Saturday, July 17, 2010

We Try to Pop Popcorn?

Popcorn! Who could mess up popcorn!? …We can. It was a Friday movie night at our apartment, and we decided we both desperately wanted popcorn. The only problem was that all our microwavable popcorn was all gone, and we’d never made popcorn over the stove, though we’ve heard that it works. We did however have popcorn kernels, because we had made caramel popcorn with some friends a few weeks before. They had made the popcorn, but we didn’t actually see how they made it. But none the less, we decided to try. How hard could it be, right?! Well first off, we didn’t have any vegetable oil, so we used olive oil. Not our smartest move. You see, olive oil is a more expensive than vegetable oil, meaning that it’s a lot nicer. This would usually be good except for the fact that olive oil doesn’t boil like vegetable oil does. At all. But of course we didn’t know this, so Kelly put olive oil in the bottom of the pan, and put some kernels in and let them be. We remembered our friends would shake the pan….but we weren’t really sure why they did that, or how often you were supposed to do that, so we were just kind of guessing. After about 15 minutes of staring at the kernels we knew we had messed up somewhere. The kernels were beginning to turn black, and started smelling funny. Kelly picked the pan up, and told Larissa to get a bag or something to put the burned kernels in so we could try again. Well right as Kelly tipped the pan to dump the kernels into the plastic shopping bag, it occurred to both of us that those were really hot kernels, and would probably… Ya, you guessed it, they burned right through the plastic bag, sending burning hot kernels ALL over the floor. The dance that we were doing was probably very amusing as we were trying to get away from the hot kernels, and not step on any that had already landed. Once we caught our breaths from laughing so hard at our own stupidity, we picked the kernels up and mopped the floor because of the oil, and had to try again. The second attempt wasn’t quite as bad as the first. We got a couple to pop but not nearly enough. After disposing of the second batch of kernels in a better fashion than we did the first batch, we tried again, determined to prove that we can make popcorn. This time it was Larissa’s turn. Kelly couldn’t take the pressure any longer, and stormed out of the kitchen, swearing she would never make popcorn over the stove EVER AGAIN. Third time’s a charm apparently, because for whatever reason it worked. We got the kernels to pop, and the popcorn actually tasted pretty yummy.

We have since then purchased vegetable oil and have made popcorn on numerous occasions, although Larissa still has to make it because Kelly refuses to do more than a couple of shakes. The popcorn idea in and of itself wasn’t a bad idea, but because we were void of any real thought process, we made a HUGE mess. Again not our brightest idea.

1 comment:

  1. I have since made popcorn on my own and it worked great! Only use vegetable oil people!

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