We puff rice to get rice crispies and puffed oats will get you sugar crisps.
Can I ask how you do that? With popcorn, you can just stick it in a brown paper bag and cook for 2 minutes. Is it that simple?
You need to heat the grain in a closed pressure vessel, wait for the pressure to build up and then suddenly release it. There are Chinese popcorn machines that can do that:
https://youtube.com/shorts/P_Wx8NWhqqw?si=z-naSzYdnMm2HQDO
You can buy them on Aliexpress but I'm too scared to get one.
with rice at least sadly no. though you can puff it using hot salt or sand, as is popular in India
most grains lack the hard watertight shell popcorn has that allows pressure to build up in the kernel
things lacking the hard shell usually have to be puffed via a puffing gunlook up puffing guns and popcorn cannons for a fun internet info hole 👍
Doing it with rice is not super hard. It needs to be cooked the regular way first, so if you have leftovers you can try with that. Just dry it out, maybe in an oven on low for a little bit, then give it a dunk in hot oil, around °325-°350. It puffs right up, only takes a couple seconds.
You can puff rice noodles the same way, but you don't have to cook it first since it's already been processed. I like to serve Mongolian beef or some other kind of stir fry over it.
Well puffed oats and a pound of sugar, yeah
We didn't explode corn. Corn exploded itself when we subjected it to the process we do with a lot of things: heat it up.
Out here acting like popcorn was discovered when we dropped a corncob on dynamite.
It's almost as if misrepresenting the discovery of popcorn was the joke...
It's almost as if I didn't think it was very fun, so I decided to riff on it...
In Korea, there are these wandering food exploders. You go to them with your own peas, beans, anything dried really and they put them in a heated pressure chamber. After heating, the pressure is rapidly released, which causes the small amount of water remaining in the food to boil off and turns them into a fluffy matrix similar to rice crispies.
The machine makes a sound very similar to a gunshot, so the operatora shout something to let people know.
Rice crispies and some chips are made with a similar process. This also works for dough.
D- Does he not know about puffed rice? You know, like, the ingredient in a box of... rice krispies?
I'd argue that puffing and exploding are kinda different though. (It's a very silly argument, but I'd still make it)
Popcorn is also just puffed tho. The post called it exploded for comedic effect.
The internet recipe pages rave about popped quinoa, but I tried it and it wasn't great. Sorghum is next on my list to try
I quite like popped sorghum.
My god I just realized it‘s called popcorn because it‘s corn that has popped. The joys of being bilingual…
Don't worry I'm a native speaker and that took me a really long time to put together.
Someone on Youtube just did rice. It was supposedly okay...I can't...oh, it was Slo-Mo guys....
Isn't that just like single grain rice cakes then?
We call that gepofte rijst, i've no clue what it's called in English. They use it to add a crispy bite to chocolate etc.
It's "puffed rice" in English, but I think the crispy kind is toasted or baked as well.
Yeah, that YouTuber was the first person to puff rice.
Damn the kids are getting dummer.
I read the title as "What if we gave up soon?" and I was like yes please!
Well, mustard seeds are at least entertaining. They just jump out of your pot, like a tiny firework.
It's a little less entertaining when you still find the fuckers in your kitchen several months after the experiment, though...
Rice we checked, it's good.
Sometimes corn and beans only explode after digestion.
Even the jokes are getting dumber.
There’s also freeze dried stuff.
We did find out that putting sugar in a hair dryer makes it all fluffy, so there's that.
I was disappointed by the actual reactivity of gunpowder tea.
Lentils pop
Popcorn is significantly worse than regular corn though.
Well that's like, your opinion, man.
