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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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[–] Tetractys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peanut Oil is the answer. High smoke point, taste negligible.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Not buttery
  2. Although it probably doesn't kill the housemate with the peanut allergy, it makes them very uncomfortable and possibly costs them a significant medical bill.
[–] Tetractys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I add butter back into the pot after popping to melt (add flavours), then pour on popcorn.

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.

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.

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.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yall are burning your butter?

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if youre a terrible cook (like me), throwing the kernals in a paper lunch bag & throwing it in the microwave for 3 minutes makes perfect popcorn (and does so without covering your kitchen in oil splatter/ annoying your neighbors with smoke detectors going off.)

Lol sorry. Thanks for the ghee suggestion! It sounds awesome & im excited to try it!

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, what now??

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hello.

Could you please add a "Why YSK:" to your post? It's rule #2. :)

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Amro@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Amro@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of them are ghee. They're all interesterified vegetable fat/ oils with ghee flavour added calling themselves "vegan ghee" to con the gulllible.

There's no harm in being vegan, but it is foolish to fall for unhealthy products because they brand themelves as vegan/ vegetable-based.
Stick to vegetable oils but ffs don't call them ghee.

Interesterified oils increase heart-disease risk by lowering HDL (good) cholesterol and raising LDL (bad) cholesterol, (like trans fats do). And they increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by raising fasting blood-glucose levels and decreasing insulin response. They also increase liver cellular stress markers.

Look up the effects of interesterified vegetable fat/ oils on a search engine of your choice and then read their labels before recommending them.

[–] Amro@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@xuxebiko
I'm no expert in these matters. But I can't imagine ghee (clarified butter) being very healthy either in large quantities. If you are vegan (which I'm not) this a way to taste the op's popcorn suggestion. I get the feeling you already had an opinion on the whole ghee/fake vegan ghee thing. And al I can say is, in the Indian cuisine, with a relatively large vegan population, fake ghee is a thing. Not some hipster hype.
This was about taste and cooking. Not about health.
@fubo

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[–] elrac@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year 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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[–] Doodoocaca@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Schluchtschiss@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social -1 points 1 year 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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