Make Your Own Microwave Popcorn
by heather 
Have you ever made your own microwave popcorn? Maize in Montana has, and her microwave popcorn is cute! She shares her secrets for successful--and cute--DIY microwave popcorn over on her blog. Make personalized microwave popcorn as a fun kids' activity, or as part of a frugal movie night gift basket (you can pick up the basket and movie candy at the dollar store). [how to make microwave popcorn]
And since Maize shared all her popcorn memories (and secrets) on her blog, I'll let you in on some of mine. My favorite trick right now is to air pop the popcorn and spray it with Crisco butter-flavored nonstick spray and then salt it. The spray smells like butter and gives you enough grease on your fingers to trick you into thinking you're eating buttery popcorn, but the actual fat is negligible. If you're used to super buttery popcorn, it will probably take you a bowl or two of this to readjust your palate, but this trick works for my family and completely removes the guilt for me.
Project Estimate:
- Brown paper bags, $1
- Popcorn kernels, $1 and up
- Masking tape, on hand
- Letter stamps and ink, on hand
Total: $2
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I’m wondering why she puts it in the freezer and how does she keep the popcorn from popping out if the bag isn’t sealed. I’ve been wondering if a person could just microwave popcorn in a bag, so thanks for this!
Oh poo! I was just getting ready to do a post about making your own microwavable popcorn bags! I haven’t looked at this version yet, but I’m sure it’s the same. Kathy V. I seal my bags with tape, which I see is called for on this post. Must be the same.
Do you add oil to the bag or just popcorn alone?
@Laurie, add oil/butter after the popcorn is popped.
I do this, but I make up the bag each time we want to eat the popcorn. We don’t use any adhesive at all, just fold the top over a tad. It pops up wonderfully just like store-bought.
This is a wonderful idea. Question? How can I make candied popcorn? Please let me know if you have any ideas.
[...] there is the DIYÂ microwave popcorn from Maize in Montana (found via Dollar Store Crafts). How super smart is this AND you can involve the kiddos. Just a bag of popcorn kernels and brown [...]
Be careful, brown paper sacks are made of recycled paper and a piece of aluminum may get caught in them and catch your microwave on fire! My grandparents did it and his microwave caught on fire.
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