Popcorn Question

I haven't tried it but I'm guessing that a conventional dryer doesn't get hot enough. I'm thinking about giving it a try now!

Never tried popcorn in the dryer, but we did try to raise rolls for Thanksgiving dinner that way once! Sounds like a great experiment! I say give it a try; maybe use all different heat cycles and try to set a hypothesis for what they think might happen. Might have to remember this for a science fair someday ...

If you try it, please let us know what happened. Now I'm curious!

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ETA: If your dryer has a shelf you can insert for drying shoes, maybe put the popcorn on that to try, so it doesn't get kernels all over? Just a thought!

I do not think it gets hot enough and it the container breaks, how would you get all of those kernels out.. And the odor forever i the dryer? Yikes.

Let him know when he buys his own dryer, he can try that..

Hmmm...that sounds like something my son would ask. Now I'm curious.

My only fear would be in leaking and getting butter all over in there. Well that, and what setting do you use? Permanent press? ;)

Let us know if you try it.

ETA: I love it when kids ask questions like that! It shows that they're thinking and wondering about the world around them. It can also be a great teaching opportunity! (Like the time I showed the kids that you can cook fish in the dishwasher.)

I haven't tried it but on my super fancy machine the silly thing better do whatever task I set it to. I would think the shoe rack to keep from tumbling would be a must. I would use no butter varieties to keep the mess to a minimum. I bet my towel drying setting would get hot enough. Then again you could cheat and use an oven worthy thermometer to check the dryer at the selected setting. With a shoe rack insert the thermometer won't be banging around and you'll be able to read the gage through the door. Good luck and happy testing. As an aside I would think the smaller bags might work better than the larger bags - fewer kernels to heat to temperature to cook.

That is GENIUS! You know, you are now obligated to try it and report back!
Side note: There is a cookbook out there for cooking on the engine of your car. Good Luck!

I would be afraid to try it. Why? Because typically, a microwave bag of popcorn leaves a greasy mess behind on the bottom of the microwave, or if you touch the outside of the bag you can feel it. I wouldn't want that in my dryer. How long and how much work would it take to clean all that grease/oil out of the dryer so it would be usable for clothes again??

Neat idea... but not thanks. That's what microwaves are for, lol.

I guess you could turn it around and ask, "Would you ever dry your clothes in a microwave?"

If your dryer could get hot enough to pop popcorn, then it would be melting and burning your clothes. There is no way a dryer gets hot enough to cook popcorn.

I love kids' questions and imagination! But I don't think it would get nearly hot enough, and I wouldn't want to try it.

i'm curious too=) i think it would take a while. only used the microwave and stove for microwavable popcorn before. let us know=)
i saw fish in the dishwasher below??? i'v never heard of that

As a person who helps produce a line of science books using simple, everyday things, I LOVE this question! I'll have to tell my husb when he gets off the phone.

I don't know if this is true any more, but the lining of the microwave bags in the past contained harmful chemicals that could be released when heated. And in the beginning, there was a tab included in the bags that became very hot to help pop the corn, and it turned black and released toxins. I think that particular problem was phased out years ago, but it worries me that the food industry doesn't thoroughly test new innovations.

Clothes dryers get to 120-150 degrees Fahrenheit.
Popcorn starts popping at 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

So.....no....wouldn't work.

No. But I recently popped popcorn kernals in a lunch sack never thought to do that & didn't know that you could :0)