(Reviving an old thread, here - less than 6 months though, so hopefully putrefaction has not set in!)
Without a hood, it would need to go outdoors. Has anyone tried, or researched anyway, an outdoor stove top, for something like this? What has enough BTUs?
My hot air popper may be dying, not sure. The last of like half a dozen, mostly elements burned out, this one lasted an unusually long time, but I'm thinking this is the point where I give up on hot air poppers. I've been mostly drum roasting on a gas grill, but not at night or in the rain, and that's where the popper was getting used. There's room on the front porch, out of the rain, marginally illuminated, and I can get electricity.
I had been thinking heat gun and bowl, but people who were doing that 5 or 10 years ago seem to have moved on, which makes me wonder if there were some drawbacks that eventually outweighed the initial thrills.