How To Make Instant Popcorn | Mythbusters
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- What is the fastest way to make popcorn? Get ready for some explosive - and messy - results!
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Off to make some popcorn... Now...... where did i put my bomb-suit?
ExON Norway you put a bag over the prusser veicle. That's it
@@jackyniu5194 wouldnt entrust my life to a shopping bag
This was a funny and witty comment to make. Definitely glad to have read this.
You're part of the problem with what's wrong with dumb shit people say in the comments section.
OK, bit of a history lesson here. This pressure cooking device is normally used to create popped _rice,_ not popcorn, which is partly why the experiment didn't work quite as well as advertised. I don't know if the researchers mistranslated the Chinese, or if they didn't have good sources, but this used to be a popular snack food in Japan and Korea.
This was invented in 1901 in Minnesota and was exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, right around the time when cereal started to take off in the US. We see the product of the process in rice cakes and puffed grain cereal today. It became a hit in rice-consuming countries like Japan, and even became a part of military rations of the time.
After World War II, when kids didn't have much in the way of snacks or desserts, enterprising people made these devices to sell cheap sweetened popped rice snacks to crowds of kids on the cheap. Usually brown rice _(genmai)_ was used for its nutrition, and the device was deliberately released explosively into a big mesh box to catch the kernels. Sugar syrup was drizzled on the hot kernels, and served. It was called _pon-gashi,_ "Pon" meaning popping of the kernels, and "gashi" simply means "snack".
Unfortunately they're not commonly seen anymore except at festivals, and even then they tend to lose to cotton candy and candy apples. The snack is also pretty hygroscopic, meaning it tends to lose its crisp texture quickly.
There's a few shops in Japan that make this device. Properly assembled, there's a large crank (or better yet, an electric motor) that quickly spins the vessel to ensure even heating, and you don't move it off its stand, you simply turn off the gas and power, and release pressure. And again, they're missing the mesh box to catch the snack as they come flying out of the vessel.
the characteristic bang also announced to any neighborhood that he is there. very efficient advertising
Chinese here, I actually saw adults make popcorn more than rice with it back-then I was a kid, guess there is a regional differ? Also it's hard to see this device nowdays in city life. And for the last part, you are right.
The only question I have about this is: How did they get Jamie to agree to do this INSIDE the shop.
They have peasants who probably cleaned it up for them.
Shops that big have industrial vacuums linked to ventilating system that cleans up anything quickly.
Logan Smith not anymore... Contract negotiations broke down and the result was it lasted one more season...
Yeah, Grant was my favorite.
Poor Jamie!
so wait, the purpose of finding this out is to see if you can make popcorn inside the time of a commercial break? I mean, with current commercial 'break' length on most channels, I'd have time to go to the nearest supermarket, buy microwave popcorn, return home, microwave said popcorn with butter, pour it in a bowl, go to the toilet and return to the TV with the popcorn to find that the show I was waiting for just started again.
so sad, but so true..
+IvaintheMCbuilder Or during the break you could build an entire time machine and go back to the beginning of the break to watch it again yaay double efficient brainwashing
+IvaintheMCbuilder 2edgy4me
+IvaintheMCbuilder Here in Italy with non-prepaid tv you have the time to make Polenta and Brasato for ten people.
+IvaintheMCbuilder yuppp theres like 44 minutes of tv for every hour of time so 16 minutes of commercials
LOL! Only on Mythbusters do you need a bomb suit to make popcorn....
Terry Long ikr 😂😂
When I was in Taiwan, while I was hiking on the mountain in the early mornings I would hear what sounded like explosions every 20 minutes or so. Turns out it was a food truck with a massively scaled-up version of this popper making popped rice. It tasted pretty good :D
there's a video of it on here somewhere...
@@kingjames4886here czcams.com/video/XtY98Wy_Aac/video.html
'It's made it China!' *Slowly puts up a safety shield* xD
JordanWoodland d
I'd call that prejudice. :)
Welp ye China has crazy invetions!
Saftey
Oh no, I'm next to China (HK)
My friends did this. They added steam to the 'cannon' and heated it with preheated steam that was 800 degrees. The hot steam flowed around a second layer of steel and heated in about 2 minutes. The cannon was pointed into a box that had several layers of hanging stainless steel wire-cloth and they open the lid letting it fly in. The floor was sloped and everything rolled to a nice little pot on the bottom. They used it to pop rice, corn, oats and other grains. :) Pretty cool but the only way its useful is for volume manufacture. Meaning that when you fill it after being fired it only takes moments to get up to temp and pressure a second time.
Well they skipped a critical part. You use a net bag to catch the kernels as they exit the vessel instead of letting them just fly freely. Duh.
