Ghee, or Indian-style clarified butter, is butter that’s been simmered and the milk solids (proteins and sugars) skimmed off. This leaves a clear yellow oil that doesn’t smoke when it’s heated and doesn’t go rancid quickly, but has a distinct toasty butter flavor.

Popcorn fans often want a buttery flavor, but plain butter is a bad choice for popping popcorn in a pot, because the proteins and sugars smoke and burn around the same temperature where it’s hot enough to pop the kernels.

Vegetable oil is either flavorless or faintly bitter, and some high-temperature vegetable oils tend to start polymerizing (i.e. becoming plastic) when heated in small amounts. This is also not good for popcorn.

Good-quality popcorn popped in ghee reliably produces lots of “butterfly” popcorn with few unpopped “duds” and no scorched kernels or batches ruined by smoke.

Try it! I’m sure not going back to canola oil.

      • °˖✧ ipha ✧˖°@lemmy.world
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        In order for a cow to produce milk it must be pregnant or recently pregnant, then once it gets older and starts producing less milk it will be slaughtered.

        ~~the more you know!~~

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                  maybe. maybe the topic is more complex than that.

                  Are cows raped for butter? always? is it the same degree of awfulness if a cow gets ‘raped’ in a industrial plant or if a cow gets mounted by a bull in a field? is ‘rape’ even a term that can be used to describe actions that are done to or by animals? Or should it be used for humans only? is it disrespectful to human victims of rape to use the same words to describe something that happened to an animal? Are cows slaughtered for butter? every cow that produced milk that was used to make butter? How many people could the death of a cow benefit before it becomes a morally correct thing to do? What is a cows life worth? Would stopping to breed cows and thus a collapsing overall world-population of cows be something good or something bad? Or is it in between somewhere? Who defines even what is morally correct and what isnt?

                  Im not trying to be an asshole or anything (i know it seems like it here), but I dont think writing

                  Cows are raped & slaughtered for butter ~~the more you know!~~

                  with a slightly condescending undertone on a messageboard thread about popcorn is the smartest way to go about this

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                    It’s all bad no matter how it happens and it’s completely unneeded, therefore it’s all unacceptable.

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      Cows can be raped?

      Do we send cow rapists to cow jail? If a cow is in a field with a bull, do we arrest the bull pre- or post- mount?

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        also if cow/bull interaction is that then do we need to arrest the wild buffalo, wildebeast, etc?

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        Come the fuck on buddy, obviously they are talking about humans forcefully impregnating cows to force them to produce milk.

        Humans have the capability to understand the consequences of our actions, other animals don’t.

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          By equating artificial insemination in cattle to rape.

          You’re just using shock tactics to garner attention. Do you even care about how your minimization affects rape & sex assualt survivors?

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      Even on the fediverse people absolutely refuse to hear about the animal abuse they support everyday…

      Come the fuck on people, stop being reactionary and think about it for a minute.

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        The point is to be conscious about the shit you’re eating and where it comes from, not to demonize butter or animal products on the whole. Factory farming is a horrid practice that I don’t support but I’ve worked with local livestock outfits for 15 years and see the care they put into production. Not every pound of butter is wrought on a life of pure suffering, and to reject the fundamental role of death in life’s process is just a bizarre and sterile approach to living.