I’m not saying this is safe, or that I would ever want to try it… cough cough but if you were to eat an uncooked popcorn kernel, would it pop inside you? Also if you feed a pigeon or a chicken uncooked popcorn kernels and baked it, would you have a chicken with popcorn inside?
no you aren’t hot enough. yes if quick.
because you aren’t hot enough then you should pay attention to. ‘knee high by the 4th of July’.
No.
Popcorn kernels require at least 180°C to pop. Human body temperature is about 37.
Popcorn in meat will not pop. A friend experimented with popcorn meatloaf a few times, and she never got even one piece to pop. I feel for her poor family.
If you find a microwave big enough and climb inside*, then yes.
*Not recommended for trying at home. May cause adverse side effects.
Only if you follow it with a chaser of boiling oil.
Side effects such has first boiling away all moisture in the body.
Popcorn pops because moisture inside the kernel turns to steam and the pressure builds up inside until it bursts. As others have said, you’re probably not hot enough for that!
I know for a fact that if you feed a pigeon uncooked popcorn kernels and bake it, you won’t end up with a chicken with popcorn inside.
Useful pedantry:
The hard yellow kernels that grow on ears on stalks in fields which, when heated in oil to ~180 C puff out into the white morsels we love to consume with butter, is popping corn . The popped kernels, not surprisingly, are popped corn. The term popcorn can refer to either but traditionally meant popped, not popping corn, though today it seems to be used indiscriminately for both. While nearly any variety of corn can be made to pop, the commercially sold popping corn is zea mays v. averta, a variety of flint corn. (Nearly all non-popped kernel corn eaten by humans is one of a few varieties of sweet corn; Animal feed, corn meal, corn starch, corn syrup, etc., are generally produced from one of a substantial number of varieties of field corn, which often grows larger plants and/or more abundant yields, but at a cost in flavor. The final group of varietis is, as noted above, flint corn, so called for its kernels’ tough outer shell. The three principal uses of flint corn are for popping corn, for the multicolored harvest-festival “Indian corn”, and for general corn uses (noted above) in cooler climates, as it resists killing frosts better than the other “dent corns.”
Minimum cooking temperature for meatloaf, according to the USDA: 160°F.
Temperature at which popcorn pops: 350°F.
There’s obviously something of a disconnect there.
How about if one makes a popturduckeon?
Is weasel edible?
How is it able to pop in a microwave oven, then? I thought microwaves don’t heat food past the boiling point of water.
Any heat source will not heat water past the boiling point of water until all the water becomes steam. That has nothing to do with microwaves, it’s just how boiling works.
Microwave popcorn is coated in oil which has a much much higher boiling temperature, so it gets hot enough to pop the kernels.
What about if you fed a chicken uncooked rice? Does that have a higher or less boiling temperature?
If you feed a chicken uncooked rice it will not go hungry.
In other words, if you fed a chicken rice, will it cook with the chicken if you bake it?
yes, i guess that’s true also. -.-