The Last to Post-2nd Edition - Part 3

[PrincessInOz]

2 days in the salt mines coming up.


Alison - how did the sales go with the thrift shop?

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Hoping to hear from the store sometime this week...

 

[skiingfast]

I used to make popcorn in a soup pan on the stove top. Just put in some oil a layer of popcorn corn kernels, heat on high and shake when it starts to pop.


I have a friend who recieved a gift or a popcorn popping pan. It's pretty cool. It is a big pan and has a crank at the top which drive a sweeping bar around the bottom. So you just do the same, oil, line the bottom with corn kernels, heat but then crank as it pops. Works well and is bigger than a single handled pot.


The key is the popping quality of the kernels. In mirowave bags and jiffy pop and of course at the movies and DL, they pop bigger and fluffier.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Hoping to hear from the store sometime this week...

All the way!

I used to make popcorn in a soup pan on the stove top. Just put in some oil a layer of popcorn corn kernels, heat on high and shake when it starts to pop.


I have a friend who recieved a gift or a popcorn popping pan. It's pretty cool. It is a big pan and has a crank at the top which drive a sweeping bar around the bottom. So you just do the same, oil, line the bottom with corn kernels, heat but then crank as it pops. Works well and is bigger than a single handled pot.


The key is the popping quality of the kernels. In mirowave bags and jiffy pop and of course at the movies and DL, they pop bigger and fluffier.

I was taught that when you heat the oil, put a corn kernel in. When that kernel starts to spin, that's when the oil is ready. Once the oil is ready, put the kernels in. You can turn the heat down a touch and shake.

I've never really worked out how to then coat the popcorn properly with oil/butter. We just salt the popcorn these days.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

 

[PrincessInOz]

Still up?

The boys have gone to Karate. I'm waiting on them to come home. DH called to say that there was a chinese take-away a couple of doors down from the Karate place. I'm getting a combination rice noodles.

 

[skiingfast]

I always figured they fed the cows on some other thing like corn, I think ours are grass fed.

Maybe it wasn't beef in NZ but sheep?

In the US, it a general misconception that cows are fed corn. Chickens live there whole life on corn.

Cattle are raised on the ranches eating grass. But then sent to a feedlot and finished on corn. On the ranch they go from 100 to 1,000-1200 pounds. On the feedlot they quickly put on about 100-200 more pounds eating corn or another grain. But so far corn is cheap so the feedlots usually use it. So most of the weight is put on by grass. But that last bunch of weight goes on faster. On the ranch about a year in the feedlots about a month.

A lot does varie depending on breed and sex. I've only worked with Herefords and Angus.

Also a lot of US beef comes from Dairy Farms, and the few of them I know of are in Idaho and use grass but I wonder if dairy farms in a corn state use corn.

Lots of US corn goes to China too, because they eat more chicken in thier diet and of course have more people, but not nearly as much corn. And thier chickens eat corn too.

 

[skiingfast]

I was taught that when you heat the oil, put a corn kernel in. When that kernel starts to spin, that's when the oil is ready. Once the oil is ready, put the kernels in. You can turn the heat down a touch and shake.

I've never really worked out how to then coat the popcorn properly with oil/butter. We just salt the popcorn these days.

Hmm, I've never done it that way. But of course I was taught the way I described.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Maybe it wasn't beef in NZ but sheep?

In the US, it a general misconception that cows are fed corn. Chickens live there whole life on corn.

Cattle are raised on the ranches eating grass. But then sent to a feedlot and finished on corn. On the ranch they go from 100 to 1,000-1200 pounds. On the feedlot they quickly put on about 100-200 more pounds eating corn or another grain. But so far corn is cheap so the feedlots usually use it. So most of the weight is put on by grass. But that last bunch of weight goes on faster. On the ranch about a year in the feedlots about a month.

A lot does varie depending on breed and sex. I've only worked with Herefords and Angus.

Also a lot of US beef comes from Dairy Farms, and the few of them I know of are in Idaho and use grass but I wonder if dairy farms in a corn state use corn.

Lots of US corn goes to China too, because they eat more chicken in thier diet and of course have more people, but not nearly as much corn. And thier chickens eat corn too.

Her lights are off...but I think she might know the difference between a moo and a baa.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Hmm, I've never done it that way. But of course I was taught the way I described.

That's why I asked. Everyone has a different way of doing things and cooking. I'm always interested to see if there is a better way.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I just make popcorn with a hot air popper

 

[PrincessInOz]

Her lights are off...but I think she might know the difference between a moo and a baa.

And it's just as well that there are no Kiwis here....I cannot resist......



Alas, the same cannot be said about the Kiwi.

 

[PrincessInOz]

I just make popcorn with a hot air popper

I've seen friends use this gadget. My kitchen just won't be able to take another gadget. I'd have to throw out the kitchen sink in order to fit it in.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

We store it in the cabinet above the stove when we're not using it

 

[PrincessInOz]

All my cabinets are full! I need someone like Alison to come in and box everything up for a sale.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I'm sure she would if she could

 

[PrincessInOz]

 

[DisneyFirefly]

 

[PrincessInOz]

I'm starving!

I was expecting to go out for a full blown Italian meal, so I made a cheese sandwich for lunch.

The boys should be home soon.

What did you eat for lunch today?

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I had a granola bar