Stovetop Popcorn
What you need
- ½ cup popcorn kernels
- oil
- butter
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Heat oil in a deep pot with three kernels. When they pop, add the rest, cover, and shake the pot until the popping slows. Melted butter and salt over.
How it feels to make
The gap between the last few pops is the longest silence in cooking.
Mom wrote on the back
Take it off when the popping slows, not when it stops. The stragglers burn everything else.