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Waring has been making products for commercial kitchens for over 60 years. Today Waring Pro brings that expertise home with premium, commercial-quality products, including the Professional Popcorn Maker. Entertaining friends and family is easier than ever, with Waring Pro. Who wants popcorn!? Everyone. Yes, it’s a fact: Everyone Wants Popcorn. And the Waring Pro Professional Popcorn Maker delivers up to 12 cups of hot, delicious popcorn in just a few minutes! Great for kid’s parties, game time snacks, or just because you’re in the mood. The door and pivoting kettle easily remove for easy cleaning, and the heat lamp keeps popped corn warm and fresh.
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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful
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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).
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).
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
This unit is by no means a professional popper because it cannot produce enough popcorn fast enough to serve more then one person every 4-5 minutes.
The product info claims that about half a cup of unpopped kernels can produce up to 12 cups of popcorn from this unit. I tried numerous times, using different varieties and quantities of popcorn and oil. The fact is, even when this popper is working at its best, it will only produce a single small serving per batch, (about the size of a large cereal bowl) and it will always waste about 10% of the popcorn kernels you put into it.
The so-called "warming light" is just a standard 60 watt lightbulb. It's not going to warm anything.
Waring calls this a "professional" popper - that is just a brand name. This is a consumer unit made in China. If speed and efficiency is your priority, you can save yourself time, money, and popcorn if you stick with a $20 stovetop manual stirring kettle.
If you're determined to have that movie popper experience, and you have the patience to experiment with how much popcorn to use (as well as having to make multiple batches at a time), this model could function as a novelty toy...
If you take the time to pop up several batches, one right after another, you can fill the bottom/front of the unit like the theatres do, and then scoop it into containers like they do at the movies. If your guests don't mind small servings, they can theoretically get theirs "right out of the kettle" but it will take a few extra minutes to serve everyone.
The product info claims that about half a cup of unpopped kernels can produce up to 12 cups of popcorn from this unit. I tried numerous times, using different varieties and quantities of popcorn and oil. The fact is, even when this popper is working at its best, it will only produce a single small serving per batch, (about the size of a large cereal bowl) and it will always waste about 10% of the popcorn kernels you put into it.
The so-called "warming light" is just a standard 60 watt lightbulb. It's not going to warm anything.
Waring calls this a "professional" popper - that is just a brand name. This is a consumer unit made in China. If speed and efficiency is your priority, you can save yourself time, money, and popcorn if you stick with a $20 stovetop manual stirring kettle.
If you're determined to have that movie popper experience, and you have the patience to experiment with how much popcorn to use (as well as having to make multiple batches at a time), this model could function as a novelty toy...
If you take the time to pop up several batches, one right after another, you can fill the bottom/front of the unit like the theatres do, and then scoop it into containers like they do at the movies. If your guests don't mind small servings, they can theoretically get theirs "right out of the kettle" but it will take a few extra minutes to serve everyone.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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This was a birthday gift for my wife's birthday. It does an excellent job and is as advertised. Clean up is fast and easy. So is making the popcorn. You can have excellent popcorn in less than 10 minutes. This involves getting the device out of storage, putting it together, preheating, popping and serving.
If you do not clean it everytime which is probably not necessary, well at least IMO but not my wife's, then plan on having excellent corn in about 5 minutes.
My wife, the popcorn lover in the house, verbally swore off Microwave popcorn in front of me while the unit was sitting idle upstairs just waiting to be opened on her birthday.
I guess I bought the right gift.
If you do not clean it everytime which is probably not necessary, well at least IMO but not my wife's, then plan on having excellent corn in about 5 minutes.
My wife, the popcorn lover in the house, verbally swore off Microwave popcorn in front of me while the unit was sitting idle upstairs just waiting to be opened on her birthday.
I guess I bought the right gift.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great Popcorn!
Ordered this popcorn maker with high expectations...it met them! I don't like popcorn, but my family does. They rave about this "movie" style popcorn. Read more
Published 18 days ago by D. Kiley
Great for a big family.
My daughter and son-in-law have five kids. This produces bunches of flavorful popcorn in a very short time. It even kept up when the kids had friends over for a sleep-over. Read more
Published 2 months ago by bgrammasueb
Great toy!
Took a few batches to figure out the right mix of corn, oil, salt, etc but once you get it dialed in it makes GREAT corn! Read more
Published 4 months ago by skeptic
Excellent Popper Poor Product Service
Excellent popcorn popper but stupid service policy. The electric receptacle where the bucket plugs into failed. Read more
Published 11 months ago by RPK 2
Good little Popcorn Popper
I bought the popper for my wife who loves fresh popped popcorn. It works well although at only 4oz you always have to make at least a double batch. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Gary W Woodcock
Does what it says it does and MORE!
This is a popcorn machine. Popcorn machines throw out unpopped kernals - even the ones at the movie theatres.This is a 4oz popper. Read more
Published 18 months ago by waderdog
Works well - Not for a large crowd though...
This worked like clockwork every 2.5 min. cranked out the popcorn. My only con was that the 6 oz. kettle at a time takes about an hour of popping to generate enough for a crowd of... Read more
Published 21 months ago by txheed
Waring Pro WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker
I purchased the Waring Pro WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker for my husband for a Fathers Day gift. He eats popcorn almost every day so I thought it would be a great idea to get... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ella Holland
Nothing to complain about so far!
We originally purchased the smaller model(WPM20...I believe) and returned it because we would have to run two batches to make enough popcorn for 5 people.... Read more
Published on February 2, 2010 by EKD
Great Popcorn Machine!
I bought this machine for my wife who is a real popcorn lover. We've had it for a month and have used it at least 15 times with great results. Read more
Published on January 6, 2010 by W. Curry
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