Chinese street vendor's explosive popcorn making contraption

Does anyone have any real clue on how to build one of these safely? I do quite a few food festivals, and this idea is perfect for a show. It could be made safe with a redesign with pressure release valves or some other safety features. If you could retrofit some existing technology, even better. If it could be kept hot, reloaded quickly and had a high throughput, it’d make a great, high margin festival food producer. It’s got a great show, and things like the “dirty bag” could be fixed with a food grade fix like stainless steel mesh or some other container. Kettle corn uses surplus large bakery mixing bowls in custom welded frames with propane burners. This street vendor is still churning out popcorn faster than any kettle corn vendor I’ve seen.

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