Hulless Popcorn-Gourmet Companies and Popped

The term ” hulless popcorn” is somewhat misleading.  All popcorn kernels have a hull.  When kernels are heated, a drop of water within the hull turns to steam.  As the steam rises in temperature it builds pressure until it bursts through the hull.  No hull, no popped popcorn.

The hulless varieties have a very small kernel and therefore produce little or no hull when they are popped.  The larger hull of standard varieties breaks into pieces lodging itself in the center of the fluff.  The hull of the hulless varieties expands out become part of the fluff of the popcorn.  Hulless varieties produce more delicate pieces of gourmet popcorn.

Hulless popcorn comes in three main varieties.  Lady Finger, the smallest and rarest of the three varieties.  Baby White pops up a little larger than Lady Finger popcorn and is as nearly as tender.  Finally, Premium White is the largest of the hulless popcorn varieties.  There are companies that sell various other hulless varieties but these are the most popular.

Hulless kernels are a favorite for the light and delicate popcorn they produce.  They are also a favorite in the medical community.  It’s recommended by dentists and orthodontists.  Their patients with dental restrictions, such as dentures, braces, orthodontics or other fragile dental work can still enjoy popcorn

It’s also recommended to patients who suffer from diverticulitis.  Diverticulitis is a gastrointestinal disorder that would prevent anyone who suffered from it from eating a product like regular gourmet popcorn with it’s small seeds and bits of hard shell.  Thanks to hulless popcorn, many doctors are letting patients enjoy popped popcorn again.

With this long string of positives there is one drawback.  Hulless popcorn does pop up a lot smaller, due to its smaller hull.  For all it’s advantages though, it’s worth popping up a little more of your favorite variety to make up the difference.

Yellow Popcorn vs. White Popcorn

White popcorn or yellow popcorn? It really comes down to personal preference. There are several varieties of popcorn. Whether or not they end up as white popcorn or yellow popcorn is determined by the kernels. All popped corn looks white. The yellow we see at movie theaters and baseball games is from butter. Which one is better? Only one sure way to know; test it out for yourself. Nothing like another good reason to eat gourmet popcorn.

Yellow popcorn is often just marked popcorn. It is the standard kernel variety. White popcorn is the anomaly. Bags of white popcorn will be marked as such. The reason that companies go to the trouble of selling as well as packaging white popcorn, is that it is somewhat of a popcorn delicacy. Normally it is a smaller kernel. This allows it to pop up a little lighter and a lot more tender and delicate.

White popcorn is sometimes known as rice popcorn. This isn’t for it’s color, but for the rice shape of it’s kernels. Yellow popcorn can be broken down in to two varieties - large yellow and small yellow. Both sizes of yellow kernels come in a larger rounded pearl shape. While they are known by the colors. The varieties biggest distinctions are their size characteristics.

Like farmers everywhere, those that grown corn have experimented with hybrids. Attempting to find a blend of these types of corn. It seems though, that each one has a place in the market. Each ones drawback are worth it to certain consumers. We will likely see the three separate varieties remain independent of each other.

Popcorn can be found in a variety of kernel colors. There are several specialty popcorns available in a few other colors; blue, red, black, and brown.

Welcome to Popcorn Gifts

When you cuddle up on your fine leather sofa and crank up that magnificent home theater system featuring the huge plasma television set and the 7.1 state of the art sound system with woofers the size of Peterbilt hubcaps to watch a just released top quality DVD of a Hollywood blockbuster, you can’t really just ruin the whole experience with a box of plain, store-bought popcorn! You have to recreate the entire cinema experience and what better way to do that than to enjoy some lip-smacking gourmet popcorn?

There are so many ways to enjoy theater style popcorn at home. Check out the many brands of Movie Style Popcorn which are soaked with the same type of specialty butteroil that you can only find at cinemas. The downside is that it carries a fairly considerable caloric load, but the amazing taste is going to be more than worth it. If you’re really watching that waistline and can’t afford to fall off the wagon even for one night, try some of the low fat versions of butter-flavoured popcorn, some of which can have as little as 25% the total fat of the regular versions. Read more