Building the perfect homemade popcorn

Since microwave popcorn is unavailable here, Em and I have made a project of finding ways to make our own popcorn. We have a hot air popper and the store does sell corn kernels, at least. But the popcorn produced was always so boring and tasteless, and applying melted butter to home-popped popcorn was a disappointing experience, with the hot butter just melting its way down through the fresh popcorn and not spread around at all. After some experimentation, voila, our recipe for tasty homemade popcorn!

You will need:
A hot air popper
A bottle of butter-flavored popcorn salt
A sprinkle jar of Greek seasoning salt
A slab of Breton salted butter, or your closest equivalent
A glass pepper shaker

Slice off some chunks of the butter and cram them inside of the glass pepper shaker. With the lid off of the thing (put a paper towel over it or something to prevent splatter), microwave it until the butter is melted to liquid, then let sit until you can hold it. Pop the lid back on.

Start the popcorn popping. As it begins to pour out of the popper, you need two people on hand so this is a fun and silly family experience. One person runs the pepper shaker full of melted butter - just sprinkle wildly as the popcorn is coming out. The butter droplets are small enough that they won't melt the popcorn the way just pouring butter over will do, and you'll get evenly-buttered popcorn all the way through the bowl. Keep sprinkling butter till it's done. When you're finished, if you have butter remaining, you can just run water through the shaker lid (to wash out the butter from the pinholes, otherwise it will harden and block them all) and then stick the butter-filled glass back in the fridge for use again later.

While one person is manically sprinkling butter, the other is sprinkling Greek seasoning. Yes, I know it sounds weird. But Greek seasoning salt is tasty and has a yummy garlic flavor that goes really well with buttered popcorn. We tried to also apply the butter-flavored popcorn salt here too, but it is so fine that the air exiting the popper just blows it all over the place, so it has to wait.

Once all the popcorn is popped, turn off the popper and, while sitting the bowl around, apply the butter-flavored popcorn salt. You'll end up with homemade popcorn flavored with two kinds of butter and two kinds of salt, with a hint of garlic. Yummah!!