Vintage Popcorn Cooker Taste Test

What's the weirdest popcorn cooker out there? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. It is day four of celibacy week, and we are here once again, urging you. to withhold your urges this week. Mm-hmm. No more holiday babies. Yes. At the end of the year. To help pacify your sexual desires, here's another clip to turn even.

the horniest person celibate. Dont. do. that. That is so unpleasant. I'm glad I didn't know you as a baby. Me neither. There you go. I mean, do you want more of that in your life? You don't want none of that in your life to come about at the holidays. Listen, babies can't have popcorn, but you know what, babies?

We can. Woo. And we have purchased vintage popcorn cookers to find the best way to pop our corn. Mm-hmm. Old school. All right, this first one is from Hamilton Beach. My favorite beach. Oh yeah. It's very electronic there. Mm-hmm. They got the butter up, self buttering popcorn popper. This has got seventies written all over it. I mean, how, why do we ever depart from this thing? This thing supposedly butters your popcorn.

Oh yeah. As it's popping. And then when you're done, you just eat out of it. What, throw me some slabs of pot of, uh, butter. We need to put some slabs in here. Look at this. You've just got a, a little hole here. Well, and also do this, we, you put a popcorn in the oil. Yep. That's oil over there, brother. Oh, I didn't know that you needed oil because the pop.

You got a corn. The corn, what is this called? Butter. The, yeah, I'm not, are we sure we need that because the corn is gonna drip on it? Yes. How do you, you gotta pop it, you gotta pop it, man. But the, but the corn. I keep calling this corn. But the corn. All right, so that. The corn, man. So that's going in here. I want to be generous with the pop-. With the butter.

I keep calling it. You want your popcorn to be buttered so bad that you call butter, popcorn. I cannot get it outta. I respect it. Hey, I respect that. All right, so all of that's there. I feel like I need to get it at the bottom, which I've done. Did you know, fun fact, babies. Okay. Uh, Joe Namath, who I know you're not familiar with, uh, he endorsed many, many things including this, Link. Famous quarterback Joe Namath endorsed this at one point.

So you know this. The self buttering butter up? Yeah. It doesn't have an on or off switch. It just has the plug. Yeah. It's 1973, man. Plug it in. You know what we did, things started going sideways in this country when. we started putting switches on stuff. Back, you know what I'm saying? Back when you could just plug it in and that was it. Is it on? Well is it plugged in? We paid $15 for this thing, and so far it's definitely worth it. What do you do? How do you kill time when you are watching, trying to wait for popcorn to grow? I, I spell things on my friend's body to see if he can understand what I'm saying.

Well, that sounds like it might turn somebody on. First letter. P. Second letter O. Third letter. Q. Fourth letter. QQ. Hold on, POQQ is not a word. And then the last letter.

Y. Bucky? That's not, the Q, this is not a Q. D. Yep. DO, blank, blank, Y. Mm-hmm. That you thought was a Q. Dookie. No, man. You are making, that's not a, that's not a letter. If this is what it feels like. You're doing it. It's smelling. It feels like you're going like this. Okay. Like an S with a long line on it. That's not a letter. Oh, an S with a back on it.

R. No, just picture a s and then put a back on it. What is that? G. Yeah. Do you spell doggy? Yeah. I, I believed in you, man. I wasn't even done. I was just gonna do another word. Oh, okay. Gimme another word. D. A. What are you looking at.

My mind's eye. Doggy Daddy? Yeah, that's it. You got it. Doggy Daddy. You seem disappointed. That was fun. In yourself, I guess. That was really fun. Uh, see, back in the seventies, you'd have to wait for your popcorn. The butter's not even melted yet. You gotta be patient. It's 1973. There's like four holes underneath there, and then the butter goes through the holes. But yeah, ain't nothing out. Is it even? Oh, there you go. Something just popped.

Yeah. Uh, one kernel. One kernel popped. It is gonna start and then it's gonna be perfect. That butter's gonna pop out of there. It's gonna put, it's gonna, oh. There's a couple more. I've never really watched it like this. I remember some of my youngest memories are looking at popcorn pop. Because. What was your mom's method? It was my nanny, they'd always have a different type of popcorn popper. Like they were suckers for these popcorn poppers. Here we go.

