THE BEST Movie Theater Popcorn At Home

Do you love popcorn like me, especially from the movie theater? Want to make it at home inexpensively and easily? This is the right video! All you need to start is below:
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[@LatitudeSky]

Got in deep in popcorn last year and now have a Great Norther kettle machine, and the same Flavacol and topping. For oil, Sams Club has jars of coconut oil that work better than the jug of orange coconut oil. The neat part is going to my local Gold Medal shop and picking up 50lb bags of popcorn. What a cool place. My coworker was so impressed with my setup, he got his own Great Northern and all the ingredients. Everybody loves popcorn.

[@stonedandhammered]

you can add a quarter teaspoon of turmeric to the plain coconut oil to give it some color. it doesn't change the taste and gets you perfect color.

[@Nicknacktheking]

Bryan is so informative and I could watch him teach me to play software can't get enough of it

[@FiddlePig]

Looks good! For 1/3 cup popcorn, I recommend 1 tablespoon virgin coconut oil, 1 tablespoon clarified butter, then add 1/2 teaspoon Flavacol. After popping, use real sho'nuff Irish melted butter for topping. If wanting more salty, shake a bit of Flavacol to taste. Seriously good!!! :) You'll never do it different again!

[@Professor5180]

Could you explain the types of butter you recommend? I've found clarified butter at my local store so that needs to be used when popping the popcorn with the coconut oil. But the Irish butter, would that be like Kerrygold butter you just melt up and top your popcorn with? Thanks

[@FiddlePig]

@@Professor5180 I make my own clarified butter using 1lb of unsalted butter, KZbin can tell you how to do it. Kerrygold is great, melt it (don't burn) and shake it on. But any butter will do. All good!

[@edwin3944]

Is the butter in the video not as good? Or why do you recommend the Irish melted

[@FiddlePig]

Irish butter is just my personal favorite.

[@soesterbergblue]

Pretty interesting. With the setup you have at home now, I don't see much point in even going to the movie theater very much.

[@rexnicious]

I’ve never craved popcorn in my life. Until today.

[@k1ng_chicken]

You started living that day.

[@fialee8ca132]

I just cook/pop with the Snappy butter oil (its just flavored veg oil). Don't have to buy the colored coconut oil. Taste exactly like theater popcorn with less oil (don't need to sqirt in more after popping). Also, if you want to ziploc it for the next day, it stays dry and pretty fresh as long as you let it cool before bagging. Only downside is that it is cold vs warm.

[@randystewart8895]

In the past, I followed you on cigar reviews but wasn't expecting this when I searched for theater popcorn at home! First 30 seconds I had the worst case of I know this guy from somewhere. Then the voice! Then he said the word "toasting" and I nailed it straight to CO Guy from the cigar reviews! You did a great job at getting me squared away with the popcorn details. Thank You for sharing this master formula with us! We appreciate you.

[@COGuyStuff]

lol let’s get it buttered up and start popping!

[@gears3305]

Love this setup, thank you! I bought a popcorn bucket at the dolar store for 3$ and good quality.

[@Kenjiro5775]

Decades ago I had an after-school job at a General Cinema theater in my area. The secret then was palm kernel oil and Cretor's Original Butter Flavored Popcorn Salt. 😄👍

[@COGuyStuff]

Thanks for sharing!

[@bigjay1970]

Yep, great tasting horrible for your health!🙄🤔😉😇

[@swigidyscout4975]

Just set mine up and this thing is awesome! I threw some jalapenos pepper slices with the oil....delicious!

[@COGuyStuff]

Enjoy!

[@swigidyscout4975]

@@COGuyStuff After a couple of months I have officially gone down the rabbit hole of popcorn kernels...Papa Bezos sells an Amish Country 10-pack variety. My love for cigars and tasting the different nuances in blends has paid off with the popcorn. I think you would love trying to spot out the differences between different kernels (flavor, tenderness, texture...etc)...and always, you should make a video on it...LOL.

[@nathanthompson3401]

The best popcorn in the world was at the Canoe Club, Sunset Beach, Lake Edinburg, PA during the late ‘50’s and early 60’s. Don’t know what they used other than popcorn maker and paper bags to serve (sorry I was only pre-teen and early teens). Never have had better and still remember some 60 years later.

[@DVTOM]

Me and my wife invest in good popcorn stuff! We hate going to the theater for various reasons so we made sure we had great popcorn and home theater experince.

[@tonsoguns420]

Try bob's red mill popcorn, it's the best I've found so far, and I've tried plenty. Pops crispy and not as many old maids and not too many hulls, especially with the white kernels.

[@kennethjohnson9096]

Bob red mills is a good brand do you know where you found the 🍿

[@jqcbigdog]

Ok you Pretty much summed it up kettle popper must have

[@crooker2]

The only thing I change is... Real butter on the popcorn. Not butter flavoured oil. Not cheap, but the flavour is undeniable. If you want to get REAL fancy, you can use clarified butter (ghee) as your topping. Popcorn won't get soggy, and will be edible for days. Yum!