+lohphat Yeah but that wouldn't be fun to watch.
I think they left it in too long there was enough pressure in the thing because the kernels we’re burned
@@jonathanoxlade4252 I think that's just because Adam was turning it really slowly. They do get burned regularly, but not quite that much. Also the pressure rises much quicker once the device is warmed up, so that's not as much of an issue.
I believe the issue here is that the pressure cooker will produce the most popcorn in for example an hour, not from a cold start. The massive container will take longer to heat up than the thin bowl, but when you get going there's not much heating to do between shots as it's already hot, and it pops 3 cups of corn each shot..
It's kinda like the toy car vs real car race they did. The small one did lead for a while but not before long the large car caught up and went past it.
Alton is a food mythbuster par excellence. Perfect for the show.
My grandpa used a similar type of "cannon" to blow up rice, white corn (not the regular popcorn) and even shell-shaped pasta. Then it was sweetened, packaged and sold. This was back in the 1960s and 70s in Brazil.
Ive had rice cooked like this and it's pretty good
It's still done in Brazil, using popcorn cannons about 4 times larger than this one and they're later sweetened and roasted in order to remain crunchy long enough to be packaged and sold.
1:57
OH SHIT, BULLDOZER!
popcorn shotgun cannon confirmed
Amazed they didn't think of loading a shotgun cartridge with popcorn. That's the fastest method...
shoots popcorn right down your throat ...
And let it pop inside your stomach
today on cooking in a bomb suit : Popcorn
Alton Brown fits right in with the mythbusters lol
I like this guy. Can he be the third mythbuster?
He's already got a show. Good Eats. It's scientific and delicious. You should watch it.
I wanna be the third mythbuster!
yeah me too, i was thinking exactly the same thing
No
Cut throat kitchen XD
I’m Chinese and It’s funny to see how they use shock shields and anti bomb suit to do that 😂 when back in the days people in china would do that really casually and people would stand around it to watch.
In Taiwan we use this same machine to pop Rice!!
And you gather all the tiny pieces of pop Rice and put them in to a mold and put sugar in to it and makes it in to a ric Bar!
Like gronola bars
***** Maybe every Asian Country do that .........
shing hung in the united states we have Rice krispies.
The Internet Tough Guy pretty much the sAME thing!! I love rice crisp!!! Marshmallows!!!!
nah
i'm your neighbor from vietnam
we don't do that
i dont even know what "pop rice" mean :(
basically you pop rice like pop corn!
This is definitely me when I try to open a bag of popcorn: burnt, and it gets all over the floor.
i swear i remember Jamie building an supersized version of this that even had its own popcorn containment shield
Wel actually, it is not a pop corn making machine. It is a machine designed to make puff rice cakes. I saw people do it china and they did not wear a bomb suit to make it.
Clearly you’re doing it wrong if you’re not waring a bomb suit
"Can i have your watch?"
"Absolutely" hahaha i love the dialogue on this show
That popping device was how puffed wheat and puffed wheat was made in the first half of the 1900's. We have one in our lobby of where I work. ( a cereal company) It is huge compared to that little toy. We now use puffing guns, which are continuous, the grain is in them for only a few seconds. I'm sure that's how store bought popcorn is made.
Awsome two favorite science shows combined!!!!!
3:42 That was glorious. That was the pinnacle of my life.
"Cooking in a bomb suit! Only on this show."
I was surprised this even being a myth. I mean... that device is something many Chinese grow up with. We saw usually a grandpa making such business at the gate of our elementery school all the time.
But that was before Internet became so utilised, so it is still understandable, a little weired to me though.
+Gotthard Leng And we loved the boom when we were kids. Epic almost like the best fireworks.
+Gotthard Leng I'm korean, we also have these at korea too for making rice puffs. I've learned to use these things when I was like 7 years old so watching them with a blast window & protective suit made me laugh my ass off. & seriously, where's the net bro....
+Shinhoon Cha Net? Genius! :)
TassieLorenzo Yeah. Usually a net or a rough cloth bag which can let air pass while intercept popcorns. Working people always work their way out you know.
Clearly they didn't read all of the instructions =p
Adam Savage meeting Alton Brown is a dream come true for me.
Cooking in a bomb suit! Only on [Mythbusters]!
1:30 DOZER!!!
I love this show
I know this is a chinese instrument but it is widely used here in Brazil to make one special kind of sweet popcorn that I believe every brazilian is familiar :D love it!
It's actually American invention, adopted by the Japanese and spread to the rest of the Asia and other parts of the world.
They stopped using it in the US a long time ago so people think this is Asian.