It's happening now. It's so much better than microwave. Doggy Daddy first in line for the show. The butter is supposed to come straight outta the fridge if you're into that. Or counter butter would melt quicker, but, it's just not. No. I'm sure it's gonna time out. You don't want it to melt early because you don't want. Yeah. It to actually be the oil of the melted butter that's popping. You, you want that to be the oil of the popcorn oil.

Now we're getting some popping. I mean, look at the show. It's, it's nature's firework. Uh, it, it's created when moisture in the kernel turns to steam, and bursts through the shell. Releasing the inner flake. The inner flake. Everyone has one. I think we got some, some butter gloopage happening. Is it seeping? Yeah, it's seeping. Look at it. Look at it. Seeping. Seeping right through there.

Now it has a light on it that's supposed to go off at some point. Oh, I can almost see it. There's a dim light there. I think, I think we're reaching the. I know, but I, we gotta get that butter to come out. I would get the butter to come out. I mean, it is, it has melted quite a bit. I know how to turn it off. You unplug it. Unplug it. Unplug it, and keep it in there to keep it, uh, unplug it, keep it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to get the. So we get full butter melt. I just turned it off.

See how easy it is. There's no cord attached. So then I'm gonna take this. Oh yeah, look, I mean the butter is, is, is just about perfect. And I think I'm doing a rotational thing with my technique, where the. The butter's dropping and spinning. It is. Doggy Daddy's really good at this. And then. Were you saying that you were the Doggy Daddy? I'm the Doggy Daddy here. Flip. Flipping Amazing. Joe Namath, if you were here, you would be doing a little bit of clapping.

Just a, just a little bit. Just a little bit. I don't see any butter on. Well, it might be a little butter. Ooh, it's hot. It's hot ain't it. It's too hot. You ate it too soon. I gotta do it. I mean, is that hot though? You gonna glitch it, man. The big ones aren't as hot as the little ones. Get a big one. Get a big one.

Yeah. Any butter on it? I dropped it. Honestly, no. Okay. Here, do this. The butter was a disappointment. It didn't have. Put, put it in this thing and we'll see if we can get to the buttery pieces. Because I think we, we should have gone more. This whole thing is just lined in grease. Hmm. But that's from your oil. I was very excited about this.

If you want something buttered, you gotta butter it yourself. It needs a little salt. You gotta be a butter daddy. So this is not bad, but the fact that it's calling itself the butter up, self buttering, it is twice in there. Mm-hmm. Butter up self buttering corn popper. I just feel like they're talking about butter so much 'cause they know they. didn't really produce that much for us. You butter not buy it. It's flopping. Now we're gonna use a popcorn cannon. It's got the word cannon in it.

This is crazy. Which makes it sound a little wild. But this is a thing. It's got the word popcorn in it, which makes it sound pertinent. Uh, crap. This thing, get started, dude. So this thing is back, it was invented over a hundred years ago. Uh, the World's Fair. This is like a, a cauldron. How am I gonna do this in a way that doesn't... You're, you're. censoring the, the pouring. You don't want see it going in. Maybe, maybe we do it here. Do it this way. Let me, let me be a tunnel.

Let do that for you. There we go. How's that? Okay. How about. I didn't help. Let's just gather this up. 'cause it was exactly the right amount that it needed to be before I did that. This is a heavy duty patootie here. Okay. Okay. Did you put any oil in there? Uh. Or is it just plain heat? It's just, just pressure. No oil. You definitely don't want oil. And so then I'm going to this. There you go. Now pull it down.

And then this comes up like this. Okay, yes. 'cause we're applying some back pressure to this thing on this lever. to get it as tight as we possibly can. So it, it was invented by an American botanist, who debuted this puffing gun. at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis? Do those happen anymore? World's Fairs. Okay, now as you can see, there's a pressure gauge on this. So once it gets to a certain pressure, I'm gonna do a little crook.

Let's take this off first. So, yeah, just get that out of the way. In fact, go ahead and light that. This is just a, this is an alcohol based burner. And it's already lit. I'm that good. And then we spin this thing. Ooh, you wanna be the spinner? Yeah. Yeah. It's got this little, it's got this little, uh, thing right there. And then you just spin. And look, this little trick. Oh. Here's a little trick. You take this, put it on there. It's hard to keep it on. Keep it really going. That's very medieval.

