Thread: Corn for Popping

Steve Freides wrote:

> Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
> kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
> additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?

The premium brands have a higher success rate (fewer unpoppsed
kernels).

"George M. Middius" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Steve Freides wrote:
>
>> Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
>> kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
>> additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?
>
> The premium brands have a higher success rate (fewer unpoppsed
> kernels).
>
>
There's lots to know about popping corn. If your grocery store is inclined
to let their stock sit until it's sold or petrifies, you might want to try
www.justpoppin.com . I also bought their bowl for dud catching and it's a
keeper too. Polly

Steve Freides <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there "gourmet" popping corns?

http://www.blackjewell.com/

"Steve Freides" <[email protected]> wrote:

>We've been roasting coffee at home in an air popcorn popper - we just
>ordered a different model and, after deciding which one we like best for
>coffee roasting, we're going to dedicate the other one back to its
>original purpose, popping corn.
>
>Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
>kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
>additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?
>

My local grocers get $1.50-$4.00 a pound for pop corn. Samsclub gets
$0.34/pound- so I've got 50 pounds of Act II. [well, 35-40, now]

I use a pan, not an air popper, but it is bagged for those commercial
poppers that look more like air poppers to me. I imagine most of
the big box stores have similar deals.

The Act II I have is huge popped, and while not completely hull-less,
it doesn't have a lot of them. I get less than 3 old maids per
batch. I wouldn't expect any at all in the air popper.

Jim

Polly Esther wrote:
> "George M. Middius" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> Steve Freides wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery
>>> store kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are
>>> most free of additives or do we have to look for "organic" or
>>> similar?
>>
>> The premium brands have a higher success rate (fewer unpoppsed
>> kernels).
>>
>>
> There's lots to know about popping corn. If your grocery store is
> inclined to let their stock sit until it's sold or petrifies, you
> might want to try www.justpoppin.com . I also bought their bowl for
> dud catching and it's a keeper too. Polly

Thank you - I just ordered a few kinds to try from them, 2 lb. each
Mushroom, Theater, and Kettle.

-S-

On 7/27/2012 1:14 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
> We've been roasting coffee at home in an air popcorn popper - we just
> ordered a different model and, after deciding which one we like best for
> coffee roasting, we're going to dedicate the other one back to its
> original purpose, popping corn.
>
> Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
> kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
> additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-
>
>
I do have a thought on the air popper. We used to have one of them and
you would get that wonderful aroma as the hot air liberated the little
bit of oil in the corn leaving it tasting like straw. Our popper burned
out and when looking for a replacement I found a microwave version like
this:

http://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-60.../dp/B00004W4UP

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7hf6pzg



The popcorn is tastier and the plastic bowl has held up well.

"Steve Freides" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:juui9l$qj6$[email protected]..
> We've been roasting coffee at home in an air popcorn popper - we just
> ordered a different model and, after deciding which one we like best for
> coffee roasting, we're going to dedicate the other one back to its
> original purpose, popping corn.
>
> Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
> kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
> additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?
>
> Thanks.

I buy it from my health food store. If I can't get it there, I mail order
it from a place that sells popcorn. I find that grocery store popcorn is
usually pretty old and doesn't pop well.

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:14:31 -0400, "Steve Freides" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>We've been roasting coffee at home in an air popcorn popper - we just
>ordered a different model and, after deciding which one we like best for
>coffee roasting, we're going to dedicate the other one back to its
>original purpose, popping corn.
>
>Is there anything to know about buying corn for popping? Grocery store
>kind good enough? Are there "gourmet" popping corns? Are most free of
>additives or do we have to look for "organic" or similar?
>

Our local bulk food store has bins of both popping corn and "premium"
popping corn. We've found the premium gives far fewer un-popped
kernals. Then again, they may just move the premium kernals over to
the regular bin after so much time has elapsed ;-).

Ross.
Southern Ontario, Canada

x-no-archive: yes

Air popped corn is much tastier than the microwave nuked bag corn.
It's as close to the Famous Players flavour as you can get without
stealing it from the theatre

We usually buy it in bulk from Bulk Barn.

Mike Lalonde
Sudbury, Ontario - jumlers.com food catering

On 8/5/2012 7:15 AM, Michael Lalonde wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> Air popped corn is much tastier than the microwave nuked bag corn.
> It's as close to the Famous Players flavour as you can get without
> stealing it from the theatre
>
> We usually buy it in bulk from Bulk Barn.
>
> Mike Lalonde
> Sudbury, Ontario - jumlers.com food catering
>

Hi Mike. I like your website theme - very clean and professional but I
was looking forward to seeing your gallery page but it was 404. Is your
site new? I wish you well in your business! Mansy many years before
the Internet was so mainstream, my mom ran a catering business all on
word of mouth. It was fun! I was a teen at the time and helped with
cooking and serving.

Cheryl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/5/2012 7:15 AM, Michael Lalonde wrote:
>> x-no-archive: yes
>>
>> Air popped corn is much tastier than the microwave nuked bag corn.
>> It's as close to the Famous Players flavour as you can get without
>> stealing it from the theatre
>>
>> We usually buy it in bulk from Bulk Barn.
>>
>> Mike Lalonde
>> Sudbury, Ontario - jumlers.com food catering
>>
>
> Hi Mike. I like your website theme - very clean and professional but I
> was looking forward to seeing your gallery page but it was 404. Is
> your site new? I wish you well in your business! Mansy many years
> before the Internet was so mainstream, my mom ran a catering business
> all on word of mouth. It was fun! I was a teen at the time and
> helped with cooking and serving.

Did she have a separate approved commercial kitchen, or perhaps did not have
to have that based on local cottage industry/mom-pop business rules?

MartyB

On 8/6/2012 3:43 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
> Cheryl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/5/2012 7:15 AM, Michael Lalonde wrote:
>>> x-no-archive: yes
>>>
>>> Air popped corn is much tastier than the microwave nuked bag corn.
>>> It's as close to the Famous Players flavour as you can get without
>>> stealing it from the theatre
>>>
>>> We usually buy it in bulk from Bulk Barn.
>>>
>>> Mike Lalonde
>>> Sudbury, Ontario - jumlers.com food catering
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mike. I like your website theme - very clean and professional but I
>> was looking forward to seeing your gallery page but it was 404. Is
>> your site new? I wish you well in your business! Mansy many years
>> before the Internet was so mainstream, my mom ran a catering business
>> all on word of mouth. It was fun! I was a teen at the time and
>> helped with cooking and serving.
>
> Did she have a separate approved commercial kitchen, or perhaps did not have
> to have that based on local cottage industry/mom-pop business rules?
>

I can't even remember any of that.