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Topic: Anyone used Popcorn Glaze?
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 07-24-2014 12:58 AM
True, who wants that canola oil that makes popcorn taste funny, that makes kettle cleaning such a chore since that stuff burns so easily.
If you're going to make good popcorn, go all the way.
One plex I used to work at, we had those commercial tin salt shakers when the handles on them. We had a condiment stand were folks get their straws, napkins, peppers for their nachos and salt for the popcorn along with the butter flavoring topping.
We went to a hardware store and bought lengths of that decorative chain, made a loop on one end to attach to the handle of the shaker and the other end was bolted to the stand.
This was quite the fix until the company wanted to switch to packets - which was fine with us since we didn't have to fill the shaker, just fill the bowl with packets.
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Lyle Romer
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From: Davie, FL, USA
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posted 07-24-2014 08:22 AM
quote: Mike Blakesley
I had a guy once ask me, "Do you use that really bad type of oil in your popcorn?" I said, "Well, yes we do." He said, "SWEET! I'll take a large please." So that about sums up my feeling about popcorn right there.
This is exactly how I feel. I'm still pissed to this day about the stupid "Center for Science in the Public Interest" (which is apparently just a couple of people that like to tell everybody else what to eat) and their attack on movie popcorn in the early 90's. A snack to have during a movie is a treat to indulge on once in a while. It isn't part of a person's daily diet. I want my popcorn to taste good and give me a little guilty pleasure while I watch a movie.
If I want to eat healthy, I won't visit the concession stand. Even a long 3 hour movie doesn't require eating during that time frame to stay alive. When I go get an ice cream sundae, I know it isn't health food. I eat it because it tastes good and I only get one occasionally.
Even if a food is part of a daily diet (like McDonalds), at least allow the choice of healthy or unhealthy French Fry oil. Fast food fries aren't nearly as good since they went to the 0 trans fat oils. Enough nanny state BS, let people decide how healthy or unhealthy they want to be. What's next, mandated time working out?
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Frank Angel
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posted 07-26-2014 02:13 AM
thing is, coconut oil is NOT an unhealthy oil. That's a myth; educate your patrons of that fact and not only will you not drive away those would couldn't give a rats ass about "healthy" when they want popcorn, but you draw in those who stay away because they have the erronious notion that coconut oil is the "bad" oil. quote: Monte L Fullmer
It's the coconut oil that the culprit
Monty, yes, it contains a saturated fat, BUT it's not the artery clogging saturated fat that we are familiar with in meat and butter. I can tell you that lauding the praises of how healthy popcorn is and debunking the old myth and explaining that it is NOT an unhealthy snack, went a long way to boost our sales. We have a lot of yuppy types as part of our demographic and they DO tend to prefer "healthy," or at least they prefer it if you slap the "Healthy" label on it.
I was almost tempted to call it "organic" popcorn, but I was told you can't do that unless you know that the corn was grown without pestisides. But I can tell ya, that buzz word "healthy" is a charm.
Check this out:
Heath Benefits of Coconut Oil
In part it says:
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Coconut oil is one of the few foods that can be classified as a “superfood.”
Its unique combination of fatty acids can have profound positive effects on health.
This includes fat loss, better brain function and various other amazing benefits.
Here are the top 10 health benefits of coconut oil that have been experimentally confirmed in human studies.
1. Coconut Oil Contains a Unique Combination of Fatty Acids With Powerful Medicinal Properties
Coconut oil has been demonized in the past because it contains saturated fat. In fact, coconut oil is one of the richest sources of saturated fat known to man, with almost 90% of the fatty acids in it being saturated (1).
However, new data is showing that saturated fats are harmless. Many massive studies that include hundreds of thousands of people prove that the whole “artery-clogging” idea was a myth (2).
Additionally, coconut oil doesn’t contain your average run-of-the-mill saturated fats like you would find in cheese or steak.
No, they contain so-called Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) – which are fatty acids of a medium length.
Most of the fatty acids in the diet are long-chain fatty acids, but the medium-chain fatty acids in coconut oil are metabolized differently.
They go straight to the liver from the digestive tract, where they are used as a quick source energy or turned into so-called ketone bodies, which can have therapeutic effects on brain disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
And safflower oil is polyunsaturated so we add a touch of that as it actually helps soften existing plaque in arteries so I have no problem calling out popcorn "Healthy SuperFood." And as you point out, it also is very high in fiber. It's all the other stuff that they smother it with that's the culprit. So we just don't top it with anything and let them squirt the butter and sprinkle the salt and/or cheese on it themselves.
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Manny Knowles
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From: Bloomington, IN, USA
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posted 07-27-2014 09:19 AM
In 1994, when some theaters switched from coconut to canola oil, it had nothing to do with gluten. It was about fat content. THAT was the reason for the original switch away from coconut oil. (Most theaters ended up switching back after a while.)
Here's the article from the New York Times:
How About Some Popcorn With Your Fat?
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By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: May 1, 1994
The scariest thing at the movies isn't Jason or Freddy Krueger. It isn't even Mickey Rourke in a dramatic role. It's popcorn.
