Collapsible Silicone Microwave Hot Air Popcorn Popper Bowl With Lid and Handles (Red)

I'm a total popcorn-a-holic and much prefer warm, freshly popped popcorn over the store-bought stuff. This collapsible microwave bowl is a game-changer! It’s so much easier than using a saucepan, and best of all, it doesn’t ruin your pans. I’ve burnt popcorn to the bottom of a saucepan more times than I can count, but that just doesn’t happen with this.You can air-pop for a healthier option, or (like me) add a little bit of olive oil ... it definitely makes it tastier, and helps the salt stick better too (I'm al about savory, salted popcorn ... no sweet popcorn for me!). The bowl is super easy to use, pops evenly, and the clean-up is quick. Love that it collapses down for storage too. I’ve included some photos if you want to see it in action. Highly recommend for popcorn lovers!!

I'm going to be honest, I wasn't expecting a lot given the odd random bad review about it burning popcorn and not popping the kernels, but I was right to ignore the negatives.There is absolutely nothing wrong with this at all, it's so simple, no need for space taking, energy hungry popcorn machines when this does it perfectly and then folds up to put in the cupboard, it's genius.Initially I added some oil and salt to the first batch, put it in my 800W microwave for 2 minutes and it burnt everything, stank the kitchen out and set the smoke alarm off. Back to the drawing board I thought.The second batch, I just put the kernels in and some salt, this time I cooked it for 2 minutes again and it came out perfect, but there were quite a few kernels un-popped at the bottom so I redid them after finishing the first batch and they popped as well leaving only 4 or 5 kernels left.For my machine, I've found that 2 1/2 minutes, air popped is the best for near perfect popcorn with very little kernels left, but it will be a bit of trial and error depending on your microwaves efficiency and power. The kernels start popping around 40 seconds, then everything goes wild about 1 minute 20 in, then backs off between 2 minutes and 2 minutes 30.If you overdo it slightly, the popcorn comes out firmer and smaller as it obviously dehydrates more, any more than this burns it, and it stinks when that happens, so I'd err on the side of too little time as you can always put it back in for longer. The lid fits loosely inside the bowl, but it sucks itself into place when in use so doesn't move like I thought it might, even when it's being bombarded with bits of hot popping corn, it then rises up the bowl on its own as the popcorn pops, it's pretty clever.I haven't tried it with butter, but based on my experience with oil, just bear in mind that anything containing fat which you add to the kernels will decrease the cooking time, which I think the people complaining about it didn't take heed of. I don't really follow why there appear to be so many people who don't understand the concept of trial and error, if you don't do much cooking and rely on labels all of the time rather than using your common sense, eyes and ears, then you'll undoubtedly come unstuck.It definitely doesn't deserve a bad review just because you cook a bad batch, thats not the products fault, it's yours, just readjust the time or recipe and try again until you get it right. Patience here definitely pays off and once you've got the time down, you can make perfect popcorn every time without fail.The air-popped stuff is great for dieting as well, its very few calories and quite filling so forget your perception of sugar and oil saturated cinema popcorn, this stuff is cheap to buy, high in fibre, healthy and low calorie, you could even sweeten it up with Erythritol or Stevia if you wanted, I prefer mine salted though and a little salt goes a long way with this.Anyway, this is great, does exactly what it says it does and the fact thats its dishwasher proof and folds really small is just a bonus really, I'd definitely recommend it, I was pleasantly surprised and popcorn might be making a regular appearance in my house now, it's pretty morish!

I threw my still working electric popcorn maker in the bin and replaced it with this product because it was less bulky and so easy to clean. I have no regrets about doubg so as the popcorn tastes just as good as it did with the other popcorn maker. I love the fact that it folds flat and goes back in the box for storage. It can also be used as a bowl to serve the popcorn and when ready to wash it, it goes straight into the washing up bowl and cleans easily with no fuss. A good product!

Well I eat popcorn nearly every day now i have this, that's the danger :). This thing is awesome, I never knew it was so easy to make popcorn. Comes out really nice and fluffy and the item just goes in the dishwasher when done. Only downside is the lid is staining a bit, might be my fault for adding caramel sauce to the mix but I didn't realise you could stain silicone and I'm sorry but I ain't quitting the caramel sauce 😀

Where to start? This was the best purchase I've made in a long while being that I am a HUGE popcorn fan.In the box you get a good sized collapsible bowl with a lid that sits inside about half way in the bowl (so popped corn gently pushes the lid up in the bowl during popping)The only faults are:1. The instructions printed on the box do not inform you that the bowl should be standing up in the microwave (the collapsible part is simply just for ease of storage and does not aid in the popping process; if it is collapsed in the microwave you'll be picking out all the popcorn that flew out of the bowl.)2. That the handles are "cool touch". I would advise getting your oven mitts to pull it out of the microwave and taking the lid off as it gets too hot to touch.My go-to method is a teaspoon of rapeseed oil and salt in with the 50g of popcorn (if you're a calorie counter it doesn't add up to much so win; you could actually use even less or eat it plain). I also mix this in a separate small bowl before putting it into the microwaveable bowl just in case extra oil was the cause of the brown base some people have complained of. I have used it over 10 times now and have had no problems.The negative reviews tend to say:-Half the popcorn is getting burnt.SOLUTION: If you collapse the bowl you will see indented in the same colour as the actual bowl there two rings at the bottom that say "50g" and "100g". (Easy to miss- I did the first time). Fill to either level; depending on the wattage of your microwave you will see which one works best (just remember to pull the bowl back up to standing position). For me it was 50g, which only takes two minutes to pop all but a few kernels (like microwave popcorn, just listen to when it gets to a few seconds between the pops to stop the microwave). When I did try 100g it did burn half so...To get a regular microwave bag popcorn yield I have to do this twice each time, but I don't really mind, as it's cheaper, healthier and tastes a lot better. (Just for that added surety I also popped a microwaveable bag of it to taste the difference and ate them side-by-side naughty me!)I had previously bought a popcorn machine and used the standard stove top, but with the latter found my quantities of oil and popcorn to be exceedingly unhealthy and with the former air popped, spit out chewy cardboard like popcorn which was just- ew. I had almost given up until a spot of late night shopping I stumbled upon this magical creation.Honestly it's a product the manufacturers should be proud of and I am proud to own it!