Not shocking, once you think about it. Each kernel expands roughly 38 times its volume when it pops. Expecting salt at the ...

Microwavable packets and brimming machines at the cinema make popping corn seem like a simple undertaking, but there are number of factors that turn rock hard kernels into crunchy puffs of buttery ...

I was once a popcorn purist: Salt, butter. Period. Kettle corn, at least in its early days, was too sweet, and often hard and too sticky. Popcorn was meant to be a salty snack. Caramel corn was OK, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A tiny kernel of popcorn has a lot of science packed into it. It is a staple snack for movies, and tons of kernels have been popped and enjoyed, but how does one, hard kernel ...

Gen Z is getting old school with everything from cassette tapes to Polaroid cameras, which means this vintage popcorn cooking ...

After realizing while doing last week’s column that I’d gone my whole life without knowing that locusts are a type of grasshopper, I decided to be more alert and ask myself questions that might need ...

In the 1800s, the most common method to make popcorn, according to "John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms," was to place the corn on a shovel and hold it over a fire until it started to ...

Believe it or not, a newspaper reporter observed several passengers carrying “a sack of popped corn” as they boarded an interurban car, and reported it (6 May 1913 Daily Eagle). One lady had left her ...