I eat popcorn fairly often and I was wondering if I can improve on the taste with minimal effort. Do you guys know any good mix I could use instead of salt alone?
flavacol – “better living through chemistry”
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
This is exactly what I came to suggest! A good friend of mine turned me onto it and changed my life.
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.
Old Bay on popcorn is amazing, I don’t make it any other way anymore.
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
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.
Hah, I guessed wrong then. To be honest, I only tried salty popcorn about 20 years ago, so maybe I should give it another chance. The idea to use bbq herbs or other stuff sounds cool, actually.
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.
Chocolate-covered? I’m in! Never even thought about that, very cool. I wonder if a cheesy popcorn would be possible as well.
Yeah, if you can buy popcorn somewhere (at the movies, in rollercoaster parks etc.), if it does not say otherwise, it is always sweet. Some booths have both salty and sweet, but not so often.
Oh, my friend, there’s this stuff called Chicago Mix that is half cheesy popcorn (just a cheesy powder) and half carmel popcorn. It’s a rather tasty blend of salty and sweet.
Sounds like foodporn to me 😆
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!
Was hoping to see someone post this lol. Love it.
Pepcorn is actually and unironically very good.
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.
I could eat seven bowls of that!
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
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.
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.
Flavacol :) (https://whatthepopcorn.com/what-is-flavacol/) Basically, it’s “movie popcorn flavor”
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.
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.
Argh, yes, you are right, thanks. Brain fart on my part. It’s coconut oil that does the room temperature congealing thing.
I’m a big fan of the Cheesy Seasoning Blend at Trader Joe’s!
