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Author Topic: Kettle Corn. Rene Ferron Film Handler Posts: 52 From: New Brunswick, Canada Registered: Feb 2008 posted 09-06-2009 06:16 PM                     I was just wondering if it would be possible to make kettle corn with a theater popcorn machine. (IE: Pop-O-Gold Floor Model Popcorn Machine ) If it's possible, If anyone has a recipe that i could try, thx. Rene  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 09-06-2009 06:55 PM                        Gold Medal sells kettle korn mix. You can google them up & see if it'll work for you. Offhand, I wonder if the temperatures of standard popcorn machines might be too high for the sugar they pop kettle corn with. At the sports stadiums I see the stuff being made at, they use big gas-fired copper pots that they can stir like crazy.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-06-2009 07:10 PM                        What is kettle corn? A customer asked Jen the other day if her theater served kettle corn. Being as how the popcorn there is popped in a kettle, she said yes. The customer got angry proclaiming that "This isn't kettle corn", had a coronary and died. Or something like that.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-06-2009 07:14 PM                     Yes, you can use a regular popper to make kettle corn, but it needs to be a separate popper due to the temperature differences.  |  IP: Logged Rene Ferron Film Handler Posts: 52 From: New Brunswick, Canada Registered: Feb 2008 posted 09-06-2009 08:17 PM                     What would be the difference in temps ?  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 09-06-2009 10:42 PM                        Like I said... it's lower. You'd have to call someone who makes the stuff if you're looking for numbers.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-06-2009 11:14 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer What is kettle corn? I guess it's just popcorn with alot of sugary caramel flavoring. It's huge at county fairs, I know that...we were at 4 fairs this year and every one of them had a booth selling gobs of the stuff.  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 09-07-2009 12:09 AM                     Kettle corn... go to youtube, you can see all kinds of videos of people explaining it and making it. Some videos have people making it at home on their stove, and you can also see videos of people making it in quantity in at the fair. We tossed around the idea of making it at one cinema I work at. The issue was that we only have one popcorn machine....  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-07-2009 02:48 AM                     You can call it between regular popcorn and caramel corn. Joe, have Jen make you some popcorn balls - basically the same as kettle corn, just more stickier..  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-07-2009 03:14 AM                        We used to use Pappy's Kettle Korn (it might be a Gold Medal product) mix to make our own kettle corn. We used the regular popper and didn't have to change any temperature settings. As a smallish location we would just pop a few batches every few days and seal them in bags they provided. It was a nice thing to try out, but the labor involved and the actual sales were not nearly enough to justify keeping it as a regular product. On average we sold less than 20 bags a week.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-07-2009 06:44 AM                     I think part of the Kettle corn mystique is the preparation. It is supposed to be done in a wok like bowl (kettle) and stirred, by hand, in a whipping like motion. How the kettle is kept/prepared adds to its flavor. In a fair like situation, this set up is FAR more easy than in a theatre where show turns are tight and the show is the movie, not the food prep. There are microwave Kettle Corns for those that want to try something similar. It does not taste exactly right (how could it) but you will get the idea. Monte is pretty close in his taste comparison...it like a cross between caramel corn and regular popcorn but there is a texture difference in the real stuff. It doesn't surprise me that there would be a kettle corn mix or something to give a similar flavor. Steve  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-07-2009 01:42 PM                        We tried it a few years back....it was a disaster -- totally messed up our popper. Of course we weren't doing it right, too hot I guess, but the experience and the labor then cleaning the blackened kettle was enough to swear us off it forever. As Justin said, the demand was so small that we could have just as well used the microwave to pop a few bags of the microwavable kettle corn in the back when someone actually asked for it. One of the kids -- the one I assigned to clean the burnt kettle -- commented, "Next time one of those aholes asks for kettle corn, hand them a salt shaker with sugar in it & tell them to make their own." He was not a happy pup.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-07-2009 11:24 PM                     Some theatres have this Concession Item as part of their snak bar sales.. It's all prepackaged, has a rack for display and very eye catching... (saves on having to make the stuff..) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-07-2009 11:38 PM                     I don't know about Kettle Corn but lately I've had a craving for Cracker Jack... It's somewhat hard to find too. Mark  |  IP: Logged Robert Madara Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Millville, NJ. USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 09-08-2009 09:57 AM                        We make it in a separate 14 oz. popper. We just add sugar & reduce the heat. We also use a Gold Medal product called Compound "S". It keeps the kettle clean! We bag it up in the Pappy's bags, & sell it for 2.99. ..It's a great "grab & Go" item in our Moon Car-feteria -(not Barf-feteria, Tim, LOL.)  |  IP: Logged

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