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Couple of bucks, looks like it was barely used. Going to make some oil-popped corn tonight.

Couple of bucks, looks like it was barely used. Going to make some oil-popped corn tonight.

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Holy shit. We had one of those. And a subscription to TV Guide. Would check every week to see what movies would be showing. Fire up the popper and have fresh buttered popcorn ready just in time to watch "Planet of The Apes" (the original, good one, of course). Good memories.

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Same here haha.

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Holy God, this brings back memories,,,,,we did try it with bacon fat but ALL the smoke alarms went off,,,, good times!!

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Dang you don't even see wood paneling like that anymore! That would almost be good enough on its own, but then you combined that with the countertop! Mannnn, tell me you got the shag carpet too?!?!

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The wood is cedar fence slats that I planed down and coated with spar varnish. It's about 10 years old.

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Have you ever popped popcorn in bacon grease? Give it a try.

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No, but I have some fresh grease. Will give it a try

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If you want the whole movie theater style popcorn, it takes two things -- cooking in oil, preferably the orange coconut oil, and flavorcal. Flavorcal is the salt-flavor mix that the theaters use. You can get it on amazon, but since it is for commercial joints, you have to get a big milk carton container when you will want to use like 1/4-1/2 tsp for that size popper. It's about $10 a carton. You can buy them on amazon, or at restaurant supply stores, like if you have an Ace Mart Restaurant Supply nearby.

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Wow. That brings back very fond memories for me. Nice score.

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I have my folks old corn poppers, one is very similar to yours. The other was one of the first of the hot air poppers offered, probably mid-late 1970s. I also have a couple of antique poppers, round and rectangular wire baskets with wire lids on long wooden handles to pop corn over a woodstove or fireplace.

I still use the hot air popper, works great!

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I have a modern hot air popper, it works well enough. We used to just do oil pop on the stovetop, but I couldn't pass this thing up it was so cheap.

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We did the full gamut when I was a kid. From oil in a cast iron skillet with lid on the stove in the 1960s (burned a lot of kernels), to jiffy-pop pie shaped aluminum poppers (gets expensive), to the one like you bought (but you have to add vegetable oil) and finally the hot air popper (has a built in little removable tray that sits in the output snout to melt your butter as you pop the corn). Did a few microwave popcorn packets but felt the coconut oil they used was unhealthy, stayed with the hot air popper.

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Those Jiffy-Pop commercials where it just puffs up so nice. We never could quite get those to work like it was supposed to. It was ok, but yeah. It's a commercial.