Related: 11 Best Flavored Popcorn Recipes In a video from 2016, Zimmern and his son, Noah, took a salad spinner out and used it to evenly distribute melted butter on microwave popcorn.

But then my husband read about a way to make popcorn in the microwave using only a brown paper lunch bag, and our household movie nights were forever changed. The method is foolproof (well, mostly ...

Not all microwave butter popcorn is created equal. We taste-tested several popular brands of microwave popcorn to see which are the best out there.