Flavacol Salt and Glaze Pop Flavoring 3 Pack

I tried many of the products at the grocery store trying to get authentic stadium/movie style popcorn at home. All of them left me disappointed, so I learned that Flavacol is the actual product they use. Naturally, Amazon is the easiest way for me to find that...then I saw the triple pack to make caramel and kettle corn too!! I will leave a detailed review of both types of product and how I have made them work with an air Popper.Flavacol -- this is a very very very salty product!! It's easy to use too much and ruin your batch. If you want to put it into a shaker, I would suggest a regular salt shaker, not something with large openings. Personally I use the smallest measuring spoon, labelled "pinch" and it takes 2 to 3 pinches for the amount of popcorn produced by putting a level scoop of corn from the scoop on top into the air Popper. I pop the corn into a huge measuring bowl, and coat it first with some of the spray stuff from the grocery store (which is sold next to the popcorn and labeled as movie theater butter, but by itself it doesn't have much flavor). The spray stuff is just to allow the Flavacol to stick. I am careful to keep stirring and shaking the popcorn and try to get the products as evenly distributed as possible. It's ok to have some more coated pieces mixed in with mostly plain looking popcorn--thats actually how concession stand popcorn looks when you buy it. Try this and eat it warm...or let it sit for about an hour after you coat it if you really want it taste just like the concession popcorn lol.Pop-N-Glaze:(see photo) this is the exact product they use to make kettle corn at festivals etc. I wasted a lot of it trying to carefully pop kernels in it mixed with coconut oil on the stovetop (as I don't own a whirly-pop). I just don't think you can make it on the stove unless you have a whirly-pop. It. Will. Burn. How I have compromised is to melt the product in a small to medium sized sauce pan and pour over air popped popcorn. Sorry I don't have exact measurements because I just eyeballed it based on experience with cooking. I put enough coconut oil in the saucepan on medium heat to fill the bottom of the pan, maybe 4 tablespoons? Once the oil is hot, I dumped some of this product in (maybe a cup?) I stirred it constantly over medium heat until it became liquid and started to foam. It looked lightly caramelized in the pan but dries to the correct color once on the popcorn. I poured it over plain, air-popped popcorn in my largest mixing bowl using a silicone spatula and stirring as I pour with the goal to distribute it as evenly as possible. The finished product has the right taste and texture as the kettle corn you buy at a concession stand or festival kart. I read the ingredients and it is sugar, salt, and some preservatives. Anyone might be able to replicate this one without buying it, but I have not tried.Glaze Pop: this is Carmel corn coating like the kind they used to sell in mall food courts, or festivals etc. Exact same problems with burning it on stove top as I had with the kettle corn. So follow the same improvised instructions as for the kettle corn to melt it down and coat pre-popped corn. This one's ingredients are sugar, brown sugar, molasses, salt, and some preservatives/colorants. This is similar to an old home recipe I have for "Cracker Jack's" but that recipe also calls for vinegar. You can definitely use my improvised method to make this product on the stovetop and pour over popcorn, but making it from scratch is honestly better tasting, but takes more time and effort, and perhaps helps to have some candy making expertise. So this product just saves time and effort v.s. making caramel corn from scratch.**General comments: These are all powders, they're in cartons, similar to milk cartons. One of them had busted and leaked out a little during shipping. I love the vintage looking cartons, too. I would definitely recommend this product and while there's enough of this to last me a very long time, when I run out I will certainly buy Flavacol again. Not sure about the other 2, as I think I am better off sticking to home recipes for those types of popcorn topping, but I might buy them again in the future.

Great products fast shipping!!!

The two sweet flavors are hard to use with an oil electric popper. Keep burning it

Great stuff, the items came well packaged. Haven't tried them yet, but looking forward to each one.

I absolutely will purchase again. The flavors aren't too overpowering and they add a nice crunch to my popcorn. Use with an oil popper or whirly pop.

The Flavacol is a must for movie theater popcorn, and it is a great product so use it as recommended in the instructions. You won't be disappointed. However, for the caramel and "sweet corn" (this is kettle corn flavor) glazes these are more finicky so you need to do a few things different than the instructions indicate to get the best results. First, don't max out your batches at any one popping. For example, we have a 12-ounce kettle and only use 2/3 of a batch. So we typically pop 1.5 cups for regular popcorn but when we use a glaze we cut that back to 1 cup. These glazes can get very sticky in the kettle and have a tendency to coat the early popped seeds better than the later popped seed, so if you pop large batches you won't get as good of coverage of the glaze. Also mix the popcorn really well after popping to distributed the heavy coated and light coated kernels, and this also helps get any un-popped seeds stuck to the kernels/glaze to fall out...so nobody breaks a tooth. Second, for any of the glazes use double the recommended amount. So use a 1:1 glaze to popcorn ratio instead of 1/2:1 ratio indicated by the instructions and you will get much better results. For the example above with a 12-ounce kettle we use 1 cup of glaze for 1 cup of popcorn (and 5 tablespoons of oil if you are wondering). While we are speaking of popping oil be sure to use white coconut oil and not butter flavored oil for either of these glazes. Keep in mind the coconut oil will give your popcorn a strong coconut flavor, which to some enhances the sweetness of these glazes...but for others if that is too strong try mixing coconut and a white canola oil together and that will lessen the coconut flavor. Finally, for the 'sweet corn' (kettle corn) glaze it typically doesn't taste real great on its own, in fact we hated it the first time we tried it and some reviews have provided similar experiences....so I was messing around and discovered what was missing. After you are done popping make sure you add a good dusting of salt to get a more robust kettle corn flavor. We use regular table salt for this as the larger crystals seem to give the best mix of sweet and salt. Simply adding salt transforms this glazed popcorn to a true kettle corn and you won't be disappointed. Hope this helps, enjoy your popcorn!!

BE CAREFUL !! THE MOVIE-THEATER FLAVORED FLAVACOL HAS 2740 MGM OF SODIUM IN IT. 114% OF DAILY RECOMMENDED AMOUNT IN 1 TEASPOON !! EXCESSIVE SODIUM INTAKE CAN LEAD TO MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS.THE BODY RETAINS WATER TO DILUTE THE EXCESSIVE SODIUM. THAT CAUSES BLOOD VESSELS TO STIFFEN LEADING TO HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART ATTACK AND STROKE. THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT EVEN IF BLOOD PRESSURE DOESN'T INCREASE, DAMAGE MAY BE DONE TO HEART, AORTA AND KIDNEYS AS WELL AS DAMAGING BONES. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. IT ACCOUNTS FOR 2/3 OF STROKES. YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT EXCESSIVE SODIUM INTAKE. AGAIN, 1 TEASPOON OF THE THEATER-FLAVORED FLAVOCOL YIELDS 2740 MGM OF SODIUM OR 114% OF RECOMMENDED DAILY INTAKE. A DEFINITE "NO", "NO", "NO" !!!!!