@@Xentradi97 Interesting. I wonder how many inventions attributed to different countries are only there bc another country made it and stopped using it.
@@BlitzBat313 there are many such cases. One man's trash is another's treasure if they find it useful.
The ones in the pink bags ?
this is usual popcorn cooking in korea
How do you not make a huge mess like they did here?
+airthrow they have a bag to capture all of those pop corn and this happened in China too, look it up
simhopp never heard about that nice :)
simhopp Are there any article or old pictures to prove? I searched online, didn't find any.
Ethan Wei You didn't look very hard. czcams.com/video/Ta5jh9VglDw/video.html
My cousins moved up to Canada from Costa Rica years ago. Down there they had a puffed wheat factory and they built one of these out of steel pipe with a motor to turn it. I remember them running it in a gymnasium full of kids at a couple of school functions. They blew a whistle before they opened it into a chute to collect the popcorn. Just had a pressure gauge stuck into the side of the pipe to indicate when it was ready. Good times.
My two fav tv show people! Yay go good eats!
Omg!!!! The good eats guy I love him ❤❤
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants!
+matthew bowers
Maybe on the next show they were busting the myth that that's how you get ants
matthew bowers why did you coped and pasted
Obscure Archer reference.
They'll probably just use some vacuums, dustpans, and fire.
Ryuji Sakamoto he didnt idiot look at the time stamps
They just sit on the street corner doing this in China. Kids playing around it. It's awesome.
That's awesome I have thoughy about trying thos coop somebody else has already done it
its all I dreamed of, RAINING POPCORN
Do you want ants? This is how you get ants.
ayyyyye archer
I Will try it
this is how you get a visit from the fire dept.
LANAAAAAAAAAAA!
Discerner Archer
i need it RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
This is quite old. It's actually used widely on the streets throughout china. Not exactly the fastest, but it does pop instantly all of the corn when you depressurize.
That bombsuit is TOTAL BADASS
They didn't get the part in the kit which gathers the popcorn when the level is released. I remember this while I was a kid, while an old guy came with this iron pod and a rubber/nylon bag that warped around the lid of the pod and then boom! Popped rice/corn with sugar/cream flavor in minutes. There were lots of people who make their lives with simple stuff like this on the streets in 90s perhaps 00s. Now it's rarely seen as the city develops and the imported method of popcorn and other treats dominated the kid's market.
lol, I have ate popcorn cooked this way when I was a kid. I still remember the street vendor was a old man wearing dirty short pants and slippers. He put a big sack in the front to catch the bursting popcorn. Kids just can't move their eyes to watch the moment he pull the trigger. That was probably twenty years ago back in China... hope he is still alive and watch this video clip. Good old memory.
I think Discovery should release all the episodes of Mythbusters that have not yet made it onto DVDs/Blue Ray. There are so many that are missing: Car Drop, Ultimate Mythbuster, Boarding a Plane, Mythbuster vs Jaws, for just a few. Just give us all the episodes, for pity's sake!
I’ve been living in China for the past five years and I’ve seen old guys on the street making puffed rice with those. I’ve never seen anyone use that to make popcorn in China. And I’ve always questioned how safe those contraptions were. It just looks like the most heavy and ridiculous way to do anything.
This method can puff any grain
not that safe considering its basically a bomb
3:46 - Jamie has been doing this show for over a decade and still jumps😵. Alton Brown is visiting and doesn't even flinch😎.
3:00 Is anyone else thinking TF2 Pyro?
I was thinking more of Paydyay 2 Bulldozer.
dude these are my childhood heros, good eats is the reason i can cook anything
best crossover of the century
That thing fills me with nostalgia.
Actually they sell ones that are about 1/8 the size of that and it makes about a microwave bag of popcorn worth. Chinese vendors use them all day while selling popcorn and it takes about 30 seconds over an open flame
The thumbnail made me believe they were going to disarm a bomb xD
Geeky-Ze that's what I thought
I speak french and when we say this title with french accent it says "popcorn time"
mythbusters pleasmake more don't stop just don't i love the show
Only on this show!
Damn right!!
Adam confirmed bulldozer, Mythbusters Payday 2 DLC confirmed!
This is used in Asian countries. My first time seeing it was in South Korea. they use it to make Popped Rice....REALLY tasty. It sounds EXACTLY like a cannon AND they use a Net to catch the Popped Rice.
The machine is meant to pop any corn, or any starch-rich food, instead of specifically designed and cultivated popcorn.
can it pop potatoes?
Absolutely loving the cross-science
the chinese one is a small model; the bigger ones are actually the fastest because once you eat it up the first time the second time in about 2-3min and can make popcorn for 80 ppl.every 3-4 min so the other methods makes popcorn for 10ppl in 3 min the big ones makes popcorn for 80ppl in about 4min.
