The Secret to Theater Popcorn at Home
Going to the movies is a favorite past time for a lot of people, including me! I love all types of movies and I particularly love the whole experience. The smell, the sights, the sounds and the flavor are all part of the joy of movie going. Of course these days I don’t get to go as often because money is tight so I joined Netflix and sit at home to watch some motion pictures, the talkies! The one things I miss the most though is the movie theater popcorn. Even though every time I bought it I silently wept at having to turn over $5 or $6 on a bag of popcorn, I couldn’t help myself. I love that stuff! Now that I am pinching pennies and watching most of my movies at home I have been searching for a way to recreate that theater popcorn taste out of my own popcorn machine with not much success.
Until now…Hang on to your hats because you are about to learn the secret to theater popcorn at home. You don’t need to break the bank on a theater popcorn popper, NO! The secret to real theater popcorn is a combination of a few simple tricks and products. None that will break the bank and all will certainly save you money over the expensive popcorn at the movies.
First you need a popcorn popper that will rotate the popcorn kernels evenly. A Whirly Popper does just the trick although you are the one doing the rotating, it is not automatic. The other option you will want your popper to have is ventilators at the top. This allows for your popcorn to stay crunchy and not all soggy by allowing the moisture that builds up to escape. Very important!
The next part of the secret is the oil you use in your popcorn machine. Theater popcorn uses coconut oil. Yep that’s right, good ole’ coconut oil. This oil is more expensive then the vegetable oil you have probably been using, but it is the number one trick to use if you want real movie theater popcorn.
The last and most important thing, beside the coconut oil, is to add flavoring. That’s right, those people at the theater add flavoring to their popcorn. Now be careful because there are a ton of different flavorings that claim to be the one that tastes just like movie popcorn, but unless it is call Flavacol then they are not telling the truth! Flavacol is the one that is actually sold to movie theaters so it makes sense that this is the one to use. You can usually find it at places like Gordon Foods and it will last you FOREVER. It is pretty cheap too so that is cool.
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