Popcorn Salt Recipe (3 Ways) - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

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What are the ingredients in popcorn salt? ›

Extra fine sea salt will give you a finer texture and flakes will be slightly rougher and chunkier. How do you make super fine popcorn salt? To make your salt even finer, grind it in the food processor for at least 10 seconds.

The way that we do this is to spray our popcorn with any of the following—-cooking oil spray in a variety of choices—-canola, corn or olive oil or butter spray. Otherwise, toss the popcorn with melted butter and then sprinkle your favorite seasoning on it. Butter/oil is the usual method.

Popcorn salt is much finer (so it will stick to the popcorn) and often also includes flavoring (butter flavoring most typically).

The flavor all comes down to one ingredient: Flavacol. You've likely never heard of Flavacol because, really, only movie theaters use it. Essentially, it's butter-flavored salt. It's a really fine, bright orange powder that adds that buttery flavor you crave and the signature yellow color.

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Popcorn Salt: This specialty ingredient is superfine, which enables it to be infused into each kernel. I use Morton's Popcorn Salt in this recipe, but you can also make your own. Process kosher salt in your food processor until ultra-fine, then store it and label it as “popcorn salt”!

Grind table salt in the food processor until it is super fine (about 10-15 seconds). You can use Kosher salt, you'll just need to grind it a bit longer (for the Kosher salt, do a series of pulses for several seconds at a time).

Table Tasty salt substitute is a seasoning that has a nice salty flavor, with no bitter after taste (no potassium chloride). Table Tasty just tricks those taste buds into thinking it is salt. Imagine, no more bland food. Table Tasty really helps take care of those salt cravings and is a great tasting popcorn seasoning.

Is Eating Popcorn Safe for Dogs? Yes and no. Plain, air-popped popcorn is safe for dogs to eat in small quantities. Buttered popcorn or popcorn with other toppings is not safe for your dog on a regular basis, although eating a few dropped pieces here and there probably won't hurt them.

Flavacol popcorn season salt is a very fine salt that easily sticks to the popcorn, whereas regular granulated salt tend to fall off.

What are the healthiest popcorn to eat? ›

While salt itself has no expiration date, salt products that contain iodine or seasonings that contain other ingredients such as spices, colors and flavors can deteriorate over time.

Description: Made with finely ground natural sea salt. The name speaks for itself – popcorn has just been elevated to new heights with this special gourmet powdered sea salt. Pop a bag, sprinkle on the sea salt powder and enjoy the show!

It can be used in place of table salt, although it can cake. A solution to this would be to add a few grains of rice to the salt, or to bake it (which draws the moisture out), and then break it apart. Pickling salt sticks well to food, so it can be used in place of popcorn salt, which also has fine grains.

Avoid adding too much butter, sugar, or salt to your popcorn. Healthier seasonings include olive oil, herbs, spices, nut butter, and nutritional yeast. American Heart Association.

However, the minute you start cooking popcorn in oil or butter and add ingredients, like sugar, this can quickly turn it into an unhealthy choice. For example, a 30g bag of microwavable buttered popcorn provides over 10% of your recommended salt intake, and increases your daily saturated fat content.

Ingredients: Sea Salt. Description: Made with finely ground natural sea salt. The name speaks for itself – popcorn has just been elevated to new heights with this special gourmet powdered sea salt.

Celiac Sprue Association - Gluten-Free Choices

The popcorn salt that we use to pop the corn with could contain dairy. If you or someone in your party would prefer to have a batch popped without popcorn salt, our employees are able to accommodate this request.