From what I've seen so far, air popped corn seems to give my pouch less problems than when I cook it with oil. On a 1 to 10 scale of 1 being uncomfortable and 10 as comfortable as it gets with a pouch, I'd give oil popcorn a 4 and air popped corn an 8. Although perhaps oil popcorn can be improved by using different kinds of oil. I mainly use olive and canola.