1/4 cup unpopped popcorn
1 plain lunch sack
Put the popcorn in the bag and fold the top over a couple times. Put it in the microwave for three minutes or so, depending on the strength of your microwave. Top with your favorite topping and enjoy! According to Alton Brown on page 236 of I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking you can staple it twice - and ONLY twice - if you are worried, but I've never had a bag bust open and spill.
Somewhere in the deepest recess of my memory I have a picture of popping corn in the microwave as a child, so I guess I've always known it could be done this way. But since microwave popcorn took off like bottled water, and we had one of those old-school microwaves that you didn't want to look at lest you go blind.... or develop a super-power, I somehow forgot it. (Ok, I peeked a few times, but no superpower. Dammit.) Now I do it this way all the time, and it's awesome. All of the convenience of microwave popcorn at 1/10th the cost, with the added bonus of missing out on all the chemicals involved in conventional microwave popcorn. Win-win!
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