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zippyjuan
06-27-2005, 10:26 PM
By the gates of the San Diego County Fair is the World's Biggest Popcorn Machine. By comparison, you can see a standard size machine next to it and a person sitting down.
"The giant popper, which stands 23 feet high, 10 feet wide, and weighs 3,000 lbs will be on display during the fair’s June 10-July 4 run. There are two propane gas kettles inside the popper and each kettle takes approximately 7 lbs of raw corn and 2.33 lbs of oil. Each kettle will pop 130 lbs. of popped corn per hour. "

http://www.sdfair.com/index.php?fuseaction=about.news_details&newsid=275

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/JeffryZ/BiggestPopcorn.jpg

DarkFury
06-27-2005, 10:52 PM
heh... I saw when they built that on "BIG" on the Discovery Channel. :D

Jenny
06-28-2005, 12:44 AM
Neat pic! And yeah, DF, I saw that ep too. :D

surfer
06-28-2005, 02:56 PM
That popcorn maker ever used? Looks wild!

Itsme
07-02-2005, 07:50 PM
Did you see the news item a couple of weeks ago about they guy whoi has invented a new way to make popcorn? He pops the corn in a pressure cooker. He found that the reduced pressure inside (partial vacuum) make the corn pop more than twice the size of normal popcorn.

He is now trying to perfect the method for theaters.

DarkFury
07-02-2005, 08:04 PM
That popcorn maker ever used? Looks wild!
yup.. it is functional.

krayzie1
07-02-2005, 09:13 PM
they cancel that series? Wasn't the greatest but they did make some cool stuff!!! To bad they got shafted on the clock record though.