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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Oh, those pesky power cups!
I received this item as a bonus gift for participating in an online survey program. Like many people here, I can't find those power concentrators to save my life! You'd think that in a metropolitan area of 15 million people I could find the dang things, but I too must order them online. They are available on Amazon and even the Presto home page.
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<br />My 14-year-old microwave will wear out the power cups almost immediately unless I put at least 1/2 cup of popcorn in the popper and stop the popping when the bowl fills up. That doesn't bother me, because popcorn is cheap and plentiful, and the power cups are not. My boyfriend's newer microwave does a better job, and we eat the popcorn with no salt at all; we find that it has a subtle, nutty flavor. | 3 | 770 days ago | fresh popcorn when I want it
I've had this popper for over a month now and it works great. I have an older microwave, maybe 9 years old, and the popper just makes it inside with a little room to spare on top. I find that I have to let it run for close to the full 5 minutes in order to get most of the kernels popped.
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<br />So far I've only used it with a little olive oil & sea salt. I use 1 teaspoon of oil to 3 tablespoons of corn, and then I sprinkle on some salt. The power cups have lasted anywhere from 3-6 batches using the oil. I have also tried an olive oil spray, an gave a quick coating so the salt would stick. This adds almost no fat (not enough to be counted, anyway) and the popcorn still tastes great. However, the power cups don't last any longer using a light spray of oil than they did with a spoonful of it.
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<br />I'm pretty sure this is all because of my older, not-so-powerful microwave. Since I have to let it run so long I think the heat damages the power cups faster. I add a few packages of the cups to any Amazon order I place since they're cheap enough and qualify for free shipping. I love being able to have fresh popcorn whenever I want it. | 5 | 770 days ago | DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!
Do not buy this popcorn popper or anything like them. I have a Panasonic microwave (NN-T654SF) that I bought less than 2 years ago and loved (never had a problem with it). I purchased this popcorn popper today and used it once this evening. I read through all the instructions and followed them exactly as they said to. My microwave had been working fine earlier today. Less than an hour after using the popcorn popper (which takes a lot longer than the directions told me it would to pop popcorn), I tried to use the microwave again. It would not work. Once it did turn on, the lights in the microwave started flashing and it started making screeching noises. Even then the microwave would only stay on for a few seconds (a max of 7) before it would shut itself off. This popcorn popper destroyed my microwave. If I were you, I wouldn't buy it; I'd invest in a counter top one. If I could I'd give this a negative rating. I wish I had never bought it. Consider yourselves warned. | 1 | 767 days ago | Excellent product, and I received it free!
This is a great product, and you can get it, along with any other products on Amazon up to $500 Free! Participate in this special promotion and get a free $500 Amazon Gift Card at this web site: stuffnocost.com/amazon | 5 | 767 days ago | Many years of use.
I must have bought my popper when they first came out because I can't even remember when I bought it any more I've just had it forever and it has worked flawlessly. You can find the power cups at pretty much any Wal-Mart, Target or you can get them on line.
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<br />I've use (in penny pinching times) my power cups till they were falling apart, I like a little oil to help the salt stick, they are not as efficient in this condition but I can always put the un-popped kernels back in if I want. I kina like the old maids. But even with use of olive oil or Orville's Popping & Topping oil I can get 5-8 out of a power cup depending on amount of oil used, I don't measure (and not in penny pinching mode). Butter drops those numbers a bit because it has a tendency to burn to the cup, it doesn't affect the flavor it just blackens the cup and causes faster separation. But if you think about the cost of a bag of microwave popcorn this thing pays for itself in a very short time.
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<br />I've owned several popcorn poppers over the years and this one hands down works the best with least maintenance. I just toss it in the dish washer and I'm good to go. And if you are into the low cal snack just don't add oil or butter and there you go not to mention your cups last forever.
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<br />Final note, try out some of the recipes in the back of instruction book that comes with it, they are fun and tasty, and my favorite is the garlic onion powder, even though my roommate was threatening to throw me out of the house. :-) Enjoy!
<br /> | 5 | 767 days ago | Who needs powercup concentrators anyway?
Great microwave popper. I don't use the
<br />25 cent paper inserts, but instead use white card
<br />stock of similar thickness (or construction paper)
<br />cutout in a 5" circle.
<br />This pops about 80 to 90% as fast as the presto power
<br />cup concentrators. We use a couple tbsp of trans fat
<br />free margarine instead of oil. Tastes great.
