Cheap Cuisinart CPM-900 EasyPop Popcorn Maker, Red

The Cuisinart® EasyPop Popcorn Maker puts the crunch back into homemade popcorn! Special vents in the popping bowl let moisture escape to keep popcorn crisp. Pops up to 10 cups in under 5 minutes, and keeps it healthier by letting you decide the type and amount of oil and salt you want. Operation is simple and cleanup is dishwasher-easy, so enjoy popcorn plain, buttered, tangy cheese or caramel anytime you want it, with Cuisinart.

• Popcorn maker with motorized stirring mechanism for better popping
• Special vents let moisture escape to keep popcorn crisp
• Removable nonstick cooking plate; cool-touch handles
• Dishwasher-safe bowl, bowl cover, stirring stick, and popping plate
• Measures 10-1/4 by 10-1/4 by 12-1/2 inches; 3-year limited warranty

This Popcorn Poppers give to us some advantages, good reviews already proving the quality of this product, like this :
1. Not worth buying
Well, I surely gave it a fair try: popped 3 batches of various sizes, closely following all directions, using fresh popping corn from two separate packages. Results:

* Noticeable cooked plastic odor and taste in the popped corn - yuck.
(... when I returned it to my local retailer, the clerk told me he had noticed the same problem in their sample...)

* You like your popcorn fluffly and light? All three batches were denser and heavier than standard popped corn.

* Far too many uncooked kernels.

* Poor build quality: the base had a loose part rattling inside that sounded like a broken piece.

* Seating the hotplate into the base takes some getting used to. At first I thought I had it seated properly and the rotor moved, but the plate refused to heat, requiring that I reseat it repeatedly and very precisely to get the cooking element to connect properly.

It's a shame. I had high hopes for this product (I trust and...

2. Makes good (not great) popcorn - but I've been through 2 now and Customer Support STINKS
I gave this unit 1 star because in the course of a few of months I've had two now that have broken. Here's how it works when it breaks: you call customer support, they give you attitude, grill you as if you've done something wrong, they charge you $10 to ship the replacement unit and then you have to ship the broken unit back - so ~$20 to get a replacement for something under warranty. What breaks? There are 3 main pieces to the unit: the plug-in base, the heating element, and the bowl. The heating element detaches from the base, a very nice feature, but after about a month on the first unit the handles and clip that attach to the base broke. After another couple of months on the replacement the heating element stopped heating.

From a looks and *appearance* of built quality I'd give this unit 5 stars. But I think even with the vents in the top it still retains a little too much moisture. I think this keeps the popcorn from being as light as it could be. This is what...

Need more appointment... ? let's see this reviews :
Not what you'd expect to bear the Cuisinart name
Does a very nice job of making popcorn as long as you follow the directions and have quick reflexes. When the popping stops, don't hesitate.

But ... after half a dozen batches, the machine quit working. Apparently the heating element wore out. The person at the 1-800 number confirmed that seemed to happen a lot. In other words, Cuisinart appears to know that the thing is a piece of junk. They say they're going to send us another one -- as soon as we decide whether to pay the postage for it.

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