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Original Whirley Pop Popcorn Maker- Silver 6 Qt Aluminum Popcorn Maker with Metal Gear, Wabash Family Farms, With Included Good Time Guide

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Brand Wabash Valley Farms
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Capacity 6 Quarts
Special Feature Metal Gears
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  • Perfect Popcorn in 3 Minutes: The Original Whirley Pop Stovetop Popcorn Popper makes homemade popcorn a breeze. Just spin the handle to make up to 6 quarts of flawless popcorn in just 3 minutes.
  • No Burnt Popcorn: Our patented stirring system in this stovetop popcorn popper works by moving every kernel until it pops—up to 42 times its original size! This ensures perfect popcorn every time!
  • Easy Clean Up: Our quick-release clips and removeable lid make for a seamless cleanup. Simply wipe with a a paper towel and store your stovetop popcorn maker for next time!
  • Bring the Theater Home: You don't need to be in the theater for perfect popcorn. With this stove top popcorn maker, you'll be sure to enjoy perfectly popped popcorn in the comfort of your home.
  • Built to Last: Here at Wabash Farms, our popcorn stovetop popper is backed by a 25-year warranty, so you can enjoy perfect popcorn from the best popcorn maker for years to come.

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4.74.7 out of 5 stars4,058
4.64.6 out of 5 stars127
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4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
4,058 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the quality, speed, performance, cleanability, and weight of the popcorn popper. For example, they mention that it makes amazing popcorn each time, it's fast, and works wonderfully. They appreciate the weight, saying it'll work with any method.

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971 customers mention824 positive147 negative

Customers like the quality of the popcorn popper. They say it makes amazing popcorn each time, and it does an excellent job popping the corn. Some say the gears keep jumping apart when turning. Overall, most are satisfied with the quality and functionality of the product.

"Great value for the price. I love this kit. The premeasured popcorn packs is a plus. I was able to use my Whirly Pot immediately after washing...." Read more

"...I’ve used this countless times and it makes amazing popcorn each time. It’s best to buy the mushroom style kernels...." Read more

"...Very sturdy (think decent Wolfgang Puck/Emeril pots and pans quality – definitely not the lowest grade, but not $100 per piece either)...." Read more

"...Burnt popper bottom not easy to clean! Wonderful heavy popper which I will use many years." Read more

296 customers mention249 positive47 negative

Customers like the performance of the popcorn popper. They say it works wonderfully, produces superior results on a gas stove, and works great on an electric stove. Some say that the results are superior to an air popper with very few dud kernals.

"...Coconut oil works best. I’ve purchased a few of these as gifts and would never go back to microwaved popcorn again." Read more

"Had to go stainless steel for my induction range and this works well...." Read more

"Works fantastic on my induction stove.Very easy to use.No more microwave popcorn for me." Read more

"This popper does it's job reaaal good. Makes that popcorn real nice. Not the easiest to clean, but not the hardest...." Read more

276 customers mention257 positive19 negative

Customers find the popcorn popper super easy to use, with spot-on instructions. They also say the thin and light popper makes it quick and easy to pop popcorn. Customers also say it's a fun, family activity that will be repeated many times.

"...I was able to use my Whirly Pot immediately after washing. It was easy to use. The pot is very light. Not heavy...." Read more

"...It’s best to buy the mushroom style kernels. It’s very easy to use and hard to burn the popcorn...." Read more

"...With all the above said, this popper is actually very easy to use...." Read more

"...Then I use my right hand to slowly turn the crank, which is very easy to do...." Read more

241 customers mention194 positive47 negative

Customers find the cleanability of the popcorn popper to be very easy. They mention that it is easy to use and clean, and that dumping it out is easy without spillage of popcorn.

"...Cleaning the pot was a breeze. Just remove the lid. Wash the pot and lid in hot soapy water." Read more

"...Clean up is very easy." Read more

"Easy to clean and every corn pops." Read more

"...It's fairly easy to clean with a dish brush fortunately. The popper does a wonderful job of popping the kernels." Read more

106 customers mention106 positive0 negative

Customers like the speed of the popcorn popper. They mention that it makes popcorn quickly, and that it cuts the time to make popcorn in half. Some say that it takes 3 minutes to make a batch of popcorn.

"...The pot is very light. Not heavy. I had fresh popcorn in a matter of minutes. The taste was fresh. Better than microwave popcorn...." Read more

"...The whirley-pop is way easier and faster.Make sure you get this ~$40 whirley-pop and not the $80 one!..." Read more

"...this years ago, had been making popcorn in a big pop but this is so much faster and doesn’t ever get soggy" Read more

"...It works great, pops fast, and is the closest thing to movie theater popcorn...." Read more

79 customers mention67 positive12 negative

Customers like the popping of the popcorn. They say it comes out perfectly, without burnt kernels. Some say it's impossible to burn the popcorn with the handle turned leisurely.

