Elite Gourmet EPM330M Automatic Stirring 12-cup Popcorn Maker Popper, Hot Oil Popcorn Machine w/Measuring Cap & Built-in Reversible Serving Bowl, Great for Home Party Kids, Safety ETL Approved, Mint

We received this popcorn popper as a Christmas gift. It makes the best popcorn…better than any theater or microwave bag! Now we give it as a gift to be enjoyed over and over!

Love Love Love it! Easy to use and store. I'm having fun finding different popcorn kernels to try in it

Make sure you wash it out very thoroughly before you use it! I had to clean this out 4 times to get rid of the smell and flavor that it adds to your popcorn if you don’t. If it wasn’t for that I would have given it 5 stars. But when I washed it just once it coated the popcorn in the flavor of the weird chemical smell and I had to throw it out and wash it 3 more times to get rid of the chemical smell

Purchase this for a gift. When I was notified it had been delivered I called and the recipients. They had open it and immediately were making popcorn. It popped all but 2-3 popcorn kernels. The butter melted perfectly on the top. They loved the gift and also the beautiful teal/blue color. Definitely would buy again.

It’s OK. Much too small

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!

[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.

Great little popcorn popper. Makes a large salad bowl of popped corn, or less if you desire. Good instructions. Easy to clean, dishwasher safe. Pops every kernel.