Well, howdy there internet peeps and those with alarms, chili relation or not
It's Troy again
Wife made a chicken stir fry for dinner last night, then two mini cheesecakes in the Instant Pot. Said I couldn't touch them until today because they had to "fridge up" overnight.
So I made popcorn for a snack.
Wife's sister got us a bag of popcorn - that was grown and harvested in the county where my wife grew up. Her sis is classmates with the gent that owns the farm and produces that label. OK, I saw the same deal at the grocery, so we now have three bags of it.
But, we don't have a popcorn popper. Sis sent paper bags over to microwave pop in.
That's thoughtful, but I want the salt to stick to the popcorn, not fall off and hide in the bottom of the bowl. You gotta cook popcorn with oil.
So I saw this online, and bought it, figuring the melt the butter in the lid would create the right environment to coat the popcorn enough for the salt to stick.
It's MEH! on the butter flavor going throughout. And I've only gotten about half of the pitcher to fill with popcorn. You have to be right at the microwave. When the pops start to fail... pop... pop....... pop, hit the stop! or you burn it. The butter melting in the lid, slightly better than trying to drizzle it on after. But not by much.
Drizzling it on after, just super coats about a dozen kernels, the rest - you might as well just do a magical wave with a stick of butter above the bowl. It'll have the same effect.
I want to try the Alton Brown method of popping the corn. But I need some refine Ghee, A stainless steel bowl, some tongs, and a hedgehog.
No, scratch the hedgehog. That's another chef.
I've only got nine bags of microwave popcorn left - i pop that if I burn the test batch. I need to get the popcorn method dialed in soon!
Later today, we're off to Cheddars. Wife thinks she can stick mostly to her "clean diet" to help her inflammation issues. then we're heading to the appliance store to see what a small chest freezer will cost us. Since we're 10 days away from the new breaker, that should be about the correct timeframe to get the freezer delivered.
BBL