There are gourmet and specialty popcorn stores online. And of course Amazon carries pre-popped popcorn too. If you decide to use a popcorn machine or an air-popper, you can find popcorn kernels pretty much anywhere, almost any grocery store carries them and they are usually pretty inexpensive.
The last thing to think about is how to serve the popcorn to your guests. Especially when setting up a popcorn bar, but this is the fun party.
In my shop I have wood slat popcorn baskets and metal buckets to serve the popcorn and a variety of paper bags for each guest to create their own popcorn creation. This shows how much popcorn each item holds. Knowing how much popcorn you will be serving based on the number of guests and how much you think everyone will eat, you can better determine the size buckets or baskets you need to serve your guests.
If you are planning on popcorn servings, you know you will need popcorn bags, cups of popcorn and if you using three 8 quart popcorn baskets, you will still need to fill them each a little more than 4 times.
As you can see from this example you will most likely need someone to keep refilling the popcorn baskets for you. One last tip , if you are using pre-popped popcorn for your popcorn bar. Keep the bags sealed until you are ready to use them. In my opinion popcorn goes stale pretty quickly and fresh popcorn is so much better.
I think your suggestion of having a popcorn bar for your event is absolutely something interesting and new! I will definitely think about buying popcorn in bulk from a local popcorn seller so that I can save the trouble of popping them myself!
Yes buying popcorn in bulk is a great option. Stale popcorn is not good. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
Notify me of new posts by email. August 2, December 17, Planning a popcorn bar and trying to figure out how much popcorn you need to buy. But in my opinion this is the bare minimum, you may want to multiply by 1. For a movie night, you want your guests to be able to come back for 2nds or 3rds.
However, the density of each popcorn flavor does vary. On average a 2 gallon bulk bag of popcorn will have 1 cup servings. On average a 4 gallon bulk bag of popcorn will have 1 cup servings.
Example for Guests you will want to purchase a minimum of 8 gallons for each guest to have one- 1 cup serving of popcorn. An average serving of popcorn is 2 cups, which fills a small 1 ounce popcorn bag. If you 're thinking of the servings provided at movie theaters, a Small equals roughly cups servings , a Medium equals cups servings , and a Large is equal to cups servings.
If we go by. How many servings are in a bag of popcorn? How many cups of popcorn are in a pound? How many cups of popcorn are in a bag of Act 2? The label lists the nutritional details of a single serving of 6. That means there are 13 cups of popcorn in the bag.
How much does 1 cup of popped popcorn weigh? Does Costco sell popcorn? Costco is selling a massive bag of popcorn in certain stores.
Locations of the bulk retailer around the US sell various Popcornopolis popcorn and kettle corn products. The super-sized bag of popcorn is far from the only massive product you can buy at Costco. Do you measure popcorn popped unpopped? The answer lies in popcorn kernels, popped popcorn has less kernels, therefore less calories.
Each bag that you will receive has 44 cups of popcorn in it. The popcorn bar package has 5 bags 5 different flavors for a grand total of cups of popcorn.
This is usually enough popcorn for people if they each take around 2 cups of popcorn each. What is the time frame on orders and shipping process? I have an event March 17, We ship out 3 day service on most orders, unless otherwise noted. If we are busy in-house it could take us a day or two to get the order prepared for shipping.
Feel free to call our store to ensure that we can accomodate timely shipping for your event, we are here to help. All of our popcorn arrives to you popped. We make all of of our flavors in small batches to keep it as fresh as possible. I would recommend ordering 3 or 4 X-Large bags from our flavor menu. You will also need to keep in mind what are you serving it in.
If you give them a brown paper lunch sack, they will fill it to the top and there won't be enough for everyone. The clear popcorn bags that we offer are the perfect size. They hold exactly 3 cups of popcorn. How much popcorn should I buy and how can I taste the flavors? The All in 1 - Popcorn Bar package will feed about guests.
It is 5 different flavors of your choice, a total of cups of popcorn regular 1 cup measuring cup from your kitchen.
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