/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18531509]

ITT: everything popcorn

tips, tricks, recipes, ingredients, whatever

[Anonymous No.18531516]

>>18531509
dont eat the kernels

[Anonymous No.18531574]

>>18531509
It's becoming more mainstream knowledge by the day, but 50% of what seperates normal popcorn from movie theater is flavacol salt, which you can buy off amazon. A little bit goes a long way, start small and add up to taste. Most theaters use 1 tablespoon for 32oz of seed, which I doubt anyone is making that much at home unless they have a professional grade popper and are feeding a shit ton of people. The other half is what oil it cooks in. Highly recommend coconut oil, although I like corn oil too. Canola and Coconut/Canola blends are what most theaters use. Use about an ounce of oil per 3oz of popcorn seed. You should stop cooking popcorn when you go more than 2 seconds without a pop. Optimal temperature when cooking in oil is roughly 420 degrees fahrenheit.

Get some flavored butter to throw on top if that's your thing and you're golden.

[Anonymous No.18531611]

>>18531509
If you don't go in with a jacket full of snacks your doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.18531634]

>>18531509
One time I went into a movie theater with sunflower seeds on me, and ate like two cups worth of shells. When I got up to leave I dumped them on the floor for the movie wagies to clean up.

[Anonymous No.18531641]

>>18531509
Tip: Don't eat popcorn

[Anonymous No.18531650]

Get some chicken salt use that on your popcorn.

[Anonymous No.18531651]

>>18531509
>movie popcorn
>extra butter

[Anonymous No.18531652]

>>18531634
This nigger eating seeds.

[Anonymous No.18531745]

>>18531651
>>extra butter
>Implying its butter

[Anonymous No.18531748]

do people actually put faux butter (or any butter for that matter) on their popcorn at the theaters? or is it just some TV thing? I can't imagine just sitting there for two hours with my hands covered in oil, just imagine how disgusting those seats must be

[Anonymous No.18531840]

>>18531745
>calories: 120
>calories from fat:120
kek

[Anonymous No.18531854]

>>18531748
I don't like to pour that fake butter oil stuff on it. Seems to make the popcorn texturally less pleasant and, as you said, makes my hands oily af.
What I do, and I know /ck/ will likely shit all over these, is one of two things:
1) pop my popcorn in ghee; all the butter taste but for some reason, not as oily/greasy feeling as dumping the stuff onto the popcorn directly and the texture stays light and delicious; this is expensive, though, which leads me to
2) air popping my popcorn and spraying it with butter-flavoured baking spray. Adds that butter taste, doesn't ruin the texture and isn't remotely greasy/oily.

>>18531650
There's also
3) use normal oil spray on air-popped popcorn and add stock powder instead of salt for flavour. The spray helps the stock powder to stick to the popcorn. Tomato popcorn done this way is delicious as are tamarind popcorn and chipotle popcorn (if you can still find chipotle stock powder).

>>18531611
lol
My dad is half Asian and he got my nan's Asian parsimonious outlook on life. Used to make us take snacks to the movies in our jackets and not buy us anything except for the occasional drink.

[Anonymous No.18531866]

What can you do for air-popped corn? I know you can get some powders but my experience those is that it barely sticks. Don't want to cover them in oil/butter either.

[Anonymous No.18531875]

>>18531866
See >>18531854

[Anonymous No.18531897]

>>18531509
If you go to the movies get your popcorn without butter. Thank me later.

[Anonymous No.18531919]

Blueberry?

[Anonymous No.18531931]

Buy sorghum and pop that, it’s really tasty even without butter

[Anonymous No.18531935]

>>18531919
That's like two handfuls of popcorn, what is this cuba?

[Anonymous No.18531937]

>>18531509
I know it's terrible for me but dammit that fake butter liquid just hits differently.

[Anonymous No.18531946]

>>18531854
I actually recently rendered some ghee specifically for this purpose, but I was surprised to find that the popcorn I've made with it doesn't really taste strongly of butter to me. Could be that I just need to use more, or it could be that the "buttered popcorn" taste memory I have is distorted by the unnaturally strong concentration of butter flavor found in commercial popcorn topping.

[Anonymous No.18532077]

>>18531946
It's the second one. Flavocol is quite potent. There's "butter salt" if you want a stronger flavour or you can use homemade ghee, which tends to taste more buttery than shop-bought, likely due to freshness, I would guess.

>>18531931
I've popped a few things but never sorghum. I may givvit a go some day.

>>18531919
Eep.
A friend while I was at uni worked for a "gourmet" popcorn place. Popcorn was flavoured to order from any of dozens of choices. Blueberry was not one of them, though we found that, oddly, combining cookies'n'cream and barbecue flavours made one of the most delicious varieties we'd had. Best individual flavour was still the OG: butter really is better.

[Anonymous No.18532095]

>>18531574
Cool

[Anonymous No.18532446]

>go to see top gun with in-laws
>spend previous night eating pickled eggs and drinking real ale
>ate ground beef mixed with 2 chopped onions just for the fuck of it
>edge down my trousers just so my ass cheeks are touching the seat
>spend entire movie bare ass farting on to the seat
>put everyone off their popcorn
>some outright leave
>leave kinoplex and see a massive shit stain on the seat
I actually liked that movie so held back a little. You should've seen what I did to jurassic world dominion

[Anonymous No.18532470]

>>18532446
HOLY BASED

[Anonymous No.18532476]

>>18531840
>Wow! Flavored oil is basically 100% fat! Who knew??

[Anonymous No.18533655]

>>18532446
Lol.

[Anonymous No.18533751]

>>18531509
use ~3 test kernels to gauge how hot the oil is, only pour the rest of your kernels in after those 3 have popped
once they're poured in immediately remove them from heat for 30 seconds

[Anonymous No.18534872]

>>18531748
Americans arent human.

[Anonymous No.18535081]

>>18531574
Just pop actual kernels in a pot with oil and cover it in melted (or clarified if you got time for that) butter. It's just as good if not better.

[Anonymous No.18535407]

>>18531509
she looks like an absolute slampig
would/10

[Anonymous No.18536593]

>>18532446
You’re a monster!

[Anonymous No.18537031]

>>18531574
>Highly recommend coconut oil
I tried this and didn't like it. Tasted too coco-nutty :(