My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.

I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
after 3 minutes.

It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
a timer?

**********
1366294709

On Mon 27 Feb 2006 12:00:56p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?

> My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.

It must be very taxing to do this. A whopping 3 minutes out of your life.

> I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> after 3 minutes.
>
> It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> a timer?

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Wayne Boatwright wrote on 27 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> On Mon 27 Feb 2006 12:00:56p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?
>
> > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> > of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>
> It must be very taxing to do this. A whopping 3 minutes out of your
> life.
>
> > I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> > plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> > after 3 minutes.
> >
> > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> > a timer?
>

Now now Wayne...Perhaps he doesn't ever come near the popcorn maker so
while he's getting the pop corn into a bowl he can't just unplug
it...taking seconds.

Perhaps he just wants to turn on high heat possibly dangerous stuff
without monitoring it...He might just like the excitment of fires in the
kitchen.

--
-Alan

On Mon 27 Feb 2006 01:02:09p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Mr Libido
Incognito?

> Wayne Boatwright wrote on 27 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>
>> On Mon 27 Feb 2006 12:00:56p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?
>>
>> > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch of
>> > popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>>
>> It must be very taxing to do this. A whopping 3 minutes out of your
>> life.
>>
>> > I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
>> > plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
>> > after 3 minutes.
>> >
>> > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
>> > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such a
>> > timer?
>>
>
> Now now Wayne...Perhaps he doesn't ever come near the popcorn maker so
> while he's getting the pop corn into a bowl he can't just unplug
> it...taking seconds.
>
> Perhaps he just wants to turn on high heat possibly dangerous stuff
> without monitoring it...He might just like the excitment of fires in the
> kitchen.

You're probably right, Alan. What was I thinking? :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Home Depot or Lowes sells timers

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>
> I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> after 3 minutes.
>
> It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> a timer?
>
Westclox model no. 12/854 0202 is a two-prong digital clock timer model that
is suitable enough for powering lamps on and off. Can't be sure if it's
going to work for a popcorn popper (if it has a 3-prong plug design and/or
higher power requirements than just a lamp) but that's at least a starting
point for finding similar timers from this manufacturer or other
manufacturers that might actually work with a popcorn popper.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 27 Feb 2006 12:00:56p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?
>
> > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> > of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>
> It must be very taxing to do this. A whopping 3 minutes out of your life.

Now Wayne, Hon, in that three minutes he is busy getting the Gooey
Cheese ready for his popcorn. He NEEDS this timer!

-L.

On Tue 28 Feb 2006 12:12:44a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it -L.?

>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 27 Feb 2006 12:00:56p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?
>>
>> > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch of popcorn,
>> > and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>>
>> It must be very taxing to do this. A whopping 3 minutes out of your life.
>
> Now Wayne, Hon, in that three minutes he is busy getting the Gooey
> Cheese ready for his popcorn. He NEEDS this timer!

LOL!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

wrote:
> My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.

> I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> after 3 minutes.

> It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> a timer?

Yes, a timer like that does exist. In Europe it is common for
apartment buildings and hotels to have hall lights controlled by a
timer such that you press a button and the lights come on for a
short duration.
I assume they are programmable for various durations and 3 minutes
seems within the range of times I saw. I tried several variations
on "hallway light timer" in my search engine but did not come up
with anything, and the Leviton site wants me to enable pop-ups to
do searches there which I won't do. You might talk to an electrical
supply place about it.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Sheldon wrote on 28 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking

>
> wrote:
> > wrote:
> > > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> > > of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
> >
> > > I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> > > plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> > > after 3 minutes.
> >
> > > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> > > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> > > a timer?
> >
> > Yes, a timer like that does exist. In Europe it is common for
> > apartment buildings and hotels to have hall lights controlled by a
> > timer such that you press a button and the lights come on for a
> > short duration.
> > I assume they are programmable for various durations and 3 minutes
> > seems within the range of times I saw.
>
> Nothing new about the concept and certainly not restricted to Europe...
> all my outdoor floodlights are equiped with motion detectors, I can set
> the On time duration in various increments, from about 15 seconds to
> about 15 minutes. I think 3 minutes is one of the settings but none
> are very accurate. I have a few of those clock timers used for turning
> lamps on and off but those are not very accurate either, certainly not
> to the second, not even to the minute.
>
> For timing a hot air popper use an ordinary kitchen timer, when the
> bell buzzes shut off the popper, what's too difficult??? Actually I
> use the electronic timer on my microwave oven to time my hot air
> popper, same three minutes is how long it takes to melt a stick of
> butter.
>
> Sheldon
>
>

