Make sure your bowl is firmly attached to the base before you begin. Popping your corn without fastening your base down is a surefire recipe for a spill.

Most neutral cooking oils will work well for stirring popcorn makers. For example, vegetable oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, and coconut oil are all great choices. Don’t use margarine or an oil with a low smoke point — these can burn and give your popcorn an unappealing smoky taste.

Softening the butter for a few seconds in the microwave before adding it can help ensure the popcorn melts completely.

Sometimes, kernels may get caught under the stirring arm during cooking. If this happens, you may begin to hear a slight scraping sound. This isn’t harmful.

Black pepper Cajun seasoning Garlic salt Hot sauce Chocolate candy (M&Ms, etc. )

If you wish, you may also want to use a non-toxic cleaning solution to cut the grease. Don’t allow the cleaner to dry on the popcorn maker or it may spoil your next batch of popcorn — instead, remove it with a damp rag when you’re done cleaning.

For most theater-style popcorn makers, the cooking chamber is a metal “bucket” with a handle attached to it suspended in the middle of a clear glass case. Usually, all you need to do is lift one of the metal flaps on top to open it so you can add ingredients. For some movie-style popcorn, the kernels are packaged together with the oil in a single packet, while for other popcorn, the two are kept separate. In the latter case, see the table blow in the Tips section for serving suggestions.

As with a home “stirrer” popcorn maker, you’ll want to turn the machine off when pops slow to about one, every few seconds. As the popcorn cooks, you should notice popped kernels rising out of the cooking chamber, spilling over the sides, and gathering at the bottom of the glass case below.

As you might know, if you’ve ever ordered buttered popcorn at the theater, “butter” is usually added to theater-style popcorn after it’s been served (usually with a pump). If you’re at home and you don’t have butter for your popcorn, try melting about a tablespoon of butter in the microwave and drizzling it over the top of your popcorn with a spoon for an authentic movie theater taste. Movie-theater “butter” is almost always not real dairy butter. Instead, it is typically a blend of coconut oil and/or (often, partially hydrogenated) soybean or canola oil with artificial butter flavor, TBHO, with citric acid added to improve stability, beta carotene added for color, and methyl-silicone added as an anti-foaming agent.

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Note that truffle-based ingredients can sometimes run very expensive. The most affordable truffle-flavored seasonings are usually about $15-$20 for a small jar, but truffles themselves can often cost hundreds of dollars.

Nuts (peanuts, cashews, almonds, etc. ) Seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc. ) Pretzels or other salty snacks Granola Marshmallows Dried fruit (raisins, dried berries, dried apricots, etc. ) Chocolate chips or candy (M&Ms, etc. )

For instance, for a sweet, spicy, curry-flavored popcorn, start by mixing 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder, 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric, and 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne powder in a bowl while you wait for your popcorn to finish cooking.

Pour the liquid sauce over your popcorn and stir to give it an even coating, then gradually add your spices while shaking to combine. The end result should be sweet, savory, and spicy — a new spin on regular old popcorn!