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Movie popcorn
Posted on 8/2/24 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 8/2/24 at 10:11 pm
Why does popcorn from the movie taste so much better than anything you can make at home? So I buy great northern just like the theaters use. Has the butter salt and coconut oil and everything but it’s just not the same.
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Posted on 8/2/24 at 10:13 pm to JackieSonnier
Movie popcorn from the 90’s tastes better than the movie popcorn from today.
Posted on 8/2/24 at 11:05 pm to JackieSonnier
There's something about having the actual popcorn machine. We used to have just a cheap mini popcorn machine but it would still make phenomenal popcorn. The coconut oil makes all the difference
Posted on 8/2/24 at 11:12 pm to JackieSonnier
Posted on 8/3/24 at 12:57 am to JackieSonnier
Im with you bro. Movie popcorn is the GOAT
Posted on 8/3/24 at 6:35 am to JackieSonnier
I must have it!
Posted on 8/3/24 at 7:36 am to JackieSonnier
Used to work at a movie theater - it's all about the salt and oil (plus the industrial poppers).
That popcorn salt they use is something else to give that great color and the palm oil is so fatty it is completely solid at room temperature.
That popcorn salt they use is something else to give that great color and the palm oil is so fatty it is completely solid at room temperature.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 11:52 am to JackieSonnier
quote:add a bit of MSG if it's not already in there.
butter salt
quote:did you mean palm oil?
coconut oil
Posted on 8/3/24 at 12:16 pm to BigDropper
I have a stovetop popper that comes pretty close. Takes a lot of butter and salt.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 12:49 pm to metallica81788
quote:
Used to work at a movie theater - it's all about the salt and oil (plus the industrial poppers).
We used lots of peanut oil to cook it and a shite load of popcorn salt in the kernels when we would make it
That’s why you would smell it the moment you walked in the door
Posted on 8/3/24 at 1:36 pm to JackieSonnier
Use Flavacol instead of salt. Hard to find in stores, but easy to order online.
I follow the approach from Simply Recipes using coconut oil and Flavacol, and it comes out great.
It takes a little experimentation to get the right amount of Flavacol for your desired level of saltiness.
I follow the approach from Simply Recipes using coconut oil and Flavacol, and it comes out great.
It takes a little experimentation to get the right amount of Flavacol for your desired level of saltiness.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 4:56 pm to JackieSonnier
Find this at your Family Dollar. Huge bag and only $1.25 every day. It tastes so much like theater popcorn it's uncanny. And each bag has Isaiah 26:3 on the back. Truly great popcorn, Boys.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 5:01 pm to JackieSonnier
Whirley Pop is the bomb. Flavacol is a must. Sam's sells a crate of "Mega Pop" pre-measured kits with coconut oil, kernels, and some Flavacol. I prefer more Flavacol than is in the kit, but it's also a good start. Also, don't sprinkle the Flavacol on after popping, put it in the oil before you add the kernels. The stirring action you keep up with the Whirley Pop will distribute the Flavacol pretty damn well.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 5:29 pm to JackieSonnier
Ballpark hot dogs taste better too.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 5:44 pm to JackieSonnier
My first job was in the concession stand of the Skyview Drive Inn Theater in West Jackson. Long gone now, condemned to build I 220 around Jackson. I must have popped a thousand kettles of popcorn while working there. Plus, when we closed right after the first movie ended, you could get a plastic bag full of popcorn and a "Brought the cup with me" cup of fountain Coke or Orange drink and watch the rest of the second movie.
Our oil was a special coconut blend that was like a brick when you opened the plastic lined box it came in. You broke it apart and put chunks into a heated well below the cabinet with the kettle. It got hot in the well, turned to liquid and you hand pumped the oil up a line into the kettle, added a cup of popcorn and (very fine) yellow butter flavored popcorn salt. The more squirts of oil you pumped, the more yellow the popcorn was and the better it tasted. Our traveling manager always said he didn't care how many pumps of oil we used, as long as we added a lot (within reason) of salt. There was a scoop and he always wanted it heaped, when the instructions called for a level scoop.
The more oil we added, the more popcorn we sold. The more salt we added, the more cokes we sold. He had a notebook where he claimed proved what he said about sales depending on oil and salt in the popcorn.
Our popcorn kernels came in 100 pound burlap bags they we dumped into a metal drum in the storage room. Filled the hopper on the popper cabinet several times a night and sold many-many 25 and 50 cent boxes of popcorn.
The heated butter dispenser was on the back counter and went on "Buttered Corn" we sold in big cups that held either a 25 cent sized portion or a 50 cent portion of popcorn. We used Swift butter, wrapped in 12 pound chubs. We would squirt as much butter as folks wanted. I think it was 5 or 10 cents more. Shame on me. I always thought it made the popcorn too greasy.
I remember when we first began to offer a $1.00 tub of popcorn. Folks went crazy wanting it. Our popcorn was that good.
Our oil was a special coconut blend that was like a brick when you opened the plastic lined box it came in. You broke it apart and put chunks into a heated well below the cabinet with the kettle. It got hot in the well, turned to liquid and you hand pumped the oil up a line into the kettle, added a cup of popcorn and (very fine) yellow butter flavored popcorn salt. The more squirts of oil you pumped, the more yellow the popcorn was and the better it tasted. Our traveling manager always said he didn't care how many pumps of oil we used, as long as we added a lot (within reason) of salt. There was a scoop and he always wanted it heaped, when the instructions called for a level scoop.
The more oil we added, the more popcorn we sold. The more salt we added, the more cokes we sold. He had a notebook where he claimed proved what he said about sales depending on oil and salt in the popcorn.
Our popcorn kernels came in 100 pound burlap bags they we dumped into a metal drum in the storage room. Filled the hopper on the popper cabinet several times a night and sold many-many 25 and 50 cent boxes of popcorn.
The heated butter dispenser was on the back counter and went on "Buttered Corn" we sold in big cups that held either a 25 cent sized portion or a 50 cent portion of popcorn. We used Swift butter, wrapped in 12 pound chubs. We would squirt as much butter as folks wanted. I think it was 5 or 10 cents more. Shame on me. I always thought it made the popcorn too greasy.
I remember when we first began to offer a $1.00 tub of popcorn. Folks went crazy wanting it. Our popcorn was that good.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 6:18 pm to JackieSonnier
I have one of those nostalgic popcorn makers. It’s all about the oil, flavacol, and liquid butter. The stuff I make at home is as good as the movies.
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