Waring WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker

by Waring

Product Features

• 600 watts of power
• Yields approximately 12 cups of popped corn in less than 2 1/2 minutes
• Heat lamp keeps popped corn warm
• Pivoting kettle is removable for easy cleaning
• Removable door for easy cleaning

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 12.2 x 20.8 inches ; 24.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001AQJI4W
• Item model number: WPM40
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,445 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #32 in Kitchen & Dining > Small Appliances > Specialty Appliances > Popcorn Poppers

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I'd hoped for., November 24, 2008

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L. Werner "Sunday Flyer" (Madison WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waring WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker (Kitchen)

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).

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is a TOY., December 19, 2008

By 

Garan Grey "Garan Grey" (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waring WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker (Kitchen)

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.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waring WMP40 Popcorn maker is a HIT at our place., November 13, 2008

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Patrick B. Blevins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waring WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker (Kitchen)

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.