Make Your Own Kettle Corn Recipe

December 18, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Recipe at 12:30 pm |

You know, why rely on Crate & Barrel for that fun Reindeer Food when you can stitch up a bag real fast & make your own Kettle Corn? This recipe is very simple & quick, so get to it & enjoy!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup corn oil
1/4 cup popcorn
1/4 cup sugar
Salt

What’s Next:

Use a decent size pot (with a lid) and pour in enough oil to have about an 1/8″ covering the bottom. Don’t use too much oil. Too much oil will sog the popped popcorn and you’ll probably get sick to your stomach when you eat it.

Dump in enough popcorn to make a single layer in the pot. Put the pot on medium high heat. When you see the corn start to get excited but before it starts to pop, quickly pour in the sugar as evenly as you can across the top.

Cover and shake back and forth to pop (like Jiffy Pop). When you pull it off you need to slightly salt it. You can’t pop every single kernel because you would scorch the popcorn. Also pouring in the sugar too soon tends to make the popcorn scorch more easily. If you pour it in too late, the sugar stays granular and grainy. Also get the popped popcorn out of the pot as quickly as possible to prevent scorching.

Eat well & Laugh often!

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Velma Dacron Said,

March 17, 2007 @ 2:41 pm

I recently got into the kettle corn biz because I love the stuff so much. Here’s some tips that I would suggest if you’re doing at home. There’s a difference between using corn oil and vegetable/canola oil Corn oil somehow gives the kettle corn a little more “corny” taste. Before I bought a giant hot kettle to make the stuff, I tried doing it on a stove. It wasn’t the same as the festival stuff, just OK. The reason is you need a VERY HOT heat source to BROWN the white sugar. Just using brown sugar gives it a different taste. What I would suggest if you DO try to attempt it at home is melt and brown the white sugar somehow before you put it in a popper.

I’ve got a funny video on my website which shows how us pros make kettle corn: Velma’s Wicked Delicious Kettle Corn
Allison Said,

March 26, 2007 @ 9:55 am

Velma,

The video was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for sharing & best of luck to you!
Stacy Said,

February 17, 2008 @ 9:45 pm

WOW! This was SO easy! I kind of changed the amount of ingredients though. I used 1 cup of Popcorn, 1/2 cup of white sugar, and 1/2 cup of COCONUT OIL, and some salt. I just threw the oil, and suger in the pan, set that bugger on high, and threw in the popcorn after a couple seconds, and let’er RIP! The kettle corn came out PERFECT! And so yummy too! Thanks for the recipe!