Lisa: "We're gonna pop popcorn without a lid" Me: "Oh Lisa, you dirty girl."

I find that using a lid keeps the steam in and makes the popcorn a little softer/not as crisp. You can use a strainer or splatter screen to hold the popcorn in while letting the steam out. =)

You could see the little girl in Lisa's grin as she watched the wok, waiting for the popcorn to start popping.

I made popcorn in my wok exactly like this for decades. And like Lisa said, it really seasons the wok to perfection! Best way to season a new wok

I had to laugh! You are like a kid with a new toy! To be honest, as a teenager I was babysitting three children for the very first time and was told they loved popcorn while watching TV. So after their pajamas were on we headed to the kitchen to get started! Had everything ready! Everything, but the lid to the pot! As the popcorn flew I was frantically looking for the lid as the kids screamed and laughed with delight! They had a ball while I spent the evening cleaning the kitchen! I was their favorite babysitter after that!

a) Thanks for a very cool lesson, I have a tiny wok, gonna try this! b) Lisa, you're the best! That was soooo much fun!

Lisa why can’t we be asked to wash our lid! Honestly single use piece of foil and garbage forever. Let’s get back to basics how hard is it to use warm soapy water? Otherwise great work as always.

As someone who has been critical of the staleness some of your videos, I really like this one. It's got good information, it's fun to watch, and the real personality of the presenter comes through! It feels like a real person having fun. Such a refreshing change! Even without the lid-off popping, everything is so much more loose and casual. I hope to see more videos like this.

Love Lisa’s videos ! Always a good day when I see Lisa has posted a new one !!

Awesome video. My dog would love finding all the popcorn that ended up on the floor.

Please make a video for cooking popcorn in a slow-cooking crockpot -- for those of us who aren't in a hurry. Thanks, I'll check back in a couple years.

It's 1990 and my step-daughter s want popcorn & we did not have a popper...but I had a cheap wok with a lid. Made the best popcorn.

Good idea, pop corn and season your wok at the same time. Ages ago my dad made popcorn in a large steel pot in a similar way. He would shake the pot and also have the lid a little skewed to let steam escape. Thanks for another great video Lisa!

We love making our popcorn like this! I make everyone be quiet so I can hear the kernels pop. Haha After the popcorn is ready, I add a piece of butter to the warm wok and then toss the popcorn. Delish!

THIS is the kind of videos I like and have come to expect from y'all. Thank y'all.

the wok is so good to make kettle corn. heat wok -> add oil till hot -> add white sugar and pop corn and keep the wok moving till it slows popping. no burnt sugar!

I tried this tonight.... pretty good.... the one kernel worked great, added the rest of the kernels and popped on high... IT DID NOT BURN OR SCORCH... TASTED A BIT DIFFERENT FROM MY TRUSTY - Old fashioned popcorn popper .... delicious...

I’ve been using a wok for popcorn for a few years and it works great (first saw Alton Brown do a variation using a metal bowl). But I use one of those mesh splatter screens for a lid. Why? Because you need to let steam and moisture escape so the popcorn doesn’t become chewy.

Yep i learned this from a book of Grace Youngs. Love it

Watching this video just totally made my day. Lisa, you are such a perfect blend of personality traits, that you are truly a joy to watch. ATK has such a perfect blend of people and personalities. This video has the rank right up there with the sticky buns episode. Love you guys!

Lisa, can you speak to the corn used? I make popcorn at home on the stove top all the time and it seems that different brands of corn yield really different popcorn. Anything ATK has learned about the kernel itself?? Thank you!

My wife has been popping popcorn in a round bottom wok for many years. By far out favorite method and used weekly here. Put popcorn in pan, put in enough coconut oil and real butter to barely cover the kernels, put lid on, let pop until done. No shaking, now stirring.

Yer toooooo funny Lisa...HAHAHAHA!!!...I ALWAYS love your videos, as much as all the others!!! (But I'm VERY glad you didn't get scalded by flying corn OR the splattering oil!)........OY!!!....WHATTA GAL!!....Ya know, I think all you ladies & gents are having WAAAAAY too much FUN these days!.....I LOVE IT!!!!....I hope you didn't get in trouble though....(I seriously doubt it, especially 'cuz you ALL have such GREAT senses of humor!!).....keep up the good "work"...haha!....TONS of love and hugs, from your biggest fan...Daryl . . . PS: I just ADORE how much more FUN you ALL seem to have ever since "that old surly guy" left....Every one of you is THE BEST!!! You not only instruct us in SOOOO many ways, but you entertain us AND give us lots of chuckles too....ALL of you make our days better, honey lamb, so please take this comment as my honest, heartfelt compliment and PASS IT ON TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR WONNNNNDERFUL COLLEAGUES!!!...Now I gotta go make popcorn in my wok....(gonna use a LID though!..haha!) . . . PPS: Check out the comment below (two primary comments following THIS one), by "honeyfromthebee"....You guys should test possible "steam escape" methods for popping corn....cuz it REEEEALLY DOES make the popped corn MUCH more crispy!!!

"I'm gonna get in such trouble"....why, are Bridget, Julia, Dan, Becky, Lan, Elle, Keith, Erin, Adam, and Jack standing around glaring at you tapping their foot? No, we know they're just off camera convulsing in laughter....and so is the "Cooks Country" team...ROTFL

Love this, and this is the reason I watch your videos on You Tube.

You feed yourself with delicious popcorn and add another seasoning layer to a pan. Brilliant kitchen work.

Thank you!!!:-D super fun!😁

Lisa popping popcorn is my spirit animal hehe. Cute video😄💗

Lucy in the sky with diamonds Popcorn in a wok with Lisa

I always wanted to make popcorn with the lid. I lived vicariously through you...well done.

