If i light a corn field on fire will i have a big pile of popcorn?

Question

If i light a corn field on fire will i have a big pile of popcorn?

Answer 1

i like the way you think..... imagine.... a field of pop corn... great ha!!

Answer 2

Not necessarily.

First, it would have to be a field of popping corn.

Pop Corn is different from field corn which is different from sweet corn.

Sweet corn is what you buy in the supermarket, either canned on on the cob. Sweet corn doesn't pop.

Field corn is used to make animal food, ethanol (fuel), some plastics, corn meal (for corn bread), and corn oil (for cooking). Field corn doesn't pop, and it doesn't taste too good if you eat it off the cob.

Popping corn is a special tyope of corn that has a higher moisture content, low oil content, more starch, and a thinner-than-normal shell.  When popping corn is heated, the moisture turns to steam, and explodes the thin shell and leaves a dry,  fluffy ball of starch.

But the popping corn needs to be gently heated, not burned.  So if you set the field on fire, all you'd get would be burned corn.

Answer 3

No, corn has to be dehydrated before it will pop.  Even then, i think fire would simply burn kernels to a crisp, rather than pop them.

Answer 4

no