the pot. like literally grab the handles and suspend it just above the stove where it still gets heat but i have room to swirl it. 2 reasons. 1 popcorn that has not popped can drop down to the bottom so it will get hot and pop, no wastage, 2. i’m afraid it burns… hahaha but its about the same as yours. turns out beautifully no burns at all, but then yeah troublesome trying to flavour it later. my mum justs stirs butter and honey right after we take it off the stove, but can’t keep for long cos it will get soft.

leo said “I just bought a corn kernel package in cold storage section of Fairprice. ”
i hope u don’t mean frozen corn.

By: wiffy

wiffy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:16:54 +0000

Hi Jk, I didn’t buy the corn from Cold Storage before so I am not sure if it’s the right type. I’ll check it out if I pass by CS. I bought mine from NTUC (dried goods section) and it says “raw popcorn”. If the butter turn dark brown then I guess the heat is a bit too high, probably also due to the popcorn not popping and it gets heated a little too long.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:47:59 +0000

I also bought a bag of corn kernels from Cold Storage.
Happily went back, heated the butter and kernels but after 10 minutes and the butter turning brown (not sure why), the kernels did not pop.
Wonder what I did wrong. Would appreciate your feedback.
Tks

By: wiffy

wiffy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:55:40 +0000

Do u have any details on what happened to the popcorn when you try to make it? :P

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0000

I love popcorn.
I just bought a corn kernel package in cold storage section of Fairprice. I come home and tried to make popcorn. But I could not make.
Pls tell me, why??

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By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:09:50 +0000

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Just happened back to your archives, Wiffy. The popcorn really pops! And Neko is priceless. :up: