Failed Kettlecorn trials

First of all, this is a giant bummer.

So I have been wanting to try making kettlecorn since veteran's day.  Mostly because we paid $15 for a bag of it and spent about 30 minutes watching some guy make it.  This is when I found out that it can be made using maple syrup; I thought that sounded easy.  Also since my brother owns a party rental business he happens to have a big bucket of popcorn that needs popping.  If you get the urge to try this out without using any recipe, perhaps being anyone that might be over-confident in popcorn making ability, let me just forewarn you:  the 'lite' kind we have in the house does not work and so I have just wasted kernels, oil, and syrup twice.  I just read a recipe and they say it should be 100% maple syrup.  Not sure if that is true, but I do know it was not working for me.  If I heated up the syrup separately though it may have worked.  I am tired of trying at this point.  Plus all I need is corn syrup and I have all the ingredients to make this caramel corn with this recipe I just found.  That sounds like a much better idea.

Gotta go!