Take this popcorn popper to the top of a building and set it off and make everyone on the ground think it's raining popcorn hahaha
This is actually very common way to make snacks called 'Gang Nang Ee' in Korea.
3:44 some one forgot their Earpro, Jamie
When I was a kid, those bombs are common on the side of roads. With much larger flames than those guys, they collect it with a sack when opening it (with a loud Boom!). The mythbusters obviously overcooked it.
I grew up in China and I approve this. The bomb method takes no cooking oil, hence makes popcorn healthier.
+BFGHoward doesnt no how to used
Yeah, the sound and smell from the popcorn advertises itself. It used to be the most exciting sound every child paid close attention to.
Do you know where I might be able to find one of these machines? I would really like to get one for myself! Please reply if you know. Thanks,
This vid finally nailed it, myth busters are both a myth and a bust, all in one.
A similar method used to make a Zimbabwean maize snack called Maputi. There are a few videos showing the process
I saw many of these when I went to china, It was awesome.
OMG, Alton Brown :o
The traditional popcorn maker in my country still use it.
Popcorn cannon! xD
"cooking in a bomb suit! only on this show!" who dosnt love that!
Alton Brown is my favorite chef!!! I never knew he was on this show
When I was a kid puffed cereals were advertised as being "shot from guns"! I didn't understand that until I was middle-aged, and saw a video. It pretty much WAS, and all along I had thought it was just a crazy advertising slogan. Now you can do it at home!
When episode is this from?
Raining popcorn... YEAH!!!!
Oh my god I’m loving the pulp fiction reference
well in indonesia theres a special kind of popcorn named "jagung tembak" which used the exact same method in the making, and you can easily find it some local market at a certain region
I mean...
The difference between a Pressure cooker of any kind and a bomb is a solid seal.
That bomb suit is so cool
It is so convenient
This is a common place cooking apparatus in Asia. It has a signature cannon sound when they do it. :)
this is actually the method used for puffing rice, wheat and other grains... not corn. corn can pop on its own because of the shell around the kernel, but other grains need to be heated inside a pressure vessel like this
Ok I see the title. Make instant popcorn. And I see the guy in a bomb proof jacket. I have to watch this
great. now im hungry for popcorn
Microwave is still faster, just think about the moment you want to make the popcorn, for that pan mathod you need to get the pan, get the corn, get aluminum foil (if you have it), get something to poke holes, by the time you get everything and make it it will be the same or slower than just grabing the bag and putting on the microwave. And it's way easier.
bloody lethal corn cannon
I miss popcorn so much. Stupid braces.
Also, Mythbusters+Alton Brown=the best win that ever did win.
r.i.p popcorn
TheZeldaBigMacintosh do you go to every popcorn video on youtube and say this? you just said this same thing with an alton brown video.
I guess I do say it on pretty much every video I see with popcorn. I didn't notice.
Well, I won't be saying it anymore. I have an orthodontist appointment in 3 days to get my braces off (at least that's what I've been told.)
+Bag Man Maybe if you had logic and common sense, you would stop hating on Bronies just for the hell of it on completely unrelated videos.
i think i remember seeing them when i was little and lived in China...either that or in a movie i watched when i was little and lived in china...either way those were fun
Even better thing to this is that there are even more massive versions of the pressure cookers, in south korea there would be areas in some towns where it sounds like artillery fire, but its the sounds of these cookers being opened. Basically controlled time bombs
I had to watch this video and do the 6 steps of the scientific method about it for homework for my biology class...
i like it
I have to hand it to them, Cooking popcorn in a bomb suit is something I would never have thought of
So Americans see china as a western country and European countries as eastern?
Thx, didn't know that
Olivio Sarikas Well if your standing on the same latitude as China technically based on perspectives and the way your facing (east to west) China can be a western country.
Mikey8567 Yes as if you're upside down north becomes south hehe.
+Olivio Sarikas The center point to the civilized world was considered Europe.
Hence Middle East (iraq), East (India), Far East (China).
While the West (Eastern Half American Continents) and Far West (West Coast Americas) are the perspective.
In truth there is no center and there is just a west and east depending on your position. Yet people from european empires were and still are very self centered individuals who consider themselves the center of the world.
I'm American and I call Europe the west, all my history teachers in school and all my professors in Union thus far have also called Europe (and America) the west and Asia the east
You can't imagine how hilarious this is for Chinese seeing someone cooking with a bomb suit on
Wow. That sound delicious to me.
those old street vendors do a much better job than mythbusters in making popcorns lol