I mean, it's like a witch cauldron on a spit. You know, this is a, it is an interactive thing for the kids to get the kids involved. Mm-hmm. Open flames. Uhhuh. A little calorie burning happening. You want me to write something? Oh, write something. Yeah. Yeah. Lemme see. This is gonna be, this is gonna be hard though, because now I got, I'm. thinking about different things, including spinning something. Right. But also the words that you're writing on me. And I realized I didn't have, I, I'm gonna take my glove off.

The gloves. I think that's why it was hard. Yes, the gloves made it difficult. This, the whole thing's turning black, dude. Uh, you are blackening the cauldron. I was told that that would happen. It's soot and it will come off. So you can clean up, clean it up next time for the kids. Uh, gimme a word. Any word? P, D. You want me to go with P or D? D is what you meant. Yeah.

DI. K. You need to have more people spelling on your body, man. This is not. I don't do lowercase. Nothing to do with knowing how to spell. I'll do lowercase. E. Die. Again. That's the easiest letter. You just went up and across. Diet. All right. Second word.

P. A. G. Alright. Same letter again. No different letter. T. A. That's it, I'm done. Diet Pateta. Pateta. PA. Yeah. PA, pasta.

Oh yeah, you got it. Diet pasta. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That should be a thing, right? I mean. Is it not a thing. You spent a little bit, I'm gonna, I'm gonna see if you're as good at this as you, uh, seem to be implying that I should be. I think that the best popcorn makers are the ones that require constant spinning. Oh, you're going that little, huh? Okay, big. Oh, I can't, I can't spin. I can't spin and listen to my, to my arm.

Yeah, spin. Yeah, see? Yeah. Well, it's so easy. Hold on. Stop, stop. I'm in charge of this. All right. Okay. Alright. Ready? Hold on. You gotta keep, you gotta keep spinning. I can't. Hold on. Go faster and bigger. F. Are you just scratching me? I'm try, I'm doing exactly what. It's hard, hey, listen. You didn't tell me how hard it was.

It's so hard. Okay. I need to orient myself. Oh no. Yeah. Okay. It's so easy. You can't spell man. Push harder. A. Yes. Okay, so I've got, what was the first letter? F and A. R. So he's spelling fart. Uh, you don't know what I'm spelling. All right, go to the next one. You don't know what I'm spelling. Go to the next one.

T. No. R. Another R, yeah. FA double R. F-A-R-R-T. Yeah. Farrt. Farrt. Yeah, you got it. With the rolled R. Yeah, R. Yeah, a rolled R fart. I, I, I think it requires three R's to roll it in. Okay. I was just trying to, I didn't want you to anticipate what I was gonna do.

What do we got pressure wise? We are now. Oh, it's climbing. Five. So I, I was told that it when it hits, um, nine, we should do it. It's a good spin. Let me see. How much corn is gonna be popped out of this thing. You know, you saw all the kernels. Okay. We're at eight, so we're, we're. We're getting closer. We're so close. I, I think me turning at speed. I'm gonna stand up and get in position here.

Does a lot. That is super, super cool. Look at that. Let me see. All of that thumb twiddling I've been doing is coming in handy. Okay, we're at nine. It's getting it to 10. Here you go, take it off. Okay. Get ready. Okay. If you've just, if you've just joined us, boy, are you in for a treat. We are about to pop this popcorn cannon. I need that. He, Rhett has put the hot stuff in a sack.

And this is perforated. Here we go, you ready? Oh my gosh. Look at that. It's full of, it's like a magic trick. Okay. Taking this off. It completely exploded. I'm gonna put that back there. Oh, look at the soot. And then. we're gonna put that in there.

Lucas gave me this, and I don't know why, but I'll figure it out in a second. Oh. Just to get the rest of the popcorn out. Is it? Yeah. I mean, look, every single kernel expanded at the same time. Instant pop. It was all popped at once, kids. All pop, no flop. All burnt, no good. Now, do we have any salt? It looks burnt as a, a crisp man. Okay. Oh, look at my face.

