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Why YSK: Popcorn fans often want a buttery flavor, but plain butter is a bad choice for popping popcorn in a pot, because the proteins and sugars smoke and burn around the same temperature where it's hot enough to pop the kernels.

Ghee, or Indian-style clarified butter, is butter that's been simmered and the milk solids (proteins and sugars) skimmed off. This leaves a clear yellow oil that doesn't smoke when it's heated and doesn't go rancid quickly, but has a distinct toasty butter flavor.

Vegetable oil is either flavorless or faintly bitter, and some high-temperature vegetable oils tend to start polymerizing (i.e. becoming plastic) when heated in small amounts. This is also not good for popcorn.

Good-quality popcorn popped in ghee reliably produces lots of "butterfly" popcorn with few unpopped "duds" and no scorched kernels or batches ruined by smoke.

Try it! I'm sure not going back to canola oil.

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[–] lnm225 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

smacks forehead

That is a great idea! Coconut oil was ok,but kinda odd-flavored for popcorn ...

[–] acupofcoffee 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Since ghee is so expensive, I usually do coconut oil and ghee mixed!

I love ghee on my stovetop popcorn! A wok works great!

[–] deviant 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dude, my mom makes ghee out of milk. It costs literally nothing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not true because you still have to buy the milk.

[–] Fondots 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] BloodyFable 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tiddy butter popcorn is a sentence crafted by war criminals to torture the goodness from the world.

[–] IndependentRanger 2 points 2 years ago

What a sentence

[–] deviant 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

to make ghee at home costs lots of milk, time, and effort. Try making ghee yourself from cratch and you'll know exactly how much it really costs.

[–] blueskiesoc 7 points 2 years ago

Go to youtube and watch how to make ghee. It's quite simple. I use butter to make mine. I won't buy expensive storebought again because it's so cheap and simple to make.

[–] fireweed 1 points 2 years ago

If you have access to Costco, they sell huge tubs of ghee for a way, way better value than the tiny containers you'd find at the grocery store. Ghee has a pretty good shelf life, however I divide my Costco tub up into smaller containers and freeze what I don't plan on using within a few months, to extend the shelf life further.

[–] rDrDr 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry for the hijack, but the post I see above this comment is some baseball scores. Twins @ Braves. Using Lemmy.world in a web browser. What's going on?

This is the URL: https://lemmy.world/post/661229?scrollToComments=true

[–] minimar 7 points 2 years ago

It's another websocket related bug that's already been fixed! lemmy.world is currently out of date, however. If you want to get rid of it, either wait for Ruud to push the update, or switch instances.

[–] blueskiesoc 6 points 2 years ago

It's a bot. I kept getting it too and there are identical ones for other teams.

Here's how I blocked it. Click on the community listed next to the (bot) username. Then on that page block the community. It should be on the upper part on the right close to where it says join the community.

I had like three bot baseball communities that I blocked.