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(More customer reviews)I purchased the Waring Pro WPM40 after happily using a West Bend Stir Crazy for many years. A few months ago we instituted a weekly movie night among some friends. When making numerous batches I found that the Stir Crazy had a problem with an unacceptable increase in unpopped kernals after the first batch. Purchasing two brand new Stir Crazy poppers did not resolve this problem so I decided to follow the Movie Theater example. After doing a bit of searching on the internet I was unable to find any informative reviews on this style of popper for home use. Without wanting to spend a large amount of money on the true movie theater models I settled on the Waring Pro WPM40 in part due to: it's more reasonable cost; it's close resemblence to the 'pro' models; it was being advertised by some reputable catalog merchandisers; and the Waring brand name.
The popper arrived in perfect condition and was assembled with little effort. Upon reading the manual and comparing it with the user instruction label on the door I found the two disagreed on the amount of oil and popcorn to be used. After numerous trial runs I was able to get mediocre results from it. Rather than use a half cup of popcorn I found that one third of a cup resulted in less unpopped kernals being ejected from the pot(which was still considerable). The problem with this is that it yielded just a small amount of useable popcorn so I had to make numerous batches(approx 10) to have a sufficient quantity for 4 guys(all healthy eaters). This process took perhaps 50 min to accomplish and afterwards the clean up was just as time consuming. After the 10 batches were done the pot was showing noticeable signs of burned on oil residue which required a couple applications of Easy Off oven cleaner. This entailed disassembling the pot and stirring mechanism. After that there was considerable work to clean the popcorn bits and husks(and oil) off of all the inside surfaces(it gets everywhere imaginable). The net result in my opinion, was that there was too much effort in the popping and cleaning processes when compared to the yield.
I decided to return the WPM40 popper and go back to the Stir Crazy(using two machines alternately this time since giving each sufficient time to cool after use appeared to increase efficiency on followup batches).
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