In a report released last week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a national consumer group that specializes in food and nutrition issues, announced that the popcorn sold in the typical movie theater absolutely drips with unsaturated fat, the kind that raises blood cholesterol and clogs arteries.
The culprit is not the popcorn itself but the superfatty coconut oil that most theaters use to pop it. That and the butter -- hydrogenated soybean oil in most cases -- that's drizzled on top. A medium-size buttered popcorn, the report said, contains more fat than a breakfast of bacon and eggs, a Big Mac and fries and a steak dinner combined. The report was published in the center's Nutrition Action Healthletter.
"Theater popcorn ought to be the Snow White of snack foods, but it's been turned into Godzilla by being popped in highly saturated coconut oil," said Michael Jacobson, the center's executive director, lobbing this carefully composed sound bite at a press conference.
The bad news in the report was delivered with an unmistakable "this will curl your hair" delight. Invoking the deadly Big Mac measure of comparison, it announced that a large unbuttered popcorn had the saturated fat equivalent of six Big Macs. With butter, that's eight Big Macs. The report did not say what happens to moviegoers who like to eat Big Macs along with their buttered popcorn.
Lest readers think that relief can be found elsewhere at the concession stand, the center also published charts of the fat and sugar content of the most popular candies. The findings are grim: 34 grams of "sat fat" in a box of Goobers, which is even worse than the 29 grams in a small buttered popcorn popped in coconut oil. The recommended daily maximum of saturated fat is 20 grams.
The methodology for the popcorn part of the survey was simple. The center bought popcorn at 12 theaters representing six chains in San Francisco, Chicago and Washington and then sent the samples to a laboratory. Then it compiled a chart showing the grams of fat in the sizes generally sold in movie theaters, setting up categories for popcorn popped in canola shortening (bad, but not as bad as coconut), coconut oil (very bad) and coconut oil with butter topping (buy a burial plot now).
At the Popcorn Institute, a trade group that represents popcorn suppliers, they're putting on a brave face. "We don't think people are going to run screaming from the building because popcorn is sold," said Deirdre T. Flynn, a spokeswoman for the institute. "If you eat it as a little indulgence now and then, it's not going to kill you."
Ms. Flynn has a point. The average American sees five movies a year. Even if a medium popcorn is a fat festival in a box, is it reckless endangerment to indulge five times a year? "It all adds up," said Jayne Hurley, who wrote the report. "A small unbuttered popcorn is an entire day's worth of artery-clogging fat."
Although the center often seems like the kind of outfit that would publish a scorching report on cakes and ale, Ms. Hurley said she does not want to deny America its small pleasures. Popcorn prepared the low-fat way, either in corn oil or air popped, is great. "This is a simple thing to fix," she said. "All it requires is an oil change."
Easier said than done. Popcorn is in our fat-laden blood. The Popcorn Institute won't go so far as to say that its product was served at the first Thanksgiving, but it comes darned close. "There was a corn that was kind of puffed," said Ms. Flynn.
Popcorn is not just another snack -- it's a national icon. Last year Americans consumed an average of about 65 quarts each.
And now we find out that one of our most traditional foods, served at one of our great institutions, the movie theater, is a secret assassin. More Than a Snack
This is a cruel blow. Who wants a superhealthy box of air-popped popcorn, sans salt? It's like snacking on virtue.
Perhaps some alternative approaches deserve exploration. Theaters could alert an usher trained in CPR whenever a customer orders a large buttered tub. They could also offer, at a modest surcharge, on-the-spot life insurance, like that sold by airport vending machines. Or customers could qualify for extra butter by working out aerobically for 20 minutes on a Nordictrack in the lobby.
Some of the hipper movie houses have dropped popcorn from the menu altogether, offering espresso and fruit juices at concession stands that fairly glow with good health. This may be the wave of the future, but the American public might want to think twice before signing on. When Steven Seagal starts stacking the bodies like cordwood, a primal urge strikes. The right hand begins moving, and what it's groping toward is a waxed cardboard cup brimful with little salted white puffs that drip with butter.
That's entertainment.
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 08-03-2014 07:07 AM
quote: Frank Cox
I wonder if you would get better results by making the popcorn first, then dying it afterward.
That won't make it much easier. I know, because I've tried it myself, both with coloring (the popcorn was supposed to get orange, but without any really noticeable difference in taste and "mouth feel") and with liquid flavoring.
- You now need to stir a whole bunch of popcorn, which doesn't it make easier, unless you have some industrial gear to stir it with...
- Adding liquids to your popcorn after it has popped does make it wet. You can fix that by letting it dry for a few hours, but that will kill the "freshness" of your popcorn.
The end result of the dyed popcorn was that most of the "crunch" was gone, even after drying it for a considerable time. I've tried this with both salted and sweetened popcorn. The result with the sweet popcorn (which most Europeans prefer), was better, probably the dye will stick more to the sugary coating and will not get soaked up into the popcorn itself as much.
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