How do you make popcorn?

What popcorn making method do you perfer?

  • Microwave popcorn

    Votes: 2 25.0%

  • Pan poppin'

    Votes: 6 75.0%

  • Air popper

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other / I dont know

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .
Deadly Sushi

Deadly Sushi

Formerly The Giant Mojito
What is your FAVORITE way to make popcorn where it tastes better?
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Pan.
With Planters peanut oil, or half butter/half oil.
No salt.
Sometimes a little parm and garlic powder sprinkled on.
 
Im with ya Sass! I use the pan with garlic infused oil and sometimes with rosemary and always with salt.

BTW what the hell is he doing? ---> :kabob:
 
Sass Muffin said:
Pan.
With Planters peanut oil, or half butter/half oil.
No salt.
Sometimes a little parm and garlic powder sprinkled on.
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But, with keeping with popcorn:


Dry Ranch Dressing powder mix is Gods Gift to the popcorn world. Actually, you would be surprised at how many of the powdered soup/dip bases work well with popcorn, on a savory note.

Also, for the sweeter side: Sugar, butter, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice=NOM NOM NOM Popcorn.
 
There is a kebab shop somewhere near Canal St in Manchester, England.
That's where I sampled my first ever lamb kebab.. it was out of this world.
 
UncleRalph said:
But, with keeping with popcorn:


Dry Ranch Dressing powder mix is Gods Gift to the popcorn world . Actually, you would be surprised at how many of the powdered soup/dip bases work well with popcorn, on a savory note.

Also, for the sweeter side: Sugar, butter, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice=NOM NOM NOM Popcorn.
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Ohhhhhhhh my!
Now there's an idea.
Sometimes I like a little celery salt too, IF using any sort of salt, which I rarely do.
 
I think he just looks sad to be seeing all the luscious, fat basted, juicy mixed meat going to something else,. beside his stomach. . . I would be sad to!







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microwaves shant exist here, in my home. nope. w/ various pan-prepped go-withs. it takes less time to pop corn in a pot than a nuker if ur talented~
 
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my family buy popcorn kernels and puts em in paper bags and put them in the microwave then when we take them out we put in ALOT of butter and salt in mine and my dads in other words its artery cloging (hmm...maybe thats why i hate running)
 
oooohhhll, my Grandma & my Grandpap would put kernals into an antique shaker in the hearths, multi-colored. then we'd have 'em w/ popeye-salt. butter, usually. miss them so much.
 
In a pan - better than nuked in taste, way less waste.

Uncle Ralph & Sass - Thank you for the really hreat ideas.

I used to makr popcorn balls with my mom, alas the recipe passed with her.
 
I like salt on my popcorn AND either straight melted butter or melted butter with hot sauce and lemon juice in it. WEIRD yes but try it sometime. LOL As for the how HMMMMMMMMMMMM I used to do it in a pot or jiffy pop on the burner but with the girls it was easier in the microwave.
 
If I did not post it, here it is. I finally nailed this.

Put a few kernels in the bottom of the pan.
Pour in enough oil to go about halfway up the kernel.
Turn the heat on high.
When a couple kernels pop, pour in enough corn to cover the bottom and a LITTLE BIT more.
Cover and relax, when the popping noise stops, you are done.
Very few unpopped kernels, if any. Takes about as much time as jiffy pop or the like.
Bonus!!! None of the chemicals in the jiffy pop.
 
a thousand years ago in a kitchen far far away . . . we had an 'air popper'
hair dryer on steroids - heated air blown thru a chamber ....
it went somewhere.

about a year ago I got another - I've done the 'kernels in a pan' thing - hate microwave stuff, so we're "back to the past"

dumb simple - dump in some kernels - plug in - bowl under output chute - I drape a towel over the thing so the outputted kernels don't launch around the kitchen....

then for the oh-so-good-but-bad bit,,,, melt some unsalted butter, post pop, pour over bowl and distribute with a spatula.

what surprises me is rather minor amount of melted butter (I use half a stick) that is required - compared for instance - to the movie theater dude/dudette who hits it with 2-3 pumps of fake butter flavored . . . something.

pops enough for a comfortable two-pipples feeding - but that still averages out to two Tbs of butter per munch session. good/bad depending on one's fat tolerance. I use a bit of kosher salt; can't find the powder fine "popcorn salt" locally.....
 
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