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A hot-air home popcorn maker. A popcorn maker (also called a popcorn popper) is a machine used to pop corn. Since ancient times, popcorn has been a popular snack food, produced through the explosive expansion of kernels of heated corn . [1] Commercial large-scale popcorn machines were invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th century. Many ...
Northland Aluminum Products, Inc, doing business as Nordic Ware, [1] is a company based in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, suburb of St. Louis Park, notable for introducing the Bundt cake pan in the early 1950s.
H. David Dalquist (May 25, 1918 – January 2, 2005) was an American inventor and chemical engineer. [1]Dalquist was a graduate of the University of Minnesota.Dalquist served as a radar technician in the Pacific with the United States Navy during World War II.
C. Cretors & Company is an American manufacturing company, specializing in popcorn machines and other concessions equipment. It was established in 1885 with the invention of the first large-scale commercial popcorn machine to pop corn in oil. C. Cretors & Co. is in Wood Dale, Illinois and is still owned by the Cretors family.
This is a list of notable popcorn brands. Popcorn , also known as popping corn , is a type of corn ( maize , Zea mays var. everta ) that expands from the kernel and puffs up when heated. Popcorn is able to pop because its kernels have a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior.
Metal Ware Corporation was co-founded by Joseph Koenig, who also founded the Mirro Aluminum Company and William H Ellis II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Metal Ware filed for incorporation on August 18, 1920. [ 3 ] The company was a successor to Two Rivers Plating which was founded by Henry Mixa in 1902.
[19] [20] Popcorn is an ingredient in Cracker Jack and, in the early years of the product, it was popped by hand. [19] An early popcorn machine in a street cart, invented in the 1880s by Charles Cretors in Chicago. Popcorn's accessibility increased rapidly in the 1890s with Charles Cretors' invention of the popcorn maker. Cretors, a Chicago ...
WearEver Cookware can trace its origins back to 1888 when Charles Martin Hall, a young inventor from Oberlin, Ohio discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum by perfecting the electrochemical reduction process that extracted aluminum from bauxite ore.