Despite the Cola industry's claim that soda can do wonders for your health, I am sad to discover that it can't remove the burnt-on popcorn from the bottom of my stainless steel pot. Aggie Mackenzie, from "How Clean is Your House" fame, said that if you boiled some soda in a ruined, blackened pot, that it would magically take it off. So I tried it. The bottom still looks like an areal view of London after a WWII bombing raid.
Why was I making popcorn in a pot? Well, you see, Alton Brown had said that the best popcorn didn't come from a microwave, but rather from your own stove top - experimenting with all kinds of kernels from "white" to "golden harvest." He failed to mention that when you see fluffy white popcorn bursting on the top, you might ALSO be burning the fluffy white popcorn on the bottom into unrecognizable pocks of yuck that won't come of the bottom of your pan. Not even with soda. Any advice? I have a blackened pot and now I'm out of soda. I'm afraid to tell you which one I am more sad about...
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Not All Advice is Sound
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Boil some BAKING soda, you goon! Good luck with that! And go buy some more coke, or are you pepsi? I can't remember - it has been too long!
Uhm, get a new pot?
I LOVE popcorn on the stove so much that I probably make it 5 times a week... and because of the burning problem, I have resigned myself to a 'popcorn pot' that we use to cook the popcorn. I stopped trying to get it totally clean a couple of years ago. But, if you find something that really works, let me know.
SOS pads. I love them.
And I love popcorn in a pot. I would make it almost every night on my mission. The secret to not letting it burn is to keep the pot moving once it starts popping. KEEP IT MOVING and you get nothing burned and no ruined pots. I promise.
I think I'm going to make some popcorn now
Hysterical ad, sorry about the all the advice gone sour...although it sounds like you got some here that looks promising...and I have never had popcorn in a pot!
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