"...It’s very easy to use and hard to burn the popcorn. It’s also really easy to make kettle corn using regular sugar or flavored sugar...." Read more

"...and two batches of regular popcorn and there have no been no problems of burnt popcorn or burnt spots on the bottom of the kettle." Read more

"...Crunchy butFluffy, easy to not burn anything and pops almost all the kernels without burning...." Read more

"...yield in the new microwave, we find almost 100% popped with no burnt popcorn...." Read more

71 customers mention53 positive18 negative

Customers like the weight of the popcorn popper. Some say it's a little heavier than their previous popper, while others say it is considerably more than expected. Some mention that the pot is aluminum, which is lighter than stainless steel, but seems durable enough. They say the popper is lighter and easier to clean than the first aluminum one. Overall, most are satisfied with the weight and quality of the product.

"...It was easy to use. The pot is very light. Not heavy. I had fresh popcorn in a matter of minutes. The taste was fresh...." Read more

"...Light, fluffy popcorn and almost every kernel pops every time." Read more

"...We are amazed at how HEAVY this one is! It weighs considerably more than I expected...." Read more

"The stainless steel version is gorgeous and well made, but it is heavy and hard to handle when emptying. The smooth handle does not help...." Read more

96 customers mention61 positive35 negative

Customers are mixed about the gears. Some mention that the gear mechanism is made of stainless steel, while others say that the cog wheels are plastic and the gear is made from aluminum.

"...We use this a lot and it works well. Like the metal gear mechanism, but sometimes it gets a little misaligned but not serious that affects the use...." Read more

"...The smooth handle does not help. The aluminum version is not as lovely, but is much easily to empty as it is light weight and has grooves for your..." Read more

"...The gear assembly is made of plastic, and right away I understood two themes in the reviews:1...." Read more

"...The top is made of thinner stainless steel and the gear mechanism is also stainless steel...." Read more

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4 Stars
Makes popcorn quick and easy
Pot seems well made. Yes the gears are metal. Easy to use. Makes tasty popcorn. The popcorn packets they gift then try to sell you are garbage. Buy something like amish popcorn I reviewed earlier. The lid is not the same quality as the pot. Don’t know how its going to survive the 25 year warranty. I wouldn’t drop it if i were you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dedicated Popcorn Pot
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
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Great value for the price. I love this kit. The premeasured popcorn packs is a plus. I was able to use my Whirly Pot immediately after washing. It was easy to use. The pot is very light. Not heavy. I had fresh popcorn in a matter of minutes. The taste was fresh. Better than microwave popcorn. The popcorn was delicious. My husband didn't want any popcorn at first, kept grabbing handfuls after his first taste. Cleaning the pot was a breeze. Just remove the lid. Wash the pot and lid in hot soapy water.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Fun, Delicious Popcorn
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
Size: Good Time GuideColor: SilverVerified Purchase
This was my quarantine guilty pleasure. I’ve used this countless times and it makes amazing popcorn each time. It’s best to buy the mushroom style kernels. It’s very easy to use and hard to burn the popcorn. It’s also really easy to make kettle corn using regular sugar or flavored sugar. Gold Medal makes some really great popcorn sugar with different flavors. Coconut oil works best. I’ve purchased a few of these as gifts and would never go back to microwaved popcorn again.
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Ella Belle
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Popper
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019
Size: Popping KitColor: Stainless SteelVerified Purchase
I bought the Whirley Pop Stainless Steel Stovetop Popcorn Popper because I was tired of tasteless Air-Popped Popcorn!

I chose the stainless steel version as I am trying to get away from using aluminum cookware. The bottom part of this popper is a nice, heavy quality stainless steel. The top is kind of on the flimsy side and you have to really mess with the tabs that keep the top on the popper pan. It clips on fairly firmly, but the 2 sides can open and close. One side has a metal clip and that needs to be carefully bent so that it will keep that side closed when you go to dump out the popcorn into a big bowl. Otherwise that side of the lid will flop open and you will have popcorn all over the place!

Another thing to mention:
After popping the corn, that popper pan is extremely hot, hot, HOT! It will melt any plastic it touches, like a popcorn bowl! It also will burn any fabric potholder or towel you might decide to set it on. So just carefully pour your popcorn into a non-plastic bowl, or be sure not to bump the popper to a plastic bowl if that is what you are using. Then, place that very hot popper back on your turned off stove for it to safely cool down. The bottom of the popper is an extra thick stainless clad aluminum so it really does hold the heat, but that is what also makes the awesome popcorn too!

