Stovetop Popcorn
a poem and a discussion of how much butter is ‘enough’ butter?
the subtle sounds of crackle pop, crackle pop, then drizzle in butter.
Tagging Shivangi Patel | TC Hails | Lopes Charmingman | Tom Fenske | Love, Anna | Vijini Mallawaarachchi | Stuart Englander | Dennett if you’re up to it and anyone else interested in today’s prompt: a) butter or b) popcorn or c) both.
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Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and making popcorn at home has helped me realize that movie theatre popcorn has a lot of butter. For it to taste that good, it’s at least 7 or 8 ‘cubes’ of butter.
Actually, let me backtrack — what do I mean by cubes?
I live as a singular (1) human being in my apartment, and don’t actually use butter that often. So in food ingredient prep, I cut up the slabs of butter I buy into cubes and freeze them. When I need them, usually in cooking, I take out the cubes and use them as one might with sugar cubes.
If I want to spread it on bread, I let the cubes defrost a little and when it’s sufficiently defrosted but still hard, I shred it for ultimate spreading ability. That way I don’t have to wait too long. AND it perfectly spreads when shredded.
This was definitely WAY TOO LONG as an author bio but … that’s my two cents (or 7–8 cubes of butter, however much that costs) on popcorn :)
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^ by Nia Simone McLeod
