Cool Tip: Popcorn to Cook: Your Pan is Ready!

It's always important to have the oil in your pan hot enough before you add your other ingredients, otherwise they don't cook quite as well as you'd like.  Until I learned this trick, I always held my palm over the pan and then guessed; this method takes the guesswork out of it.

While you're heating the oil in your pan, throw in one kernel of unpopped popcorn, when it pops, your pan is ready!