Presto 04821 Orville Redenbacher's Hot Air Popper Popcorn Maker, 18 Cups, White

I like the visual calmness of plain white appliances with little or no branding. We donated our old Presto air popper (from the early 1990's) because it was taxi-cab yellow and an eye sore. It rankled me every day I had to look at it. (It also had a large black and red logo of some sort splashed across the front of it ). It was just too jarring. Many of our appliances are on a kitchen bookcase displayed in the open as we do not have any other place to store items. Our kitchen is small... All are white, and a few chrome -- that is a big deal to me! (Weird maybe? I also remove many products from their original containers and put into generic containers... not so much visual clutter. Breathe in... Calm...) So, with that being said, the good news: the Orville Redenbacher logo is a peel-off sticker. Very good! I have to admit to you that the color was the whole reason I purchased this model, and paid more for it than other choices we could have made. We have used it 4 times so far - it works great, and does what it is supposed to do. I THINK it is even quieter than our last popper. (They are loud!) The chute is actually a Teflon like material. The only thing I did not like was the butter hopper looked like it had been used and had a coating of grease. Actually, it is just the way it is made -- it has a texture and small bubbles that may or may not be intentional in the manufacturing of it. But that is really a small detail that does not matter over all. Also, the cord is much shorter than we used to have -- luckily the outlet is close and all is well! Like other reviewers have noted: it is true that you need very fresh popcorn or high quality popcorn to get all the kernels popped. We purchased the Orville Redenbacher brand and had only a few un-popped kernels. We went all out for the maiden voyage of our new purchase! Then for our next batch, we used our months-old store brand pop corn just to experiment and almost half of it was un-popped. Now I am using our FoodSaver ( oh yes, its white!!) to vacuum seal the pop corn in a mason jar between uses -- hoping that will help keep it fresher as popcorn is a once-a-week treat for us. So far, it has been a good purchase and we recommend it.

I had purchased a West Bend Stir Crazy it would burn the popcorn every time. Took it back and purchased this Hot Air Popper. It works great and doesn't scorch the corn. You don't use any popping oil so if you want to add any flavoring you will have to add popcorn salt/flavor after it is popped.