[@NightmareRex6]

a big thing of oil will also go bad while the flavacol will last for years exept it might block up, the small things of pocorn oil are atualy MORE EXPENSIVE than real butter so yea i wouldent see why not use real butter unless its a convience thing to not have to seperate but id say just lazyly seperate it cook it in the yellow part and just use the remaining slish of milksolids and yellow for topping.

[@crooker2]

@@NightmareRex6 I make popcorn with coconut oil, add flavacol to the hot oil just before adding the kernels... then I eat the popcorn dry. I imagine it's a little healthier that way, and with the flavour profile I give it... I don't really need all that oily butter on my fingers. My kids love it (way more than microwave popcorn).

[@Lismarie33]

Real butter is great, but this video is about movie theater popcorn. Movie theaters do not use real butter.

[@crooker2]

Meh. Theatres use cheap ingredients. So for GOOD popcorn, used clarified butter... Or I use coconut oil and Flavacol.

[@cigarsgunsanddiesel8032]

My wife is literally drooling right now... #PopcornFeind

[@dbach1025]

Damn, watching your channels can get expensive. From cigars to automotive cleaning products to popcorn makers(, just got ordered mine). LOL. Thanks for not just sharing products, but also time tested nuanced insider info too. Cant wait to receive it.

[@petmycat2720]

LMFAO , When i saw the *******BOOZE******* Behind the suppys. HAHAHAAAA, Excellent man.

[@matttafakt]

In Russia, we only use Vodka topping.. Vodcorn

[@jasonskerbitz298]

Never really cared that much about authentic theater style popcorn.... as it's usually greasy/oily and/or salty AF, but we do make popcorn at least a couple times a week over at my bro Aaron's place.... usually Friday and Saturday nights for Family Movie time with his munchkins. We use a hot air popper though.... which works AMAZINGLY well... and they pretty much last forever, b/c there's so few working parts to go wrong.... lol. Once your popcorn is done, just add REAL butter (melt a couple tblsp. (or however much ya want) worth in the microwave for about 30-ish seconds, then drizzle (slowly.... THIN stream) over the popcorn while someone else is gently tossing the popcorn in the bowl.... then add Nutritional Yeast flakes (can be had at any local health food store, if you're not already familiar with them.... helps to buy those in bulk.... just like the popcorn and other ingredients).... again, while lightly tossing the popcorn in the bowl... then spritz Bragg Amino Acids (it's like a much lower sodium version of Soy Sauce.... buying that by the gallon at the health food store, where ya got your yeast flakes is a good idea also) all over it.... while still tossing said popcorn. What you get in the end is some of the best damn popcorn you'll ever cram in your pie-hole.... and it's not loaded with a bunch of artificial/chemically tasting crapola.... YUM! ;-)

[@COGuyStuff]

LOL well, enjoy whatever that is you ended up making ;) Some of us love greasy/oily and/or salty AF ;)

[@karabinas]

Sound the boring alarm

[@marcdewey1242]

When I was growing up we popped corn on the stove top and i still do that today and its good, but I also have been considering getting a movie theater style kettle popper,had an air popper and didn't like it,not crazy about microwave popcorn anymore either.

[@stevespanos75]

I like your video, good job. Just got a popcorn machine and wanted to see how you do it. Thanks.

[@COGuyStuff]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@nickhahn5412]

Exactly what i needed to see.

[@elecaire9094]

Absolutely fantastic video! Easy to follow, well paced, anticipated questions had all the info and links, really well done!

[@Dr4g0nW00d]

I use cane sugar but definitely true on buying in bulk going to invest in a machine in the future

[@dakotamar45acp]

well finally bought the oil and the flavacol, nice flavour. i need to find a better popping corn thou. Orville is fine in my hot air popper but not as good in the pot on the stove

[@christopherjarrett9067]

Fantastic and informative video. Wish I'd seen this before doing a ton of research. You summed up about a week of Google-Fuing in a 12 minute video. Kudos!

[@Vmaxfodder]

Flavacal is the #1 plenty of coconut oil is also king !

[@Pghlegomovieflims]

Yes

[@lawrence09151]

Thanks I never get butter on my popcorn at the theater. I see that it’s soybean oil, gonna pass on that but pick up the rest!!!

[@josephdupuis4105]

thanks for sharing !

[@COGuyStuff]

My pleasure!

[@josephdupuis4105]

@@COGuyStuff I bought the little bambino in Red and we LOVE it .

[@dakotamar45acp]

when does the Glenfiddich go in?

[@Andy_187]

Popping oil is sold out, any other brands you recommend?

[@KyleSorley1]

The little bambino is £172 on Amazon here in the U.K! Need to look for an alternative.

[@thelonestranger777]

You can still do this stovetop as long as you have the ingredients. Method is essentially the same.

[@Mr.M1STER]

I ordered that flavacol 2045 online and what arrived was flavacol 2500. From what I can read online the only difference is that 2045 uses artificial color yellow #5 and the 2500 uses riboflavin for the yellow color. Does anyone know any different?

[@supitzsammm]

My agitator keeps unscrewing itself 3/4 way thru popping - any tips?

[@PinkFlowers365]

thank you so much!!!

[@COGuyStuff]

Glad it helped!

