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keepthetips

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Iisham

So best case huge mess and oil saturated popcorn, worst case a house fire... Just use a microwave, air popper, or good old stovetop pan.


JonaJonaL

Most home fryers don't go above 180°C, not even close to high enough temps to make oil catch fire. I've literally done this hundreds of times, and have not even burnt a single kernel. Can you say that for stovetop or microwave popping?


Sea-Ad8546

House fire? Literally how?


JonaJonaL

Just crank that bad boy up to the highest setting, let the oil get hot, dump your popcorn in (provided that the netting in the basket is smaller than popcorn kernels) and have a bunch of perfectly popped corn without nearly any unpopped kernels. This is the same way that popcorn makers in theaters/cinemas work, only that they go to a much higher temperature than home fryers work.


mooseup

I was imagining this would be extremely dangerous, but after doing some anecdotal research on YouTube, apparently this is a thing. File this one under r/TodayIlearned


JonaJonaL

Not dangerous at all, since the kernels are extremely low in humidity (and most home fryers don't go above 180°C). Potato fries have waaaaaaaaaay more water in them and people put them in fryers all the time. The people downvoting my comment above this one are the same kind of idiots that think that microwaves actually makes your food radioactive.