popping your own popcorn

Have we really been popping popcorn the wrong way this whole time? I guess it’s time to skip the microwave and give our stovetop a warm welcoming!

This helpful video comes from YouTube user The Domestic Geek, who gives us a firsthand look at how to make easy stovetop-popped popcorn in your home!

*** [1/29/21 from the 1/17/21 Star Advertiser]

How to Make Movie Popcorn at Home

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon Flavacol

3 tablespoons At The Movies Popcorn Butter Flavored Popcorn Topping

⅓ cup popcorn kernels

Optional: Additional A.T.M.P.B.F.P.T., warmed (if you like “butter” on your movie popcorn), or melted butter (if you like actual butter)

Steps:

Measure the Flavacol and the lengthily named Popcorn Topping into a heavier-bottomed, 3-quart or larger pot that has a lid. Stir them together thoroughly to make an alarmingly artificial-orange-colored slurry.

Add the popcorn and place over medium-high heat. As the pan heats up and sizzling begins, shake and whirl it occasionally to coat kernels in flavor-country glory and spread them in one layer. Watch for the first pop, feel the excitement, then slam on the lid.

Shake your pan back and forth gently, still on heat, while popping happens, then remove from heat immediately just as it stops — usually less than a minute.

Pour it into a large bowl right away and toss with your eager hands to mix, drizzling on optional “butter” or butter as you wish. 

Eat as soon as possible in a darkened room in front of a good (or good-bad) movie (maybe “Contagion”?). Be sure to have a beverage, for this is the beautifully yellow, very salty popcorn you remember from before the global pandemic when going to the movies was still a thing (maybe make that beverage wine?).

--- Bethany Jean Clement, Seattle Times