Aluminum 6 Qt Whirley-Pop Popcorn Popper

This is one of the best popcorn poppers out there. Great value for delicious popcorn!! Easy to use and easy to clean. Popcorn taste so much better and yields a lot more than a microwave bag. Season to your preference and enjoy!

I have been looking for the perfect popcorn maker for quite a long time. Being a big fan (who isn’t?) of freshly-popped theater popcorn, I knew I didn’t want some cheap air popper that you have to melt the butter and poor over the popcorn, leaving cold, uneven, soggy,(shudder) pockets of yuck. And trying to get the salt on your popcorn evenly, forget about it. I then was looking and at smaller popcorn carts, (something fun for the grandkids), but a friend who owned one said they were a pain to keep clean. At any rate, I finally ended up with the good, old-fashioned Whirly-pop, and couldn’t be more happy with my purchase. The entire ensemble is a thin aluminum, but seems durable and worked quite well for its purpose. It came with a packet of oil, kernels and flavored salt. I measured the kernels so I would know how much to use next time, and it was exactly one half cup, so that is what I will use for my six quart pot for the perfect fit without overflow. I couldn’t get a good measurement on the butter-flavored coconut oil, as it was a semi solid stick, but I would start with about a little less than a 1/4 of a cup of butter flavored coconut oil, and add about an 1/8 teaspoon of the the flavored salt. Now these are estimates, but it will give you a good place to start. I washed and dried the pot well before use, and then put all of the ingredients in at once on medium and kind of spun the wooden handle a bit to help break up the semi solid coconut oil and mix up the popping corn and flavored salt. The design is simple, put practical. As I spun the handle, it mixed the kernels and oil and flavored salt, but once the pot started getting more full, using the handle was useless for stirring, so I just shook the pot a few times to make sure everything stayed moving. In I would say three minutes, every single kernel was popped, except one partially burst one. Not one burned piece of popcorn. Each was flavored nicely and evenly with butter and salt flavoring. I added several pictures, and I will explain each one. The first one is how full 1/2 cup of popcorn kernels will get you in the 6 quart pot. The next is with the stirring mechanism removed. There are snaps on both sides you just pull up and the lid comes off easy. The third picture was after I had filled two of the 4 included cute popcorn boxes for my grandkids, so this was essentially the bottom of the pot. No burned popcorn, no leftover kernels. (Impressive!!) The fourth is of the actual packet they sent with the pot containing the popcorn, the oil and the salt. I’m thinking you can probably buy the little packs of everything in one from Amazon if it’s more convenient for you. The fifth is a picture of flavacol, the actual salt they use at theaters, and a jar of butter flavored coconut oil. I had purchased both from Amazon and used it just popping my corn in a pot with a lid. (Not fun) lol. Notice the size of the box of flavacol… you can probably use it for other dishes, or share with neighbors, but this one box will last you a loooong time if you only use 1/8 of a teaspoon at a time lol. You can probably buy a smaller box of it, but I really suggest you getting some if you really want that theater experience. You can buy any kind of butter-flavored coconut oil, but this is the one I ended up with from Amazon. All in all, a fantastic easy to clean gizmo that makes fabulous theater-type popcorn in minutes. Enjoy!!

