POP QUIZ: Nutritional Info (Read 966 times)

It never occurred to me to make my own, either. Also, recently they've discovered issues with the ingredients of microwave popcorn, causing lung disease. They call it popcorn workers lung.

So yeah, I never heard of the paper bag thingy, I will definetly have to try it. But seriously, I only got one repsone about the calories in that bag. and I have to disagree. I think there are 12.5 cups of popped corn in there, bringing the calories to 1875. Please! Anyone else? I REALLY want to know the answer to this. I'm bumping my own post!! Modified to change calories - Actually I think there are 312.5 cals in there. I thought 1875 was too horrible, I wouldve jsut gotten Mcd's instead

I'm not even sure I understood the original question...

you can pop a whole ear in the micro-wave in a paper bag and it will pop

Yeah, I do this from time to time. It is great fun.

this thing is an overpriced nothing-more-than-a-fancy-tupperware-that-cannot-be-used-for-anything-else-and-so-takes-up-loads-of-space

Fixed.

Oh I've definitely made popcorn in a pot plenty of times...it's just those little microwave bags are so convenient. I don't have to scrape burned oil out of the bottom of them. I'm so excited to try this stupidly simple paper bag method. (stupid because I never though of it...)

If you have a POS microwave that burns everything, it's really useful. I tried the popcorn in the paper bag once...ended up with a combo of burned popcorn and unpopped kernals (the commercial microwave popcorns don't fare much better). That Presto thing actually popped the corn.

Just a few more tips from a grower; popcorn pops best about 13-14% moisture content so its best to seal the bag up with a twist tie or some other airtight container. Its nearly impossible to add moisture back to the kernal. At 70 degrees F and 30% relative humidity popcorn will come to an equilibrium moisture of 8.7% and that won't pop very well. Higher quality popcorn will have an abscense of scuffed kernals, few kernals with the tips broke off and be of large seed size with no small kernals, and have a bright shiny seed coat (no greenish tint). Any deep scuffs will hurt the pop. Resist the urge to buy white popcorn as it usually has less expansion and to me it has less flavor. Processors use it in the "light" microwave stuff as the public has a general preception it is "lighter" in calories, its basically the same.