Thermomix Popcorn

Apr 13th, 2008 by Dani

I can’t get it to work. Can you?

on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:46 pm1offal

Hi Dani

It is not likely that you will be able to cook popcorn in a thermomix as you need temperatures of about 180 to 190°C to cause the corn to pop.
If you use olive oil, its smoke point is only 190°C and so better to try Safflower or Sunflower oil in the machine & heat it up as much as you can then check what temperature you reach with a candy/deep frier thermometer.
I don’t think the thermomix would get much above 150°C as it is not designed for frying as far as I can see and has safety mechanisms built in to prevent overheating? according to the tecnical data available online.
Back to the old faithful frypan.
on 15 Apr 2008 at 6:36 am2karen aka brazen

i don’t like the thermomix for anything that requires a nice hot quick heat, such as frying bacon or onion etc, so i can’t see that it would work for popcorn.

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