2006-11-10 13:54:24 · 16 answers · asked by peze2 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
No, you cant. A microwave works by taking the moisture in a piece of food and making the molecules move really fast back and forth, causing heat from the inside. An oven cooks food on the outside only. You'd burn the bag and it'd be a mess, and nothing would pop.
But at most grocery stores, they sell jiffy pop, which is a tin pie pan with popcorn kernels inside, and you make it on the stovetop. Its hip and retro, and surprisingly fun.
2006-11-10 14:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by stu b 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No hun you cannot. The bag will catch on fire. If you have no microwave then you can do it the old fashion way and just by the popcorn in a jar, put some in a pot on the stove with a little oil and shake the pot back and forth. The stove should be on medium-high. Whala...you'll have popcorn. Takes only about 5 minutes and will save you from having the fire department over! Boy, writing this made me feel old. That was the only way to get popcorn back in my day! LOL
2006-11-10 14:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by Harleygal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't pop it in the oven, but you can cut open the bag and pour the contents into a pot. Throw the bag away. Add a couple of tablespoons of extra oil to the pot, and cover the pot with a lid. Then pop the corn on top of the stove. Start on high heat and when the first few kernels pop, turn the heat down a little. Also, be sure to constantly shake the pot back and forth to prevent the popcorn from burning.
2006-11-10 14:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by Latrice T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-14 07:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can - I've done it. However, don't make the mistake my brother did - this does not require any oil. It WILL cause a fire - he did it! Just put the corn - 1/4 cup? - in a brown lunch sack. Fold down the top a few times and microwave until popping slows like with purchased microwave popcorn.
2016-03-26 00:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi! Don't try bags in oven. See previous answers.
I like pop corn the "old fashioned" way= I do it on a stove.Has worked for centuries, even before electricity.
Step 1. pour some oil in a saucepan/kettle-has to be oil and preferably NOT olive oil. Sunflower, canola or some such that can take high heat and don't taste strong -butter or lard won't do. I like the oil to thinly cover my kettle bottom. Choose a kettle that has a lid. I prefer a glass lid as I like to watch them pop, but any lid will do, but you need a lid, otherwise you have pop corn all over your kitchen. The saucepan or kettle should be about 2 -3 quarters -depends on how much you make.
Step 2. put in 1 or 2 pop corn kernels in the oil and start heating. Step 3. When the oil is sizzling around the corn kernels I put in the rest of the corns=usually to cover the bottom of the pan. The oil is about 2/3 height of one unpopped corn, so they don't swim in oil.
Step 4. keep on heating until they start popping. There is a lot of pops and then when most of them have popped and you hear only one or two per second(=you can count to two in between) Step 5. take the pan off heat and pour the pop corns in a bowl.Salt to taste and add melted butter if you like (I don't) and enjoy. If you have bought those pop corn bags you can dig the unpopped corns out and give them the above treatment. Otherwise you can just buy a bag of unpopped popcorns -they can be found in any grocery store. After a few tries you learn how long you have to heat them and when to take them out and how much salt etc. The reason I heat the oil first with only 1 corn is that I don't like them getting terribly oily and they get less if I pour them in hot oil.If you are fat conscious, you can put a tissue on the bottom of your bowl in which you pour your popped corns., it will absorb all extra fat. You learn quickly the small tricks that make your pop corn the way you like it. I usually take my pan off the stove a little earlier than later because otherwise the corns get so hard and burned - I rather have some unpopped corns in the bowl than black ones. You can also pour syrup or melted chocolate on them if you like them sweet. But main thing: you get them just as salty and oily and buttery as you want them, nobody decides that for you -as happens with these ready made bags for microwave (I have tried them, too)
Good luck with your pop corns!
wishes
mary a
2006-11-10 14:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by marya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my Microwave wasn't working I put a little grease and a pot and pour the contents of the bag into it and cooked it on top of the stove. The popcorn come out nicely.
2006-11-10 14:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No it will burn up. Try cutting the end off the popcorn bag, putting this in a pan on top of the stove, add a bit of oil and a lid and on meduim heat, pop your corn.
2006-11-10 14:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by Moose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't put it in the oven, it will catch on fire. You can buy stove top popcorn and it will pop on the stove.
2006-11-11 04:29:39 · answer #9 · answered by Stefanie K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are designed only for the microwave and will probably catch fire in a regular oven.
2006-11-11 05:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