With all the above said, this popper is actually very easy to use. After I finally got the hang of using it, figuring out how long to pop, and how high to turn up my gas stove, I was able to make some very awesome popcorn!

Here is how I finally ended up making my Popcorn:
I use 1/2 cup of the Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn Kernels, Original Yellow corn.
1 Tbs of good quality Coconut Oil.
1/2 Tbs of Nutiva USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO, Cold-Filtered, Unrefined, Fair Trade Ecuadorian Red Palm Oil.
1/4 Tsp of Flavacol Seasoning Popcorn Salt.
I put all this stuff into the popper BEFORE heating it, as recommended by the seller! I then turn on my gas stove to medium high and start turning the crank and I also quickly slide the popper back and forth too. Be sure to remove the popper from the heat as soon as the popping slows, as the bottom of the popper is very hot and stays hot for a while.

As far as ease of cleaning...
The bottom part of the popper washes out fairly easily, but the top is a pain to clean.
Since I use the flavocol in the popper, I like to actually wash the entire unit out so that the salt does not corrode the metal. That top part is not fun to wash, or to dry.

All in all, it is totally worth the extra trouble to have really awesome popcorn! I do recommend this popper!
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Robert Mustone
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Heavy Duty - Expected Cheap Construction
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015
Size: Popping KitColor: Stainless SteelVerified Purchase
Let me first say, that I almost never leave a review that’s positive, because I think something is SUPPOSED to work as described, and that doesn’t warrant a pat on the head, so when something does what it’s supposed to I pretty much just move on with my life. Things shouldn’t require modification or repair to do what the manufacturer claims it is supposed to do right out of the box. Having that been said, I just abused the crap out of this thing and it beat me. You guys like popcorn, I LOVE popcorn (Pizza, Beer, Popcorn and a good movie don’t always require a date as far as I’m concerned; almost just as great all by itself). No, I don’t plan to live to be 46, but I also rarely indulge in any of the above (though, those days might be over now).

Construction
I miss real Stainless Steel. Farberware is mostly crap now, and almost nothing you buy for under $20 is worth the trip to the store (I’m talking about one single chef’s knife, et cetera; not a set). The reason is because there are actually MANY grades of stainless steel (regardless of what you are making out of it) and you can CLAIM something is stainless in your advertising EVEN if you use the absolute cheapest grade available. There are items made of grades of stainless that will rust just sitting on a shelf in its packaging, or because of the humidity in the air. Wal-Mart sells a lot of them. However, one thing that Wal-mart does sell is a brand called Tramontina, that is actually a Brazilian Company, and they make their pots like they make their bikini models. Multi-layered bottom! REAL stainless Steel. I’ve soaked knives in soapy water for a week in one before (got busy/stuff came up). The knives were done, and the water was rust brown, but the POT was fine; just had to wash it out – it was like rust wouldn’t stick to it…THAT’S REAL STAINLESS STEEL!+

I wouldn’t doubt it at all if the pot portion of this was actually sublet to Tramontina for production; it’s built that well. I expected thin sheet metal. One layer; the kind that everything burns too. The thick bottomed pot you get alone is worth the item price. You can probably use it for a ton of different other things by itself, and it will probably outlast the top/mechanism (which I also suspect is actually made out of a good grade of Stainless – garbage stainless often comes out of the box with little rust specks in corners of parts, and this is pretty perfect so far).

Oh, and if you haven’t already heard, MAKE SURE YOU GET THE MODEL WITH METAL GEARS!!!

Delivery – Inside a week, and the item was very well packed.

Experience – First use.
I just popped 8 pots in this in a row; guys, it actually seems built to do exactly that. After “seasoning” the pot with olive oil, I used Orville Redenbacher 100% Natural Popcorn (Wal-Mart), Act II Buttery Popping & Topping Oil and Mighty Pop Popcorn Salt (both from Sam’s Club). Once everything warms up you can set your watch by that 5 minute time (per instructions). The first batch I measured everything out and poured it in (Kernels, Oil, and Salt in that order). I spun the handle a few times to mix it all up and waited. After about 3 minutes the first kernels start to pop (I actually timed it), and it’s done at right around 5 minutes (on medium heat). I then dumped it into a bowl and reloaded everything, EYEBALLING the ingredients every time after that. After the first batch I looked in the pot and thought for sure all the “stuff” left in the pot would burn on the next run. So I decided that I would keep reloading components by eye and run it until something burned. Nothing ever did.

