MythBusters: Is it a Chinese popcorn cooker ?

It's not a popcorn cooker.
It's a Crispy Popped Rice cooker.
The basic ingredients include plain rice, glutinous rice or wheat.
The grains are sealed in the pressure cooker and dry cooked over a slow fire for about 10 minutes,
until it starts to pop

[@rgubry]

You need to spin it faster so it doesn't burn, and you shoot it into a canvas bag about six feet long, so you don't lose all the popcorn and make a mess. I've seen dozens of street vendors make popcorn this way in China. The popcorn is awesome and the explosion kicks ass.

[@isaacneufeld6411]

My dad built one of those when I was a kid, it’s not for popcorn but regular corn or any other grain like rice, wheat, quinoa, sorghum or even macaroni. You have to spin faster to keep from getting burnt, it’s only dangerous in the hands of amateurs 😊 I spent many hours running it when I was 11 years old

[@houstonhorse7877]

It took so long because the vessel was cold. If it was already pre-warmed up/hot, it would not take so long to build up pressure.

[@Romanian77]

I call BS! Fastest?? How?? Popcorn in microwave is 2.3 minutes!! Yours is passed 8 minutes. False advertisement

[@user-rq4kf6dr7t]

When you use this machine, you even don't need the kind of corn to make popcorn, it can make popcorn by all kinds of corns. Even the corn used to feed pigs and cattle.

[@dargonwatermellon]

This thing pops everything not just corns, it does same for rice, quinoa or any seed base products.

[@totallylegityoutubeperson4170]

The narration's pause at mention of it's Chinese origins seem kinda xenophobic.

[@gihuang6805]

i have been eating this since i was a child. its extremely safe

[@PhantomPanic]

How did I miss this episode?

[@dargonwatermellon]

This thing pops everything not just corns, it does same for rice, quinoa or any seed base products.

[@mrdovie47]

Remember Wheat Puffs? "Shot from Guns". I've had crackling rice soup with this in it.

[@GinsuSher]

Got to laugh at the bomb suit. Guys in China used this popcorn maker on the side of the streets.

[@microdesigns2000]

0:51

[@Alchemy.Gaming]

Love how they're like it takes so long to pop when they used an enormous amount in a huge cooker lol

[@ShenDoodles]

I think it's only fast if you use a regular sized one.

[@punbug4721]

1:45

[@leafster1337]

a bag wouldnt be fun

[@hollyjollydog]

PUFFED -lived in Akron Ohio during the Quaker Oats days puff rice was shot from cannons you could hear the explosions all day.

[@brendanmatelan2129]

"If we just find pieces, can I have your watch?" Lol

[@cupidjrrobianto]

All species of corn wil pop with this tool