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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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[–] Doodoocaca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ghee is not an oil. Other than that I agree.

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[–] ghost_of_snowflake 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I'll try that out.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 3 points 1 year ago

Coconut oil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@fubo
I agree. Ghee is very nice for popcorn. And for everyone who isn't into milk products, vegetable ghee has the same qualities and flavor profile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

After reading this post a few days back, I was inspired to get some Ghee and try it out. Absolutely delicious, thank you @[email protected]!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, that’s brilliant! We got a whirly-pop last Christmas and have just been using generic vegetable oil but it definitely doesn’t improve the taste any. Looking forward to trying this.

[–] johng 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll give this a try. At my theater we use peanut oil because we are a small single screener and don't need to pinch every penny and use flavicol or something else less natural. It tastes good to me though I am peanut intolerant (not a major allergy but it upsets my digestive system, which upsets those around me).

At home, corn oil is my go-to as I am just cooking corn in corn and then melt some butter and salt the butter and toss the popcorn with it to get it evenly coated.

One other trick we do at the theater and you might be able get your place to do is when they add 'butter flavoring' is to ask them to half full the bag, pump some on, shake up the bag, add the rest of the popcorn and add more flavoring. It makes the bottom levels of popcorn more consistent with flavor.

[–] fubo 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but fake butter flavor is unpleasant to me.

[–] tdawg 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yall are burning your butter?

[–] Takina_sOldPairTM 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~~Is this a protip to make popcorn more enjoyable when Reddit goes to shit on the 1st of July? 😅~~

So store bought ready to pop microwaveable "buttered" popcorn is not with ghee, right?

[–] ohmyiv 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, it's not made with ghee. Microwave popcorn "butter" is typically artificially flavored oil.

[–] Salad_Fries 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if youre a terrible cook (like me), throwing the kernals in a paper lunch bag & throwing it in the microwave for 3 minutes makes perfect popcorn (and does so without covering your kitchen in oil splatter/ annoying your neighbors with smoke detectors going off.)

Lol sorry. Thanks for the ghee suggestion! It sounds awesome & im excited to try it!

[–] alekwithak 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Texas_Hangover 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a roll-your-own microwave popcorn bag. Intriguing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Ghee!"
"No, Ghee-T-E."
(that's not how it's pronounced.)
(Silence!)

[–] SMT42 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Opinions on using olive oil for popcorn?

I know the smoke point isn't the highest, but it tastes good!

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