Popcorn for geeks
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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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I'm such a geek
Date: 2004-03-14 08:00 am (UTC)25g of popcorn - 1/8th cup of popcorn
2g of vegetable oil ~ 1/2 teaspoon plus a sparse 1/8th teaspoon
1.1g of salt - 1/8th teaspoon
4.2g of butter - 3/4 teaspoon plus 1/8th teaspoon
.3g of baking soda - one quarter of 1/8th teaspoon, or a pinch
Yay for remembering chemistry and the fact that you can't convert straight from weight to volume.
-Michael from Texas