Best Microwave Popcorn 2024. Unpopular maybe and definitely gatekeeping, but the best kind of microwave popcorn is the kind left at the store. We taste tested pop secret, orville redenbacher, skinny pop, boom chicka pop, newman's own, whole foods 365, and more

The best popcorn makers are fast, popping full batches of popcorn in under three minutes for air poppers and under four minutes for stirring poppers. I ranked 8 popular microwave popcorn brands by flavor, texture, and the amount of unpopped kernels — the winner was one i’d truly never heard of