Do You Like Movie Theater Popcorn? Make it at Home!

December 31, 2008 | Author: admin | Posted in food recipes
by Tom Fischer

If you are like most popcorn lovers, you will sometimes go to the movies just to get have some great tasting movie theater popcorn. Don’t worry, many people do, but only a few know, that home popcorn can be just as great as movie theater popcorn.

I’ve found that the best home popcorn maker for this is the Whirley Pop Popcorn Popper, which is a stovetop maker. Its durable aluminum pan has a clip-on top, which has a stay-cool handle attached to it. Once you fire it up, you have to rotate the handle, which rotate a rod in the pan. This rotating rod makes sure that all kernels receive the same amount of oil and heat. The Whirley Popcorn Maker has steam shafts on its lid, which allows steam to escape, keeping your popcorn free of excess moisture.

First of all, you’ll need to prepare the ingredients, based on the amount of popcorn you want to have in the end:

Quarts of Popcorn | Amount of Oil | Amount of Popping Corn

2 |1 tablespoon | 1/3 Cup

4 |2 tablespoon | 2/3 Cup

6 |2 tablespoons | 1 Cup

8 |3 tablespoons | 1 1/4 Cups

And follow the following steps:

1. Neither the popper, nor the oil need to be preheated.

2. Put the Whirley Pop Popcorn Popper and the above ingredients onto stove (either electric or gas, it makes no difference) and turn it to medium heat. Don’t add any seasoning yet, just the corn and oil.

3. Start slowly turning the wooden lever. You may need to adjust temperature of the stove so popping is complete after about 3 minutes.

4. Turn the wooden lever through the entire popping process until there is only an occasional pop every 2-3 seconds.

5. Take the Whirley Pop Popcorn Maker off the stove immediately.

6. Pour the popcorn into a serving bowl.

7. Pour some butter and sprinkle some salt or popcorn seasoning onto your popcorn and enjoy!

Whirley Pop Popcorn Popping Tips

* Don’t set the heat too high, medium heat is enough.

* 1-2 tablespoons of oil is enough, drenching it in oil will ruin the popcorn.

* Use quality corn.

You will see, that the it is very possible to make movie style popcorn at home with a Whirley Pop Popper. If you are concerned about nutrition, don’t worry, your home ingredients will be much healthier than the movie theater popcorn, since they tend to add a lot of artificial ingredients.

For those of you who are even more concerned about healt, you might want to try an air popper. It uses hot air to pop the corn instead of hot oil, and will result in a virtually zero calorie popcorn snack. It won’t have the same taste though, however, you can still add some home prepares seasoning and sprinkle it on, or even some butter at the end. As you might guess, the butter increases the calorie count of the snack. Generally speaking air popped popcorn has 31-55 calories in one cup of popped popcorn, which increases to 133 calories when lightly buttered.

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