Electrically controlled corn popper apparatus

A corn popping apparatus including a box-like enclosure having upright front, back and side walls;

• a lid panel for an open top of said enclosure tiltable about a top edge of said front wall;
• and a corn popping kettle tiltable with said lid over and beyond said top edge of said front wall to dump popped corn therefrom, wherein the improvement comprises:
• an electrically energized heat source contiguous along an underside of said corn popping kettle projecting into said enclosure when said lid panel closes said open top thereof;
• wherein said heat source includes an electric resistance unit secured about said corn popping kettle underside;
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• wherein said corn popping kettle is in the shape of an elongated sphere, and wherein said electric resistance unit secures to said underside of said kettle by a heat conducting plate of substantially circular cross-section.