Well slap me with a suitcase full of baboon noses and chill them crackers out, but I forgot just how good popcorn popped in oil can be.
I happened to come into the possession of this dandy little popcorn popper. It’s a pot, kinda like a tall soup pot, with this lid that snaps on and has a couple of wings that flip up and a little rod and spinner thing that touches the bottom of the pot. It’s got a little twirly thing on the handle that, by way of simple gearing, spins the spinner thing in the pot. You throw in your popcorn and some oil and put it on the burner and twirl the twirly thing so your popcorn doesn’t burn and PRESTO you’ve got a pot of oil popped popcorn in an easy to clean container.
Now if only I could find some coconut oil to put in there, I’ll be laughing. You’d be able to hear me laughing, except that the sound of my arteries hardening would probably drown me out.
I saw a bottle of coconut oil when I was in Toronto, but can’t seem to find any here. Dang it all to heck. I guess my arteries will have to stay soft and supple like an 18-year-old girl’s bottom.
I remember seeing coconut oil at Kroger’s. After looking at it, don’t know if I’d want to ingest it. Looked like lard. I’m still trying to find an electric model of the kind you describe, or any electric corn popper, except those hot-air ones-totally bogus IMO. What does the salt stick to if you don’t use oil? Yeah, I know, that’s what butter is for. I could possibly be the only human being that DOESN’T like butter on my popcorn. I save my calories for the big glass of milk I always have with my big bowl of popcorn. Go figure.
The popcorn at the movie theater I worked at this summer was popped in coconut oil. Lots and lots of coconut oil. It came in big bags-in-boxes that we kept in a little heater thing to keep 'em melted, because at room temperature they were solid. One day there was something wrong with the valve on the tube that hooked to the bag to pump the oil into the popper, and when I went to change the oil, it leaked. And not just leaked, it leaked. Pretty much the majority of the bag, probably a gallon and a half or more, of warm coconut oil, went all over the floor, inside the bottom of the popper, under the popper… everywhere. It was awful, and it was the middle of the afternoon rush and I was the only one working in the concession stand. I cried. And the floor was slippery for days.
Popcorn popped in oil is a nice treat. But I really really hate coconut oil.
