I was about to scroll by because I have nothing helpful to add, when I saw the last few words „…instead of salt alone“. Salt? You guys are wild! The only thing that belongs on popcorn is sugar (and this way I‘m showing that I‘m German, I guess, while you prove to be from the US, I think. Taste is funny. Enjoy).
Not from US! I'm from Brazil and sugary popcorn is very common here, I don't particularly like it though.
You can get popcorn with sweet stuff in the US. My dad used to carmelize sugar in a pan and make cracker jack. And chocolate-covered.
But it's more-frequently a savory snack.
I didn't know that sweet popcorn was a bigger deal in Germany, interesting.
Sugar is really the thing to add to popcorn over there? That's wild. Here in Norway we're all about the salt and butter also.
In the movies they sell popcorn, everywhere. And 99% it's sweet, in some rare cases they have both. But never, ever it's only salty. Butter sounds nice, actually. I might buy that when I see it one day 🤔
Well, there are the few of us over here who like to enjoy salted popcorn. But I guess we are a minority…
Sugar on microwave popcorn is super good. Tastes really close to kettle corn.
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Furikake and arare. The furikake for flavor and the arare for some nice variety of texture. You can find it as Hurricane popcorn all over Hawaii and I think Amazon as well at this point.
Garlic powder and the cheap parmesan cheese in the shaker. So good!
I second this. I put garlic powder or flakes on basically everything. Garlic salt works well for this too
I use Lawry's seasoning salt (recipes are easily found online), Montreal chicken spice, taco seasoning, or seasoning mixes that duplicate potato chip flavours. My personal favourites of those are salt and vinegar, all dressed, and cheddar cheese. Or mix some liquid smoke with some salt and let it dry, and then use that for a smoky bacon/hickory sticks flavour (I have also used bacon salt back when I could find it cheaper). I make all my popcorn in a pot with some oil, so any powder sticks pretty well with not much effort.
Somehow i had never seen this video before. Honestly? beats Food Network. Now im off to Amazon to buy a Wok and a Coffee grinder. I need to get bomb at making Pepcorn.
I haven't seen that vid in ages, didn't expect it here.
Was hoping to see someone post this lol. Love it.
I could eat seven bowls of that!
Pepcorn is actually and unironically very good.
Old Bay on popcorn is amazing, I don't make it any other way anymore.
I have heard people tell of using the seasoning packets that come with ramen noodles.
I'm a purest. I generally just use butter and salt, but sometimes sprinkle on that fake-ish grated parmesan & romano cheese that you shake out of a canister.
I pop my own on the stove, and recently found that ghee is a great oil for that giving a light buttery flavor. I sprinkle on a bit of salt and King Arthur “Better Cheddar “. So delicious!
I'm a fan of nutritional yeast and salt
Agreed, that's the good stuff
I grind the yeast flakes and salt in my mortar & pestle to get a fine powder that sticks much more easily
Our favourite here is garlic-infused olive oil with nutritional yeast.
It's addictive as hell. Once you get into nutritional yeast, you want to put it on everything.
I've never heard of that, I'll definitely look into trying it. Thanks!
go on amazon and buy 1kg of flavacol and eat cinema popcorn every night
Buffalo sauce flavored popcorn powder is pretty good if you can find it.
Edit: I have this stuff
I put olive oil on the popcorn first, make sure it's nice and coated and then sprinkle on a mix I previously stirred together in a little bowl:
1/2 teaspoon Chicken Bouillon powder
shake in as much of the following as I want:
Italian Seasoning (usually more of this than the others)
Cinnamon (couple shakes)
Taco Seasoning (or any other kind of premade seasoning mix - the Chili flavor packet from Top Ramen is good) about a teaspoon, maybe
And finish with a lot of nutritional yeast.
Stir really well. I use the end of a wooden spoon kind of like a pestle in the bowl to break up the nutritional yeast flakes.
I'll pop a cup of popcorn at a time and put on maybe 1/3 to half a cup of seasoning. I made it last night for dinner. It takes about a minute to do the seasoning mix.
Chili lime flavor made with True Citrus lime powder + regular chili powder
Bonus: grind in a mortar & pestle to get a much finer powder that sticks to the popcorn better
Grated Parmesan cheese
Some dashes of hot sauce can be nice. Doesn’t usually make it too soggy as long as you’re not to wild in the streets with it.
Popcorn is super flexible, if there’s a flavor you like there’s a good chance you’ll like it on popcorn… just have to watch out for texture. You want to add a little moisture but not make it wet, beyond that… you are the artist and the popcorn is your palette 🎨
Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning packets. Just sprinkle some on. Be sure it’s the dry powder!
I spray them with olive oil (from a spray can) and then grind salt over them. I prepare them in a self made bag in the microwave. Very easy and delicious.
I like Old Bay. But really, any seasoning blend works pretty good. If you have a spice grinder, you might consider grinding it finer so it distributes better.
I have a WhirleyPop so making kettle corn is pretty easy, since you stir the whole time.
My two favorites are chili powder + sugar and curry powder.
Carla Music's popcorn
Extra virgin olive oil, for seasoning
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Nutritional yeast
Aleppo pepper (I sub for gochugaru)
MSG
Granulated garlic
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I top my popcorn with Lawry's garlic salt. Tastes great on actual corn too.
Chilli crisp goes hard on popcorn! Lao gan ma is a good brand, though homemade is far superior - I like to caramelise my onions before crisping them up, and I also like to use a variety of chillis (including some relatively hot ones)!
Cheddar cheese powder. The neon orange stuff that stains your fingers.
I eat popcorn every night and I throw literally anything on it. I do it different each night! Are you in the US? You can buy many seasoning blends and they’re all good. McCormick makes ones that are meant for grilling food but they’re good on popcorn, like their Montreal Steak, Brazilian Steal, Montreal Chicken, etc. If you have access to Trader Joe’s they have an Umami blend that is good, their onion salt blend is good on popcorn. Smoked paprika, Garam masala, anything. Nutritional yeast. Go wild!
Tajin or ranch powder work pretty well too
Ranch powder is a clever idea. Probably much cheaper than the popcorn flavoring mixes they sell. ETA: And Taijin sounds a lot simpler than squeezing out solids from spicy oil.
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