Seems that it's not safe in the kitchen now. A condition known as "popcorn lung" is making it's way from the shadows. All of you folks (like me) who like the butter flavor microwave popcorn.........beware!



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us...GHLpopcornlung

 

Just go ahead and shoot me.

MikeyB

 

If he lost 50 lbs by not eating microwave popcorn anymore im sure theres probably a little something else than the chemical in popcorn causing complications there.

 

You dont need to buy microwave popcorn all you have to do is use a brown paper bag and put fold the top twice and put 2 1/2" staples 2 inches apart. I didn't think it would work but it does. If you want butter just use clarified butter which is butter cooked till all the water is removed. Try it once and youll never buy the other stuff again.

 

Actually no.... the lung damage is chronic among plant workers who package the stuff, its even been termed, "popcorn lung" sorta like coalminers and black-lung...

Guess it takes a few years to truely know what the chemicals we use nowadays can do to us sometimes..

 

Diacetyl? Isn't that when the janitor heats his popcorn wiith a torch?

 

I still like my old fashioned popper. It's a pot with a split lid and a crank that turns a paddle to stir the corn. I use a little bit of olive oil in the bottom of the pot and pop it on the stove then dump it in a bowl and sprinkle parmesan cheese and a little bit of salt on it. Yummmmmmmmmmm

 

I like a touch of garlic salt on mine. Keeps the vampires away.

 

I have a popcorn machine like they use at the theater, only smaller. It's actually better than the stuff they make. I buy the popcorn in boxes of 30 packs and each pack has popcorn, butter oil, and salt all together. I haven't had microwave popcorn in years........

 

Oh man! Popcorn is going in the garbage. Thanks Rad for informing us.

 

It's only the butter flavored stuff, and I think only the microwave variety, Cin.

 

The Vampiric Medical Institute recently released a study that tauted the benefits of garlic induced nutrient rich blood. better be careful... they know that garlic is good now.

 

Treefarm,hello,that's the only kind I get.

Btw,now how am I gonna lose 5 lbs really quick? That popcorn was my only chance.Thanks again Rad.

 

I believe if you cook the popcorn with a cigarette in your mouth it will filter the fumes out.

 

between the 4 women in the office, there is a bag of popcorn being cooked every hour or so...