Imaginary salt. Oh. Oh. Is that that what this is for? No. Okay. All right, this goes to the bottom. Hey, it's burnt. You're gonna need something to help. Um, it's not that bad. I'm amazed with how it all burned at once. Did you think that was gonna happen? I mean. Not to that level. It's crazy. You just filled out the sack. I mean, I've had worse popcorn.

Like when I left it in the microwave for too long. Look, look at all the, I mean, that's why it just came out like a ballistic missile. because there's just not enough room for it. There is not one unpopped kernel. I mean, this is the kind of thing. With this thing. That if you're an uncle. Oh yeah, this is uncle time. Get this thing, get this thing. Gather the kids around.

It will be one of those memories that is seared on their brains. Now, also, the popcorn will be seared. Yeah, it tastes horrible. Just tell 'em that. But, but they'll never forget it. It's gonna be one of those things. One time my pop, my, my uncle blew up some popcorn. I don't even, I think it maybe was a dream. What if it was your pop? That'd probably be even better. I don't know if you can do it as a father though, because then. it feels a little irresponsible. Yep. This is uncle activity. This is big Unc activity. Yep. Pop cannon.

Corn. Popcorn cannon. It's popping. Okay, now we have the classic Whirly Pop. Mm-hmm. This has, has a built-in stirring system. Look at that. So basically, this is the manual version of what you would have at like one. of those popcorn machines in a movie theater that's got the thing going. around kind of slowly with the motor. So this is a classic design. And I will say this thing was patented in 19. What? 80? 1980. And uh, we paid $80 for it used, but you can get a new one for $35.

Okay, but that's not the one we got, I guess. Nope, nope, nope. Alright. There must be something special about this one. Um. Maybe the queen used it. I don't know. I, I'm, I'm gonna get this thing going on. Medium. Yeah, push. Push that down. Lemme put some gloves on of some sort.

I thought you could hold it by that big wooden handle, but you're deciding. There, you go. I just want him to feel included. Hold it by the big wooden handle, he says. You already got a pop. One pop. That's quick. What. Two. This is way faster. Now you might ask yourself. That's what we've done, but. Why would I do this instead of microwave popcorn or even Jiffy. Pop, this is happening so fast.

Well, that microwave, popcorn's got all kinds of stuff in it that you don't want. I'm sure. Maybe, probably. And also all the plastic. There's no plastic in this. It's just wood and metal. Fill your body with wood and metal, not plastic. Good point. That is the official position of this show. Every morning we get up and eat our wooden metal supplements. I think that's it. It's not popping anymore. Pull up. Pull up. We don't wanna burn it. It's perfect. Turn this off. Push that out. Put this down on this.

A glove. Ha, look at me. Knock on. Open sesame. And then, all right, I'm gonna just gonna open this. Woo. Oh, look. See, this is good, man. I'm telling you right now. I mean, oh. Hold on. I had no idea. Oh, whoop. Watch out now. Watch out, Rhett. Damn. All right. There's no way it's as hard as you're making it seem. I feel like I'm supposed to chastise you right now, Link.

I wanna, I wanted you to feel like you were doing something. I got some burnt ones in there. Oh. It's a little burnt at the bottom because, um, he wasn't turning good enough. Um, this is crazy. But not bad. You know, sometimes I wonder like how they get the, the really round. popcorn at the movie theater compared to what happens in a microwave. You know what I'm saying? This is happening right now. Round. You say this is rounder. Like the, the main part of the popcorn is more of a round shape versus.

my, what happens in the microwave? This is how Grizzly Adams made his popcorn. Whoops. That's a meme you may have seen. Yeah. There you go. It all goes to the bottom. Oh yeah. That, that made a world of difference though. Taste so much better now. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh. It's really coming in clutch, that salt. Yeah. I, I really like this though.

You know, microplastics. Getting caught up in my. Well, you know what? In my vintage future era. Let's do this, let's sell it and then buy one for each one of us that's brand new. That's a good idea. Alright. Yeah, that's a, that's how we're gonna do, we're gonna, why don't we. just start buying new ones and then eBaying them for twice as much money. I think you have to say slightly used in order to charge 84 though. Yeah. Slightly used by us. That's what we're gonna do. Done. So Whirly Pop, it's popping.

