I like them plain, some peanut oil and salt afterwards. My wife likes it a lot fancier, with caramel, which is a bitch to clean up afterwards.

Any tips to get the salt to stick properly? I normally end with a salty 2nd half and a boring first.

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

If you’re using old kernels, I recommend lowering the heat to 4. It will take longer for the kernels to pop but you will regain some of that fluffiness.

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢

Don’t microwave

If you have a coffee or spice grinder, grind up your salt to a fine powder, it spreads so much easier over popcorn.

We have a glass microwave container here that works well enough for making it though. Not the best, but it does the job.

You at least could have said not to use bagged popcorn. The issue is something in the bag to keep the popcorn from sticking. You can microwave popcorn that doesn’t come in a bag.

Air Popper machines are legit though. Zero burn, no mess, and healthier without all the oil.

If you’re having trouble getting seasoning to stick, I use a compressed air can of a light oil like avocado to give it a tiny spritz, then toss with whatever.

Be warned that depending on the grinder, this can be incredibly bad for it.

Old bacon grease makes the best. Lots of butter and lots of salt, too.

Another way that’s popular in our house is popped in oil, slathered with butter, salted well, then add nutritional yeast after stirring in the butter.

I’ve experimented a good bit with popcorn, starting with the stir/shake-pot method, graduating to an cheap air-popper, and finally discovering that one can pop it between two baking sheets in the oven(!) The advantage with the latter two is that you can more exactly control the oil content. Oh, also-- an air-fryer is super-useful for crisping up stale popcorn and many other snacks. (seriously, it’s a miracle worker)

I’ve also tried all kinds of different spritzes and coatings, experimenting with curry powder, nutritional yeast, chili powder, grated parm, garlic powder, black pepper, red pepper, chipotle powder, pseudo-butter powder, and then stuff like the Kernal Season’s store-bought stuff.

(their sour cream & onion powder is da bomb, altho sadly my local store doesn’t stock it no more)

There’s also an industry standard item which I haven’t tried yet, but intend to. It’s called “Flavacol,” and is apparently theatres’ ‘secret sauce’ to making their popcorn so yummy and buttery, even though it’s just a powder. By reputation, if you’re planning on trying powder flavorings, that one seems far and away the one to get, if you can.

When my wife first moved in she made me watch all of Little House on the Prairie. Ever since then popcorn has become a regular thing here. It’s a perfect low calorie snack.

My standard is peanut oil and popcorn and a little bit of koshi salt on top once it’s done. I just use a standard pot for making mine because I’m not about to deal with a popcorn maker.

Sometimes we’ll shave some red dark pepper chocolate just sprinkle on top. Sometimes my wife wants Raisinets in hers.

Rarely I’ll use Bacon fat instead of peanut oil. On extra rare occasion I might use duck fat.

We never put butter on it because we don’t tend to stock salted butter, although that is changing now that I’m making more sourdough. So maybe I will add some water to it in the near future.

What are you doing with your popcorn?

Cost per person: 38¢