We have 1 gallon and 1.5 gallon tubs that are easy to transport and to set up at the tailgate.  No prep required!  And they are easy clean-up since you can just snap the lid back on and watch the game.  And you can easily sneak back for another bite when your craving comes!

We have a Packer Crunch that is green apple, caramel and plain white (Green & Gold).  We also have a Badger Crunch that is Strawberry, Cherry and plain white (Red & White).  They are both festive additions to cheer on your favorite Wisconsin football teams!  If those aren’t your favorite flavors, then we have plenty other varieties to take along to your parties!

Stop into our store today, place your order online, or call 920.921.1347 for your special orders.

A Cute Way to Display Your Popcorn

By now everyone’s seen and heard of candy buffets as a fun alternative to traditional wedding favors or for party favors. But a fun and growing trend is popcorn buffets which in many cases can be cheaper than candy buffets, depending on how you go about it. There are literally 100′s of different types of gourmet popcorn that are on the market now, but be warned! Some of them can get pricey! Besides the basic buttered, cheese, kettle, and caramel popcorn, there is also chocolate, strawberry, Parmesan, nacho, sour cream and onion, cinnamon bun…and many, many more!

Elegant Ways To Display Popcorn

Gourmet Popcorn

If you have an unlimited budget for your wedding, you can order 20 different popcorns and display them in lovely overpriced apothecary jars and order some expensive personalized stickers to go on them and have the gourmet popcorn company set them up and provide an attendant to help serve the popcorn and clean up afterward.

 

Apothecary Jars for A Popcorn & Candy Buffet

How To Display A Popcorn Buffet

You’ve got your popcorn…now how to display it? What’s your wedding style…is it classic and very formal or casual and colorful? Do you want your popcorn buffet to follow the style of your wedding at all or just be a fun addition? As a planner, I would advise you to follow your wedding’s style and do your display accordingly. Believe it or not, you can make popcorn look elegant with the table coverings and jars you use, as well as the labeling. Try serving your popcorn in wine flutes lined with a cone of foil wrapping paper or elegant scrapbooking paper. If you’re on a budget, but still like the look, get plastic wine flutes from the dollar store. You could also make your own bags with white paper bags you can get at Wal-mart, dressed up a little with a band of flocked scrapbooking paper and a pretty gold sticker holding it together.,

 

Popcorn Balls

Make some baseball size or smaller popcorn balls and display them in a pretty bowl or make them even larger and create a topiary with them. For a more casual looking popcorn buffet, wrap colorful scrapbooking paper into cones, fill with popcorn and display in a long shallow container like a galvanized planter. Fill with jelly beans or plain sugar to hold the cones upright. Or you could just fill galvanized buckets with the popcorn and provide brown paper bags with a colorful band of scrapbooking paper wrapped around them and your monogram stamped on it. Use movie type small popcorn boxes for a fun and colorful buffet or even rent a really cool old fashioned popcorn machine

Buy from Faris Popcorn and avoid possible dangers.

You tug at the corners of a piping-hot bag of microwave popcorn, and a plume of fragrant steam escapes. We hate to point this out, but that steam contains nearly four dozen chemicals—the sources include the buttery flavorings and the ink and glue on the bags—according to a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While it’s unclear how many of the chemicals may be harmful at the levels emitted, one is a known troublemaker.

Diacetyl, the substance used to impart a buttery taste to the movie-time snack, made headlines last summer when a Colorado man contracted “popcorn lung”—a.k.a. bronchiolitis obliterans—a severe respiratory disease linked to breathing large amounts of the stuff. (The condition has been a problem for workers in popcorn manufacturing plants.) Although dozens of foods from Twinkies to red wine contain diacetyl, it is harmless when eaten. The rub is that when heated to high temperatures, like those used to cook microwave popcorn, diacetyl vaporizes and becomes toxic.

As with most toxins, the devil’s in the dosage. Reportedly, the man ate an average of two bags of extra-butter-flavored microwave popcorn daily for more than ten years and (here’s the kicker) hovered over the steaming-hot pouch to fully enjoy its buttery bouquet. Cecile Rose, MD, director of the occupational medicine program at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, treated the man. “It is just a single case,” she says, “but I wouldn’t dismiss this concern.”

Manufacturers have taken that concern to heart: The country’s largest makers of microwave popcorn—ConAgra, General Mills, American Pop Corn Company, and Pop Weaver— no longer use diacetyl in their products, which include Act II, Orville Redenbacher, Pop Secret, Pop Weaver, and Jolly Time.

As for the remaining chemicals in microwave popcorn, you can play it safe by following a few steps outlined by David Michaels, PhD, director of the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, an expert on microwave popcorn fumes: Wait until the bag is cool to the touch before opening (the vapor will condense), and open the bag under a stovetop exhaust fan.

