Popcorn for geeks
Mar. 13th, 2004 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOkay, I need a little help from the audience. Here's the recipe:
25g popcorn
2.0g vegetable oil
1.1g salt
4.2g butter
0.3g baking soda
Put the vegetable oil in a heavy-bottomed pot and turn stove to medium-high or high heat. Add three kernels of corn. Wait until they pop and the oil is ready. Put in the rest of the corn, cover, and shake until all the kernels pop. Remove from the heat, let cool slightly, add the butter and shake. Add salt and baking soda.
This is, according to Nature magazine, the perfect popcorn recipe. I tried it. It is actually a damned fine recipe, definitely getting up there on the perfection scale, and doing serious damage to previous recipes I've collected. It also makes a nice, snack-sized batch.
The problem is, "0.3g baking soda" and "4.2g butter" is damnably hard to calculate. Other than "multiply by four" (1/2 cup of popcorn is about 100g) and figure out what the equivalents would be (and do harm to my waistline), are there any suggestions from the audience?
25g popcorn
2.0g vegetable oil
1.1g salt
4.2g butter
0.3g baking soda
Put the vegetable oil in a heavy-bottomed pot and turn stove to medium-high or high heat. Add three kernels of corn. Wait until they pop and the oil is ready. Put in the rest of the corn, cover, and shake until all the kernels pop. Remove from the heat, let cool slightly, add the butter and shake. Add salt and baking soda.
This is, according to Nature magazine, the perfect popcorn recipe. I tried it. It is actually a damned fine recipe, definitely getting up there on the perfection scale, and doing serious damage to previous recipes I've collected. It also makes a nice, snack-sized batch.
The problem is, "0.3g baking soda" and "4.2g butter" is damnably hard to calculate. Other than "multiply by four" (1/2 cup of popcorn is about 100g) and figure out what the equivalents would be (and do harm to my waistline), are there any suggestions from the audience?
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Date: 2004-03-13 12:28 am (UTC)1 ounce is 28.4 grams, so let's see what happens if we scale up and convert to ounces...
1 ounce popcorn
1/12 ounce oil (to be honest, this sounds a bit wrong from the start, but I've never made popcorn)
"a pinch" of salt (1/22 ounce?)
1/5 ounce butter
And another pinch of baking powder... A small pinch.
That doesn't really sound any better. I think we're also looking at a conversion of volume measurements to mass, and all I know about that is that the US measures differ from the British.
Maybe you ought to submit a recipie for mole sauce, with the measurements in moles.
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Date: 2004-03-13 01:14 am (UTC)... you can probably take the pun from here.
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Date: 2004-03-13 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-13 07:26 am (UTC)