popcorn
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Pop Your Corn in Ghee for Greaseless Buttery Flavour
It wasn’t that I didn’t like the fluffy corn I had popped in clarified butter. I just found it slightly disappointing (at least until I added salt, but more on that in a bit). “It’s because you drown your popcorn,” my boyfriend suggested, shoving another handful into his mouth. “That’s why you don’t like this.…
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The Easiest Way to Get Every Unpopped Kernel From Your Popcorn
The posters on TikTok have a tendency to overstate their case. They make all sorts of promises to “blow your mind” and “change the way you do xyz,” and love to tell you that you’ve been “doing it wrong” this whole time. But strip away all the hyperbole and there is often a kernel of…
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Don’t Make the TikTok Chocolate Popcorn
I love a good popcorn hack. I have many. Sweet popcorn, savoury popcorn, popcorn grits — I like it all! I even liked popcorn salad, the hyper-regional Midwest delicacy the internet was determined to hate. (I actually loved it, and so did Joel, and everyone owes Molly Yeh an apology.) But I have finally encountered…
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Does Popcorn Salad Deserve Our Respect After All?
Some mornings I wake up ready to hate, and I was in such a mood the morning I saw Molly Yeh’s popcorn salad video — a video which ignited a firestorm of angry and disgusted tweets.