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Post by feather on May 20, 2018 1:06:50 GMT
About 25 years ago I bought one of these aluminum poppers. I love it. Now after using it thousands of times, cleaning it, it is very hard to clean when I do clean it, it's old and gunked up. So I decide to buy a stainless steel popper, same design. I can't seem to make good popcorn in the stainless steel one.....lots of kernels left. The aluminum one popped all the corn at one point, for 60 seconds it all pops. With the stainless steel one, it takes longer and doesn't do as good of a job. I know aluminum is better at transferring heat than stainless steel. Anyone have any tips on getting the stainless steel one to pop better?
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Post by shin on May 20, 2018 1:17:48 GMT
They do make aluminum ones of these too still, I know. I bought one of the stainless steel ones once, I had to hunt for it vs. the aluminum ones, I was thinking it would be sturdier and healthier, but what I received was obviously a return rather than new. When I tried it on the stove, the bottom had separated from the rest of the pot and leaked. So returned by me too it was.
Since whenever I try to pop popcorn in a pot I end up burning it, in the end I gave up, and use a hot air popper. Now I just pour the coconut oil or margarine and flavacol over it and it's good enough for me.
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Post by feather on May 20, 2018 1:29:26 GMT
They do make aluminum ones of these too still, I know. I bought one of the stainless steel ones once, I had to hunt for it vs. the aluminum ones, I was thinking it would be sturdier and healthier, but what I received was obviously a return rather than new. When I tried it on the stove, the bottom had separated from the rest of the pot and leaked. So returned by me too it was. Since whenever I try to pop popcorn in a pot I end up burning it, in the end I gave up, and use a hot air popper. Now I just pour the coconut oil or margarine and flavacol over it and it's good enough for me. Shin, thanks. I didn't throw out my aluminum one. It's disgusting but I couldn't part with it and now after my popcorn failures with the SS one, I made some corn tonight in the aluminum one.
I thought perhaps there was a way to make the SS one work. So I heated the oil until hot, then added the popcorn and I get the same dismal failure so far each time. I thought maybe there was a trick to it. Maybe I ought to try it heating the oil and corn slow, see if that helps. UGH, and it was $30 for the SS one.
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Post by Skandi on May 20, 2018 8:42:16 GMT
Odd I pop all my popcorn in a stainless saucepan, I think it has an enclosed copper bottom however, which might make the difference.
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Post by Jolly on May 20, 2018 11:45:12 GMT
They still make the aluminum one. I bought one last year.
Sometimes, you just chalk up a loss and move on, even though it galls one to have spent good money on something that doesn't work...
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Post by Cabin Fever on May 20, 2018 14:18:25 GMT
I am going to be no help. We just microwave our popcorn in a dry brown paper lunch bag. No oil.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 14:22:20 GMT
Maybe try more heat, get it good and hot before adding corn. Don't know, I use an old pressure cooker, just removed the gasket, jiggler and pop off valve....James
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Post by Bear Foot Farm on May 20, 2018 23:55:32 GMT
It may be your popcorn that's the problem.
If it doesn't have the right moisture content it won't pop.
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Post by lindy on May 21, 2018 15:48:50 GMT
I use a ss pan,with a heavy bottom and rarely get more than a few unpopped kernels. I do put the oil and popcorn in at the same time,turn the stove to just past medium and don't touch it until I hear the first pop. Then I shake the pan a couple times as the corn pops like crazy and take it off the heat when the popping slows down to a count of 6 seconds between pops. I've tried different brands of popping corn and always come back to Orville Redenbacher which seems to have the best consistence result.
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Post by feather on Jun 17, 2018 16:03:24 GMT
Okay, first we had to run out of popcorn, then I bought a new bag. I popped it in the old aluminum popper, it works fabulously.
Then I tried to pop it in the stainless steel one. I started the heat on low, got it sizzling with the corn. Then turned it up to medium, until one or two popped. Then I turned it up high and it all popped nearly all at once. Very good results, just a different method of heating. Not many shucks at all! Thank you for all the suggestions.
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