There are computer pakages that can turn a puter into a fancy timer for
houshold lights etc...the controling signal run at high freq over
existing household wiring not bothering/bothered by the 120 VAC on
them...But that's only for the serious pop corn maker as it would require
a dedicated puter and various control boxes on the plugs you wanted to
control

Or there are things like this:

http://www.prodigitusa.com/prodigit/2000t/2000t.htm


--
-Alan

Sheldon wrote:
>
> [snip] Actually I
> use the electronic timer on my microwave oven to time my hot air
> popper, same three minutes is how long it takes to melt a stick of
> butter.
>
That must be some seriously frozen stick of butter that needs to be
zapped for 3 minutes! I think you just like the harmony of
bubbling butter with popping corn. -aem

wrote:
> My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>
> I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> after 3 minutes.
>
> It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> a timer?
>
> **********
> 1366294709
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...l+timer+switch

Sheldon > wrote:

> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, a timer like that does exist. In Europe it is common for
> > apartment buildings and hotels to have hall lights controlled by a
> > timer such that you press a button and the lights come on for a
> > short duration.

> Nothing new about the concept and certainly not restricted to Europe...
> all my outdoor floodlights are equiped with motion detectors, I can set

Yes, it is easy to find them with motion detectors, but the electro-mechanical
type that uses a button to turn on is more prevelant in Europe. They
are very common there. I assume they are available in the US, I just
have not seen them. For the proposed use a motion detector type
would not be very helpful.

> For timing a hot air popper use an ordinary kitchen timer, when the
> bell buzzes shut off the popper, what's too difficult??? Actually I

I don't know why the OP wants to have an automatic shutoff like
this, seems silly to me. I was just answering the question.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Sheldon wrote on 28 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > wrote:
> > > > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> > > > of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
> > >
> > > > I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> > > > plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> > > > after 3 minutes.
> > >
> > > > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> > > > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> > > > a timer?
> > >
> > > Yes, a timer like that does exist. In Europe it is common for
> > > apartment buildings and hotels to have hall lights controlled by a
> > > timer such that you press a button and the lights come on for a
> > > short duration.
> > > I assume they are programmable for various durations and 3 minutes
> > > seems within the range of times I saw.
> >
> > Nothing new about the concept and certainly not restricted to Europe...
> > all my outdoor floodlights are equiped with motion detectors, I can set
> > the On time duration in various increments, from about 15 seconds to
> > about 15 minutes. I think 3 minutes is one of the settings but none
> > are very accurate. I have a few of those clock timers used for turning
> > lamps on and off but those are not very accurate either, certainly not
> > to the second, not even to the minute.
> >
> > For timing a hot air popper use an ordinary kitchen timer, when the
> > bell buzzes shut off the popper, what's too difficult??? Actually I
> > use the electronic timer on my microwave oven to time my hot air
> > popper, same three minutes is how long it takes to melt a stick of
> > butter.
> >
> > Sheldon
> >
> >
>
> There are computer pakages that can turn a puter into a fancy timer for
> houshold lights etc...the controling signal run at high freq over
> existing household wiring not bothering/bothered by the 120 VAC on
> them...But that's only for the serious pop corn maker as it would require
> a dedicated puter and various control boxes on the plugs you wanted to
> control
>
> Or there are things like this:
>
> http://www.prodigitusa.com/prodigit/2000t/2000t.htm

Yeah, right.... all for the occasional 3¢ worth of popping corn.

Sheldon wrote:

Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Sheldon wrote on 28 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > wrote:
> > > > My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
> > > > of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
> > >
> > > > I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
> > > > plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
> > > > after 3 minutes.
> > >
> > > > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> > > > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> > > > a timer?
> > >
> > > Yes, a timer like that does exist. In Europe it is common for
> > > apartment buildings and hotels to have hall lights controlled by a
> > > timer such that you press a button and the lights come on for a
> > > short duration.
> > > I assume they are programmable for various durations and 3 minutes
> > > seems within the range of times I saw.
> >
> > Nothing new about the concept and certainly not restricted to Europe...
> > all my outdoor floodlights are equiped with motion detectors, I can set
> > the On time duration in various increments, from about 15 seconds to
> > about 15 minutes. I think 3 minutes is one of the settings but none
> > are very accurate. I have a few of those clock timers used for turning
> > lamps on and off but those are not very accurate either, certainly not
> > to the second, not even to the minute.
> >
> > For timing a hot air popper use an ordinary kitchen timer, when the
> > bell buzzes shut off the popper, what's too difficult??? Actually I
> > use the electronic timer on my microwave oven to time my hot air
> > popper, same three minutes is how long it takes to melt a stick of
> > butter.
> >
> > Sheldon
> >
> >
>
> There are computer pakages that can turn a puter into a fancy timer for
> houshold lights etc...the controling signal run at high freq over
> existing household wiring not bothering/bothered by the 120 VAC on
> them...But that's only for the serious pop corn maker as it would require
> a dedicated puter and various control boxes on the plugs you wanted to
> control
>
> Or there are things like this:
>
> http://www.prodigitusa.com/prodigit/2000t/2000t.htm

>Yeah, right.... all for the occasional 3¢ worth of popping >corn.


And is the OP not in the vicinity of the popper and EAGERLY awaiting all
that popped goodness!? I know when I pop corn I watch it the last few
seconds, salivating at the thought of popping those delicious morsels into
my mouth...don't have to be "reminded" that the stuff is done.

This guy kinda I guess wants to turn what should be a simple task into a
science fair project...who knows, perhaps when MicroShaft releases it's new
Vista OS later this year they'll have a corn - popping & timing utility
included.

--
Best
Greg

Steve Wertz wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:26:03 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
>
> > I don't know why the OP wants to have an automatic shutoff like
> > this, seems silly to me. I was just answering the question.
>
> It's silly because it's a troll.


Or maybe, it's a troll because it's silly.



Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

This place carries things like that. Lots of it, and cheap. It's all
surplus. I went to their store once, what an adventure....
I was there almost all day, just playing....

http://www.sciplus.com


-----------------------------------

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:52:56 -0800, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."
> wrote:

> wrote in message
oups.com...
>> My plug-in popcorn popper takes 3 minutes to make a batch
>> of popcorn, and when it's done, I have to turn it off manually.
>>
>> I want to be able to plug the popper into a timer (which is itself
>> plugged into the wall) and set the timer to turn off the popper
>> after 3 minutes.
>>
>> It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
>> find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
>> a timer?
>>
>Westclox model no. 12/854 0202 is a two-prong digital clock timer model that
>is suitable enough for powering lamps on and off. Can't be sure if it's
>going to work for a popcorn popper (if it has a 3-prong plug design and/or
>higher power requirements than just a lamp) but that's at least a starting
>point for finding similar timers from this manufacturer or other
>manufacturers that might actually work with a popcorn popper.
>
>
>
>
>

"aem" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> Sheldon wrote:

> > [snip] Actually I
> > use the electronic timer on my microwave oven to time my hot air
> > popper, same three minutes is how long it takes to melt a stick of
> > butter.

> That must be some seriously frozen stick of butter that needs to be
> zapped for 3 minutes! I think you just like the harmony of
> bubbling butter with popping corn. -aem

Who said it was at max power?

Seamus wrote:
> wrote:
> > It seems obvious to me that a timer like this exists, but I can't
> > find one so far on the Internet. Can any of you point me to such
> > a timer?
> >
> > **********
> > 1366294709
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...l+timer+switch

what are the electrical demands that your popcorn popper makes?
you will see something like, 120 VAC, 600 Watts, on the device usually.

presumably the popcorn timer can be anywhere up to 1500 watts
which is the limit for ordinary 120 volts AC unless you have 220 volts
in your kitchen. do you have an electric stove? they demand 220 volts.

most timers won't go past 300 watts because they are made for lamps.
a popcorn popper probably is a resistive device similar to lamps
so a heavy duty timer might work that works for big lamps.

a heavy duty job has three prongs and will state, Heavy Duty,
and maybe also okay for motors or appliances up to, 500 or 1500 watts.

i think i have seen them up to 1500 watts in various hardware stores,
on the internet and in "real life." i don't remember seeing any with
a resolution of greater than minutes. usually even minutes requires
a digital type timer which is a few dollars more.

if all this seems strange you might want to find an electrician, or
better, go to an electrical store that sells lamps and stuff to
the public and electricians.

they can help you so you don't start an electrical fire by accident.
burning popcorn is a truly terrible smell and really hard to clean
up since the little protein in the popcorn makes a big mess.

take your popcorn popper with you so they can read its specs.