HM Popcorn?

HelzBelz

The air poppers are great, just make sure you use the measure when adding the corn, unlike when hubbey did it after the pub one night and just tipped in half a bag:eek:, we were finding popcorn for weeks and that's after having to use every bowl we could find to try and catch it, the cats kept finding bits and kicking them round the house.

odds-n-sods

I'll try that with my cats -- new toys!

Couldn't you have turned the machine off?

HelzBelz

By the time my friend and I had gone into the kitchen hubby and his mate were beyond help and there was !!!!!! all corn left in the machine, but it was very funny watching 2 bikers crawl round the kitchen floor trying to catch popcorn:rotfl: :rotfl:

hollyh

This sounds like a really stupid question:o but where do you get the kernals(?) from:cool:

dbelle

Its so easy!
My mum used to make it for us every saturday night when we were small.

It is really easy. You need a good sturdy pan, with a lid. Put a small amount of oil in (olive is fine) and add the kernels. Coat the kernels and then put the lid on, shaking it every now and again to get it going. Wait for the popping to begin, when the popping slows take it off the heat and leave it for a couple of mins to finish popping.

Coat with whatever you want, sugar, salt, nothing at all, chocolate!

You can make a really easy and fattening caramel by melting butter and sugar with a bit of water together - wait til the sugar dissolves and pour over.

dbelle

Oh and the kernels - most supermarkets do them with the nuts and seeds and all that. Or failing that most indian supermarkets.

Mrs_A_4

Yup kernels are with the seeds or pulses usually - very rarely with the microwave-type popcorn. Bag costs under a quid and lasts forever! (I just threw one out with a 2004 use by...!)

hollyh

Thanks for that i'll get some when i go shopping next.

My ds1 and I love popcorn with our cheap movie nights but the microwave one is so expensive ( and fattening )

Frugal_Fox

I pop mine in a pan on the hob. We don't have a microwave. I just add a splash of oil into the base, then kernals. Shake, whack the heat up until the first pops, then periodically shake it to ensure the unpopped kernals are at the bottom. If I'm making salted I add the salt to the oil - find it sticks better, for sugar, I pop the kernals, remove pan from the heat, make a well in the bottom - so I can see the base, then put in some icing sugar (not sure how much), wait for the sugar to melt, then mix with a wooden spoon. Let it cool before touching though - it stays very hot... but it is rather like the toffee/caramel/sweet popcorn in cinemas and my children (plus half the neighbours) love it! Very quick too.

Toonie

HM popcorn is yummy! I would do it more often but my parents can't stand the smell of popcorn, so I only do it occasionally. I do it in a pan with a little oil and then the kernals, just like the others.

My favourite topping is a mix of salt and icing sugar. Just sprinkle both on after popping has finished and you never quite know what your getting! Yum!