She's such a dork and its so adorable.

Well look at that a live person now who's got to clean up the mess but it was funny .

Love the cuteness/playfullness of these videos. Feel free to come over to make wokcorn (or any other dishes) any time.

Wok & Pop

I've been popping corn in my wok for years, it's the best. Thanks for the tip using foil on the lid, that looks like a winner. Thanks for another great video.

I learned this about 20 years ago watching mr. Orval reddenbacher on a commercial. Put 3 corns in the oil. When they pop add the rest. When it stops popping put it in a bowl. There is rarely more then 10 unpopped corns.

My favorite way to make popcorn

This was fun. Thanks for showing the popping without the lid.

This is how popcorn was made in our house when I was a kid. My favorite.

If you have a glass lid, you can safely watch the popping!

Omg, that was hilarious!!! Thank you for doing that demonstration so we never have to do it at home. 😂😂

Can you use coconut oil?

Oddly enough, a round bottomed wok on an electric stoves works just as well. It's almost impossible to burn, as all the popped kernels) "float" above the unpopped ones. ie they are lifted out of the hot zone that is just a tiny point of contact. I use my round bottomed wok on a 3 ring gas burner outside, but I make popcorn on an induction cooker with my wok. Only mabe 3cm of the bottom is heated.

Cooking popcorn without a lid is like firecrackers :) Just in time for the Lunar New Year!

Popping corn is the only thing I use my wok for lol

Thanks For this Kernel of information...LOL Love Lisa..She's so Zany and Fun.

Love that. Love popcorn. This is great.

More cooking videos with Lisa please 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

What heat level was your burner? What type of oil??

I thought I'd pop in for this! Wok, don't run, to try it out!

Pure love ♥️

This is how, my father cooked popcorn in the 30’s, but he used a lid. He used twigs, flour paste and newspaper to make kites. He also made snow ice cream. Making snow ice cream is a skill. I taught my daughter and she taught my grandson,

"Great Wok Of China" sold back in the 1980's/90's. The best thing you could do with it was make "Wok-Corn" HaHa. Made some in the mine just yesterday. I guess Woks last a life time? Thanks

YAY! I, too, have always wanted to pop without a lid, but the clean-up potential always stopped me. Lisa FTW!

Lunch sack, 1/4 cup popcorn, 3 minutes done. Throw away bag. no dishes to clean. Doing it Lisa's way does season the wok which is good.

How much oil ratio to popcorn kernels

Awsome

I use an air popper,but that's a truly awesome idea

Do y’all have a favorite stove made popcorn I usually buy the white kernels

No-lid popcorn = unexpurgated joy. :)

Wonder if it would work without oil. I pop popcorn without oil in a pot on the stove all the time but have never yet tried using a wok (I have one the size of what Lisa used here). Now I'm motivated to try...

How much popcorn did you put in?

Isn’t the point of a lid to catch the mess? What’s the point in wasting foil as well

Awesome! Thanks for the laugh!

I think you could also do this in a saucier

Growing up, my mom made popcorn on our wok as well as rice crispies.

And welcome to another episode of just because we can doesn’t mean we should

How much oil to how much corn?

Not sure why this is amazing. Any vessel that can hold oil and heat will work. I used to cook popcorn in a pan when I was a kid....before popcorn came prepackaged.

Let’s get that wok working!😅

Um this was delightful

This is similar to Alton's Browns method of using a metal mixing bowl. Either way, the good news is popcorn definitely doesn't need a special gadget.

Would never do it without a lid, lol. I am NOT cleaning up that mess!!!

🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️ Liiisssaaa!!! Amazing review as always 🤩

Without the lid is the best way 😂 and it suppose to taste better 😅.

Add some hot sauce to the oil to make some spicy yummy popcorn

Looks like fun if you're camping outside

Ooh! That is some nice looking popcorn. It was too fun when it was popped topless! 😂😋

Oh this is so great... LOL

Ahem. Lisa had way too much fun popping the corn without the lid. 😄 Seriously, now I have yet one more thing to make in a wok.

I need a lid for my Wok.

Fireworks on wok! I'm using soup pot to make popcorn.

My dad used to make popcorn in a wok when I was a kid he would toss a clove of garlic in while making it though

This is the only way I pop corn. I never have an unpopped kernel.

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

😆😂🤣 thanks for that!

Great idea but is the oil supposed to smoke?

You enjoyed that, Lisa! Lol

Wokcorn

WokCorn

Love her face in this video

You made wok corn

Thanks Lisa! How high should the flame be?

Using a wokt is the only way to make popcorn. Been do it for 30years

The only thing she didn't do is hit the kernels with some fine salt when she added them.

The best oil to use for this: virgin coconut mixed with peanut.

Right at 0:24 I have to comment on this video because, "what's old is new again"! LOL Back in my day there were no microwaves, so no microwave popcorn, also no hot air popcorn either. You made popcorn in a large pot, with a lid, with a little oil on the gas stove - electric is useless. With the lid off and with medium high heat you watch the popcorn until the first pop, then the lid goes on and you shake the pot back and forth and don't stop. All the popping will finish really fast then you remove the pot from the stove and open the lid. There's always one or two kernels that's going to surprise you! What I do is mix oil and butter together with salt so its ready right from the pot. Ok, back to the video with this "NEW" way to make popcorn. ") EDIT: Don't let the wok just sit there, you can burn the popcorn. "O That's why the movie popcorn makers have a sweeping arm to keep the kernels in motion. ") The other alternative to this in the 60's was, Jiffy Pop Popcorn, which you can still buy! Although I prefer the pot method.

Fun! :)

wok corn ... lazy corn, not wanting to run corn ... wok-y wok-y !!!!

I moved from oil popping in a pot to air popping. I won't go back. Staying low fat.