Waring Pro WPM40 Professional Popcorn Maker | 
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| Brand: Waring
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $360.00
Buy New: $199.00
You Save: $161.00 (45%)
New (2) from $199.00
Rating:  2 reviews
Color: red
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20
Dimensions (in): 16 x 13 x 12.5
MPN: WPM40
Model: WPM40
UPC: 040072010866
EAN: 0040072010866
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 3 to 6 weeks
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| Features:
| • | 600 watts of power | | • | Yields approximately 9.5 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 |
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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, iteryone Wants Popcorn. And the Waring Pro Professional Popcorn Maker delivers up to 9 cups of hot, delicious popcorn in just a few minutes! Great for kidame 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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| Customer Reviews:
 Not what I'd hoped for. November 25, 2008
L. Werner (Madison WI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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).
 Waring WMP40 Popcorn maker is a HIT at our place. November 13, 2008
Patrick B. Blevins
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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