Paragon Bulk Bag Yellow Corn (12.5-Pounds)

by Paragon - Manufactured Fun

Product Description

12.5 lbs of bulk popcorn. Grown In the USA! Check out Paragon Popcorn machines!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002YLGA0W
• Item model number: 1022
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #3 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Snack Food > Popcorn > Unpopped

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing popcorn, May 4, 2010

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L. Frana - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paragon Bulk Bag Yellow Corn (12.5-Pounds) (Sports)

I've tried many brands of popcorn, and this one is the best, bar none. Fluffy, tender, and flavorful. It is far better than all the name brands. You won't waste your money on Orville after you've tried this!

69 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bye Bye WAY overpriced Supermarket Corn!, December 14, 2010

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NotTheOnlyFan (Lost Without Complete O&A) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Paragon Bulk Bag Yellow Corn (12.5-Pounds) (Sports)

I regularly pop corn in a wok with canola oil. Nothing fancy, pops like a charm. My local supermarket chain (VONS) used to sell those old plastic bags of corn for like $2. You know -- those old fashioned bags that just sit there while everyone else buys all the microwave garbage.

Well VONS slowly marked up these bags to about $3 over the years. Then one day they were all GONE. Replaced with Orville Reddenschmucker like 'jugs' of unpopped corn. Just under two pounds of corn for --- WAIT FOR IT -- $5.

I have to pay MORE money and get more container but LESS corn?!? I don't THINK so...

So I start surfing the web. My God -- some site was willing to sell me a 50 pound bag for like $18. My cheapness grinned ear to ear. Then I saw the shipping charge --- WAIT FOR IT -- $43. Yeah... no...

So then I see this brand at Amazon. 12.5 pounds for $17. Shipping? FREE. And I don't have to store 50 pounds!

Just over a dollar a pound instead of twice as much? SOLD.

Now it's home. Just made a batch. I'm not a gourmet -- it's frickin' popcorn, okay? To me, it's either a pass or a fail. Better than Von's, the same, or unacceptable. It's either better or the same as Von's -- I can't tell. It seemed to pop bigger, but I'm not sure the bigger popping translates to better taste.

Why are you still reading this? Just order it already.

;-)

63 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Theater-like Popcorn, April 4, 2010

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Kmouser (Canyon, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Paragon Bulk Bag Yellow Corn (12.5-Pounds) (Sports)

This is the best popcorn I have ever bought, outdoes Orville Redenbacker's popcorn in size and taste. It is also the cheapest at approx. $1.20/lb. It pops up really well in the microwave (avoid all plastic microwave containers). I use a 3 qt glass bowl with a glass plate on top as a lid. It fits loosely enough so that when I overfill it with popcorn, the popcorn can lift up the lid easily and let excess gas escape. Most popcorn is pressure-sensitive so that if there is too much popcorn in a bowl to pop, some kernels will not pop. Almost every kernel pops when I microwave on high in a 1500 watt microwave oven for about 5 1/2 min (about 1 1/2 TBLSP popcorn) and no added oil. In fact when I popped about 8 bowls of the popcorn (had to cool off bowl each time to avoid overheating the microwave and burning popped pieces), I found about 5 unpopped kernels in the bottom of the large paper bag.

This popcorn outdoes all of the microwavable popcorn brands that you will see in the grocery stores since you are not popping them in teflon/PfoA lined paper bags which will leach out dangerous chemicals (PfoA) into your popcorn with the heat necessary to pop the corn. If you try to use a lower heat on your microwave you will get progressively more unpopped kernels. Microwave is better than the hot air corn-poppers since it doesn't cool down kernels in between the pulses of hot air that corn poppers do. I watch the timer as it counts down and start to note when I hear a pop as the popping slows down. When I do not hear a pop for 12 sec, it is time to pull the bowl out of the hot microwave. Thus the time to pop a bowl of popcorn will vary from 5.3-5.7 min when starting with a cold bowl and lid.