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If only we had like something that was like a counter, you know, that we could. fit that in to show you how this thing would've worked back in the eighties. If only, I don't, maybe you do. Oh yeah. I've been waiting for this moment. Look at this. All year. This is a fake counter bottom. It just kind of, I mean, it would suck if like you bought this and. then you had to buy this separately. Right. All right, so put that in there to save some counter space. Let me feed my cord.

I mean, if you're devoting counter space at all to a popcorn maker, you gotta be. eating popcorn at least twice a week, right? Maybe nightly. People, I mean people, I know people love popcorn, but I just don't hear about. people devoting appliance space to popcorn. I think this was a, a visionary device, you know? It was like, hey man, people love this popcorn at home thing. So this. I need to love it this much. This right here you fill up with, with the kernels.

Fill it up with the kernels. And no oil. This is an air pop situation, and you put that in there. Better for you until you put all that salt on it. And then I'm gonna go ahead and turn it on because. Oh. Why, yes. What? It does that from the beginning? Yeah, it's just. Well, it has to heat up. It's got a eighties fan, man. All right. I'm gonna heat it up and then I'm also taking this little metal thing. here and I'm putting the butter in it, putting all that butter in there.

That butter is just gonna melt, and then we get to pour that over. Oop, lemme push that down a little bit. And you can't put the butter in your microwave to warm it up because you've. done this instead of a microwave. You've saved space for this, instead of a microwave. You understand how it works? Yeah. You don't have a microwave. You've made, you've made the strong popcorn choice. Once it heats up, it'll go to ready there, and then I'm gonna push the kernels in.

and it's gonna spew 'em out down here. It's just gonna start spewing kernels, dude. Now we'll say that we paid $200 for this. Of course it's used. You can get it new for $15. Alright, here we go. I'm gonna push this in. I heard it. I heard it go down. They're all down. See, now I can, I can probably take this out.

Don't start taking things out. Hey, there's a few that are coming out. Eat it fresh. Put some, um. I'm gonna catch it. I mean. Oh, that's nice. One could put their head under there completely. Oh, it's hot. That's hot air. Oh God, it's hot. Oh yeah. It's hot air, man. Well, what made you think that was a good idea? What you saw? Need a bigger counter.

I, I'm gonna check on the butter. Oh, go easy with the butter. You wanna layer the butter. Okay. And you wanna that back in there? Yep, yep, yep. And you wanna shake it? That's what they do at the theaters. Y'all wonder why you like it so much. That's what they do. They just throw a bunch of salt on it. Need more butter.

Oh, there's a whole clump of butter. Put that back there. And, we're done. That's gonna be a nice, that's gonna be a nice piece. Oh wow. You're just eating, you're just eating a big clump of butter. Oh, man. It's got a bunch of salt in it too. Oh, was it good? Yeah, it was. Mm. Mm. I love how it just used gravity. If we're harnessing physics, uh, to, um, to make up for the fact that we overpaid.

for the, for the last popcorn maker. This is good popcorn. I'm not missing, I'm not missing the oil. Well, there's butter all over it, dude. Yeah. So much butter. I'm still tasting the oil from the butter that I had in my first bite of this, and this looks, this looks so cool. Under your cabinet. Mm-hmm. I just, I would hate to know that you could put something else through it though. You know, it's like, I wouldn't want to think that this appliance taking up this much space. could be used for anything besides popcorn.

Right, um. It can't, can it? No, I don't think it can. I mean, it doesn't make Kool-Aid or coffee. And then what do you do when you need to clean it? You gotta take it all. You gotta pull it out of there. Well, what's dirty? Nothing's dirty. That ain't dirty. The inside of it's dirty. It ain't dirty. Look, this thing's 40 years old. It's never been cleaned. Look at us eating out of it. I love this. So I just think it, you know, if you've got the space to then make. the space for the space maker popcorn center, then we're gonna say.

it's popping. Huh? It also comes with its own Black and Decker bag. Oh man. Well, we really messed that opportunity. That's a wide bag. Yep. Well we do, you'll be doing personal opportunities. Right? Right into the bag. So we were pretty enthusiastic about these options today. We think that you should, um, incorporate the popcorn cannon, only if you're an uncle. Mm-hmm. The Whirly Pop for all of you. Mm-hmm. And the Spacemaker, if you've got the space to make for it.

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