<br />If your Microwave has a rotating dish,
<br />then don't place your Powerpop in the center of the
<br />microwave: you'll avoid burning a hotspot in the center
<br />of your concentrators or substitutes.
<br />I'd like to see them build the same model out of clear
<br />pyrex or simax, but minus the paper concentrators.
<br />That would be a GREAT microwave popper. | 5 | 767 days ago | Works great but high operating costs
I bought this from the local Wal-mart store. Popped one batch and returned it. I then bought the Nordicware popper. The Presto Popper works great, but if you use oil you have to replace a concentrator for every batch at a cost of $0.25 each (plus shipping).
<br />The Nordicware popper probably works about 95% as good, and doesn't require expensive concentrator discs to replace.
<br />If you don't mind spending an extra $0.25 for every batch of popcorn you pop, then this popper may be for you. | 1 | 767 days ago | best popcorn popper microwave or normal
makes the best popcorn I found. Use peanut oil and any junk popcorn and it pops up light and fluffy. Clean-up is not bad cause it's just a removeable bowl that gets messy. I get about 6 bowls out of a concentrator before it needs to be replaced. So a pack of 8 gets you about 50 bowls of popcorn. The pack sell on amazon "Presto 09964 PowerCup Concentrators" for $0.99, so not a big deal. I'm using a pretty small unpowerful microwave and have no problems. I'm not sure why the previous negative reviews cause I think it works great. It says dishwasher safe but I would not recommend it. Like all plastic it will become brittle over time in the dishwasher. I would love to have a glass version of this. | 5 | 736 days ago | I've had mine for years!
My mom gave me this popper several years back (I'm talking, SEVERAL, when microwaves were still a novelty) and I still use it. I normally don't leave reviews, but I'm in grad school now, without a microwave oven, and looking for an air popper and saw that some folks had not given this popper the love it deserves, so I must point out it's beauty.
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<br />Let me start by telling you that I use zero oil, so the concentrators, I bought two little bags of ten (they were a couple bucks each) and I've only ever used about three of them. As long as they're clean and dry (no oil) you can use them over and over again.
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<br />Its bowl shape allows for easy storage. Pop the concentrator disk out, dust it off, wash the bowl and dry it, store the disk back in the bowl and you can even stack other bowls inside it. Nice!
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<br />I also have to tell ya that I hate plastics--I won't drink from plastic water bottles, I don't store my food in plastic containers, etc, but this is a dry product, with very little condensation on the lid to make the popcorn soggy.
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<br />In all, I find this thing absoluetly great! It's easy to clean, lasts forever, if you get a pack or two of the disks you'll probably never run out. (I used one disk maybe 30 times)
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<br />One downside: you need to have a microwave that's above the 500 watts the little dinky ones are--if you can call your oven "medium" sized, then it will work. I had one of those low low wattage ones and it never could pop the corn.
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<br />Worth every dime. Healthy popcorn too--no oil/fats/butter etc.
<br />Takes 2:50 in my oven--and there's never an old maid!
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<br /> | 5 | 736 days ago | Best microwave popping device and best air popper on the mkt
I love popcorn and have about 4 or 5 different poppers of various types. I've also tried various homemade methods of popping corn in the microwave. None compares to this simple appliance. It's just a bowl, in which you place a special cardboard cup to hold the kernels. That all sits on a special base and you put the whole thing in the m'wave. You can use oil or not, up to you.
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<br />If you want light popcorn, especially if you want air-popped popcorn, there is no better method out there. I had a batch the other night using Jolly Time kernels and I only had 7 duds. The texture is excellent too.
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<br />The only drawback is that it's sometimes hard to find the special cups you have to use but luckily they have them here on amazon. | 5 | 736 days ago | Worst popcorn popper I've tried
This silly item requires expensive "concentrators" that don't work particularly well, leaving behind plenty of unpopped kernels. Don't waste your money. | 1 | 736 days ago | NOT the best microwave popcorn popper
This is NOT the best microwave popcorn popper. We tried this at a friend's house after Christmas, I was raving about my own new popcorn popper (the NordicWare Microwave Microwave Popcorn Popper that WAS available on Amazon) and my buddy wanted to show me his popcorn popper, the Presto popper. (Such is the exciting life of younger married men with small children). He has to use a disposable base each time he uses the Presto Popper and the popcorn is not as good. Get the NordicWare instead, much better popcorn and it is just a well-designed piece of plastic with a lid, no gimmicky "Concentrator" baloney. | 2 | 736 days ago |
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