Add two tablespoons of corn syrup. Add 3 tablespoons of popcorn kernels. Drip four red gel food coloring drops into the pressure cooker. Use a bamboo spoon to stir until the corn syrup is dyed red.

I used to be devoted to the inverted-sieve stovetop method of making popcorn, in which you use a heavy-bottomed pot with a ...

Dried corn kernels are readily available from most supermarkets. Commercially-produced ready-to-cook popcorn kernels are also available, sealed in bags that you just put in the microwave.

best known for its Jolly Time product line. In that time, an entire year's worth of popcorn kernels — billions and billions of them, he says — have passed from cob in the field to hopper to ...