by A.J. Coltrane
When I was growing up we had a popcorn popper like this one by the fireplace:
I don’t know what happened to it — maybe it’s packed away in a box someplace.
I don’t remember eating the popcorn, though I think I remember the process of sitting on the floor around the fireplace to make it.
It’s not really the popcorn maker you want to be using in the middle of summer. Eventually we got an air-popper, replacing the old-school oil-in-a-plastic-dome model. The hot air popper was cool enough anyway, since you could melt the butter in the plastic container on top of it while the popcorn popped.
According to the ebay listing — the fireplace version can be used to make smores too. Now that would be something.
Though geez — would you want to clean it after that?
FlatbreadGarden 
Nice, but it looks very small to make popcorn with considering how much the kernals expand in the process.
LikeLike
I’d have to think it’s about 18-24″ across and about 4-5″ deep.
Of course, I might just be remembering it larger than it is.
LikeLike
I found a listing on etsy (click sig for link):
“..The popper was produced by the Androck company and has their name and an imprinted patent# D208804 (granted in 1967). It is approx. 31″ long. The popping basket is 9″ in diameter. It is black metal with a stained wood handle.”
So it *is* smaller than I’d remembered.
LikeLike