Dan S. wrote:
> I like microwave popcorn, but sometimes I just buy the bag of regular
> corn and pop it in the wok.
>
> I use vegetable oil and it never comes out as crisp as the microwave
> stuff. In fact, you could almost say it's stale or chewy tasting.
>
> How can I remedy this?
>

Buy a microwave popper. I think I paid $6 for ours and it is over 5
years old. Looks like a bowl with a loose fitting lid. No oil required
and none of the acrid exploding chemical factory smell you get from the
fake butter in bagged microwave popcorn.