Elite Gourmet EPM145M 18-cup Hot Oil Stirring Popcorn Popper w/Measuring Cap & Reversible Serving Bowl & Butter Melting Tray, Great for Parties, Movie Night, Anytime Snack, Safety ETL Approved, Mint

I love the Elite Gourmet EPM330R; it's just what I needed to make delicious popcorn at home quickly and easily.✔ Easy to use: Just add the corn, a little oil, and turn on the machine. In just a few minutes, you'll have crispy, well-popped popcorn.✔ Automatic stirring: This prevents the kernels from burning and ensures all the popcorn cooks evenly.✔ Reversible bowl: I love that the lid converts into a serving bowl, so I make less of a mess. Plus, it's transparent, so I can see how the popcorn is popping.✔ Good capacity: Makes up to 12 cups, enough to share with family or friends.✔ Easy to clean: Just wipe the lid/bowl and base with a damp cloth. Super practical.Overall, it's an excellent popcorn maker, perfect for movie nights at home. I 100% recommend it. Worth every penny!

One of the features of this popcorn maker that i really like is its automatic stirring mechanism. This ensures that every kernel is evenly heated and pops without burning. The popcorn was consistently fluffy and well-popped, with minimal unpopped kernels left behind. Operating the popcorn maker is straightforward. With a measuring cap for precise oil and corn measurements, you can make popcorn without fussing over figuring out the measuringments. Just add your ingredients, switch it on, and let the machine do the work. Cleanup is a breeze, as the removable parts can be easily washed.

What's bad:You have to lift it up and flip the entire device upside down when it's done and somehow remove the dome. The handles are designed and placed very poorly, you end up touching the hot metal almost all the time.It is hard to clean if you use oil/butter.What's good:Works really well, much better than the microwave poppers.It mixes the popcorn well so you can use butter and salt or any other mix you desire.It makes enough popcorn for two people. It is very silent and does not produce any weird smells.You can also use it to roast nuts!

This Popcorn Maker is a compact, efficient, and easy-to-use appliance for home popcorn lovers. It features a sleek, portable design and uses hot air for a healthier snack. Popping a batch in just 2-4 minutes, it delivers quick results without the need for oil.Pros include its fast performance, easy cleaning, and stylish build. However, it lacks an on/off switch, can be slightly noisy, and may leave some unpopped kernels.Overall, it's a great choice for those who want fresh, homemade popcorn with minimal effort.

This little popcorn popper works well, but is hard to clean. You receive a base with a small rotating arm that stirs the popcorn as it pops. Next is the lid that doubles as a bowl. The base itself feels relatively steady, but the lid/bowl combo does not. It is made from flimsy plastic and is super pliable which makes it hard to clean for fear of breaking it. There is also a small lid that goes on top of the lid to cover the steam holes after popping. You put the lid on, flip the machine over, remove the base and viola...popcorn. However the bowl/lid doesn't fit perfectly on the machine either. If you plan to make a lot of popcorn, go with something else a little sturdier. For occasional use, this is the perfect size for two people.

I got this about 2 months ago and have made popcorn about a dozen times. It seems to work well and is easy enough - it pops well, stirs well, and I have not had any issues with burning. I use animal fat (ghee) as opposed to vegetable oil because I don't want a sticky residue, which ghee never leaves. This means I can simply wipe off the surface of the popper to clean it completely. Cute color, too, to go with my 50s kitchen.

[Review has now been further revised to reflect just how fragile this is][Review has been revised to reflect further efforts to get good result with Mushroom Popcorn by Hoosier Hill Farm.]I've just thrown this out after less than 6 months of use. The problem is that the cover for the butter well in the top/bowl will no longer stay in place. It is supposed to be held in place by small, flimsy plastic clips and too many of them have broken off, even though I tried to be careful with them. This makes it very difficult to flip the popper over at the end of its popping and impossible to use the top as a bowl. It's a little design detail that saves the manufacturer a penny or two -- and quickly makes the popper useless. I hope to find different brand with better design._____________________________________________________________________________________This is essentially a modernized version of the electric corn popper used by my mother's family a century or more ago. (It survived in my mom's kitchen long enough for me to enjoy it as a kid.) This uses plastics instead of steel and has a motor to turn the stirring rod instead of a hand crank but the principles are identical and so is the performance.Having a good idea what to expect, I tried it with two different popcorns. Snappy White Popcorn is a pretty standard sort of popcorn in terms of kernal size and it produces normal butterfly popped kernals. The Snappy kernals I have are from 2020 but still popped quite well, with scarcely any unpopped or partly-popped old maids. I followed the directions, with 3 tablespoons of oil and a bit more than 1/3 cup of kernals. This filled the top/bowl to the brim, and flavor and texture were excellent.Mushroom Popcorn by Hoosier Hill Farm was a different story. Mine is only a week old but it popped quite badly, with a great many old maids, and not many fully-developed mushroom popped kernals. But the same popcorn pops considerably better in my Presto 04830 PowerPop Microwave Multi-Popper. I'm not totally sure why it does so very poorly the Elite Gourmet machine but I'm pretty certain that it has a lot to do with the quite large size of the unpopped kernals. Hoosier Hill, which spends a lot of Web space patting itself on the back regarding the quality of its product, does not seem inclined to offer any hints, but the instructions on the package, which suggest using a stovetop popper for best results, led me to an experiment that produced better popcorn from it with the Elite. I poured a generous layer of oil on the hot plate (more than recommended) and placed just a few kernals on it before turning on. When those had popped I turned it off, quickly removed the cover, put 1/3 cup of kernals in, and restarted it. The result was a considerable improvement with a large proportion of large mushroom popped kernals and somewhat improved flavor and texture. There were still many fragments of hull, however, and a number of old maids.It's quite important, I judge, to turn off the machine and dump the popcorn as soon as popping stops, as otherwise you risk burning your popcorn. It's very simple: just clap the cover on the vent, grasp the handles, and tip it over. It's light enough to make it quite easy for anyone.The little vent and butter cup at the top of the cover really works fine for melting butter if you are not too stupid about how you do it. The butter needs to be sliced into several thinner slices spread around over the vent slits rather than dumped in one big clump. Then it melts just fine and imparts a wonderful buttery flavor throughout the batch. I generally spread it around a bit with the knife blade midway through the popping just to be sure, but it doesn't seem to be truly necessary.Of course butter isn't great for you. Much better to spray the popped corn with a butter-infused olive oil, but it doesn't really produce quite the same effect, sadly, although it really is quite good.The plastic in the top/bowl is quite thin but doesn't really seem flimsy to me, because it is flexible and not at all inclined to crack. It's probably not going to last 35 or 40 years, the way my mom's popper did, however.Cleanup is pretty straightforward.Three quarts is not enough for a very big family or party, but I note that there are machines operating on similar principles in 6 quart sizes on Amazon. I expect that the performance is probably similar, although it may be that some handle the Mushroom Popcorn by Hoosier Hill Farm better.