Does your popcorn consumption increase during the winter season? Is is hygge for you, stringing (and thus nibbling) popcorn for the tree or something else? Adding this important question…do you pop your own or purchase pre-popped?
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow❄
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I make popcorn from time to time when Sunshine & I watch a movie together. She had mentioned she had never seen “Groundhog Day” with Bill Murray. Recently, I saw a used copy at Goodwill so, I grabbed it and we had “movie night”… complete with hot buttered (and salted) popcorn.
I use this “Air Popper”, it does a nice job and minimal cleanup.
We eat popcorn year-round, whenever we have a “movie night”…
No snow here… going to be 81(F) today (might break a record).
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It’s a blizzard here, and I’m being sent home early. Shucks. I do eat more in the winter (usually air popped like my desert pal.) I just do butter. The perfect combo.
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We are an “eat year round” family. I think it’s my Dad’s favorite food, so we had it growing up all the time. The pop corn popper is still out on a counter all the time at my parent’s house (hot plate style with a plastic dome - not sure how to describe it). I make it on occasion, always have it in the house, but I do it in a big pot - no special maker. A few years ago we went camping and I found Jiffy Pop to pop over the camp fire, loved that as a kid.
We’ve only done the popcorn strung on thread for decorations once that I remember, as a child.
Anyone old enough to remember popcorn balls? I remember getting them for trick-or-treat when I was little - oh the days when home made food for trick or treat was a thing 
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I have popcorn after dinner when I’m not in the mood for cheese. But it’s rare that I’m not in the mood for cheese.
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I have popcorn all year round, so it’s def not a seasonal thing @casa lingua. Always pop my own: stovetop, in a mix of peanut oil and ghee or just ghee when I’m feeling indulgent.
Salt is the only seasoning “allowed” if I’m sharing a bowl with da man, but I also like ground black pepper, or blue cheese seasoning powder.
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Salt is my favorite too - keep it simple. Your “blue cheese seasoning powder” made me remember that my brother likes (or his kids like) a ranch powder on theirs. It’s “okay” for me.
But on occasion we have tried a lot of different seasonings but the two that are still “in rotation” at this point are
- finely grated parmesan with pepper
- Asian spicy salt which I make - salt, sichuan pepper corn, and dried chili peppers
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I LURV Sichuan peppercorns, and have a Penzey’s seasoning salt I would totally add if my PIC weren’t such a GD purist when it comes to popcorn.
Although to be fair, I often just split up the popcorn I made so he can have his salt and nothing else, and I can do whatever TF I want with mine 
I’ve had those seasoning powders (cheddar and ranch), and am not a fan. The blue cheese powder came in a gift basket from Rogue River Creamery.
Apparently, they no longer sell any smaller amounts than FOUR POUNDS 
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We go through popcorn jags all year long: popcorn every day or every other day for 2-3 weeks, then a couple of months without. Recently, though, I got tired of all the old maids and decided to try the “fancy” popcorn. I had always bought the cheap store brand popping corn, but seemed to have a lot of dead kernels at the end. What a difference Orville makes. Where I used to get a few dozen old maids, with Orville Redenbacher popcorn it’s down to maybe five or six.
When I’m not making caramel corn (which is mostly during the holidays), we top it with salt, parm, and/or garlic granules. Spawn2 is fond of sprinkling nutritional yeast on popcorn, too.
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Wahine & I do tend to eat more popcorn in winter, but even at our peak, we only occasionally eat any.
There’s one taproom we frequent that offers MWO popcorn as one of its only food options. Probably 90 percent of our popcorn is eaten there.
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I love to pop my own. I have a somewhat cheap Cuisinart pot, about 6qt, that I use for it. Usually Orville Redenbacher, but occasionally I buy a fancy batch of gourmet kernels.
I don’t think of it as seasonal, as I have it all year long. But I am a purist–butter and salt only for me.
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Somewhere I have a version of this. I think it was named the “Popcorn Pumper” and the spout was translucent yellow plastic.
On the rare occasions we pop at home, it’s in a copper saucepan–it’s amazing how fast all the kernels pop.
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anytime it mood strikes . . . .
air popper
very picky about source - America’s Best is the fav.
I buy a new batch every year . . . pop failure increases with age…
popped into large bowl, evoo drizzled down sides of bowl, popped corns ‘spooned around’ for coverage as popcorn salt (very fine grind…) is added.
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We got hooked on truffle salt at Amphora Nueva in San Anselmo. Huge bowl of seasoned popcorn next to cash register. Excellent selling tool! As in all things, it depends on the quality of the truffle salt… AN’s is superb.
We enjoy popcorn along side tomato soup for winter lunch.
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Oh popcorn balls! My first was a Halloween treat from our next door neighbor. I had no idea what it was and the thing was as big as my head. Wrapped in wax paper and tied at the top with black and orange yarn.
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Buy it, divide it up and gift to others?
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I go year round but in “jags”. Just butter and salt for me, and I try new popcorn from time to time.
I just picked up these samples from a local hardware store, where they sometimes pop it in one of those glass carts and hand it out.
Over the last year or two I have been very impressed with this microwave air popper, but it always gets eaten from the old popcorn bowl.
There are a couple of old popcorn threads I sometimes refer to.
Popcorn 101 Link from Amish Country popcorn
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Oh, no need. I like it, but I don’t require it.
I bought an air popper at Aldi a couple of years ago. It makes one small bowl…which is fine for me.
I grew up spoiled by popcorn. My best friend lived next to a popcorn field, and the farmer was happy to let two giggling girls glean the edges of the field. We’d let it dry then rub it off the cob…We’d squirrel away a year’s supply.
Fun fact…i grew up 4 houses down from Chris Schenkel (legendary American sportscaster) and rode the school bus with his kids. (An amazingly middle class neighborhood for someone so well known (nice family, too).
He actually had a couple of prosperous popcorn farms and sent my grandparents a huge tin of kernels for Christmas for decades.
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This brand is sold at our local ranch supply store and through Lehman’s catalog of interesting items. I might look for the hull less
kernals.
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