Who knows the history of popcorn?

Popcorn is an ancient puffed food. Hundreds of years ago, before European immigrants moved to this "new world", Indians living on this continent began to eat popcorn. After Columbus returned to Europe, he once described to people the vivid scene of Indian children in the "New World" selling popcorn in the street wearing necklaces.

It was also Indians who taught new immigrants in Europe how to grow and bake corn. A historian also found popcorn eaten by ancient Indians 5000 years ago in a cave in New Mexico, USA, but because of the "technology" at that time, the taste was far from crisp as that of popcorn of the times.

Modern inventors designed an electric cooker for families who like popcorn. It is said that it only takes 10 minutes to make a large pot of popcorn. Many local TV stations in the United States often broadcast the common sense of popcorn explosion, and also introduce various methods of popcorn explosion in fresh air.

2. The history of popcorn in China.

Popcorn originated in the Song Dynasty in China. Fan Chengda, a poet at that time, mentioned the custom of popcorn on the Shangyuan Festival in Wuzhong in his Shihu Collection. Why does he call popcorn "Bolu"? Popcorn should imitate the sound of popcorn, because the local dialect calls the sound of thunder "grinding" Zhao Yi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, recorded a poem "Blowing Up a Building" in Miscellanies on the Roof.

The popcorn written by the poet is not only beautiful in writing, but also full of life interest. Fan Chengda recorded in "The Custom of Wu Jun" that when the Spring Festival came, Song people used popcorn to predict the good or ill luck of the year, while girls used it to predict the events of their lives. Song people added diet to culture, which enriched its connotation. Popcorn is crisp and easy to digest, and can be used as a delicious snack every day.

The invention of popcorn embodies the richness of China's diet, and has a deeper meaning, that is, it creates a food processing method-puffed food. It shows that the food processing in ancient China is not only a simple heating cooking, but also uses the physical principle of high temperature and high pressure to change the state and taste of food. This processing method is a modern emerging puffed food.

This processing method has turned ordinary food that we don't agree with each other into delicious and distinctive food snacks. It can be said that popcorn thousands of years ago is the originator of modern puffed food snacks.

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How to make popcorn:

In the early popcorn processing, corn (multi-grains can be used) was heated in a special container, so that the corn was in a state of high temperature and high pressure, and the temperature in the pot kept rising. And the pressure of the gas in the tank is also increasing. Then there was a loud bang, the cover was opened, and the corn under normal temperature and pressure was suddenly released. The gas in the pot expanded rapidly and the pressure dropped rapidly.

The pressure difference between the inside and outside of corn kernels becomes larger, which leads to the rapid expansion of high-pressure steam in corn kernels, which instantly explodes corn kernels into popcorn, and at the same time, the internal structure and properties of corn will also change. Most popcorn is basically popcorn that pops out after popcorn is simply heated. The treatment container is no longer an early "converter", so the harm caused by lead is avoided.

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