Homemade Puffed Rice/Grains with Hot Salt (Murmura) Method

This is an experiment for home puffed rice, using the hot salt (murmura) method. As a quick hack for soaking/boiling & drying the rice, I'm testing with commercial parboiled rice, and instant rice products like Minute Rice.
I was hoping to find an easy way to make puffed rice snack similar to the stuff found in the cereal aisles in the grocery stores. While the hot salt method cooks up any grains in a breeze and makes for a very tasty snack, I don't think they make for interchangeable products as the puffed rice cereals we find in the US. What I accidentally discovered, is that this is a wonderfully easy way to produce large batches of home-made Genmaicha, which is green tea with 'popcorn rice' - rice that are roasted until they pop, to impart a deep toasted flavor to the tea.

Gyokuro ('Jade Dew') Green Tea: https://amzn.to/3XBUXHH
Kyusu Teapot: https://amzn.to/4042Ibb

00:00 Introduction
00:07 How commercial puffed rice is made
00:14 Puff any grain with popcorn cannon
00:33 Puff rice without pressure cooking
00:42 Indian street food puffed rice
00:56 Using commercial parboiled/instant rice for murmura
01:23 Trying other grains with hot salt method
01:31 Heating hot salt - temperature & hack
01:59 Salt puffed parboiled rice
03:04 Salt puffed instant rice
03:24 Parboiled rice vs Minute rice
03:32 Puffed rice visual comparisons
03:45 Salt puffed rice vs Rice Krispies
04:13 DIY Genmaicha
04:48 Puffing millet with hot salt
05:14 Cooking wheat berries in hot salt
05:42 Popping purple rice in hot salt
06:04 Making Popcorn with hot salt

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