Digital Encyclopedia: Product Demo & Review

Bottle Cork *** Applications: Residential, Commercial and Travel ** Increase Shelf Life *** Relevant Background: " Cork  is an  impermeable   buoyant  material, the  phellem layer  of  bark  tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from  Quercus suber  (the cork oak), which is native to southwest  Europe  and northwest  Africa . Cork is composed of  suberin , a  hydrophobic  substance. Because of its impermeable, buoyant, elastic, and fire retardant properties, it is used in a variety of products, the most common of which is  wine stoppers . The  montado  landscape of  Portugal  produces approximately half of cork harvested annually worldwide.. Cork's  elasticity  combined with its near-impermeability makes it suitable as a material for  bottle   stoppers ,.. Cork has an almost zero   Poisson's ratio , which means the radius of a cork does not ...

  Popcorn Maker ************************************************************ Relevant Background on Popcorn maker: " A  popcorn maker  (also called a  popcorn popper  or  popcorn machine ) is a device used to pop  popcorn . Since ancient times, popcorn has been a popular snack food, produced through the explosive expansion of kernels of heated  corn.. Commercial popcorn machines are commonly found in movie theaters and carnivals, producing popcorn in a pan of hot oil, which has approximately 45% of its calories derived from fat. Hot air popcorn poppers appeared for home use in the late 1970s, which produce popcorn with only 5% of its calories derived from fat... The majority of popcorn sold for home consumption is now packaged in a   microwave popcorn bag   for use in a microwave oven. [2]   As a result, the popularity of popcorn makers for home use has drastically decreased in the last few decades..." (" Popcorn maker ",  htt...

  Potato Masher *********************************************************************** Applications: Residential, Commercial & Travel *** Relevant Background : " The  potato  is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant  Solanum tuberosum , and the plant itself is a perennial in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. [2].. Wild potato species, originating in modern-day Peru, can be found throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile. [3]  The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated by indigenous peoples of the Americas independently in multiple locations, [4]  but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species traced a single origin for potatoes. In the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia, from a species in the  Solanum bre...