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Ghee, or Indian-style clarified butter, is butter that's been simmered and the milk solids (proteins and sugars) skimmed off. This leaves a clear yellow oil that doesn't smoke when it's heated and doesn't go rancid quickly, but has a distinct toasty butter flavor.

Popcorn fans often want a buttery flavor, but plain butter is a bad choice for popping popcorn in a pot, because the proteins and sugars smoke and burn around the same temperature where it's hot enough to pop the kernels.

Vegetable oil is either flavorless or faintly bitter, and some high-temperature vegetable oils tend to start polymerizing (i.e. becoming plastic) when heated in small amounts. This is also not good for popcorn.

Good-quality popcorn popped in ghee reliably produces lots of "butterfly" popcorn with few unpopped "duds" and no scorched kernels or batches ruined by smoke.

Try it! I'm sure not going back to canola oil.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I tried ghee, it tasted awful. Butter flavored coconut oil is where it's at.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I prefer to airpop it in the microwave and then spritz EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) on afterwards. EVOO is delicious, and unrefined oils like EVOO retain more flavor if you don't heat them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use bacon grease.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, that’s brilliant! We got a whirly-pop last Christmas and have just been using generic vegetable oil but it definitely doesn’t improve the taste any. Looking forward to trying this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, that’s brilliant! We got a whirly-pop last Christmas and have just been using generic vegetable oil but it definitely doesn’t improve the taste any. Looking forward to trying this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, that’s brilliant! We got a whirly-pop last Christmas and have just been using generic vegetable oil but it definitely doesn’t improve the taste any. Looking forward to trying this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"Ghee!"
"No, Ghee-T-E."
(that's not how it's pronounced.)
(Silence!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

yall are burning your butter?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

@fubo
I agree. Ghee is very nice for popcorn. And for everyone who isn't into milk products, vegetable ghee has the same qualities and flavor profile.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

~~Is this a protip to make popcorn more enjoyable when Reddit goes to shit on the 1st of July? 😅~~

So store bought ready to pop microwaveable "buttered" popcorn is not with ghee, right?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ghee is not an oil. Other than that I agree.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You mean you aghee? I'll show myself out.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

wait how can it be indian butter I thought they don't exploit cows there

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

They just leave them to suffer of malnutrition and disease in the streets. Good thing they don’t exploit them!

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