If you're making popcorn on the stovetop, sometimes the kernels can burn. Luckily, using a wok helps yield a more desirable ...

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How my imaginary popcorn-popping holy grail became reality. Ever since middle school, when I discovered that bags of steamy, salty, fake-butter-infused microwave popcorn made an excellent ...

Popcorn is a variety of corn kernel, which forcefully expands and puffs up when heated. French explorers wrote about the Iroquois Indians popping corn in clay jars.

Why does popcorn pop? Popcorn kernels have a hard and mostly nonporous shell. When the kernel is heated, the steam inside has no place to go. Once the temperature reaches about 355 degrees, ...

PANA, Ill. (WAND) - The Warrensburg Corn Festival was last week, yet another local festival is popping up this weekend. The ...

Back in Lancaster in the 1930s, popcorn “shops” were opening. Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Mathers from Marietta opened a “pop-corn confection store” at 110 N. Columbus St. (23 Oct 1931 Daily Eagle).

“We’re popping 300 pounds of popcorn an hour,” he said. Today their popcorn is on the shelves at Haggen Food, Metropolitan Market, QFC and Amazon.com, as well as some local mom-and-pop stores.