The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Now old fashioned popcorn is better, but microwaved popcorn is still good. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE BAG INSTRUCTIONS THOUGH! They always lie. Or my microwave just works differently, either way I go with my gut.
And ew... "Butter Lovers" flavor? Those run the gambit from mediocre to just plain awful.
One snack I hate more than life itself....baked cheetos. The cheese would always be clumped together at the bottom and it would taste fucking terrible.
And ew... "Butter Lovers" flavor? Those run the gambit from mediocre to just plain awful.
One snack I hate more than life itself....baked cheetos. The cheese would always be clumped together at the bottom and it would taste fucking terrible.
how to make your own microwave popcorn in a bag ! I do that...but in a bowl with a vented lid.
Well....I have to now by fifty bags of popcorn and fuck ton of paper bags. Or just do a vented bowl, either way its all good!
When I first started making it in a bowl, I just got a large, non-plastic mixing bowl and put a plate on as the lid, but left the plate tilted just a bit. Later I bought a regular popcorn bowl for the microwave.
We had an air popper. Probably healthier but I still gotta go with pan-popped. The coffee roasting thing is news, though.
GasBandit
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I have only the vaguest recollection, but at one point I'm certain we had a machine that looked very much like the picture above (But not exactly) that used both oil AND air. I remember we finally had to chuck it because the heat from the dishwasher warped the yellow plastic hood such that it wouldn't fit back on the base again.
There is a huge ass garden spider living next to my front door. I am terrified of spiders.
He was going to meet his end when I noticed something..he is the reason all my fruit flies vanished. Also, an escaped cricket appears to have met his end in his web of torment.
I may let him stick around an extra day and see if he can catch the final pest that has been bothering me today: a house fly.
This alliance is only temporary, spider.
He was going to meet his end when I noticed something..he is the reason all my fruit flies vanished. Also, an escaped cricket appears to have met his end in his web of torment.
I may let him stick around an extra day and see if he can catch the final pest that has been bothering me today: a house fly.
This alliance is only temporary, spider.
North_Ranger
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Got one as a wedding present! Scared the crap out of my son when he was a baby so we got rid of it.If you're too young to remember these -
You weren't an 80s kid.
Then again... maybe that's not enough. In googling up that image, I found out hipsters use these 30 year old popcorn machines to roast coffee these days.
There are some that take a packet (or scoop, or whatever) of butter/oil in a reservoir on the top, so that as your hot popcorn comes shooting out of the spigot, your topping gets all melted and ready to be poured over the finished product.
Personally I'm a fan of pot-popped, either in corn oil or butter, and sprinkled with Lawry's Seasoned Salt or who knows what else (shallot salt/butter/celery salt/shredded cheese/onion powder/all of the above).
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Yeah, ours had the butter reservoir at the top, but I specifically remember having to measure and pour oil into the device with the kernels before placing the hood on over top. Granted it wasn't much oil, I think a tablespoon or two maybe, but it was still used.
You might be talking about one of these models, then.
They work a bit more like an electric griddle than a hot air popper (some come with a built-in stirrer/kernel separator, too), and when you were done, you would just invert the entire unit and serve in the top. The tops are notorious for warping in dishwasher heat, too.
--Patrick
Those hot plate based poppers were the messiest things on the planet.
I loved that the Air Popper had a tray to melt butter. So yeah, not all that healthy.
I loved that the Air Popper had a tray to melt butter. So yeah, not all that healthy.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Yes. It was in the opening to the game.
From Gargoyles! I'm talking about Gargoyles.
And, yeh, maybe..I never owned a Seag system of my own. I always played other and I was 8 or so. I don't remember much.
I'm just blown away by that awesome word play.
Also, guys, the Ny quil is amazing but it isn't making my sniffles go away and I'm not sleepy.
The white cheddar ones are all-right I guess. I tend to avoid them because I prefer fresh but if I have to eat them I'll eat them.
Arrond where I live there are these Goldfish knock-offs called Cheese whales. They are soooooooooo good, they have this zesty flavor to them to!
When I was a little kid I used to love going with Dad to get gas. Why? Because there were these colourful little falls dancing around in a plastic bubble while the gas pumped. To this day I don't know what their purpose was but they have stuck with me.
I salute you, colourful gas balls!
I actually stumbled upon the purpose of those things a while ago, but I forget what it is now. Now I'm going to have to look that up
That's nothing, when I was a kid through teenage years I was almost obsessed with wanting to eat metal at times. Any metal, alluminum, iron you name it. I never bit it though, but I would sometimes salivate to the thought of biting through a steel bar. Personally I blame the high iron content in my water giving me a taste for it. I have lived an odd life.
I wish! This is one of my favorite super powers, up there with flame-manipulation, shape-shifting, gravity manipulation, and ghosting.
Here's a new "thing" I have learned about myself and will now share in my efforts to make you all think I am insane.
I get excited while going through the interior design tumblr's. I think I get exicted to the point of giddiness or, maybe, arousal if the room is colorful and full of great art work.
You know what...some of you guys come to this forum to fart around...I think I come here to voice my oddities and try to figure them out.
I get excited while going through the interior design tumblr's. I think I get exicted to the point of giddiness or, maybe, arousal if the room is colorful and full of great art work.
You know what...some of you guys come to this forum to fart around...I think I come here to voice my oddities and try to figure them out.
You ever just wonder if you could explode at any moment? You could just be sitting down and then- BOOM! You're all over your computer room. If I die like this I want my tomb-stone to say "Michael Connor Robinson: Died internal explosion". I would be the king of corpses in my cemetery.