It is movie release season, which means it’s also popcorn season. However, movie theaters charge a semester’s tuition for regular buttered popcorn these days. Save your money for more parking passes and make movie-quality popcorn at home!
Microwavable popcorn is a classic, but it tends to lose its snackability in the car ride to the theater. Here is the best hack for making popcorn to smuggle into showings of “Paddington in Peru.”
I’ll be using the Scribe office as my kitchen today. They pay me to be here, and I am not allowed to experiment with food at home. My culinary genius can be intimidating, I understand.
Ingredients:
- Orville Redenbacher’s Original Gourmet Yellow Popcorn Kernels, 45 oz. The amount is necessary for this recipe. We aren’t playing around here.
- 0.5 oz Butter. This is also a requirement, sorry to lactose intolerant people.
- 2 cups seasoning of choice. You can use garlic salt, cheddar cheese flavoring or whatever you have on hand. The only powder-adjacent ingredient in the office is Fun-Dip. Good enough.
- Aluminum foil. A whole lot of it. Foil speeds up the process, and it helps to keep your popcorn fresh through the never-ending previews.
Directions:
Add the kernels and seasoning to a large bowl. Toss the kernels in the seasoning, making sure that they are evenly coated. Mine look blue enough.
Add the butter to the bowl.
The trick here is to let the popcorn know you aren’t afraid of it. Throw everything together and act like you don’t care how it turns out. The popcorn will respect you for this.
Cover the top of the bowl with tinfoil. I added a few extra balls of aluminum foil inside the bowl, just to accelerate the cooking process.
The Scribe office lost its oven in the great demolition of ‘24. However, we do have a microwave. Cram everything into your microwave and set it for five minutes, making sure to add as much aluminum foil as you can.
Sit back, relax and wait for your AMC quality popcorn. It even comes with a light show!
Results:
I don’t have eyebrows anymore, but the smell of popcorn is certainly in the air!
Editor’s Note: Scribble is the satirical section of the Scribe.
