I always like to mix in some butter and sriracha
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This might be the only food that is sweeter outside of the US, well, besides kettle corn.
When I eat it enough to get tired of butter and salt, I spritz on evoo or tamari/soy sauce. For spice blends, I really like the ones from Penzey’s, especially Sunny Spain, or something else that amounts to lemon pepper.
If you're willing to add some calories, oil. I got an oil sprayer. I fill it half with chili oil, half with olive oil; not too hot, but gives it a kick. Sprayed on, it doesn't put nearly as much in as being drizzled on. It helps make powdery stuff adhere to the popcorn, too.
I have a salt shaker of Flavacol, which is the "salt" part of what goes into movie theater popcorn.
Movie theaters use (or used, dunno if this has changed) palm oil. This can congeal at room temperature, so may need to be heated.
Powdered butter or powdered various sorts of cheese can be kept in the fridge and can just be sprinkled on.
Cinnamon and sugar can be sprinkled on.
Actually, for popping they mostly use coconut oil. And some places use stuff that gives the popcorn a weird coconut flavor. The stuff that they put on at the end might be /probably is palm oil based though.
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To get the movie theatre experience you can use oil and butter-salt (the yellow powder they use). Try peanut oil for cooking in a pot, then butter-salt, and top with drizzle of real melted butter. Obviously not a healthy choice but it’s great.
The movie theaters use a product called flavacol. You can buy it online if you want “authentic” movie theater popcorn.
Flavacol is the secret ingredient. Sprinkle a bit over the kernels immediately after dropping them in the oil and it’ll get incorporated with the popcorn as it pops.
I bought a carton of it from a restaurant supply store a while ago and it's magic how it can flavor fresh popped corn.
My goto is butter plus Aromat (a flavored msg based seasoning)
Pickled Jalapenos are delicious on popcorn
I just use Pink Himalayan Sea Salt, and then I melt some butter into Orville Reddenbachers Popping and Topping Oil (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Orville-Redenbacher-s-Popping-Topping-Buttery-Popcorn-Oil-and-Seasoning-16-oz/10312412). I also pop the popcorn in it. That makes dang good popcorn imho.
I'm a big fan of the Cheesy Seasoning Blend at Trader Joe's!
I'm not a big popcorn guy, but have a garlic/salt/pepper mix that I put on almost everything I can. I bet it'd be good on popcorn.
You could probably go with garlic salt though for something similar, if you don't like pepper. Maybe some parmesian, since that's salty too.
Greek seasoning or Zatarans Blackened Seasoning are good bets, more spice than salt
With an spice grinder it becomes a lot easier:
- Salt, msg, chili and citric acid
- Salt, dried out parmiggiano reggiano and black truffle
- Salt and msg
- Salt and nutritional yeast for that "fake cheesy" flavor
I have never tried this myself, but I am curious to know how well furikake works with popcorn.
Can confirm is excellent.