I am not sure how difficult to persuade Irina of the virtues of such a concept, but I have admit the idea of a popcorn machine in our flat would be quite a cool idea. Whenever we stick a movie on, we could just fire up the machine, and soon have a carton of fresh sweet (well 1/2 sweet for me, 1/2 salty for Ira) popcorn just waiting to be consumed.