Testing Kettle Corn Machine Caramel Corn 

The aroma of popping kettle corn is amazing. Thank you for producing these videos. I bought my equipment used without any instructions. THANK YOU

I have been popping now for about a year. the more i pop the better results i get. I still get many unpoped corn. it is lots of fun. I watched Greg Sweet's videos on kettle corn and have learned a lot.

Thank you Ben for showing this, we're learning as you're learning.

We did kettle corn a few years ago at a county fair. We had about about every color and flavor on our kettle corn. We had the bags you make yourself with a heat sealer. Not only could we not sell it, we couldn't hardly give it away! Instead of having the bags like you use for cotton candy, our bags looked too professional. People told me that it looked like we bought it from a company, and we we were reselling old kettle corn. They didn't know it had just been made that morning before the fair grounds had opened, that day. Because we specialize in candy apples and cotton candy, we didn't have the space to make the kettle corn while the customers were there, it took up too much room in the trailer.

The best popcorn available is the Kornagra brand. They were way better than Gold Medal. Gold Medal is still better than Pop Weaver.

That looks like fun! Thanks for the info

Not sure if you're still trying to do Kettle Corn (have just come across your website & RU-vid vids) but I got into this via Greg Sweet too. I have his Kettle Corn Kitchen with a Mad Max kettle and Gorilla (Ape?) paddle stirrer. It's the big kettle with the 3 burners for small all the way up to ginormous batches. Nice equipment. It's all top-notch. His canopies are from Caravan which is very nice because they're fire-rated. Up here in CT/MA that's important due to laws passed after the Hartford Circus Fire back in the 1940s. BTW, I expect you've solved the problem by now but I think you might want to bump the pressure up to 12-15psi so it burns a bit hotter. That way your kernels will explode vs cooking until they pop. You should get fewer butterflies that way (too low a temp causes mushroom popcorn to expand vs explode and it looks like butterfly popcorn) and you'll get your cook time to about 2 minutes or so. Oh, the unpopped kernels are the Old Maids (they don't get to go home with anyone) & they're not entirely waste. If you have a chicken or pig farmer neighbor, they can mix all of the stuff you end up with in the sifting bins into their feed.

I bought the Glazepop flavoring and see the same difference.

Use magic mushroom popcorn...only kind I pop with.

I recently bought the exact setup you have. I set the PSI at 10 and put a few kernels in to let me know when 2 cups of corn oil is up to temp. When those few pop I add 3 cups of Magic Mushroom kernels and SLOWLY add about 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cups of sugar. I pop three batches then I'm able to bag 9 to 10 medium sized bags. I also end up with clumps of sugar that I have to pick out when the batch cools off. I've tried so many combinations but this ratio seems to work the best for me. I'm not sure how Greg Sweet was able to pop 8 to 10 cups at a time because I've tried his recipes and it did not work out for me with the same machine, I ended up with so much unpopped waste :-(

What are all the black thingys

Where can I buy the kernels and oil from

I wish the caramel corn flavoring covered the entire popcorn kernel.

Could you show me an example of a lemond aid stand in the public .Ii need to see the simple operation . I have a couple lemon Trees.

I don't think your things are supposed to be touching when it goes around in circles to make that noise George sweet Capricorn doesn't do that Michigan Mad Max

The caramel glaze by gold medal has been terrible. Horrible after taste. I hope great western tastes better.

with 8 cups of kernels, what is your kettle CAPACITY ???? I am still very hesitant about making caramel kettle corn ( just sayin )