March 8, 201411 yr I was in Anaheim last week for Heli-Expo, and made sure to find a Coco Ichibanya for a meal. The entire experience was just as I remember in Japan. Too bad they don't sell curry packets, though I was able to score some of the delicious sesame dressing.
March 9, 201411 yr Coco's fans read: I tried adding a chunk of S&B Golden Curry(Medium Spice, 1/10 of the package of curry roux in a 4oz kettle) to the oil after letting the Jalapenos(If I had Hot curry I wouldn't have bothered with the peppers) cook for half their time. Result: spicy curry popcorn and a bar that smells like a Japanese curry house. And I'm pretty sure for me, everything will smell like curry for the next couple days. Blasphemy..... I wanna try it.
March 9, 201411 yr Swore in Oct 2012, finally leave for AMS in 2 weeks so I have been doing this for quite a while every single drill. Here is our recipe: 1. Turn Warmer ON 2. Put in 1 cup of oil 3. Turn Pot Heater ON 4. Add jalapenos, 4 heaping scoops. 5. Allow jalapenos to cook until they begin to get brown, too soon and you don't get the proper crispness, too late and you get black jalapenos that are burnt. Proper jalapenos should be crispy on the outside with just a hint of juice when you bite into them. 7-8 minutes is normally good. 5. Fill popcorn cup and pour into kettle. 6. Turn stirrer ON -IMPORTANT - steps 5 and 6 are to be done simultaneously. 7. Wait until you no longer hear any popping and dump kettle. 8. Consume jalapeno popcorn. * We salt our own popcorn, but I will occasionally add a tbsp of butter salt to the batch if I'm feeling bold. EDIT - Had a Colonel tell me they used pickles back in the day instead of jalapenos and he preferred it that way, I haven't tried it like this but I am assuming it would be delicious. Edited March 9, 201411 yr by Droppin_Loads
March 21, 201411 yr Garlic powder + Parmesan cheese is awesome. If you have a heated corn deck, it actually gets better after an hour or so for the flavors to mix through the popcorn. Next goal: Salsa popcorn. Anyone tried using fresh peppers?
March 21, 201411 yr In the Navy we would take microwave popcorn and shake some Tabasco in and shake it up...good stuff, but not nearly as good as this jalapeño stuff you guys are talking about! Gotta try and make that!
March 21, 201411 yr Tried the pickles. It was good. They cook much longer than the jalapenos. Also, I've done the fresh jalapeno pepper thing. Be prepared for it to be much spicier than the jalapeno nacho slices.
April 2, 201411 yr Moved to coconut oil, it's fantastic. Shocker, it's good because it has more saturated fat than butter. It's really freaking good.
December 10, 201411 yr To reinvigorate the thread a little, what are your favorite hot sauces? Mine are: Iguana Gold Island Pepper Sauce, Arizona Gunslinger Red Jalapeno Pepper Sauce, and Semper Fi Gourmet Hot Sauce. And if I feel like adding serious heat (re: punishing myself): Dave's Gourmet Hurtin' Habanero Hot Sauce or Blair's Original Death Sauce.
December 10, 201411 yr To reinvigorate the thread a little, what are your favorite hot sauces? Mine are: Iguana Gold Island Pepper Sauce, Arizona Gunslinger Red Jalapeno Pepper Sauce, and Semper Fi Gourmet Hot Sauce. And if I feel like adding serious heat (re: punishing myself): Dave's Gourmet Hurtin' Habanero Hot Sauce or Blair's Original Death Sauce. I'm sure it's in no way the best but I grew to love the Texas Pete's Hotter Hot sauce from my times in the 'Stan.
December 10, 201411 yr Mad Dog 357 will take some hair off your taint... https://www.hotsauceworld.com/maddog357ghp.html
December 10, 201411 yr Mad Dog 357 will take some hair off your taint... https://www.hotsauceworld.com/maddog357ghp.html Mad dog was evil. Never again.
December 11, 201411 yr Mad dog was evil. Never again. No joke. Fuvk that stuff. Tried it once and was miserable for the next hour
January 23, 201510 yr Found this floating around... makes for a good Friday read. Loved the EM diagram.
January 23, 201510 yr Agreed, the EM chart is awesome, keep in mind some kettles have adjustable thermostats if you take the kettle apart. That said 1:1 corn to oil is way too much oil. Also: Jalapeno Powder we have this in the shop and it makes adjusting the spicy level very easy, then Flavacol, it's like MSG for popcorn.
January 23, 201510 yr Also: Jalapeno Powder we have this in the shop and it makes adjusting the spicy level very easy, then Flavacol, it's like MSG for popcorn. Will definitely try that... But I hope that's in addition to fresh jalapeño slices? Nothing can replace a healing amount of fresh crispy jalapeños Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited January 23, 201510 yr by hispeed7721
January 23, 201510 yr Yep the fried Jalapeno slices can be cooked to make them the perfect surprises, while the powder controls the overall corn hotness. Best of both worlds. No need to over cook the jalapenos or overload the kettle to make the corn spicy. Back to that EM diagram concept.
January 23, 201510 yr Current A3TW recipe: Just under 1x Solo cup of corn (top of the ridges) ~.5 cup of oil (ends up being about a 1:3 ratio of oil to corn) enough jalapenos to cover the bottom of the kettle without stacking 1x plastic spoon of jalapeno powder 1x plastic spoon of flavacol Put the oil in the kettle and let it heat up, toss in one jalapeno. Listen for the sizzle. Once you get sizzle, toss in the rest of the jalapenos. Leave the stirrer off and arrange the pepper slices into one layer. In a solo cup mix the dry ingredients. Once the jalapenos start to brown around the edges, dump in the dry ingredients and turn on the stirrer on. Wait, corn is coming End result: spicy corn, jalapeno slices that are crispy on the edges and chewy in the middle, adjust to taste....
January 24, 201510 yr That paper is going in our squadron bar on monday... From my experience making corn it was important to drain as much water as possible from the jalapeno's. Also, seven minutes seemed to be the ideal time to fry the peppers before adding corn. Your results may very.
January 24, 201510 yr Draining the liquid from the pickled jalapenos is key, drain the jar when you open it then keep it in the fridge. Any cold liquid will reduce the energy in the kettle. Reference the EM chart in the preceding paper...
January 24, 201510 yr The paper lacks references at the end. How am I supposed to take this work seriously without a list of suitable sources from which his information was gathered?
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