Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Peter > wrote in
> :
>
>>>Just toss a handful in the microwave and watch the fun. It takes a lot
>>>of cleaning up later on though.
>>
>> I'm not sure if my idea of fun is different but I have just bought my
>> first microwave oven and threw in some popping corns to see what would
>> happen .... nothing. Even after 10 mins they stayed ignorant of the
>> radiation and sat happily on the rotating glass tray.
>>
>> Then I tried putting a few ml of veg oil in the bottom of a bowl and
>> about a 100 corns. That made lots of splattering after a few seconds
>> and covered the inside of the oven with oily mess. I switched it off
>> and cleaned it oil.
>>
>> For my third attempt I put the put some oil in a bowl and the same
>> number of corns and this time covered the top of the bowl with a thin
>> paper sheet, secured by an elastic band. This kind-of worked, about
>> half of the corns popped but they were hard to fish out from the oily
>> residue of unpopped corns at the bottom.
>>
>> I am just about to give up, I never much liked microwave ovens, nor
>> saw much use in them, but my girlfriend likes popcorn.
>>
>> Is there a foolproof method anyone can recommend? Any other uses for
>> the microwave would also be useful.
>
> If you don't want to use commercial microwave popcorn packed in bags, you
> can buy a microwave popcorn popper that will pop corn either with or
> without oil.
>

Or do it yourself, the Alton Brown way:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._14234,00.html

---jkb

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