1. Posted by Salome Ellen [website] on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 10:43 AM (EST):
We love our Stir-Crazy so much that my daughter put one on her wedding registry just to make sure :-D
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Posted by Rachel Balducci in Reviews on Monday, August 25, 2008 8:00 AM
A few months ago, I noticed two things – one, that microwavable popcorn was always on my grocery list, and two, that microwavable popcorn isn’t cheap.
So I started doing a little research and decided we’d start popping corn on our own. I was so pleased to buy the five-dollar bag of kernels that I was confident I’d left the world of nuked popcorn behind. We would now have unlimited bowls of popcorn, all for mere pennies a serving.
For a while I tried using my large stock pot, but I could never get the right oil-to-corn ratio, and our popcorn always tasted a bit greasy. Eventually, I settled on this: a good old-fashioned (sorta) popcorn popper
We have loved it.
It took us a few tries to get the consistency right. If you leave the popper on too long the kernels closest to the heat source get either really crispy or soggy. I find the dichotomy a bit odd. But we have figured it out and I can say everyone seems to love our new little machine.
In fact, my boys give it a five-star rating.
“This thing,” declared one boy, “is not a piece of junk.”
I would add one thing: if you have boys (or perhaps older boys, or perhaps boys with no older sister to balance them out) – keep an eye on them. My boys are very enamored with our popcorn popper, and they’re getting ahead of themselves a bit.
“I wonder what would happen,” mused my nine-year-old, “if you stick a potato in there, with ketchup.”
When he said this, I looked over to see my oldest smiling, with an unsettling sparkle in his eye.
“This is for popcorn ONLY,” I declared. So far, they are not convinced.
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2. Posted by Maurisa [website] on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 2:49 PM (EST):
That popper looks exactly like the one we had when we were growing up. The nostalgia of it all!
Don’t you just love boys and their ingenuity! I can just see the wheels turning. “I wonder what would happen. . .” is a phrase that sends shivers down my spine!
3. Posted by annette on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 4:56 PM (EST):
We received a large ziplock of homegrown popcorn as a welcome to the neighborhood gift:).
That is a huge stretch fo r my microwave popcorn brain. I pooped it on the stove and my kids were not impressed:(. How do you butter the popcorn without getting some kernels soaked and others untouched? I can’t remember from my pre microwave days!
4. Posted by Kara [website] on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 7:20 PM (EST):
Oh, wow! I have such great memories of the family popcorn popper ... what a trip down memory lane and how cool that they still make poppers like that - and really, a whole bag of pop corn kernals for $5 ??? I may seriously have to consider this for our family ...
5. Posted by stephanie on Monday, Aug 25, 2008 11:11 PM (EST):
We’re fans of the Whirly Pop popcorn popper.
6. Posted by Rae on Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 8:32 AM (EST):
Ahhh… My husband and I both went to college with an air popcorn popper. I still have mine and although we haven’t completely done away with microwave popcorn (Boy Scouts sell it in our area for fundraiser and we know many Boy Scouts!), I’d have to say the kids prefer the air popper. Ours is a “no-brainer”. No oil needed. If you want butter, it melts in a little dish on top of the popper and you add it after your popcorn is in the bowl. It’ll be a sad day if the popper ever stops working!
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