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Which method is the best to make popcorn? Are commercial popcorn makers worth it?

>> No.13567771

Heavy pot
Coconut oil
Season with Flavacol for full movie theatre style.

Commercial machine obviously isn't worth it unless you need insane amounts of popcorn but it might be cute to own one anyway if you're lodesemone and have a dedicated home theatre room.

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>>13567771
Thanks mr goldblatt

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>>13567905
Huh. That's not normal.

>> No.13567994

>>13567941
Enjoy your man-tits, bottom boi

>> No.13568000

>>13567994
You gotta kiss me first, faggot.

>> No.13568021

>>13567742
Getch yerself a Whirley-Pop, I've been using them for 13 years

>> No.13568060 [DELETED] 

>heat vegetable oil in pan
>throw a few kernels in
>when they pop, add the rest
>toss in the oil
>put a splatter screen over if you have one
>when popcorn is popped remove to bowl
>put butter in pan to melt
>pour over popcorn
Impossible to fuck up. I like it with garlic powder and cayenne.

>> No.13568072

>heat vegetable oil in pan (don't need much)
>throw a few kernels in
>when they pop, add the rest
>mix to cover the kernels
>put a splatter screen over if you have one
>when popcorn is popped remove to bowl
>put butter in pan to melt
>pour over popcorn
Impossible to fuck up. I like it with garlic powder and cayenne.

>> No.13568080

>>13568072
>vegetable oil
stopped reading right there boomer scum

>> No.13568089

>>13568080
>artisinal popcorn
do retarded zoomers really believe in this?

>> No.13568123

>>13568089
no. But vegetable oil is hot garbage. Just use butter, or if you think that's unhealthy some refined/processed olive oil (no idea how it's called in english, the shit grade olive oil)

>> No.13568139

>>13568123
>some refined/processed olive oil (no idea how it's called in english, the shit grade olive oil)
It's just "olive oil"
Problem is for some reason we always assume extra virgin is implied.

>> No.13568160

>>13568123
>burn olive oil/butter instead of using something better suited

>> No.13568173

>>13568123
Confirmed for never cooking popcorn, what are you even posting for

>> No.13568181

>>13568160
olive oil has a smoke point that's just as high as vegetable oil, unlike evoo which in fact will burn.
Everything's better than canola oil that's believed to have all sorts of bad influences on your system. But do as you please.

>> No.13568681

>>13567742
I think just a microwave works pretty well, no need for oil or to put it in a paper bag. Take a few tablespoons popcorn kernels, place in large glass bowl, cover with plate. Microwave for about 5:30 to 6 minutes, done. I don't use any butter or salt either.

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>>13567742
>Which method is the best to make popcorn? Are commercial popcorn makers worth it?
We have one in my office...kind of the Friday ritual. They're stupid and need to be wiped down without 18000 paper towels. No, I wouldn't own one in my house. They do make batch after batch, one pot, then another pot full, and so I can see in a bar, or a workplace the nice nature of that ability to just keep making more without stopping to clean anything or cooling it down between batches, nothing at all, just keep it cranking out corn.

At home, I just use a 4qt pot on my stove. I use Orville which is GMO and has like zero unpopped kernels to bust up your teeth. It's always fresh with the foil seal, which is important, because it's the moisture in the middle of each individual kernel that makes it pop. Go ahead and use their buttery oil, you don't need much, maybe 1Tbsp for the whole pot. When it's done, I drizzle microwave melted butter pats from a nice pouring pyrex measuring cup. Sea salt in my Old Thompson grinder on finest cranked down setting.

My secret family recipe is to finely scissor-up dried california or ancho chilies into a small nonstick with olive oil, sizzle the rings until crispy and starting to puff up, before they go black, and pourover the chili oil and strips with your butter. Lime juice and lime zest optional. Hot popcorn with those crunchy bites of sweet-hot chili rings every few bites is heavenly.

>> No.13568800

Imagine not popping in peanut oil.

>> No.13568818

>>13567941
yellow #5 is banned in a whole bunch of countries

>> No.13568835

>>13568818
Even ban-happy EU only puts a warning label on it cautioning possible correlation to hyperactivity in young children.