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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 ...
[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 ...
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.
A look at the history of popcorn beginning with the Iroquois Indians, who popped corn in clay jars.
The humble popcorn has a very long and fascinating history.
A popcorn "cannon" seen in Taiyuan, China. In the 1930s, Anderson’s invention was adapted as the Chinese Popcorn cannon. [6] Anderson's invention was designed for industrial food manufacturing, and unsuitable for street vendors. [7] The device is a teardrop-shaped pressure cooking pot. [8] The history of grain-puffing in Asia remaines ...
Popping corn became a popular recreational activity by the 1840s, after “wire-on-the-fire” poppers and popping apparatuses were invented. In the following decades, popcorn vendors proliferated ...
The Original Popcorn Popper is one of the company's oldest and best-selling items, and has been made with the original equipment and dies since the late 1800s, when the company acquired the patent from William Wood, its inventor. They were originally sold at a wholesale price of $3.50 for a gross. [2]