The best fix, says Michaels, is to make your popcorn the old-fashioned way: on the stovetop.

Popcorn makes a perfect Superbowl Snack

Between the sausage pizzas, fried wings, high-cal dips, greasy chips and sugary cookies on your Super Bowl smorgasbord, it’s nice to offer a snack that won’t bust your guests’ diet plans.

So consider popcorn. Air-popped popcorn has 31 calories per cup, and oil-popped has 55. Plus, it’s a whole grain.

“Because it’s a whole grain, it adds fiber to the diet and makes you feel full fairly quickly,” said Wendy Boersema-Rappel, spokeswoman for The Popcorn Board, a Chicago-based organization funded by popcorn processors. “Not only does it do your body some good, but it tastes good.”

For stovetop popping, heat 1/3 cup oil in a 3- to 4-quart pan to 400 to 460 degrees (if the oil smokes, it’s too hot). Test the oil on a couple of kernels. When they pop, add popcorn to cover the bottom of the pan, one kernel deep. Cover the pan and shake to evenly spread the oil. When the popping begins to slow, remove the pan from the stovetop. The heated oil will pop the remaining kernels.

Pour the popcorn into a bowl, and season it with salt and butter or buttery spray. Or try something different.

“The simplest way is to go to your spice drawer and figure out what you love. If you love Italian flavors, pick out the Italian seasoning or the oregano and basil. You can sprinkle them directly onto the popcorn, or you can mix them with the little butter and drizzle it on. The butter will help them adhere to the popcorn,” said Boersema-Rappel.

Other suggestions: Sprinkle on a little salt and sugar for a sweet and salty snack. Or try popping in a garlic-infused olive oil or other flavored oil.

Here are a few other ideas for flavoring popcorn for Super Bowl snacking, from The Popcorn Board.

Blazing Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Mix for Popcorn

1 tablespoon ranch dressing or dip mix (from a 1-ounce package)

1 tablespoon seafood spice mix (or celery salt)

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon powdered sugar (or sugar)

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon vegetable oil

6 quarts popped popcorn

Cooking spray (optional)

In a small bowl, blend ranch dressing mix, spice mix, garlic powder, powdered sugar and cayenne pepper. Sprinkle with vegetable oil and blend until well incorporated.

Place popcorn in a serving bowl, and spray lightly with cooking spray. Sprinkle seasoning mix over popcorn to taste, and toss. Store leftover seasoning mix in an airtight container for future use.

Question:

Buttering popcorn is impossible. It always turns out inconsistent. A few pieces will be soaked with butter, and others have no butter on them at all.

But I want butter on my popcorn. What should I do?

— Brian Ortiz (originally asked here)

Answer: Butter-Pop in a Pan

Make your popcorn in a pot instead of using a microwave. (It’s easy, and cheap). And instead of using oil as most recipes require, go with melted butter. Voila: butter-hinted popcorn!

— Answered by Martha F.

Answer: Render First, then Pan Pop

Use real butter and render it before you add it to unpopped kernels.

Rendering:

1. Allow butter to simmer in a stovetop pan.
2. Remove from heat and scrape the foam (milk solids) off with a spoon.
3. Put the butter back on the heat, but be careful not to burn it. (You might want to keep the heat on medium and periodically remove the pan.)
4. Remove the rest of the foam (try to get rid of almost all of it).

Your butter is now rendered!

Now pour in your kernels, cover and let simmer on low heat.

When the corn starts popping, release steam by lifting lid away from your face.

You’ll have perfect popcorn in less than 10 minutes.

— Answered by Lili

Alternative Answer: Add Powdered Butter

Officially, you’re supposed to add water to powdered butter. But I won’t tell anyone if you keep it dry and shake.

— Answered by Brendan Long

Alternative Answer: DIY Butter Powder

Add melted butter to tapioca maltodextrin (try N-Zorbit) until it is fully absorbed — the substance will solidify at a ratio of about 3:2 butter to tapioca maltodextrin.

Then, rub your solid butter brick through a fine sieve or tamis and disperse over a bowl of pre-popped popcorn.

Once the powdered butter hits your mouth, it will turn to liquid once again. (Melts in your mouth, not on your kernels.)

— Answered by Sam Hooker

Alternative Answer: The Bag Shake

1. Melt 1-2 tablespoons of butter (more if you’re a butter-head).
2. Fill a clean paper lunch bag half-way with your popped popcorn.
3. Drizzle your melted butter along the sides of the half-filled bag, fold over the top, and shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds.
4. Repeat as necessary until all your popcorn is well-buttered (and unsoggy).

— Answered by Katey HW

Alternative Answer: Melt & Melon Ball

It takes time, but I fill a melon baller with melted butter then drizzle and swirl it through the tiny hole over a large bowl of popped corn. Toss the bowl contents between mellon ball butter shot swirls for best results.

— Answered by mskfisher