How does popcorn pop? – Digital Zone

Question: How does popcorn pop?
- Keywords:
  food,
  popcorn,
  reaction
Asked by alan14211421 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 14 Mar 2013.
- Phillip Wilkinson answered on 14 Mar 2013:
  
  The water inside the kernel (the hard outer shell) expands when it heats up. When it expands enough it bursts through the kernel!
  
  Very cool slow mo video of this here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFh6RAwELi0

09stockwelll commented on 16 Mar 2013:

That is a really funny and awesome video!

Log in to Reply

Question: How does popcorn pop?