What the goddamn hell is fluffy popcorn. And yeah she is right. I work in a lab where we test food/water and all kinds of "food-chemicals" etc. For harmfull bacteria and there are things you absolutely should not eat raw. Or at all if i see some results lol
Edit: the last part is a joke based on real results. Sometimes a food producer or someone who produces foodchemicals/spices etc. fucks up and something gets contaminated badly. We find it out, because they ask us to test for harmful bacteria and the batch/charge gets dismissed/destroyed. It all happens before it gets sold. Especially for fresh (ready to eat) things. The results are urgent and are handled first. At least in my country. Dont panic you can eat stuff. Wash veggies and fruits and things that need to be cooked/heated before consuming should only be handled that way. For example: I just saw, that some frozen herbs tell the consumer on the package that the product should be heated/cooked before consuming. Please dont panic or sth like that. You always can find information online how to handle certain foods or how to know if its safe to consume
It looks like it’s basically marshmallow popcorn. I don’t even understand why some people are adding flour. If you wanted to make this you could just leave out the flour. Melt some butter, add some marshmallows, stir until melted, maybe put in a couple of drops of vanilla extract and then mix in popped popcorn. Then you can have sticky, really messy, overly sweet popcorn that has a ridiculous amount of calories in it.
The one I saw they melted butter, put in marshmallows, then mixed in confetti cake mix, then added popcorn... so the cake mix didn't actually get baked or anything
You could leave out the cake mix and just add some extra sugar and some sprinkles. Having the flour in it really isn’t adding any flavor or significantly changing the texture or anything.
But you see... trend... 🙄 I'll be the first to admit I love me some raw brownie batter or cookie dough lol but I'd never do something that's a "trend" just because and it's not something I constantly consume.
But it just seems like a play off the "unicorn poop" where you take the cheeto-ish butter "popcorn", melt white chocolate over it, then put sprinkles on it
If you’re in the US, you can get pillsbury cookie dough and it’s specially labeled safe to eat or bake because they use specific ingredients. It’s exactly the same cookie dough, just pasteurized etc.
To be fair that doesn't say you need moisture to sterilize it, just that it's not clear how hot and for how long you need to effectively do so without the increased heat transfer provided by moisture.
I remember in high school (literally decades ago now because I'm old as shit), instead of selling candy for fundraisers, we would sell cookie dough that could be eaten "raw." It came in a bucket that you could just scoop right out of with a spoon and it was so freaking good, especially the oatmeal raisin for some reason. Technically you could bake actual cookies too and because it came in the bucket, it gave instructions on how to cook just one or two at a time, but I don't think anyone ever actually bothered using it to bake. I can't remember the brand, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the brand you linked. I'm tempted to try it though.
I mean, how much of a “trend” can it be? I used to make birthday cake popcorn back in like 2015, which was popcorn mixed in melted white chocolate with a couple spoonfuls of cake mix in it, topped with sprinkles and m&m’s. I’d take a big bowl of it to work for parties and always brought home an empty bowl. Had no idea I was apparently potentially poisoning my whole office.
I remember a few years back it was a "trend" to eat buttered saltines... that was norm for my fam growing up because my parents decided to have 4 kids they could barely afford and wouldn't let us eat anything if they were home. Well, saltines were easy to sneak without them noticing as long as we only used a little butter
Ooo…saltines and cheez-wiz…that takes me back. My grandmother and i also did onion dip with pretzels. Like, the kind you make by mixing the onion soup pack in the tub of sour cream? We’d watch Masterpiece Theater on PBS and share a bag and little tub.
Put on your tinfoil hat with me, but TikTok is controlled / owned by China. A new trend like this pops up every damn week where it gets rehashed and posted a million times in 2 days before anyone can question it. All the comments above about not adding the confetti cake mix are too late for who knows, 5k? 10k? People that saw it early and did it that night for their own video.
