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Skriven 2009-12-06 22:13:33 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 31810 av DAVE DRUM (1:123/140)
Ärende: Popcorn
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Hi Dave,

 DD> http://www.kitchenemporium.com/cgi-bin/kitchen/prod/21np581.html -
 DD> although I know that there are also electric versions of it they are
 DD> all very similar in nomenclature.

 RH> Without looking it up, I'd say you were right.  The one we had looked
 RH> like a tin bucket with a top on and a crank mechanism coming off that.
 RH> We got it at one of the outlet stores near Hilton Head, SC.

 DD> That's the guy. With a loose fitting wooden insulator around the crank
 DD> so you can grasp it to turn the internals. AFAICS the whole thing is a
 DD> waste of time. If I make "stove-top" popcorn I use a three or four
 DD> quart pan with a vented lid and shake the pan as the kernels start to
 DD> pop. This method has worked for me for over sixty years.  Bv)=


But I didn't want Steve to use my good pots (pans) for making popcorn.
Before we got our first air popper, we had a "grunge" pot that we used
for stove top pocorn making.  Our kitten kne when we were pulling out
that pan--she would pester us from that point until she got her (Steve
sized) handful or 2.  When Steve was in Korea, I sent him a sauce pan
I'd picked up at a dollar store; when he came home, Rachel took the pot
when she got married.  We looked for another cheapy one when we moved to
GA, couldn't find one so ended up with the crank popper.

 DD> added. Even if using the alleged "butter baster" above the discharge

 DD> SNIP

 RH> We always found it better to melt the butter separately and drizzle it
 RH> over the bowl of popped corn.

 DD> That's the way they do it at the movies ... or did, last time I braved
 DD> the crowds
 DD> of screaming chirrun or weirded out teenies and twenty somethings. Of
 DD> course they don't use real butter as you and I would do.

Nope!  It's all chemical laden goop now.  We had a gift certificate
booklet for 2 admissions, popcorn and drinks given to us while we were
in HI; that was the first time we had movie popcorn in decades and
haven't had any since.  Haven't been to any movies since we moved here;
all the theaters are in Raleigh (closest) or beyond.

 DD> Uh, the first URL I gave above has a kettle corn maker sitting next to
 DD> the regular Stir-Crazy. Not to present a temptation or anything ....

 RH> Another uni-tasker in this small a house is not needed. I've managed to
 RH> find storage for most every thing we've bought since moving in but the
 RH> place will explode (like popcorn) if I try to squeeze too much more in.

 DD> You say that to a person living in a mobile home of modest dimensions
 DD> (650 sq ft - more or less). I know about being short of counter and
 DD> cabinet space and playing the put & take game to bring various things
 DD> into play.  Heh.

We have 2 people in about 1000 sq ft--and do plenty of the shift this to
get to that game.  Steve will get out my Dutch oven tomorrow; he can
"stand on his head" better.  It's in a lower cabinet, bottom shelf,
about as far back as it can go.  The kitchen is worse than the one I had
in GA but we're surviving. (G)

 RH> We've talked about replacing our roughly 30 year old waffle iron (cord
 RH> is beginning to show signs of needing replacing) with a George Foreman
 RH> but don't have the space without a serious re-arrangement of what we
 RH> have.  Now if we could find an old fashioned small appliance repair
 RH> person........................

 DD> Replacing cords is very easy. Takes a couple screwdrivers (if the
 DD> screws are different) a couple pliers - one with a side cutter (wire
 DD> cutter) on it and a bit of native intelligence. There are few repair
 DD> shops left for small
 DD> appliances these days. The cheap crap from China costs less to replace
 DD> than it does to repair. But, if Steve wants to tackle the gig - all
 DD> the supplies are available at your local hardware store for little
 DD> cash outlay. Or, perhaps you could ask at your church. Many times
 DD> folks are eager to perform a mitzvah AND knock the rust off unused
 DD> expertise.


Steve will probably look into it & figure if he has the tools or not.
If he doesn't, then between church and the seminary, we're bound to know
somebody who can do it.  I'm doing a hemming job for a yung lady at
church in exchange for a skirt that she had but couldn't use; it fit me
and was the length/color that I need for our choir Christmas music
presentation in a couple of weeks.  Got the dress code yesterday; did a
quick check of 3 stores in WF to no avail so this beats a trip to
Raleigh & fighting traffic/crowds.

 DD> I used to have a nice little side business (in my confuser shop)
 DD> cleaning and repairing VCRs. That went away when the selling cost of a
 DD> new 4 head, stereo machine dropped to less than U$50 at retail. Even
 DD> before that happened I had to tell some folks who had older machines
 DD> that it would be cheaper to replace the deck than repair it ...
 DD> "Unless this was Grandma's or has some other family sentimental
 DD> attachment."


Yes, we paid almost enough to buy a new VCR to get ours repaired when we
came back from Germany.  After that, prices dropped and DVD players came
out so.............................  I used to make/sell covers for C-64
equipment when that was big but never did switch over to the IBM type.

 DD> Of course now VCRs are dinosaurs and soon DVD players will be, too -
 DD> replaced by Blu-Ray.   FEH!


Sigh!  We bought our first DVD player the night of Sept. 10, 2001 (in
HI).


 DD>       Title: Grandma's Chicken Soup
 DD>  Categories: Poultry, Pasta, Soups, Vegetables
 DD>       Yield: 4 servings

 DD>        8    Chicken thighs; skinned
 DD>        2 lg Carrots; in 1/8" slices
 DD>        2    Celery ribs; in 1/4" slices
 DD>        2 md Turnips; pared, cubed
 DD>        1 lg Onion; chopped coarse
 DD>        8 c  Water
 DD>      1/3 ts Salt
 DD>      1/4 ts Pepper
 DD>      1/4 ts Poultry Seasoning
 DD>      1/8 ts Thyme
 DD>        1 c  Wide egg noodles

I don't use turnip but do use all the other vegetables and most of the
other stuff listed here.  This grandma has her own way of making it,
never twice the same.


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