I’ve never been a huge fan of popcorn (Richard loves it), but recently I am starting to change my mind. We’ve always had a hot air popcorn popper which normally means you have to add more butter to the popcorn or else it ends up dry. We lost a part off of the popper so I decided to buy a new popper but not the same old style hot air popper. I did a little research and came up with the West Bend Popcorn Popper which allows you to use a little oil to pop the kernels and it stirs them during the popping making almost every single kernel pop.

Well we’ve used it about a half dozen times in the last couple of weeks and I have to say I am impressed with this little machine. It’s easy to make the popcorn, pops relatively quickly and is easy to clean. The machine has a dome lid that doubles as a bowl for the popcorn and holes in the top that you can use to melt butter; they butter will slowly drip into the popcorn and coat it while it is popping and stirring.

When I researched the machine I found a great recipe for kettle corn from one of the reviewers on amazon.com. I absolutely love this recipe and it’s extremely easy to make. It does make the bowl a little harder to clean but soaking it in hot soapy water seems to work well. One word of caution I will give to anyone who buys one though is to make sure you don’t tighten down the rotator arm too tight or it can scratch the bottom of the cooking surface and cause some Teflon to come off. All in all I would say this is a great little popcorn popper and highly recommend it to anyone who likes popcorn. For 30 bucks you really can’t go wrong and Richard is very happy to be getting popcorn more often!