Carla Music's popcorn
Extra virgin olive oil, for seasoning
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Nutritional yeast
Aleppo pepper (I sub for gochugaru)
MSG
Granulated garlic
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I eat popcorn every night and I throw literally anything on it. I do it different each night! Are you in the US? You can buy many seasoning blends and they’re all good. McCormick makes ones that are meant for grilling food but they’re good on popcorn, like their Montreal Steak, Brazilian Steal, Montreal Chicken, etc. If you have access to Trader Joe’s they have an Umami blend that is good, their onion salt blend is good on popcorn. Smoked paprika, Garam masala, anything. Nutritional yeast. Go wild!
If you're willing to add some calories, oil. I got an oil sprayer. I fill it half with chili oil, half with olive oil; not too hot, but gives it a kick. Sprayed on, it doesn't put nearly as much in as being drizzled on. It helps make powdery stuff adhere to the popcorn, too.
I have a salt shaker of Flavacol, which is the "salt" part of what goes into movie theater popcorn.
Movie theaters use (or used, dunno if this has changed) palm oil. This can congeal at room temperature, so may need to be heated.
Powdered butter or powdered various sorts of cheese can be kept in the fridge and can just be sprinkled on.
Cinnamon and sugar can be sprinkled on.
Actually, for popping they mostly use coconut oil. And some places use stuff that gives the popcorn a weird coconut flavor. The stuff that they put on at the end might be /probably is palm oil based though.
Argh, yes, you are right, thanks. Brain fart on my part. It's coconut oil that does the room temperature congealing thing.
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I always like to mix in some butter and sriracha
My goto is butter plus Aromat (a flavored msg based seasoning)
I just use Pink Himalayan Sea Salt, and then I melt some butter into Orville Reddenbachers Popping and Topping Oil (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Orville-Redenbacher-s-Popping-Topping-Buttery-Popcorn-Oil-and-Seasoning-16-oz/10312412). I also pop the popcorn in it. That makes dang good popcorn imho.
Consider olive oil instead of butter just in general. We just do olive oil and salt but love some of the other ideas here.
Trader Joe’s “Everything But the Elote” seasoning salt is pretty good. https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/everything-but-the-elote-seasoning-blend-066804
Nutritional yeast, garlic powder, msg, and salt is my go to. I mix it up with other spices too but the nutch and msg reminds me of cheese puffs. Have to start with plain popcorn though, I don't like nutch with buttered popcorn.
Coconut oil and salt is also amazing.
I'm a big fan of the Cheesy Seasoning Blend at Trader Joe's!
I'm not a big popcorn guy, but have a garlic/salt/pepper mix that I put on almost everything I can. I bet it'd be good on popcorn.
You could probably go with garlic salt though for something similar, if you don't like pepper. Maybe some parmesian, since that's salty too.
With an spice grinder it becomes a lot easier:
- Salt, msg, chili and citric acid
- Salt, dried out parmiggiano reggiano and black truffle
- Salt and msg
- Salt and nutritional yeast for that "fake cheesy" flavor
I know of Gayelord Hauser's Spike seasoning which is salt-free. I use salt for food lots of times, but Spike and melted butter elevate our popcorn's taste.
I have never tried this myself, but I am curious to know how well furikake works with popcorn.
Can confirm is excellent.