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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Pop, Popper Your Popcorn Maker

Popcorn maker that is also called popcorn machine is a device used to pop popcorn. During early years there were no popcorn makers, Indians made popcorn by heating sand in a pan and then they put the kernels on the heated sand. This machine made it easy for the people to sell the popcorn on the streets and on the amusements parks, which spurred the popularity of popcorn.

The first popcorn maker was steam driven which The Food Service Equipment Division patented in 1885. It allowed the popcorn to be popped in oil, and then later, they had a gas powered popcorn vendors. People began selling popcorn using this machine on the streets, in front of the amusement parks, stores and theaters to attract people to buy popcorn. Today, people are buying old-fashioned popcorn makers to cook delicious popcorn in social events or for one's own pleasure at the comfort of one's home. People want to purchase popcorn maker because they may need to make more than cooking a few bags of microwave popcorn. Popcorn makers have different types and brands but today, most popcorn makers were run by gas or electricity. Popcorn makers have different range of prices depending on the amount of popcorn the machine can produce and if they have cart. There are two types of popcorn makers available for home use, hot air poppers that allow you to make fat and salt free popcorn that is the healthiest way of making popcorn and oil poppers that uses heated oil to cook the popcorn.

The popcorn and popcorn makers have become popular that there is a museum of popcorn. This museum is called Wyandot Popcorn Museum, which has many refurbished antique popcorn machines that was invented in the late 1890's and 1900's. W. Hoover Brown and the only popcorn museum in the world founded the museum.

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