Taste tested 9 brands of microwave popcorn-here are our favorites

There is no one person in our team who doesn't like pop-corn– Most people hold popcorn seeds in our chambers to pop up and find butter to simple snacks. Although most of us prefer an old-fashioned way on this stove in a covered pop or a Whirley Pop– We don't mind sometimes opening a bag of microwave popcorn. This is clear and disturbing and only takes a few minutes. Although there are many microwaves popcorn nowadays, it can be difficult to free you are worth buying.

To find the best microwave popcorn, our editors tasted nine different brand butter-flavored microwave popcorns, probably found at the local grocery store or on the Internet. We made each of them according to the packaging guidelines and then randomly tasted them without knowing which pop -branded brand was. After wearing nine different popular corn brands, we were led to the results and crowned a general winner, along with several other worthy racers, and would be happy to keep our chambers.

The criteria

All popcorns, including microwave popcorn, should be a crisp exterior with a shiny, fluffy interior. The flavored versions of butter taste as real butter– or like the best butter cinema popcorn (which is indisputably not like real butter, but who doesn't like it?) – Even if the ingredients do not have ounce. It should be nicely salty, but not too much. The corn should be tasty, but it should not be damaged. It should be fresh taste, unlike obsolete residues at the bottom of the popcorn machine.

General winner

Kirkland signature microwave popcorn

“Beautiful and buttery, with good salt” – editor of social media, Outskirtswrote. Like Kellyi, our spectacular director, Amandaeditorial director, DanielAnd I all enjoyed the dairy flavor of this popcorn. “It's good and there is a fake butter I love,” Daniel wrote. (It turns out to have a soft point for artificial butter flavors.) Although I thought this popcorn had the right amount of corn, we were associated with our editorial director, MeganHe thought he was a little too salty. At the same time, he did like a fluffy texture.

Second -place

• Bowl and basket classic popcorn
• ACT II butter microwave popcorn
• Promise of nature

Although the other popcorn brands we tasted were not as good as our winner, our editors enjoyed the three brands of microwave popcorn. Daniel was a huge fan of the Bowl and basket butter classic popcorn. “Perfect, big fluffy popcorn puffs,” he wrote. “It just hits the popcorn sign of the completely classic movie theater.” Kelli described the taste as “butter and almost nuts” and I thought it was nice and delicious. Megan again thought this was just a touch too salty.

Our staff had mixed feelings ACT II butter microwave popcorn. Kelli, Amanda, and I all want more salt and butter, and I found the taste a little too artificial. But Megan and Daniel were fans. Megan liked a slightly buttery taste and thought that the “nicely crunchy” popcorn “is quite natural as the homemade popcorn” taste.

We took a sample of all popcorns, Amanda thought Promise of nature It had the most striking corn taste. Still, he thought he could have used more salts. On the opposite side, Megan thought that popcorn was nicely nuts and crispy, despite finding it quite salty. Like Megan, Daniel liked her texture, noting, “Good, big lush.”

The racers

• 365, The Whole Foods Market Organic Flavor Microwave Pattled Corn
• ACT II butter microwave popcorn
• Bowl and basket butter classic popcorn
• Jolly Time Simply jumped up butter microwave popcorn
• Kirkland signature microwave popcorn
• Promise of nature
• Orville Redenbacher butter popcorn
• Pop secret homestyle microwave popcorn
• Stop & Shop Microwave Butter Properly Corn

A key to conclusion and conclusion

Popcorn is the most important ingredient in all brands we taste. All brands also contained palm oil, salt and natural flavors. Some brands use sunflower oil alongside palm oil, and many brands contain a salt and preservatives or acidic substances called potassium chloride for flavor and shelf life, such as rosemary extract, ascorbic acid, citric acid, TBHQ (tery-butyl hydroinone) and mixed to-cooferols. Annatto, the Achiote wooden natural additive, is also another general ingredient that popular corn makes it bright yellow.

Our winner, Kirkland Signature Microwave, is one of the two brands we tasted, which includes actual butter in the list of ingredients (the other brand, Stop & Bolt, has not made the most important selection). Despite the fact that palm oil is the primary source of fat in the preparation, butter touch results in a richer, tastier popcorn.

It is noteworthy that everything we have tried is on the list of ingredients. Because fat is affordable and shelf stable, many manufacturers use it to prepare various processed foods, including microwave popcorn. It is worth noting that they are environmental consequences Harvesting and producing palm oil.

All in all, our editors enjoyed the most populated brands we tasted. With the exception of Megan, our colleagues liked popcorn on the salty side and did not mind the taste of artificial butter. Some, including Daniel, wanted more of artificial tasting butter, which reminded them of the classic cinema popcorn.

Our testing methodology

All flavors are completely hidden and do without discussion. Tasters taste the samples in random order. For example, tasting may first taste the sample, while the B tasting will first taste the six samples. The purpose of this is to prevent the fatigue of the palate unfairly securing one pattern. The tasters are asked to fill out our tasting pages, which rank the samples to various criteria. All data are tabled and the results are calculated without an input of editors to get the least impartial representation as possible.