Snappy Butter Burst Popcorn Oil, 1 Gallon

Better sub for butter than margarine
I’ve been a Butter Purist (TM) for literal decades. Seeing those tubs of margarine at the grocery gives me flashbacks to growing up in the 1970s and 1980s when butter became The Root Of All Evil. Friends, those were dark days. I digress.So I buy a few boxes of butter every month to use for cooking and baking and, of course, spreading on peanut butter sandwiches, because if you remember that milk commercial and because of that commercial you remember that Aaron Burr was who killed Alexander Hamilton but you can’t say that out loud if your mouth is all stuck together with peanut butter, you’ll know why you’d want to add a smear of butter to your PB sandwiches. Besides, butter is delicious. Again, I digress.But recently the price of butter has shot up (along with everything else, amirite?) and I just can’t throw it on everything willy-nilly anymore. So I started looking for cheaper butter substitutes I could use that weren’t watery like margarine, something where I needed a fat with the mere flavor of butter blended into a dish or greased onto a pan. Then I found this stuff. Whoda known a popcorn-cooking oil would work so well! I poured it up into a squirt bottle and we now use it to cook eggs or to put into foods where Real Butter doesn’t need to be a star.I don’t have the figures anymore, but one night after a few too many wine spritzers and before I ordered a $25 jug of oil I’d never even tasted, I did the math with a sharpie on a paper towel to see how the price compared to butter. So I’m not going to redo the math for your amusement, but as of 2022, this stuff is a lot cheaper per ounce than butter. You can math it out. Use the calculator on your phone.Now, this stuff isn’t magic. I’ll still be using butter for baking, unless the recipe calls for an oil. And on the aforementioned PB sandwiches. But we’ve been pretty happy so far using this weird butter-flavored popcorn oil for cooking.Next we’ll have to try it when making, you know, actual popcorn. It’s GOT to be tastier than popping it in vegetable oil, right?My only complaint is the color. It’s radioactive orange. Which means our eggs have an orange tinge they don’t have when cooked in butter. I wish there wasn’t so VERY much food coloring in this stuff. Not that I’m opposed to food coloring, I just bought some new colors to jazz up the Halloween treats I’m making this weekend. But if something tastes similar to butter, I’d prefer it be a color similar to butter. Not “I am a convicted felon who is on work release to pick up trash alongside the highway for a nickel a day that helps me pay for cigarettes” orange. You know what color I’m talking about. … Yes, you do.

Product is great but the shipping is atrocious…
Ordered this item for my boyfriend because of plenty of Reddit reviews. Alas it was savable but had to been dropped on the opening. It was bent and my boyfriend couldn’t even get it to pop back out. Minor inconvenience but still an issue. Spent about 202 minutes trying to clean the bottle so it doesn’t stain before putting it anywhere. It was a leak due to the nozzle being bent in. Smell is kinda odorless but if you have smelled cooking oil you’ll know what I mean.The oil itself is amazing gave us the “AMC” popcorn as my boyfriend describes it. Not too sold on it yet but after a few tries with the amount is crazy. The taste is amazing but not perfect on its own, if you want the salty flavor get the popcorn seasoning as well. The color and texture is there and it doesn’t burn the popcorn or the popcorn maker. I recommend heating the oil first until you hear it sizzle and then adding in your seeds and flavorings!

Buttery Flavor Not Overwhelming
Buttery flavor yet not overwhelming. Used primarily in a pump spray bottle to season baking sheets or skillets as a light coat with product to prevent sticking. I admit that I love buttery flavor movie show popcorn however I rarely use the product for that purpose. A light spray over fresh steamed vegetables and a minimal sprinkle of refined popcorn salt makes for a nice side.This product when compared to standard vegetable cooking oils does have a hint of buttery flavor and slight coloring making the use of conventional sweet cream butter unnecessary when only the flavor of butter is your desire. The cooking properties are the same as any standard vegetable/palm/coconut oils yet does not brown or burn like conventional butter.This product can be used as a substitute for clarified butter in many recipes but is not a suitable replacement for clarified butter universally. The judgement for that is up to the user.Value for the money is subjective as it can be compared to cooking oils (comparable) or clarified butter (far less expensive than clarified butter)Ease of use when compared to a solid butter or clarified butter is hands down simple, measure and pour.

You can still teach an old dog new tricks.
If you’re looking for that movie theater popcorn taste then this oil is the trick. I have never owned a microwave and have always cooked all of my popcorn on the stove. I pop the kernels in this oil, and then I will heat up a bit of the oil to put on top of the popcorn. For a long time I would melt butter and put that on top of the popcorn, but could never really figure out why it wasn’t as good as the movie theater type. What I came to realize was that butter has a high moisture content and if you just heat it up, it will soak into the popped corn making it soggy. Now one trick that I did learn was to heat butter at a very low temperature and basically steam off the water present in the butter, but that still didn’t hit the perfect flavor note. With this stuff, I don’t mess around with the butter at all. If you’re a salt fan, another suggestion that I might make would be to add a pinch of salt to the oil when you heat it up as a topping. This beats the living crap out of sprinkling salt on the popcorn independently as the salt flavor is distributed evenly throughout the topping. Plus, a whole lot less salt is actually used as the heating of the salt in the oil greatly magnifies the salt flavor.

It’s been quite a journey, but I believe I have arrived as close as i’ve ever been to that elusive theater popcorn taste. I’ve tried canola, coconut even olive oil, but it never tasted as good as when i’m at the movies. Now, pop it and top it with that and there you go! I’d say it’s 95% theater popcorn taste. The missing 5% is purely related to movie theater ambiance ;). The search is over! I’m very satisfied!

La verdad es que no tiene nada especial, al menos yo no siento que le agregue sabor a las palomitas, es un aceite más solo que más costoso