At some point in history our ancestors must have decided to put corn and fire together and realized the outcome was what we call popcorn. But – a popcorn machine? Something automatic? Well clearly there was one invented and the creator of this phenomenal automatic popcorn popper was none other than Mr. Charles Creator.
The first thing a lot of people do when you tell them they should get a hot air popcorn popper is turn up their nose. They’ve heard all the stories about how popcorn popped in a hot air popper is dry and flavorless and they want no part of it – not even willing to give it a try. But the thing is, those stories all come from people who are used to eating either that horrible microwave popcorn that’s loaded with sodium and a whole bunch of chemicals that are supposed to resemble butter, or movie popcorn which really IS drenched in salt and butter. They just assume that because it’s popped in a hot air popcorn popper, using air instead of oil to pop the corn, that it must be healthy, and therefore – tasteless.
Charles Cretors, a man with experience both in the construction and the food industry, loved to put two and two together and see how he could make things easier when it came to roasting peanuts. He didn’t like the results of the original designs and thought he could do better – and he did. He moved to Chicago in 1885, and found out soon that he could create much-wanted pop-corn with his improved design.
Funny: the original popcorn popper was designed to roast. True: much of what was roasted was liked, and this resulted in many different off-spring of the original machine. The Cretors were able to see the need and understood that different food reacts in different ways – and they were on to something, indeed. You want popcorn? Baked chestnuts? Roasted peanuts? They had it.
But only to a certain degree. The one or two tablespoons of oil that you use to pop popcorn aren’t really going to kill you and there are certain oils you can use that are healthier than others. But still, it’s oil and we all know what a bad rap oil gets these days. Which is why most people WANT their popcorn to be popped in oil – it’s a rebel thing, OK? If you’re going to have popcorn for a snack the least you can do is be a little bit daring and pop it in oil.
They finally patented a machine designed specifically for popcorn in 1893, two years after the application of it. I would understand it if it took two years because lots of competitors could see the potential of the automatic popcorn maker – the machine that would start a tradition. A patent would mean disaster for the competition. Yet it happened.
The popcorn popped in the hot air popper tastes like pure, unadulterated corn.
You can also learn more dealing with Glass Popcorn Popper and Old Fashioned Popcorn Popper.