[@edwynnkelley136]

Hi Bryan. Can you name the popcorn butter?

[@COGuyStuff]

Everything is in the description

[@jqcbigdog]

Just placed my order 🔥

[@jqcbigdog]

My unit came today 😜

[@SealedOrPorted]

Melt ghee and drizzle it on your popcorn to get your butter fix

[@MRobert1984]

Must buy popcorn machine now.

[@COGuyStuff]

Yes you do :)

[@MRobert1984]

@@COGuyStuff the coconut oil is sold out :(

[@COGuyStuff]

The CO Effect is real LOL

[@COGuyStuff]

Shows in stock for me...

[@COGuyStuff]

Make sure you select one time purchase, not subscription

[@TBrownRecords]

You made a very helpful video keep up the good hard work

[@maluc]

I do it your way with the same incredients. But if i do the first 250gr. the taste is nearly perfect but the pops are not gold/yellow. The second portion the color of the pops is like yours. What I´m doing wrong?

[@COGuyStuff]

Try letting the oil melt and heat up more before putting in the corn - wait till it steams

[@maluc]

@@COGuyStuff Okay, so could it be the problem, that i put about 250gr corn into the kettle. Maybe I try to use only about 150gr at one time? in what proportion do you use the fat and the corn?

[@COGuyStuff]

About a tablespoon of oil and my machine only takes 1/3 cup at most of corn.

[@thelonestranger777]

I find my flavocol expiring before I can get even halfway through it. Maybe I'm not making enough popcorn throughout the year 🤔

[@digginggopher]

Does it expire? Mines probably expired lol, I still have more then half, I'll still use it as long as it taste fine

[@thelonestranger777]

@@digginggopher I'm pretty sure it had an expiration date on the carton. I wouldn't have bought a replacement otherwise. Now I just give out some to other people interested in making popcorn.

[@jasonstarks2965]

Is there another brand of oil I could use? Would coconut oil from any store work? I don’t mind it not being colored yellow. Thanks!

[@COGuyStuff]

Yes any plain works

[@jasonstarks2965]

@@COGuyStuff just realized you said that in the video. My bad. But! I made this and it tasted awesome. But my popcorn came out kind of chewy/tough. Any tips to alleviate that?

[@sylvesterholmes2505]

I do everything you do and my popcorn taste still what can I do

[@Meccarox]

Great video, thanks

[@COGuyStuff]

My pleasure!

[@klaatu2]

Does that Snappy butter burst really taste like butter? Its Soybean oil

[@COGuyStuff]

Nope, it tastes like the stuff at the theater :)

[@klaatu2]

@@COGuyStuff I have not been to the theater in a decade. Can't remember what that tastes like. Always thought the "butter" they used was clarified butter. Does not seem right that its Soybean oil. If you read comments on this and other threads, many say it does not taste like butter, just oily.

[@TheWhitetailrancher]

A true large at the movie theater is what "I" go through not "WE" go through!

[@seanchagani5414]

What's the Glenfiddich at 8:40 for?

[@COGuyStuff]

You put it on the kids popcorn to shut them up

[@dbach1025]

For when wife picks a crappy Rom Com and wont shut up.lol

[@realforgedinsteel]

What I'm gonna do is get a popcorn bucket, but use the bags first

[@jqcbigdog]

Niceeeee

[@mightyzorro]

The grate is so unneccessary .. once u dump out the popcorn into a bucket, just shake it, and all the unpopped kernals just go to the bottom of the bucket...

[@COGuyStuff]

What grate?

[@mightyzorro]

@@COGuyStuff the grate meaning the old maid catcher

[@peter9910]

To be honest, all you need is some popcorn kernels and a pot on the stove. Add some salt at the end, perfect.

[@COGuyStuff]

LOL sure, if you want something totally different than movie theater popcorn

[@peter9910]

@@COGuyStuff Not in my experience Brian, but to each his own

[@molnarclay]

Coconut oil makes big difference. Flavacol or fine grind popcorn salt also helps a lot. I like Ghee instead of the buttery oil.

[@COGuyStuff]

Ghee is awesome too at home!

[@Kenjiro5775]

@@COGuyStuff About a year into my 2 1/2 yrs at the theater, we switched from an artificial butter flavor (I sometimes worked concessions and hated saying "Would you like butter flavoring?") to ghee in 1 gallon jugs. The projectionist was a tinkerer and lowered the wattage of a popcorn heater to liquify the ghee to pour into the butter pumps. I forgot to say that we popped our corn on site. We rotated shifts when needed and it was an 8 hour shift, popping corn 2 lbs at a time. The kettle was about 2 feet in diameter and tilted to empty the popped corn onto a sifting table where the unpopped corn dropped out. We bagged it into 4 foot tall 2-1/2 foot in diameter bags and filled the storage racks in the "popcorn room" behind one of the screens. We brought up about 6 or so bags in the front storage room near the concession counter. We filled the warming bins at the counter from the bags and at closing, scooped the remaining popcorn bag into the bags. On any given day the popcorn could be fresh, or more than a week old. I think most theaters just pop in small batches now considering that huge crowds are not the norm any longer. 👍