Well, mustard seeds are at least entertaining. They just jump out of your pot, like a tiny firework.
It’s a little less entertaining when you still find the fuckers in your kitchen several months after the experiment, though…
Lentils pop
My god I just realized it‘s called popcorn because it‘s corn that has popped. The joys of being bilingual…
I think there’s a pretty solid evidential record that cooking foods in the microwave until they explode generally makes them worse and/or makes a fucking mess.
We puff rice to get rice crispies and puffed oats will get you sugar crisps.
Can I ask how you do that? With popcorn, you can just stick it in a brown paper bag and cook for 2 minutes. Is it that simple?
You need to heat the grain in a closed pressure vessel, wait for the pressure to build up and then suddenly release it. There are Chinese popcorn machines that can do that:
https://youtube.com/shorts/P_Wx8NWhqqw?si=z-naSzYdnMm2HQDO
You can buy them on Aliexpress but I’m too scared to get one.