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Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by ves »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #67
InvaderFizz wrote: post #33

Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…

That's why I take out a dozen or so unpopped kernels before popping the rest. It's easier to throw them right in the trash, rather than have to pick them out of the rest of the popped corn.

These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by griffinkelly »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #33

Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…

I recommend jalapeno popcorn. If you enjoy a spicy snack its great. Only difference is when you're heating up the oil, add some pickled jalapenos and cook them until they're crunchy--the oil will absorb the spiciness.

Also, try using coconut oil instead of canola oil to cook the popcorn--its pricier, but its a great taste. I think it removes the need to add butter afterwards.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by waffleiron »

zonkerdonker wrote: post #60
maxbond wrote: post #37

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You can get pretty varied with the seasoning too. Parmesan is my favorite, but I like Italian herbs, nutritional yeast, garlic powder. You can throw a bunch of stuff on there together.

Tabasco is incredible on popcorn, give it a shot. I like to mix it in with the melted butter before tossing it all

If you enjoy tabasco, you'll love chili oil. Grab some Lao Gan Ma, oil in early, flakes and some salt at the end.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by myshpa »

mdp2021 wrote: post #174
DoingIsLearning wrote: post #158

Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood. Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity. At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human H…

> Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm 3M is on The Economist today with relevance to this matter: > 3M, an American conglomerate, agreed to pay cities and utilities $12.5bn to settle thousands of lawsuits that had alleged chemicals emitted by the firm's products had polluted drinking-water supplies

PFAS 'forever chemicals' cost society €16 trillion a year

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157075

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by randallsquared »

soligern wrote: post #114
morsch wrote: post #85

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It's really no different. Take a pot, toss in a handful of popcorn with some oil. Turn on stove for a couple of minutes until pops subside. Sprinkle with salt. Done. I never bothered with the butter etc, though maybe I should.

Can you just let it sit on the flame or do you have to move it around?

I use this method with a flat bottom pot (peanut oil and salt only), and I find that if I don't shake it from time to time, it will sometimes burn a bit before all kernels have popped. So, about halfway done, I shake and/or vertically bump the pot to let kernels settle back to the bottom.

As the popping slows, I take the lid off entirely (there's enough popcorn at that point to keep new popping from splatter or jumping out), and add salt, and then rotate the bulk of the popped corn with a bump to one side, salt again, bump-rotate, etc, getting the salt on it evenly without letting it cool too much. I like popcorn that's just-popped hot.

Two other notes:

I only use peanut oil, because at fast popping temperatures, some oils smoke. The popcorn does not taste like peanuts, if you'd worry about that.

I use more oil than most commenters, such that the single layer of kernels (3/4 cup in my pot) are nearly submerged at the start. Cleanup is more involved than a wipe of the pot, but the popcorn is a lot tastier and I don't need any butter or parm.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by randallsquared »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #226
drdrey wrote: post #213

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In the US, butter is sold in sticks with 1/8 cup markings on the wrapper

Ehy would you measure butter in cups, you dont drink it

Cups is a measure of volume. They could just as easily print cc markings, but I don't think they do.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by randallsquared »

gpvos wrote: post #135
InvaderFizz wrote: post #33

Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…

10 quarts = 11.3 l I had no idea that a quart is about a litre.

Uh, I think something went wrong with your conversion. 10 quarts is about 9.5 liters.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by bilalq »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #33

Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…

I would avoid normal butter. I use ghee instead. The problem with butter is that it has water content that can cause the popcorn to get soggy. Ghee avoids that.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by smallerdemon »

Truly, microwave popcorn is atrocious for all sorts of reasons.

As top vote getting comment points out, regular popcorn is SO easy and SO much better. I have no idea why anyone wants to make microwave popcorn when the regular way is just as easy, taste better, and in now demonstrably healthier.

Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #158

Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood. Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity. At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human H…

> Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood.

The very pervasiveness argues against PFAS being that bad for humans in real life. Despite pretty much everyone having PFAS in their blood, at a global level, health is probably better than ever and most health problems are from refined sugars and sedentary lifestyle than anything that can be attributed to PFAS.

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