Family Movie Night Popcorn Mix-In Ideas with Pop Secret | Perfect Pop App #PerfectPop #GoodbyeBurnedPopcorn
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On Friday night we decided to have another fun family movie night, complete with pizza for dinner and popcorn for a snack. This time around, we decided to offer fun mix-ins to enjoy with Pop Secret Movie Theater Butter popcorn. Yum! Nothing beats this salty snack and movies just aren’t the same without popcorn!
But have you ever burned popcorn?
I’ll never forget the time a co-worker burned popcorn in our microwave at work. I know that it can be tricky to cook popcorn, especially with an unfamiliar microwave. And those “popcorn” button options on microwaves can be misleading. In this case, they used that button and made the mistake of walking away. The smell was horrendous! It was hard to work that afternoon with the nauseating smell permeating through the entire office.
I think most people can relate to the frustration of burning popcorn, so Pop Secret decided to solve the problem once and for all, so you can spend more time enjoying movies and less time worrying about burned popcorn!
With your iPhone 5+ on iOS 7+, you can download Perfect Pop (“Perfect Popcorn”) for free on the App Store.
How Perfect Pop Works:
1. Put a bag of Pop Secret in the microwave and enter suggested cooking time from the packaging. Note: Perfect Pop is optimized for the deliciousness of Pop Secret popcorn only.
2. Turn up the volume on your iPhone. Point the phone’s speaker towards the microwave and keep within 3 feet.
3. Start the microwave, and then start the app.
No more relying on the popcorn button or guessing how many seconds in between pops. Pop Secret is serious about perfect popcorn, so the less you have to worry about, the more time you can spend enjoying movie night with your friends & family. Perfect Pop listens to the pops, waiting for the precise moment to let you know when your popcorn is perfect.
How cool is that?
We enjoyed our own perfectly popped popcorn on Friday with Pop Secret. I also offered some fun mix-ins to get that perfect pairing of sweet and salty.
Do you ever add anything special to your popcorn? If not, you should try it! Here are some options if you need some inspiration or want some new ideas.
Popcorn Mix-In Ideas
- Candy: gummy bears, cinnamon candy, mini caramel candies, fruit flavored candy, chocolate candies
- Nuts: peanuts, cashews, almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds
- Chocolate covered: peanuts, almonds, cashews, soynuts, raisins, dried cranberries
- Cereal: virtually any kind
- Dried fruit: raisins, apples, apricots, pineapple, cranberries
- Spicy: spicy peanuts, cajun trail mix, green peas (really anything spicy you can find)
- Salty: mini pretzels or sticks, honey sesame sticks, fish crackers, corn nuts, cheese crackers
- Mini cookies: chocolate chips, chocolate sandwich cookies, wafers, grahams
I served our popcorn in a lunch bag folded down. It works great for easy access, but makes for quick cleanup. I like to give individual servings, so we don’t have to stay huddled together. Plus, my husband can inhale his popcorn. My kids take their time while they eat, so they don’t get very much if they share with Dad.
What is your favorite pairing with popcorn? What do you think of the idea of this app?
Don’t forget to download Perfect Pop for your own perfectly popped popcorn with Pop Secret!
We love our popcorn for movie night, I never thought about mixing it up with some goodies. great idea!
My family loves popcorn. This is such a neat app and a unique way to use technology!
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Awesome post, thanks for sharing this post..
I love the idea of mini caramel candies. Do you have a recommendation? Also red hots or other cinnamon candies. We are crazy for popcorn in my house!
My favorite pairing of popcorn is caramel and chocolate chips. And this app would be a popcorn saver for me and hubby.
We love popcorn. I like these ideas to jazz it up too! Especially the spicy and dried fruit ideas. I will try it out next time we have popcorn. Thanks for sharing.
What a great app. There are lots of ideas a popcorn lover like me will have to try
We hadn’t thought of the candy combos! We usually sprinkle in some shredded cheese…but cinnamon candy sounds GREAT!
we love adding M&Ms. popcorn and chocolate make the perfect combo
This is a really fun idea for movie night.
We have a lot of varied taste in our home which vary form hot and spicy to sweet.
So we could each invent our favorites. My kids would love it.
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i like chocolate or rolos we put in our popcorn some time. .. yummm! i like the m and m idea though!
If there is anything my husband loves to snack on more than popcorn, it’s M&Ms – especially with Peanuts. I think I’ll save the recipe/idea for special occasions (or “rewards”) otherwise he could easily become addicted to this combination and his daily diet only has room for the POPCORN part of the “recipe”… THANKS
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ASIDE: A long time ago my now 92 year old, always-healthy-eating Mom decided that POPCORN was the healthiest snack (almost like “An apple a day…” and of course all of us were more than willing to “listen to Mom’s advice” and we’ve all been happily eating popcorn A LOT ever since.
The app is awesome because I usually burn my popcorn and it doesn’t taste so good. I usually add salt and melted butter
What a fun idea! I have knew thought about adding things to popcorn, these look so yummy!! 🙂
I’m a popcorn purist. Don’t put anything on except salt and butter.
I don’t have a smartphone I just stay by the microwave til it mostly stops popping.
What an interesting and useful app. I love the idea of mix-ins with the popcorn. Everyone can make their perfect custom blend!
I have burned popcorn a few times, having an app for this is interesting and others have probably been like I have
When I eat popcorn I just HAVE to have something sweet. My favorite is mixing in some plain or peanut M&M’s. The heat from the freshly popped popcorn makes the chocolate melt and it is SO good!
What a great app and I am totally going to try some of those suggestions of things to add to my popcorn.