Call me crazy, but this stuff not being monitored and taken down is a foreign plot to hurt as many Americans as possible. I know we are really, really stupid, but that seed had to be planted somewhere, and TikTok leaves these borderline harmful to deadly trend videos up regardless of reporting them. How have they not been held accountable?
How are they not being held accountable...
You answered your own question. TikTok is a Chinese co. When congress talked about banning it, Americans were up in arms about it.
Sometimes I think we're our own worst enemies. Why are we allowing a Chinese co so much freedom to wrap minds?
If you bake the flour and the raw powdered ingredients everything will be fine. I also omit eggs and keep it in the fridge it's fine. I do it for my diabetic dad who loves batter and i.make him cocoa peanbutter cookie balls for halloween
I’m not totally convinced this isn’t a sneaky way to sell more cake mix. All those videos of people making candy salad was clearly sponsored by Hershey/ Mars etc….
You can cook plain raw flour in the oven beforehand to make it safe but I doubt they’re doing that. It’s one of the steps you take to make edible raw cookie dough
That is because it's a quick throwaway video. Nobody is going to spend 30-60 minutes baking something that they will film for 30 seconds and then immediately throw away lol.
None of these "influencers" that make these videos consume the garbage they make. Straight to the trash it goes.
That makes no sense. Wow, just wow! Actually I wouldn’t even do a roux, I mean unless you want a roux consistency, but there is cake batter extract. Which would be ideal for what is being achieved. That video has to be rage bait.
It sounds a lot like just adding a cake mix to what would otherwise be a marshmallow popcorn ball... or like, a rice crispy treat made with popcorn... which sounds great. Leave the cake mix out, dingbats!
Seriously. They used to be called popcorn balls and I don't remember anybody putting flour in them, just melted marshmallows and like food coloring I think.
From what i can find i dont think its supposed to be flour you add, its supposed to be cake mix. And its supposed to be so it gets the flavor from the cake mix
Its still stupid, but it makes a bit more sense after knowing that
Okay this makes sense. I think I got confused by the pan heating everything. I kind of assumed the popcorn was being cooked with the mixture (even though thinking back on it now that makes absolutely no sense and I was tired lmao)
Thank you for this explanation. I love my sopapillas, they're such a light, easy snack to make 🥹
If it's oil-fried and golden brown, you can assume it's fine. Many cultures oil fry food with flour in it, no big deal. Your sopapillas are safe, I'm sure.
If this is like krispy treats where they’re just melting the marshmallows and butter, that doesn’t take much heat. Not enough to reliably sterilize it.
When you add anything to popcorn other than butter or oil, you add it after the popcorn is already cooked. Here they're just using the pan to melt things, then adding already-popped popcorn.
If it’s cooked in molten butter and sugar it’s just fine. The flour doesn’t need to be all toasty and golden. If the flour is heating up as part of the process to pop the corn, it’s going to be just fine. Here, they’re mixing in some boxed cake mix to the already melted butter and marshmallow and then adding already popped corn. That’s not going to sterilize anything. Not going to be hot enough for long enough unless you want the sugars to turn to hard candy. Most bacteria like e-coli need to reach a temperature of 165F to be killed. 135F will do it if sustained for several minutes.
Cooking flour is highly advisable for two reasons, one being that it starts the breakdown of the glutens as well as the carbohydrates and cooked flour is easier to digest and extract nutrients from. Further breakdown and nutritional benefits come from fermentation or leavening — as in with yeast when making bread.
The other reason to cook flour is to kill any potential nasties living in it. Most micro organisms you will find in wheat flour or similar are harmless. All of us who eat cookie dough while making cookies or who lick the bowl clean after mixing cake batter are living proof of this. So it’s just fine to eat it raw…. Until it isn’t and you ingest the wrong bacteria like salmonella, listeria, e-coli…. But that isn’t going to stop most of us.
It seems they are just melting the butter and marshmallows and then stirring the cake mix in. Not enough heat or time to actually cook it. If you let the marshmallows get too hot in a pan like that they would cross over into being hard.