I felt compelled to write a review after owning this popcorn popper for more than four years and seeing it churn out a perfect batch time after time. The manufacturer deserves praise for this product. It works just as well -- indeed slightly better -- than the day I bought it. I use a half cup of kernels and a little oil, over a gas stovetop burner on high, and it consistently makes a fully-popped batch with zero waste. I have to hunt to find a single unpopped kernel. Nothing is burnt. It's fast, extremely economical, high-performing and durable. I can't ask for anything more. Although it is lightweight aluminum, it has proven perfectly durable, even though I was a bit skeptical of the thinness of the metal and the little stirring arms when I got it. The whole family, including kids, use it. It's been dropped once or twice, too! You don't really need the heat retention of thicker metal like cast iron for popping popcorn, as long as the bottom is hot enough, which I've never had trouble obtaining. I use oil only: olive oil most times, corn oil in a pinch. I followed a reviewer's advice not to wash it with soap and water or put it in the dishwasher. All I do is wipe it out after a batch. As with cast iron, it has developed a light seasoned coating on the bottom, which enhances the non-stick quality of the bottom surface. That's why I say it works slightly better now than it did the first day. Early on I would sometimes get a kernel stuck to the bottom; now that doesn't happen at all. All popped kernels rise to the top and the unpopped fall to the bottom till it's done. And I use cheap generic popcorn most times. The gears and stirring rod still work just fine. You don't have to crank it fast. A lazy one rotation a second always works for me. If you feel a kernel slip under the stirring rod at the bottom (you'll feel a slight drag), just reverse direction and it usually comes out from underneath. I don't know if other people crank it rapidly but perhaps that leads to more wear on the gears? That said, my kids still crank it fast and I've had no problems. The only maintenance I've done on it a couple times is to bend slightly the little metal clips that secure the cover's side flaps to the pot. After many openings and closings, these can get a little loose. It's just like the metal clip that keeps a typical mailbox shut. Just press it inward slightly and it secures tightly, good as new. I don't think I'll ever go back to electric poppers or microwave bag popcorn. Microwave bag popcorn tends to burn or waste a lot, it's relatively expensive, and it's got all kinds of fake flavors I don't enjoy. (If you like those, you can always buy "movie theater" flavored oil at the store.) Popping our own corn, everyone can add whatever amount of butter, salt, etc. they like. I've owned a few electric models, and besides being noisy, they're slower, they've failed after a few years, and while better than microwave bags, electrics still tend to spit unpopped kernels into the bowl. And if you have kids, you might know the drill with electric poppers: if the bowl gets bumped, the butter-melter is removed, the lid knocked accidentally, popcorn goes flying everywhere. Whirley-Pop is tidy. Of course you have to watch younger kids if they're novices using the stove. But compared to an electric popper, I've gotten a far better return on my investment with Whirley-Pop. It's simple, so there's far less to break: no switches to fail, fans to break down, or coils to burn out. Storing it is easier too. There's no parts to keep track of -- it stores as a unit under the cupboard. Again, a boon with kids. The only "pro tip" I've developed is to pour in the oil, then the kernels, crank it once or twice to spread them out and coat them with oil, then give it a little side-to-side shake. The stirring arm tends to push the kernels all to the outside initially. Shake it a little, and you get a nice even layer of kernels on the bottom. Then apply heat. I leave it heating like that, without stirring but giving an occasional little shake, for the first minute or two until the first pop -- all the kernels heat evenly and tend to pop more at one time. What really gets them all going, however, is that there's a cascade when the steam escaping from popping kernels creates more heat energy in the pot. This might be why electric poppers take so long -- they're blowing out all the heat energy they've generated in the bowl converting water to steam, whereas Whirley-Pop confines it as steam for cooking. Just take care to have your hand aside when dumping the batch out, since steam will escape if you dump it immediately, which I tend to do -- either because the gas stove burner grid still retains a lot of heat even when the burner is off or sometimes I'm overzealous in measuring a half-cup and it starts to get jam-packed. But in this case, just dump from the top and keep going, and everything turns out fine. All-in-all, this machine has been fabulous: works flawlessly, extremely economical, easy to maintain, and durable. If ever it breaks, which I don't expect, I'd buy another one immediately.

Por fin palomitas buenísimas! Fàcil de hacer y limpiar. La pega es que no funciona en inducción... Por lo demás perfecto!

This is one of those ‘it does what is says on the box’ Used it last night. Great popcorn, rinse in warm soapy water and good as new. Thank you

Il segreto è nel coperchio, che grazie al suo meccanismo permette di non far aderire il mais al fondo della pentola e grazie all' apertura laterale permette di visionare lo stato di scoppio dei pop. Di negativo nonostante la pubblicità filo Usa, il prodotto è un made in china. Altra nota negativa che il pentolame di base è di alluminio. Il coperchio si potrebbe utilizzare su una pentola di acciaio inox, il tutto funziona benissimo producendo pop in 3 minuti. In definitiva lo consiglio per il solo utilissimo coperchio che non è, almeno di alluminio.

Awesome popcorn popper. Makes the most fluffiest popcorn very easy to use.

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