Always on the hunt for a good deal I couldn't resist when I came across this Whirley Popper for $2.99 at one of my favorite thrift stores. It makes absolutely delicously perfect popcorn. Yummo! Plus the kids had loads of fun turning the wooden handle. It even pops up almost as fast microwave popcorn to boot. I highly recommend it as a fab find!
I love popcorn and so do my kids. We go through a ton of microwave popcorn which can be fairly expensive. A blog post I read the other day got me thinking about the economics of popcorn and so began my quest for a thrifty alternative. I searched Craigslist and my usual thrift store haunts for a few week until I found a Presto Air Popper for $3 at the local Goodwill. There definitely is an art to getting great tasting air popped corn as opposed to tasteless bits of styrofoam. I've tweaked it with good results...yet I wasn't 100% satisfied. I continued my quest until I found it. It's the Nordicware microwave popper. It's awesome. I picked mine up at Target for $9 and it was money well spent. The popcorn is light and fluffy. You can use it with or without oil. I highly recommend it. In fact I'm having some popcorn right now.