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

FAQs

How do you make super fine 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.

Add a tablespoon or less of butter flavored coconut oil (I preferred mixed with canola oil too to prevent coconut oil flavor) and a little Flavocol salt (must be Flavocol brand - it's what's theaters use).

In my recipe below, I use sea salt and nutritional yeast flakes. Those are the two chunkiest components so they go in first. If you're using dried herbs, you'll add them at this step. Use the pestle to grind down the ingredients with firm pressure in a circular motion around the bowl.

If you use oil for popping your popcorn, the seasoning will stick to it easily. However, to get flavor and stick to air-popped popcorn without fat, you can mist your popped popcorn with a bit of water or some other liquid. Sprinkle your popcorn as you move it to the bowl with a little liquid spray bottle.

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).

While coarse salt tends to pile up at the bottom of the bowl or bag, our fine-grained salt clings to popcorn. You get to actually taste the flavor! Plus, you avoid the extreme saltiness that you experience when you unwittingly scoop up a heap of the coarse salt.

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.

Flavacol is as bad for you as regular salt but worse, as it doesn't even contain iodine, regular salt's redeeming nutritional feature; it is, however, vegan and gluten-free (as salt tends to be), as well as kosher and halal certified.

Flavacol is a fine, yellow-colored salt that is specifically designed for use in popcorn machines. It is a mixture of finely ground salt, artificial butter flavor, and yellow food coloring. Why do many American recipes specify "kosher salt" for seasoning?

Popcorn Salt is just Kosher Salt that's been finely ground to stick to the popcorn better. You can make your own, pretty much for free. Kosher Salt can be easily ground in a mortar and pestle.

What is the difference between table salt and popcorn salt? ›

Popcorn salt is the same table salt you use for cooking and baking, but the only exception is that the salt is finely grained so that it sticks to the popcorn.

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.

FLAVACOL is a very fine seasoned salt that sticks to the popcorn, whereas a ground salt will tend to fall off. Adding it to the oil as you pop improves the coverage without any fear of burning. This is the tried - and - true original popcorn salt!

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.

I learned a few of these in school and a few of them I figured out after years of making homemade popcorn. They are all worth following. Don't add seasonings or salt until after the popcorn is popped. Spices and seasonings burn quickly in hot oil.

Popcorn Salt is just Kosher Salt that's been finely ground to stick to the popcorn better. You can make your own, pretty much for free. Kosher Salt can be easily ground in a mortar and pestle.

Popcorn and Nut Salt is superfine and has flake like crystals that cling to every kernel. Popcorn salt comes in various flavors.

As you can see in the density table above, popcorn salt is a little less dense than table salt, but only by 10%. You could probably use the same volume as called for with table salt in most recipes. You can make your own popcorn salt with any other kind of salt and a mortar and pestle grinder.

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.