Buttery popcorn

The Simple Swap So Your Popcorn Tastes Like Heaven

NEWS

By MEGAN LIM

Bowl of popcorn with bacon strips
To give your microwave popcorn a bit of smokiness in each bite, swap out the vegetable oil typically used when popping corn for some bacon fat.
Bacon strips frying in a pan
To try this finger-licking good crossover, start by making bacon as you normally would. For the largest amount of leftover bacon fat, fry the bacon strips in a pan.
Bacon strips frying in a pan
From there, simply toss your uncooked kernels into the pan with the grease and shake it up. The result is delicious popcorn with a bit of residual bacon flavor.