I can relate to this! Thank-you Alton Brown (Food Network) for detailed instructions using a metal bowl and aluminum foil. Also reminds me of my dad making (popping) popcorn on Saturday afternoon and watching ABC Wide World Of Sports on TV with him and my brothers.
Guess that makes me a REAL Plugger. I still use the original popcorn popper. (The one with the liding lid on top.) Hold over the stove burner or in the fireplace and shake like mad so the kernals don’t stick and burn. LOL
I had it down to a fine art using a black cast iron skillet with an enamel lid—no burnt kernels and very few that weren’t popped. While I was popping and filling a dishpan reserved for just that use, one of my siblings would be making the syrup (from scratch) for popcorn balls. It was a Sunday afternoon treat. YUM!
I worked for a company that banned microwave popcorn . . . after they had to replace 2 microwaves because people would put it in and leave it instead of watching it and it caught fire. Would much rather have the old fashioned stove top popped corn. Gotta love Jiffy Pop! lol
I grew up doing it the old fashioned way – on the stove with a non-teflon frying pan.I still make it the same way. no, fancy new fangled gadget called a microwave pops my popcorn.
hsawlrae about 13 years ago
There’s another way?
gforgina about 13 years ago
I can relate to this! Thank-you Alton Brown (Food Network) for detailed instructions using a metal bowl and aluminum foil. Also reminds me of my dad making (popping) popcorn on Saturday afternoon and watching ABC Wide World Of Sports on TV with him and my brothers.
teddyr about 13 years ago
Guess that makes me a REAL Plugger. I still use the original popcorn popper. (The one with the liding lid on top.) Hold over the stove burner or in the fireplace and shake like mad so the kernals don’t stick and burn. LOL
psychlady about 13 years ago
If you don’t shake it, you may burn the bottom.
tech60 about 13 years ago
I had it down to a fine art using a black cast iron skillet with an enamel lid—no burnt kernels and very few that weren’t popped. While I was popping and filling a dishpan reserved for just that use, one of my siblings would be making the syrup (from scratch) for popcorn balls. It was a Sunday afternoon treat. YUM!
Devils Knight about 13 years ago
wide world of sports can never forget the opening
and the Agony of defeatMcGehee about 13 years ago
Ah, yes — making popcorn before the advent of air-poppers. Which vanished when Orville figured out how to package popcorn for microwaving.
Redhead55 about 13 years ago
I worked for a company that banned microwave popcorn . . . after they had to replace 2 microwaves because people would put it in and leave it instead of watching it and it caught fire. Would much rather have the old fashioned stove top popped corn. Gotta love Jiffy Pop! lol
jayjaybear about 13 years ago
Real Pluggers make Jiffy-Pop.
w2lj about 13 years ago
Jiffy Pop! Jiffy Pop!The amazing treat.As much fun to make as it is to eat!
hippogriff about 13 years ago
The screen basket style is the only one for true pluggers – and you have to keep shaking it. It helps burn off some of the calories you are adding on.
Dave Thompson Premium Member about 13 years ago
No, no, no. Just let it go, don’t shake it. And don’t have the top closed tight either — let the steam out.
Sangelia about 13 years ago
I grew up doing it the old fashioned way – on the stove with a non-teflon frying pan.I still make it the same way. no, fancy new fangled gadget called a microwave pops my popcorn.