Calling anyone with a popcorn machine please!

[TheMuggleStruggle]

Which do you have and would you recommend it?

Thankyou!

Also they like the sweet and salty versions.

So can you empty the microwave versions in from the shops? You know the 4 for £1 bags you get that are preflavoured?

Do you mean an air popcorn maker? They are great much healthy and take about 2min to make massive bowl. Bags of popcorn are cheap as anything rather than pre packed versions.

Just and salt to make salty, mine has scoop to measure the corn that doubles up to melt butter in while it’s cooking. I hate sweetcorn but I’m sure there are lots of recipes about.

@TheMuggleStruggle

Also they like the sweet and salty versions.

So can you empty the microwave versions in from the shops? You know the 4 for £1 bags you get that are preflavoured?

I wouldn't because the coating / flavouring will stay in the popcorn maker. I would get a bag of popcorn kernels and add my own flavourings once the popped kernels are in the bowl.

They're all pretty much of a muchness. I bought mine second-hand on eBay after looking up brand reviews on Amazon.

I have an air popper I got from argos a few years ago for about £20, it’s great. I just buy kernels from the section where they have the couscous etc and have it plain as a fairly healthy snack.

We've got one a bit like this this and it is ace! DH puts icing sugar, salt and melted butter on and it's delish. Our most used kitchen gadget!

I don’t think I would put pre-flavoured microwave bags in it because I think the sugar would burn

Use a saucepan, a teeny bit of oil, put the lid on and voila.

If you get a popcorn machine you need a massive bowl because it spits the stuff everywhere otherwise. In a pan it’s contained. And if you’re going to be putting melted butter on it anyway it’s not as if you need it to be healthier than with a bit of oil.

I bought a popcorn maker years ago, it’s sitting on top of a cupboard somewhere and now if I ever make popcorn I just use a saucepan.

I want the kids to be able to do it themselves. Wouldn't trust them with a hot pan.

They make microwave popcorn now but burn it most times!

It is good as there is nothing to do or watch. Just one switch soon as the corn is hot it pops out. Just need remember to turn it off at the end after it’s stopped popping. Dead easy clean just turn upside down any left bits tip out

I got a duck popper years and years ago and it's still going strong. Tbh I like cinema style popcorn and I've never managed it achieve it. Salty is easy, butter is too.

I don’t think it’s any easier to use a popping machine than microwave popcorn and the mechanism does get hot, the popcorn is obviously also hot as it comes out. It sounds like they are not following the microwave popcorn directions (maybe power up too high?) so correcting them on that might be the easier solution?

I mix fresh hot popcorn with a bag of the sugary stuff. It warms up the bagged one and coats sugar on the healthy stuff.

Ordered one. Thankyou.

I had one as a teen, and loved it. Still have one now! You can't put any flavourings in the machine itself, so no to using the microwave bags.

I'm a popcorn expert.

The air popping ones are hard to flavour as you have to pop the kernels in some oil and the flavouring for it to stick. The ones that pop in oil are better but will be difficult to switch between salty and sweet as you'll have to clean the drum thoroughly between flavours and it will be hot.

Best option is to buy two silicon microwave popcorn bowls. One for salty and one for sweet. 1/4 cup of kernels, 1 tsp of coconut oil plus 1 tsp caster sugar or salt, 2mins 20secs in the microwave on full power. You can't go wrong.

Love our popcorn machine. It was just a cheap one from Amazon but it used regularly. It has outlived the candy floss maker, ice cream maker, chocolate coin maker and slushie machine for usefulness.

What kind of popcorn machine are you talking about? There are so many different kinds. We have one that is a smaller version of the style used in movie theatres. It makes fantastic popcorn, but it is huge and I wouldn’t call it kid-friendly.

@Blossom64265

What kind of popcorn machine are you talking about? There are so many different kinds. We have one that is a smaller version of the style used in movie theatres. It makes fantastic popcorn, but it is huge and I wouldn’t call it kid-friendly.

TheMuggleStruggle Sat 11-Dec-21 14:44:13

Ordered one. Thankyou.