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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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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.

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As a kid, those Jiffy-Pop commercials looked like a lot of fun and the magic of watching the top puffing up so nice was as enticing as the popcorn itself. They were fun and moms liked them because there were no dishes to clean up.