Anyone Still Make Popcorn The Old School Way?

[Iron Woode]

I often wondered if I was the only one who makes popcorn on the stove burner using a pot with a lid.

So, I thought I'd find out if I am alone on this.

Well, am I?

 

[shortylickens]

98.6 is not warm enough to pop corn.

I know. I've tried twice.

 

[zerocool84]

No

I make popcorn in a kettle every morning. That's the old school way.

 

[IronWing]

That is how we make popcorn.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Air popper all the way.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've made it a few times and I used a metal bowl that I put the corn, oil, and seasoning in. I put aluminum foil on top and poked holes in it. I put the bowl on the burner and shook it from time to time.

 

[sdifox]

Whirly pop

 

[Kaido]

I tried all methods. I like this magic microwave bowl the best over all others:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089XJDIK/

This is the best popcorn ever: (the "FIT-POP 24 Lbs Yellow Kernels in Two Lb bags" for $40 shipped)

http://ia-popcorn.com/fit-pop-shop/

If you like cheesy popcorn, this shake is really good:

https://www.amazon.com/Cabot-Cheddar-Powdered-Popcorn-Premium/dp/B007CLY0F6

 

[lxskllr]

I make it in a wok on the stove. It could hardly be easier. Good reminder. I haven't made it in awhile. Might do that tonight :^)

 

[DigDog]

Stove, pot, oil, kernels.
Shitloads of salt go on it
Television time.

I made it into a haiku.

 

[RLGL]

2nd vote for the Whirly Pop

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Stove, pot, oil, kernels.
Shitloads of salt go on it
Television time.

I made it into a haiku.

Why bother with that?
Microwave wins by a mile
Easiest of all

 

[Viper GTS]

2nd vote for the Whirly Pop

Third. Have tried a few different oils and have largely settled on avocado oil + Flavacol.

Perfect results every single time.

Viper GTS

 

[BurnItDwn]

When I make popcorn i use a kettle with oil, like they do at carnivals and movie theaters with flavacol.

 

[IronWing]

Whirly pop

Jiffy Pop

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yup. Oil, saucepan, stovetop.

 

[DigDog]

Why bother with that?
Microwave wins by a mile
Easiest of all

Mushy tasteless junk
Tears are drenched in fake butter
Microwave popcorn

 

[IronWing]

Corn popped in a wok…

Dish on a dish of sunlight

Satellite of love

 

[Muse]

Yup. Oil, saucepan, stovetop.

ditto... I gotta popper that I used umpteen zillion times but haven't for several years. Stovetop for me now. A little oil. No butter, a sprinkle of salt... done. I buy in bulk out of bin, organic. Not too much, if you keep it too long it pops badly if at all.

I don't miss the butter. The oil in the pan gives an oil taste and I like that. You don't get that with a hot air popper. Adding butter makes a mess of the popper or is an extra step if you melt and pour over. That gets your hands messy too.

 

[Paperdoc]

For years we did it in an electric frypan rather than on a stove element using a regular frypan or pot. Once for fun for the kids, my wife set that up in the middle of the Living Room floor with a big clean sheet spread out, and NO lid. Flying puffs accompanied by gales of giggles!

The REAL "old school" way from when I was a kid was a steel mesh cage on the end of a long metal arm and filled with dry kernels. You held that over an open fire when camping or backyard barbecuing, or over a hot stove element, and shook it to keep kernels moving to avoid burning.

 

[Iron Woode]

Jiffy Pop

LOL

Last time I used that was in the 1970's.

 

[Zorba]

I did it all the time as a kid, haven't in so long I don't even remember how.

I use an air popper which is nice for clean up and it's healthier, but I can't ever get seasoning to stick to it afterwards.

 

[herm0016]

we do it on the stove as well.

 

[Homerboy]

Dont use the stovetop per se. But virtually the same thing using a oil based popper. This is my go-to combo at home which is quite often

 

[IronWing]

Dont use the stovetop per se. But virtually the same thing using a oil based popper. This is my go-to combo at home which is quite often

What the heck, they changed the package! A generation of youth are deprived of good, old fashioned giggles.

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