I kept the burner on medium, and just took the pot off to dump and reload. I kept pouring about the same amounts of kernels, then about the same oil/topping, and sprinkling the same amount of salt, then turning the handle to mix it up. CONSISTENTLY, I would wait 3 minutes and then hear the first pop (I might have spun the handle once after mixing just to move things around once). After the first pop I then moderately turned the handle until I couldn’t anymore (think 1 spin for every “One-one-thousand” count). DON’T FORCE THE HANDLE! Just take the whole thing off the stove, (I would hover it over the burner and movie it in circles as the last kernels popped; see the tip below) and let it stop popping. Then reload or shut-off the stove.

I could have kept going, but gave up after the eighth batch. After it cooled, I wiped the pot out with paper towels, wiped down the top and stirring mechanism real good, reassembled it and placed it in a brand new Kitchen garbage bag to help keep the dust out of it. I’m pretty retentive about cleanliness; I hand scrub my dirty dishes thoroughly before putting them in the dishwasher (use it as a sanitizer). But they claim that if you use this once a week you don’t have to clean it out, which makes sense since you are mostly talking about steam, oil, and hard kernel shells/skin (like an abrasive) ever touching the cooking surface. I plan to wash it monthly because oil does go rancid after a while, but the more the oil stays on it the less likely it is to ever rust. It’s like a cast Iron Skillet, you season it, and then you care for it a little differently than other pots & Pans.

A few tips
Try not to over fill it because it will bind up the handle once everything pops, but if you take it off the burner once the popcorn starts coming out the lid, you probably won’t burn anything, you just end up with more un-popped kernels (which you could probably actually save and try popping later, but I think that’s a little unsanitary myself.)

Don’t slide it back and forth across the burner like the old Jiffy Pop “pie pan with a handle” packs of popcorn you would make on the burner and that would expand into a big foil bubble as the popcorn popped. BUT, once the popcorn popping slows down, I make the same motion with the pot about an inch above the burner. This way, any kernels that were JUST about to pop, but might not have because the heat was removed, still get a little heat applied to them, but the popped popcorn doesn’t get burned.

I’m not excited about putting the top/mechanism through the dishwasher, but the bottom pot could basically LIVE there. Very sturdy (think decent Wolfgang Puck/Emeril pots and pans quality – definitely not the lowest grade, but not $100 per piece either).

One Complaint
My one minor, minor gripe; when you go to dump the popcorn, sometimes both flaps open unexpectedly and you make a mess. The bottom is heavy duty as I said above, and the first part of that is HEAVY. For its size, it takes a bit of wrist muscle to deal with this one handed, and when you go to shake out the popped popcorn you have to remember that the handle itself is attached to the TOP mechanism. The top is only attached to the bottom by two spring clips built onto the top mechanism. A third spring clip holds the one flap closed while the other flap is free to open, allowing the finished popcorn to come out and pour into a bowl. If you have to shake out the popcorn to pour it into a bowl, the bottom begins to slide off of the top. The spring clips appear to begin to slide off the bottom pan (though it is actually the weight of the bottom pan pulling it off the top), and the spring clip holding the other flap moves away from the bottom pot, allowing it to release.

The solution is simple – either take off the top and pour the popcorn into a bowl using oven mitts (it’s HOT!) OR just using one oven mitt/pot holder, support the side of the bottom pot with one hand as you shake it with the other (will probably better reduce wear and tear on the spring clips over time versus removing it every time). Not a big deal, but it could be called a flaw in the design I guess.

Final Word
I don’t do infomercials every time I buy something…In fact, I could probably make a living doing angry A-hole reviews of things that turn out to be crap. I bought this, it wasn’t sent to me for free to review. I just had to share my experience so far because I honestly haven’t bought anything for the kitchen in a VERY long time (at least a decade) that I was this pleased with!
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Gwen DeShong
5.0 out of 5 stars Stainless steel
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Had to go stainless steel for my induction range and this works well. However let it get too hot and burnt to popcorn so be sure to use a lower temperature. Burnt popper bottom not easy to clean! Wonderful heavy popper which I will use many years.
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After using the stovetop method and a silicone microwaveable bowl for years, I bought this for my wife this Christmas. It works very well. Easy to clean, easy to use.

The popcorn has an excellent texture, and when combined with some Flavacol it gives you the authentic movie theater popcorn you always want at home.

Recipe:

1-2 tablespoons coconut oil
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andrew
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes amazing popcorn!
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Love it!! It’s made from very thin aluminium (the base and the top), however it feels very well made, I’m guessing the material is so thin to help pop the popcorn quicker. This will not work with an induction cooktop, however Makes amazing popcorn! 🍿😍
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