Popcorn is a delicious snack that is fun to eat and make. You can season the delightful morsels with whatever you want: from salt or wasabi to anything else you can think of. Companies have been working on packaging the perfect movie style popcorn, but nothing compares to making popcorn from kernels in a popcorn machine. They are faster and more economical than buying bags of microwave popcorn; and the end product is so much more delicious!
How to Get "Movie Style" Popcorn Butter
Movie style butter is actually a specially designed golden mixture that is very hard to replicate at home. If you just microwave butter and pour it on, you will witness your puffed corn shrivel up into soggy mush. This is because store bought butter typically has water in it. But before you fill up a milk jug full of delicious melty movie butter from your local cinema, try out one of these methods.
* Warm a regular stick of butter in a pan at low heat. The water should sweat out the bottom of the stick, skim off the top layer of butter and this should make your popcorn less soggy.
* Try Orville Redenbacher popcorn oil, also referred to as pour over movie theater butter. It is hard to find, but definitely worth it
Types of Poppers
* Electric oil poppers heat up oil, which is then stirred into the popcorn kernels and causes them to POP.
* Hot air poppers heat up the kernels, and as they expand, they start to overflow out of the top of the machine.
* Microwave kernel poppers are reusable bowls that you can fill with kernels over and over again.
* Stove top popcorn poppers let you heat up oil and kernels to make popcorn like your grandparents used to make.
