Here is the proper way to use your new toy.
Buy a bottle of jalapeno slices.
Put a thin layer of olive oil across the bottom of the popper.
Drop in 10-100000 jalapeno slices and allow them to cook until almost completely crisp...might wanna put the windows down because it will make you cough the first couple of test burns (you Austinites are notoriously weak when it comes to handling the heat.)
Put in about a half cup of decent kernels...(I get the fifty pound bag of Act II kernels from Sams)
Wait five minutes and enjoy the greatest popcorn in the history of popcorn.