Presto 04821 Orville Redenbacher's Hot Air Popper
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Presto 04821 Orville Redenbacher's Hot Air Popper
Customer Review: Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Presto 04821 Orville Redenbacher Hot Air PC Maker as a gift for my wife for Christmas.....She says it's the most practical gift she's ever gotten. I'm not kiddin you. We practically use it every night. It's fast, clean and so so pratical. And to clean it...We don't. You really don't have too. There is no mess. And the popcorn taste a 1000 x's better than the microwave brands. And is so much more healtherfor you. Total time to make popcorn is less than 3 minutes. The only caveat is, that you have to unplug the machine to stop it. Which really isn't a big deal. We love it and would totally recommend it to anyone who loves popcorn..Vincent... Middle Village, NY...Customer Review: Not for you if you like to microwave a popcorn and grease brick.
Summary: 4 Stars
Other reviews have covered everything. The incredibly light, fluffy popcorn (perfect with a little bit of butter and salt, I think,) the stray kernel or two which get launched across the room, the fact that your popcorn bowl will overflow.
Two things that work for me: I tip the popper back a bit when I first plug it in, and when it gets going I guide the popcorn into the bowl with a clean dish towel.
One batch is perfect for two people and a movie. If you've got more faces to feed you can make several batches in a row. (Have lots of bowls handy.)
Very quick, very easy. If it had an on/off switch I might have to give it six stars.
Customer Review: Fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love my popcorn popper! Its fast and simple to use and there's no added fat. I've been on a diet and I attribute at least some of my weight loss progress to the availability of delicious, low-calorie, fat free, popcorn. I tried a couple other machines and they just threw popcorn all over the room. With two kittens around it was a dangerous situation. Once in a while a kernel or two will escape the machine, but I don't mind. It certainly beats hot unpopped kernels flying across the kitchen. I love my popcorn maker so much I actually bought one for my father in law for Christmas. By the way, you can use any type of popcorn you want inside, not just Orville Redenbacher.Customer Review: Does worse than the stove...
Summary: 2 Stars
I got this for Christmas from my Mother-In-Law. I usually make popcorn on the stove with canola oil and melted butter. I have tried this several times but the result doesn't taste as good (dry, stale flavor even with butter), there are much higher un-popped kernels (I usually average 0 on the stove - this gives me about 8), the butter doesn't actually finish melting before the popcorn is done so it requires running it longer or melting the butter on the stove, if I were to try using chilled butter there would be no hope, thus depleting my stock of room temp. butter. So this isn't easier and it isn't better and it isn't cleaner so just do it on the stove it isn't even hard.Customer Review: I had a better hot air machine 25 years ago
Summary: 2 Stars
This machine blows hard directly out of the popping chamber, meaning it will leave very little mess behind. 10-20 kernels always fly out before it even begins popping. And once it starts popping, some very hot kernels fly out, only to pop inside the popcorn bowl, throwing popcorn all over the place. The plastic gets hot enough to become noticeably soft.
My old machine blew sideways, creating a vortex inside that did not allow unpopped kernels to escape. The only drawback was having to pour the remaining contents out of the machine after it was done popping, but that's nowhere near as bad as having to pick up popcorn off the floor like you have to do with this device.