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- Popcorn, the greatest food for
watching movies, or bachelor on a budget.
But at the theater,
you pay ridiculous prices.
Today, I'm gonna show you how
to make great popcorn at home
for 1/20th of the price.
Let's get started.
To start off,
we're gonna add some oil
to a hot pan.
I've got this on high heat.
Just adding a couple tablespoons
of a neutral oil.
I'm using canola oil.
I've also used olive oil, coconut oil.
Those all work great.
We wanna get that oil nice and hot on our high heat,
not quite smoking.
To see when it's ready,
we'll just put in one corn kernel.
When it starts to bubble and move around,
that's when you know it's ready.
I can already see it's kind of
bubbling around so I know
it's good to go.
I got half a cup here.
Just gonna throw that right in,
and then quickly move it around.
Make sure it's all nice and coated in the oil.
And we're gonna add some salt.
You wanna do this quickly 'cause
you don't want any popped kernels
popping in your face.
So I'm adding about a teaspoon.
And then, we need our lid.
You can do this in a big, kind of stock pot.
I'm using like Teflon wok.
That works really nice.
The trick is here to move it often.
We don't want this to burn.
Once we get the first pop,
we're just gonna drop this down to medium.
(bubble pop)
Okay, our first pop.
Bringing it down to medium.
(bubble pop)
Now meanwhile, we need to have butter.
Gotta have butter for popcorn,
or at least I do.
I've got a couple tablespoons of butter.
I'm just gonna throw that in the microwave
for a minute.
We can see where that's going. (beeping)
There's two reasons you move this often.
One, so that we don't burn anything on the bottom.
The other is so that the unpopped kernels
kinda go to the bottom.
It's about 30 seconds,
you should check on the melted butter.
(beep)
Okay, that butter is done.
Only needed 40 seconds.
Just lowered that a bit, the heat,
'cause they're pretty much all done.
We'll just wait 'til there's no popping
for about 30 seconds or so.
We can take out our butter.
You can just add some salt to this butter here
and just pour it on,
but I'm gonna add some spices here
and make a little spice mixture.
I've got some onion powder,
about a teaspoon of that.
Some garlic powder,
a teaspoon of that.
Don't let this burn.
That's pretty much done.
I'll just turn that off
and we'll just let that heat do it's thing.
Teaspoon of salt.
Can always add more later.
Don't over-salt, don't under-salt drastically.
And a teaspoon of paprika.
A teaspoon, or heaping teaspoon, of sugar,
brown sugar, but you can use others.
Cinnamon and sugar also go really well.
Mmm.
Now what we're gonna do,
take that lid off,
hopefully nothing explodes in our face here,
and take our mixture
and just go out on the outside.
That'll kinda sizzle a bit.
Shake that around.
Because I added paprika,
we're getting quite a bit of color here,
so it's gonna look a little yellow.
That gonna be flavor.
Make sure it's all evenly tossed.
You don't want soggy popcorn.
You can just do that with a wooden spoon.
Not everyone can flip things.
If you added sugar,
and you put that into the pan like I did,
it gives you a nice, almost caramelization.
(chewing) That has flavor.
(tinkling into bowl)
Voila.
Hey guys, thank you for watching.
Hope you enjoyed this one.
Put in the comments what you guys think
would be a great spice mixture,
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