Behind the scenes at Ace: How our delicious popcorn is made

As soon as we were ready and got all the necessary attire on, we turned on Poppi, our air popper. We scooped a handful of beautiful kernels and dropped them into the funnel of Poppi.

After we put the kernels in, it was a waiting game, but full of lovely kernels popping and the smell of popcorn filling the room. After a while, popcorn came flying out of Poppi and into the tray below.

After the popcorn was made, it was onto the separating!

We moved the fluffy popcorn over the tiny holes in the tray, so any kernels that didn’t pop could be separated from the perfect, golden popcorn. We scooped all of the yummy popcorn into a bag, ready for the next step.

Now for the most enjoyable part, the flavour!

We had two options: the Double Feature and the Tumbler. We used both, but on different batches to see the difference. We poured our soft popcorn into a clear box, ready to be mixed with the warm caramel.

The Double Feature worked its magic, by making the caramel until it was perfect and then we poured the popcorn into the caramel and mixed it all together until the popcorn was a nice golden brown colour.

Now, we used the tumbler to see what it could do. We tipped a new batch of soft butterfly popcorn inside and sprinkled in a generous dusting of sugar. Then we let the Tumbler spin and swirl until every piece was coated in sweet goodness.

Even our Marketing Apprentice Jacob had a go and learnt about what a social enterprise is and what a difference this could make to autistic individuals trying to find employment.