My favorite microwave popcorn used to be Jolly Time Blast O Butter Ultimate Theater Style.
I liked the large amount of buttery and salty flavoring.
Now I like Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn Movie Theater Butter.
It tastes like it has less buttery and salty flavoring, but I prefer it overall.
The popcorn is fluffier and I get less kernel shells in my teeth.
What is your favorite microwave popcorn?
As long as it has has extra butter I’m fine :+1: I always use the shakers though, jalepeno, cheddar… all the good stuff
I too am a popcorn addict, but i stopped eating microwave popcorn years ago (for other reasons; diacytal mostly. Google “butter lung” to know more.)
But if you make it yourself it’s a lot better! And just as fast.
Pot with lid.
Add olive oil/coconut oil/avocado oil and a lot of real butter (comes in sticks)
Kernels
Heat
Done!
I really encourage you to try it. I lived in Europe for a while and microwavable popcorn was nonexistent so I had to learn to do it manually and once you get it down you’ll never go back!
I know that this isn’t microwave popcorn, but you really should try the recipe: Beef and horseradish popcorn
Tried some at a friends house party a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, and had to have the recipe. Now I’m just spreading the word 
Hear hear to make it yourself!
We bought ourselves an electric thingy
Dunk a cup of corns in, turn on place bowl under it and done in a jiffy.
I’ve tried a lot, ultimately, my favorites are the Pop Secret Homestyle and Extra Butter. Typically, extra butter varieties are way too greasy for me, but Pop Secret manages to get the flavor without mouth-coating greasiness of the others.
Aren’t you the only person in France that eats corn? I tease my French (wife’s) family about it all the time. I’ve also got them addicted to Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce. They have us bring them several large bottles every time we go visit. But they still hate Root Beer…lol
Gave up microwave popcorns on medical advice. Now only fresh popped. Doc told me that microwave stuff is BAD poison for the body.
We buy the corns at a ecological store so we can’t be the only ones 
MrLifeHack … is my Microwave favorite. Just add your favorite choice of popcorn kernels.
Makes perfect popcorn without all the oil and artifical flavorings. 1/4 cup corn … microwave for minutes and dig in.
I melt salted real butter and add McCormicks Mac and Cheese seasoning to taste. :+1:
https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Mac-Cheese-Seasoning-Mix/dp/B01M0AHD2X
I am a bit of a popcorn guy myself. I tried every kind of popcorn I could get my hands on and quickly found that microwave popcorn, while ok for a quick treat, just doesn’t t match “fresh” popcorn as said above.
My preferred popcorn method is to use an air popper since it is quick and easy with no clean up to pop the kernels then add butter and seasoning to taste in the bowl.
Real butter tastes good but is obviously very high calorie so I then used margarine. Plus margarine tastes more like butter then butter. After that I discovered the “spray butter” by parkay? tastes pretty good and is very easy to apply since you just spray it on. Robot or human?
For seasonings I have been known to try everything and use anything. Although the base for all my popcorn is lawry’s seasoning salt (mortons season-all works ok as well) finly blended in a coffee grinder. This gives it a nice flavor and is great by itself.
To that I will add anything from a garlic Parnassian to chili powder or whatever else sounds good.
The best thing you can try though is powdered cheese such as that found in a mac and cheese box. blend it like the seasoning salt and enjoy.
I used to eat so much popcorn I found that buying popcorn in 50lb bags to be the best deal, out of all the brands I tried the best so far is this: Ace Mart Restaurant Supply
Great kernel size and taste.
I also purchased the powdered cheese in 10lb bags off ebay, it was the closest you could get to mac and cheese, it was even made by kraft.
I also prefer the fresh popped variety, but when was buying microwaved popcorn it was Orville’s with butter flavor.
Right now my preferred is Jolly time in the jar with the blue lid.
I flavor with Cabot butter and sea salt.
Aha username explained
Darn, you caught me, I loved the popcorn so much I changed my name to the place I bought it lol.
My family and i love POP Weaver yet i stopped them years ago…havent tried coke in years too, no sugar at all( exept some with the morning coffee), even stopped the smoking
Yet i do miss the taste sometimes
Can’t stand the shells getting wedged between my teeth, etc., so I like Cheesy Poofs instead.
Orville redenbocker plain salted kind. I like how its toasty, light and crispy.
Now that I think about it… I have not had home-stove popped popcorn in like 35-40 years!! For decades we used a hot air popper, and then switched to microwave variety.
Kinda ironic I just finished a bag a few minutes ago.
Mine was the grocery store house brand name, regular Butter. 6-pack for $2
Usually buy a bag of Jolly-Time kernels and pop them on the stove top and spice it up a bit with Adobo, crushed red pepper and a several slices of real Butter shaken up in the pot after.
Reddenbacher has my heart!
@weklund: I want to know more about your impressions of that MrLifeHack popper. How much it holds relative to a standard size microwave bag, how well it works, etc. I tried reading the reviews on Amazon, and they seem to be pretty bipolar, ranging from “Most awesome thing ever OMG!!1” to reports of “microwaved for 30 minutes and didn’t pop a single kernel” varieties. My mom had the original hard-lidded version of this:
…and it saw extensive use and got decent results.
As a kid, we ate huge amounts of stove-top popped popcorn. My first exposure to microwave popcorn was the original mid-’80s Act II at my grandparent’s house. At that time, it was different, but I really liked it.
My mother had (still has) a hot-air popper:
(I think this model)
…but I never liked the popcorn popped with that, as it was always dry and tasteless. She mostly used it when making popcorn for caramel corn or popcorn balls.
I used to eat the Pop-Weaver brand light-butter variety extensively, due to the low price compared to other brands. The light-butter had butter flavoring, but did not leave the greasy slick in my mouth like many other brands do. I had tried some of Pop-Weaver’s other varieties, but they all left me feeling like I had Crisco on the roof of my mouth afterward… :confounded:
I wanted something with a bit of a stronger flavor than the light butter, so a few years ago, I embarked on a quest to find a better microwave popcorn. I purchased packages of several brands of the microwave popcorns available in the area, including Orville Redenbacher, ActII, Jiffy-Pop, and other generic and commercial brands.
I first bought a large box of regular butter Orville Redenbacher brand, but I found it to have a weird mild-but-annoying sour aftertaste. I read the ingredients and found that it included citric acid; I found the flavor to be unpleasant so I gave most of that away. After that experiment, I began purchasing smaller packages, until I found a variety I liked.
My favorite of the Orville Redenbacher varieties is the “Tender White” in the pop-up bowl. I like that they have actually taken the time to innovate something as blasé as the old-fashioned microwave popcorn bag. The “Tender White” variety is pretty good, but not my favorite.
I eventually discovered the Pop-Secret Homestyle. I really liked this variety as it had a good saltiness, and decent flavor, but without the excessive greasy-mouthfeel aftertaste. The Homestyle has a coarser salt than your typical microwave popcorn, as if it is salted with normal table salt.
I wanted something with a stronger butter-type flavor than the Homestyle, so based on my enjoyment of the Pop-Secret brand, I purchased a small package of the “Extra-Butter” variety. My previous experiences with “Extra” and “Movie-Theater” style butter variants left me skeptical, but I found that the Pop-Secret variety was excellent. It is my current favorite due to it’s good flavor, without the grease of other brands:
I would normally be opposed to the “Pop-Secret” brand, as it violates my budget-friendly lifestyle 
by tending to be the most expensive brand available. However, I have found it to be consistently excellent, with great flavor, large popped kernels, and few unpopped left behind.