![]() After a warming session, you hit the “popcorn” button on your microwave oven and the popcorn will pop just like the store product (you may have to add another 30 seconds or so of cooking time). When it’s popcorn time, a puck goes into a small bowl, which goes inside two interlocking paper bags. Once the butter is clarified, we’ll combine it with popcorn and salt and freeze it into pucks that can be saved for weeks until you are ready to make quick popcorn. Butter is about 16 percent water and if any of that stays in the mix, your popcorn will be on a fast trip to Soggytown. My Orville Redenbacher's Movie Theater Butter Popcorn recipe starts with clarifying butter so that it’s pure fat, without any milk solids or water. If you’d rather stay on the safe side, see the Tidbits for an alternate technique. I chose to still share my recipe and technique, but ultimately leave it up to you to decide if it’s a hack recipe you feel safe using. The USDA states that using paper bags in your microwave, “may cause a fire, and may emit toxic fumes,” yet the internet is full of microwave popcorn recipes calling for paper bags. No smoke, no sparks, nothing looking at all dangerous was going on inside my cooking box. ![]() ![]() I was dismayed to find some discussions about the potential for problems using brown paper bags in your microwave oven, such as fire, but I had absolutely no issues any of the many times I did it. My solution is a new method of prepping the kernels, but like many other techniques I researched, it requires paper lunch bags. I also wanted to avoid using plastic, tape, or metal, such as staples. I set out on a mission to make better homemade microwave popcorn with only natural ingredients, and without using costly popping gadgets. To prevent the liquid fat from seeping through, the bags are lined with a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid, which, unfortunately for microwave popcorn lovers, has been linked to cancer and other nasty things. For the corn to pop, the kernels are submerged in boiling fat inside the bag until a buildup of steam in the kernels causes them to burst. ![]() The health concerns regarding microwave popcorn are a result of the way it’s packaged.
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