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Post by jondear on Oct 29, 2016 20:07:06 GMT -5
I selected some of the more yellow ears today to nixtimalize for tomorrow's tacos and noticed this ear that has slightly pointed kernels. I tossed some into an air popper and voilĂ .
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Post by steev on Oct 30, 2016 16:20:20 GMT -5
Great find.
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Post by richardw on Oct 30, 2016 23:18:12 GMT -5
Looks yummy
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Post by jondear on Oct 31, 2016 18:07:37 GMT -5
The taste was good, while the texture was very firm/ crunchy... In a good way. It might be a good trait for caramel corn.
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Post by steev on Nov 1, 2016 2:03:57 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with substantial; the prevailing push for fiberless food is a PITA.
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Post by blueadzuki on Nov 1, 2016 6:01:17 GMT -5
I selected some of the more yellow ears today to nixtimalize for tomorrow's tacos and noticed this ear that has slightly pointed kernels. I tossed some into an air popper and voilĂ . Does that mean that "pointed" (rice type) kernels are a good sign of poppability, or simply that it happens that the only rice type corn in your original breeding pool was a popcorn? I've bumped into a lot of corns with pointed kernels (which often need heavy gloves to shell, those points can shred your hands sometimes) and some of them were lousy poppers. Some would pretty obviously NEVER be poppable (when you think about it, a lot of the Central American/ Andean corns, many of which are as far on the flour side as you can possibly go, are technically rice type, which is why the ears look like pine cones)
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Post by jondear on Nov 2, 2016 17:32:30 GMT -5
I can't say that rice type kernals are related to good popping quality with any certainty. I'm only aware that some popcorn is of the rice type vs. pearl type.
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