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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 interestica »

bharrison wrote: post #277
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,…

My household follows this method, though we find high heat, while extremely efficient, frequently results in chewy output. In my experiments heating the pan and oil to a medium-high temperature, just before smoking, with 3-4 test kernels preloaded allows them to generate an alert by their popping, signalling the optimal time for addition of the rest of the kernel package.

Chewy is from moisture. Vent the pot better.

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Post by interestica »

askvictor wrote: post #89
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,…

Out of interest, why do you prefer a salt grinder? I've never understood why these exist. Pepper grinders, absolutely - the aromatics are released on grinding. By not so with salt. Curious if I'm missing something.

Grinder means finer salt. Finer salt sticks to things better (you can get a baby powder consistency).

And the way the salt "tastes" is different because the powder dissolves on your tongue differently/quicker.

Salt "dust" is a really interesting way of adding salt to food -- and you actually end up adding less than larger grains

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

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Post by wholinator2 »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #134
soperj wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pre-ground salt often contains sugar (as an ingredient, it's on the package).

What? They sell salt with added sugar in the US!?!?

Yeah, no. I have no idea what that person is referencing. I've had all the available salts around me and I've literally never seen sugar in salt. That would be insane. They do use an anti caking agent sometimes though, but that's more like sand

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

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Post by Lendal »

askvictor wrote: post #89
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,…

Out of interest, why do you prefer a salt grinder? I've never understood why these exist. Pepper grinders, absolutely - the aromatics are released on grinding. By not so with salt. Curious if I'm missing something.

The shapes of the crystals affects the taste. If the salt is going to be dissolved, such as in pasta water, then grain-shape doesn't matter. Use the cheapest salt. But if the salt is going onto the surface of a food, such as in popcorn or a steak, then fresh-ground salt gives a more salty flavor per gram used. The salt grains that come already ground have a smooth texture like the smooth pebbles in a creek. Fresh-grinding gives the crystals a jagged, irregular shape. This enhances the effect when they hit your taste buds.

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

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Post by DriverDaily »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #230
mdp2021 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

What about all the other cities in the world? If the true cost of this damage were paid, 3M would be driven to bancrupsy. Maybe then the next conpany would not be so gun-ho about dumping strange chemicals. This is your regular reminder that many of the wealthy are only so, because they never pay for the consequences of their actions.

It’s hard to blame it all on one class.

Littering was a social norm when these chemicals were invented. Even today, most Americans eat meat from factory farms, drive gas powered cars, and throw most trash in a landfill. Problems that will have to eventually be fixed.

If you’re born into this kind of society are you going to handicap yourself by holding yourself to a stricter set of rules than everyone else? The ‘yes’ and ‘no’s to that question don’t fall neatly into class lines.

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Post by BirAdam »

tashoecraft wrote: post #270
gumby wrote: post #192

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Table salt is just sea salt (the stuff mined from underground just comes from an ocean that dried up a few million years ago) and is full of other compounds beyond NaCl.

Table salt often contains iodine which will alter the flavor. The reason to grind your own salt is to get it at the right size.

You need iodine.

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

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Post by dsego »

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,…

No butter or parmesan, just salt is perfect.

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

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Post by thfuran »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #236
mdp2021 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

It would be billions more to: 1. Clean up PFAS from riverbeds and groundwater sediment. 2. Add PFAS cleaning stages in all water treatment systems across the globe. At 12.5B, they are just paying up the people that can prove they now have cancer because of ridiculous exposure levels. At 12.5B this is just the cost of doing business for Chem industry.

>At 12.5B, they are just paying up the people that can prove they now have cancer because of ridiculous exposure levels.

Probably not even that.

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

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Post by interestica »

throwaway173738 wrote: post #258
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #226

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

Most American cookbooks use volume measures for baking because most of us don’t own scales. It sometimes leads to wildly inconsistent results when an ingredient is compacted too much.

Yeah even the cup measurement itself varies. It's sometimes 250mL and sometimes 236mL and sometimes 227mL.
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