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  • 2016-02-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Can You Make Popcorn by Microwaving an Ear of Corn? (en)
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  • In February 2016, a video that purported to show it to be possible to make popcorn from an ear of corn inexplicably became a social media sensation, although versions of the video had been appearing online for several years: https://youtu.be/lbatjnLHpKwAnother video came by way of Sun Gazing, which based a post from a single YouTube video: The man in the video clarified that the ear of corn used was specifically popcorn (not sweetcorn, which produces a different kind of kernel): https://youtu.be/9QA4SB9WuR8Many newer versions of the claim credited a BuzzFeed video, but we were unable to locate the clip, although we did find a multi-part microwave hacks video. The DIY Popcorn segment demonstrated using a brown bag and popcorn kernels (not fresh corn) to make a homemade bag of microwaved popcorn: https://youtu.be/WTGfXhSwvMkWe also found several failed attempts to pop corn on the cob. A 30 November 2015 Reddit thread involved one such endeavor: In that thread's comments, the user explained which mitigating factors possibly led to their failure to succeed in popping the corn: There's a good reason so few people have reported success in popping popcorn from an ear of corn. The kernels are different, with a harder outer shell. It's also prepared for popping in a different way, according to Modern Farmer: In an undated Good Things segment, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart demonstrated to viewers how to pop corn from dried ears of popcorn. Stewart didn't delve into the difference between dried popcorn and ears of sweetcorn in the brief clip, and a single comment on the video read: While it remains possible to pop corn on a cob, it has to be popping corn. Standard field corn (or sweetcorn) cannot not be buttered and popped in the same way. Many dinner hack clips you see don't make the distinction between popping corn and normal corn, so consider this: corn on the cob is regularly cooked in the microwave by people heating their dinner with no resulting accidental popcorn. However, if you try to make popped corn on the cob and use the wrong type of corn, you risk setting something on fire, or worse. In short, don't attempt to pop corn on the cob unless you've purchased popcorn specifically sold for that purpose. (en)
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