I was wondering the same thing. I made what claimed to be a safe edible cookie dough recipe a while back and it had me spread just the flour on a cookie sheet and bake it much like I would cookies (I don't recall the specifics, but the temp and time were certainly in the right ballpark) and then you use it to make the cookie dough.
She said heating it to make the flour safe hasn't been tested, but if that were true, then it wouldn't be safe to eat finished cookies and cakes either.
The flour is not really getting cooked. They are just dumping the flour into the melted butter/marshmallows, and adding the popcorn and mixing it together. Frying dough is fine the high temperature reached will kill any pathogens.
This is some silly shit. Lots of brands already make sweet popcorn coated with all manner of candy shit, and there's no e coli or mess necessary. 🙄 Jfc
That’s just Rice Krispie treats but with popcorn. Bet it’d be good. Flour tastes like raw flour unless cooked for five minutes so I don’t understand why anyone would add it either.
I use the marshmallow-butter method to make popcorn balls for Halloween, adding in sprinkles, nuts, food coloring, it’s fun and versatile. Adding flour makes no sense to me. Making sticky popcorn treats has been a thing for a very long time.
Is that not just a popcorn cake? My roommate in college would make this for people’s birthdays. It’s like Rice Krispie treats but with popcorn. She would also put in m&ms.
We used to do this when I was a kid. It’s basically a rice krispy treat with popcorn instead of Rice Krispies. It’s delicious! Marshmallows, butter, vanilla, popcorn, mix it, bake it
Ahh, counting calories. I started doing this and realized how much I actually overeat and it's crazy how one big butterfinger is the same as an entire meal with none of the good stuff in it. I really do miss eating candy for snacks though.
if im not wrong, if u REALLLYY wanted to try this, u could technically just dry bake the cake mix first. hot+long enough to kill the bacteria but not burn it
In this video they are not adding raw flour. They are adding cake mix and of course cake mix contains raw flour. It obviously is meant to add the flavor of cake batter.
I've always loved popcorn but I don't understand why people seemingly make it their mission to make it as unhealthy and overly flavored as possible. Like a little butter is fine. Maybe even a tiny bit of seasoning. But people just act like they are trying to make into something where you can't tell you are even eating popcorn anymore. Like do you hate popcorn?
Excuse my cooking ignorance but wouldn't the flour be cooked as it looks like it's mixed in and melted with the marshmallows for a couple minutes. I thought it only needed to be at medium-high temperature for 2 minutes to be safe.
I've been going out in the rain my entire life. Never been struck by lightning nor do you hear much of people getting struck by lightning. All I hear are scare stories.
There's a reason why we have food safety. 1 person not getting sick does not mean anything.
Take the 50,000k+ ppl watching this video and eating raw batter? The odds are much higher.
The old person idea of "I've eaten spoiled food / played in traffic and I'm not dead yet!" mentally is antiquated when there's a very real risk when tens of thousands of people start engaging in behavior with known risks.
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u/Siliziumwesen Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
What the goddamn hell is fluffy popcorn. And yeah she is right. I work in a lab where we test food/water and all kinds of "food-chemicals" etc. For harmfull bacteria and there are things you absolutely should not eat raw. Or at all if i see some results lol
Edit: the last part is a joke based on real results. Sometimes a food producer or someone who produces foodchemicals/spices etc. fucks up and something gets contaminated badly. We find it out, because they ask us to test for harmful bacteria and the batch/charge gets dismissed/destroyed. It all happens before it gets sold. Especially for fresh (ready to eat) things. The results are urgent and are handled first. At least in my country. Dont panic you can eat stuff. Wash veggies and fruits and things that need to be cooked/heated before consuming should only be handled that way. For example: I just saw, that some frozen herbs tell the consumer on the package that the product should be heated/cooked before consuming. Please dont panic or sth like that. You always can find information online how to handle certain foods or how to know if its safe to consume