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182 of 182 humans found the following review helpful.
Great idea !…. professional model? No…
By Careful shopper
This 300w popper is working well and will deliver ready to eat popcorn within minutes after it’s been warmed up the time it takes you to get your furnishes ready to use.
Looks nice and is a fun item, but if your desire is the finished popcorn and not in owning an strange popper, you may pop more and spend less cash at the same time with another machine in my opinion.
Taste of the popped corn may vary depending on the type of corn, oil and salt you use, if you don’t like it, undertake another combination. I buy more prominent sized concession stand oil and flavored salt, but buy my white popcorn in littler bags so I may keep it fresher.
I love white popcorn, you might like yellow, but don’t forget you may also mix batches to get something in between.
No matter which you like, it will have to be fresh to have the proper moisture content to pop properly.
Don’t blame your popper all the time when it may be the corn thats at fault.
The clear sides plus top and bottom that you see are all ABS plastic, For the MSRP ~Manufactures Suggested Retail Price~ (LIST price, not talking with regards to the discounted price), it ought to genuinely have tempered glass in my opinion… they do use glass in the next models up it seems.
Even the hinges for the front door are plastic and IMO will have to be metal even with plastic sides.
Note this popper has a finelooking huge footprint so make sure you have a place to put it before you buy.. it’s 11 x 11 x 17inches.
It has a gorgeous little popping pot (6″ x 3.5″), you use 1 tablespoon oil and 1/3 cup corn per batch.
In my opinion, that’s not much popcorn per cycle, it would take assorted batches to fill the tray in the bottom as shown in the promotional photo from Waring.
I measured the popped corn from each batch and for me, it’s 4-5 cups, but may vary depending on how numerous kernels pop with the corn you use.
I uploaded a photo of the popping pan to show size and design.
Perhaps it’s just ME,but I may eat 8 cups of popped corn without stopping 
Count on running a heap of batches if there’s more than one person eating corn.
I in truth feel they could have put a cook unit in this in regards to 50% larger without increasing the outer case size. (or the price)
The lid on the stainless steel pot that you open to pour in the oil and corn is gorgeous small, may be kind of tough to hold the metal flap open and dump in the oil and corn.
The littler size also makes cleaning a bit of a pain since the 2 lid flaps, stiring paddle with drive shaft and all attachment points do not come off and require you to get your cleaning wand or hand in half of the pot at a time since the lids are split into 2 and each is less than half the diameter of the pot. instructions suggest you pour a great deal of water in and run it to “steam” clean, but I’d still want to wipe it out after.
I found that putting a rubber band around the lid handles to hold them open makes it go a bit having little impact when cleaning it out with a soapy sponge “wand”.
Also, be sure and clean inside of the top of the plastic case, it in truth gets a lot of oil spatter up there.
Again just to support you picture it…Even on the kitchen counter I have to bend down to see what I’m doing in there (I’m 6ft).
One further and added tip… pull the plastic tray out a couple of inches before you dump the corn from the pot… will save picking it up off the floor.
Now the biggest problem I have with it… where do I keep it when not in use? Would love to let it set out as it looks okay and would be more comfortable to use when the mood strikes, but don’t have that kind of counter space.
UPDATE Nov 2010;
Two years later, I wanted every one to know this is still working just fine and not one thing has broken, even the light inside still has the same bulb… has popped a lot of a bowl of corn at this point.
I do note the clear plastic sides and door are showing numerous wash and arid scratches(dull)from being cleaned of oil spatter after each use.
Be sure to read the remarks attached to this review for more details in using this popper.
30 of 30 persons found the following review helpful.
Lots of Bang for the Buck!
By L. Effinger
My wife and I both love popcorn. For 2009 Christmas, she opted to get this popper for “me” as a gift. I will have to say, I am impressed. Especially for the price.
We have 3 in our family and ordinarily have to cook 3-4 batches using the commended 1/3 cup kernels to satisfy everyone. Obviously your results will vary based on appetites, etc. But if you have a more prominent family or number of friends, then expect cooking more. That being said, it doesn’t take long to cook them. There is a 2 minute warm up period, which gives you time to gather seeds, oil, etc. Then another few minutes per batch to cook.
After getting the machine, we were buying Orville Redenbacher seeds & oil from Walmart because of convenience. Quality is okay, but takes experimenting to get it right. In our opinion it never matched “movie style” popcorn. Or possibly we never “perfected” the recipe. Also I noticed some uncooked seeds. Not a huge % but more than I’d like.
Recently we found a local special line of work popcorn store (The Corn Popper – Google it for a link). They have much, much better seeds, oil and the real popcorn salt. We love the flavor and feel we have equivalent (and now and then better, depending on theater) popcorn than if we go to the movies now. Also we have regarding 1/3 the amount of unpopped kernels as equated to OR product we initially used. So the seeds are a higher quality in our opinion. Lastly, but very important, is furnishes at this new shop is CHEAPER than the OR merchandise and you get more. So we are very impressed with the new provider and will proceed to buy our productions from there. Having the right productions make ownership much, much more enjoyable.
Truly, my only complaints with the machine is I wish it popped more, had a more prominent container and had glass sides (opposed to plastic). But when you consider the very lowpriced entry level pricing for a solid machine, it offers immense “bang for the buck”.
11 of 11 persons found the following review helpful.
Was Disappointed
By Joanne Ischay
I wanted to get one of these for my sons Carnival party. I found this at Costco for $60 and was very disappointed after I applied it. I don’t think it’s the actual machine that I am disappointed with. I am sure it did what it was supposed to, but I just think it’s a waste of money. It pops very little popcorn at a time. We have a family of five and would have to pop at least a few batches or more. And for the party, I will have to pop a ton. I have the stove top popper that I much prefer. This is big and I am not sure where I would put it. For a big machine and little popcorn, I think it’s a waste of money. The look is great, but gorgeous useless. It’s going back to Costco.
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