DUMPING BATCH

Showing the easy way

In regard to swinging the kettle to dump the batch. Pop-corn kettle ([Stock No. 2004-2]) is not heavy, weighing but fourteen and one-half pounds, and with the pop-corn batch in it, it weighs but a few pounds more. The kettle is swung away from the face thus: take hold of the two handles, swing the kettle underneath from left to right, upward, still keeping the left hand away from yourself and the right hand near you, until the kettle is more than half-way up. Then hold the two handles the same distance away from you. That rotates the kettle upon its center axis while you are swinging up the rest of the way to the top position, at which you stop to dump the batch. You will notice by this motion that the kettle bottom comes nowhere near your face. During the swinging you are moving the kettle so that when you stop the batch falls out right upon the bench or machine just where you want it.

The first two or three times you try this feat, all the pop-corn may not go where you want it, but after that you will have no difficulty.

PANS. STOCK No. 2007-1

You see, in making square corn cakes, bricks or bars, there are three operations: panning, pressing and cutting; each quickly performed, but the tools used must be right in detail in their dimensions or the greatest difficulty will be experienced, even to the point that you will not be able to make the goods at all.

The kettle of pop-corn, all stirred, yet hot, is dumped into the pans arranged together on the bench. You pan the corn evenly and quickly by hand. Now turn each pan of corn upside down on the bench. Take off the pan and slip it under the pop-corn. The pop-corn is then in the pan bottom-side up so as to present a more even surface to the pressing plate in the press.

Stock No. [2007-1] pans are the right size for you to pan the corn, by moving your two hands toward you across the pan, with a side motion of your wrists, leaving an even pan of corn and taking to the next pan whatever surplus comes over in your hands. This is certainly the quickest pan to use.

These pans are made from heavy galvanized sheet steel with heavy wired rim. The clearance of the sides is right. This is the pan that will stand considerable usage.

Stock No. 2007-1

KNOTT’S POP-CORN PANS

CRISPETTE WRAPPING FORM. STOCK No. 2018-1

Place a paper wrapper across the top of the form and put the crispettes, four, five or six, in the paper into the form. Bring the paper together over the corn, fold it a couple of times, then tuck down the ends, fold them in and crease the bottom to hold them. See [illustration in colors.]