Customer Reviews

Great Northern Popcorn Red Pasadena 8 Ounce Bar Style Antique Popcorn Machine

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We purchased and received this machine about a month ago from Amazon.com. Since then we've enjoyed using it. Set up was a breeze...nothing difficult to assemble. We wiped everything down to sanatize it and popped our first batch. While our first batch as decent...we had quite a few unpopped kernals (we didn't use enough oil) and have had to refine our technique a bit. The machine itself seems to be of decent quality for $200 bucks. It's worked just fine and we have absolutely no complaints at this point.

This is what we've learned in the past month that may be of use to others. If you don't use enough oil you'll end up with a lot of unpopped kernals. We use about 4 TABLESPOONS of oil with 1 cup of popcorn and it seems to be the perfect combination. One cup of popcorn weighs about 7 ounces and that's the perfect amount for my wife and I.....yes we do love popcorn. If you're not as much into popcorn as we are....you could probably give a nice treat to 4 or 5 people with one cup of unpopped corn and 4 tablespoons of oil.

One thing we'd highly suggest is that you use a product called "Flavacol" which is basically butter flavored salt. You add it right to the oil in the pot before adding the popcorn. We used about a level TEASPOON for one cup of unpopped popcorn and it was about right for us. It's the product that two movie theaters use that we asked....that's how we found out about it. It definately does give your popcorn that "movie theatre taste" we all know and love. We couldn't find Flavacol around town here....so we found you can order it from Amazon or Ebay or probably a number of other places as well. It's cheap...so no worries about the cost.

Buy this machine and go forth and enjoy !

Popcorn tastes as good as the machine looks. It is really an afordable way to go for a small store, church or such. We had used it at our local church for family video showings. We also used it for Bible school events. It has held up well and still looks great. It is very easy to use and clean.

I read the reviews for this and other 8 oz popcorn machines and decided that this popcorn machine would be a good value for the money. I think I was wrong. The first issue is with the drop down door, when opening the glass doors, it always falls off of the 2 little slots for it. Maybe I can install a couple of hinges to hold it in place. The second issue is with the kettle itself. It doesn't fit the 2 brackets hanging down very well. Also, the lids on the kettle flip up and do not fall back down as the popcorn is popping and about half of the kernals come out without popping. It may also be the depth of the kettle (it isn't much deeper than the 4 oz popper I had before this), I don't know. If I was using cheap popcorn, I would blame that, but I use the Gold Medal 8 oz packets.
I was hoping to make movie night more fun and making the popcorn less of a chore but in the end, I believe the 4 oz machine was easier to use and considering the amount of popcorn actually popped, was less time consuming. It's too bad really, I had high hopes that this was going to work for my family. The kids were able to use the last one we had but this one is too much trouble for them to even mess with. For the $225 (with shipping) I spent, I can't say I could recommend this model to anyone else.

This machine is exactly what I hoped, very well constructed easy to use, instructions were very Helpful especially with regards to the cleaning. I thought the cleaning would be horrible, but it is actually not bad.

The popcorn tastes great, we have been using the pre packaged 8 oz all in one packs from Great Northern....

Really pleased, really can't say enough good stuff about the machine and how well it operates !

We play poker every weekend at our house. We thought this would be the perfect item to have for snack while we played. So far (1 month) it has been the greatest. The house smells like popcorn when the players arrive and the taste is unbelievable. We make two batches and it fills 10 adults for 3 hours of playing. I would recommend this for the home theater.

Perfect for familiy movie nights! Pops enough for about 5 people and you can always pop another batch quickly if you have a crowd.

We purchased a great nothern popcorn machine about 18 months ago. We use it several times a week. If friends are over, they always want "some of that popcorn". We also sat the machine outside and handed out popcorn at Halloween and we could not pop it fast enough. This purchase has been very enjoyable.

Larry Burns

its a great unit i have it on my minibar in movie room very easy to use would recoment to anyone

I purchased the 8oz Pasadena Popcorn machine with a case of the popcorn packs about 9mo ago, we love it! I love how the house smells like the theater when I use it. I even popped popcorn for the trick or treaters this year, I could not keep up!

My co-workers love it when I pop and bring in to share, we are the hit of the neighborhood.

This was one of my best investments, we have definitely gotten my $ worth!