Growing up, we never really used microwave popcorn. I can remember popcorn being one of those things we had only as a special treat when we would go to Blockbuster, rent a couple of movies, and then come home and watch them together as a family. Those were certainly the days, and rarely in my teenage years and even now do I get to do such a thing. Before microwave popcorn really became a popular pastime we used Mom's old school popcorn popping machine with the ugly yellow top and we had to melt our own butter to put on top. It was always a lot of fun because Mom had this super huge green Tupperware bowl, and it would hold something like 6 bags of today's microwave popcorn.
I got to melt the butter a lot and then help drizzle it on while Mom stirred the whole thing with one of her wooden spoons. I miss eating popcorn like that, but I always though a popcorn popper would be really expensive. Of course, I never went looking for one either.
BUT, thanks to slate.com, which is one of those fancy news websites that compiles all of the really good stories for you, I found this article: What's the Best Popcorn Popper?
As it turns out, a good popcorn popper is not really all that expensive, about $20-30 for the most part, and they work pretty good. I read through the above article and came to the conclusion that for my anniversary present I want Holly to get me the Presto PopLite Hot Air Corn Popper so that I can not only enjoy popcorn like I did as a kid, but also be a bit more healthy, and save some money. Smart, don't you think?
8 years ago
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