Trealife Microwave Air or Oil Popcorn Popper (Blue)

We LOVE it -- it's everything we expected and easier than you could imagine!One thing I found difficult in deciding to buy it was that everyone had trouble with trial and error figuring out how much popcorn to use and how long to microwave it. So here's what works for us:First, be sure to OPEN the bowl to its FULL HEIGHT. We noticed that some reviewers were disappointed because the bowl didn't expand like it should -- it's made to collapse for efficient storage, and will not expand like Jiffy Pop foil if you try to use it when collapsed. All that'll happen is you'll make a mess, burn your popcorn, or both.Add a scant (a tiny bit less than) 1/3 cup popcorn to the bowl, cover, microwave at full power (ours is a 1100w microwave) for three minutes.Listen carefully after 2:30 minutes -- when there's less than 1 "Pop" per second, hit stop and remove your perfectly popped corn. We use white popcorn (it has less and more tender hulls than yellow popcorn), and add spray ghee (clarified butter) and salt to finish it off.Hope this helps future buyers, of which there should be many! We have used ours every day (sometimes twice a day!) since it arrived.One big box of microwave popcorn bags more than pays for this bowl, and WOW, there is just NO comparison! Once you use this, health benefits aside, you'll NEVER go back to microwave popcorn bags!!

I love my Trealife Microwave popcorn popper! It makes the best pop corn with or without oil! It is faster than my old popper and cleans easily. The only kind better is real theater pop corn! I am hooked!

It was a bum decision. It's a white elephant now. I'm still looking for some use for it before I pitch it.

It works well from what I gather. I think I just suck at making popcorn. It doesn't burn, but it always tastes awful lol.I don't think it has anything to do with the popcorn bowl. It has a nice collapsible feature that makes it easier to store. Beware if you have children they will they to play with it... All the time.I wish it came with some popcorn recipes or just general directs of how to make good popcorn.I feel like mine way tasteless and dry the few times I have tried

I LOVE this! It's easy and quick and makes good popcorn! It's also super easy to clean and is easy to store by folding down flat and it doesn't take up a lot space. I'm definitely going to use this from now on instead of microwave bagged popcorn!

This is a great alternative to bagged popcorn, over salted and over seasoned. It produces air popped popcorn, fluffy, hot and fresh in less than 2 minutes. No noisy, clunky machine. The bowl even collapses flat for storage.

I wish the instructions were a bit more precise. It doesn't say what amount of popcorn kernels to put in the popper. So, for my first batch, I put in about 1/3-1/2 cup of kernels and maybe a TB of oil. At 3 minutes, the seeds were still popping, but the popped ones were starting to burn. At 4 minutes (the instructions state 2-4 minutes), seeds were still popping, and I had a totally burned mess on my hands. And my pretty new bowl is a bit singed. After disposing of the mess and cleaning the bowl & lid, and after considering what the problem might be, I tried again. I put in 4 TB of kernels (1/4 cup?) and less oil than before. This time nothing burned. I believe the product will work well, after figuring out the proper portion. If anyone has recommendations, let me know. Side note: my microwave is 900 watts. I had a stir-crazy oil popper that no longer worked, and my husband likes microwave popcorn that is lower-fat and no butter. I thought this bowl would work well for us to share, and cheaper (and healthier?) than pre-packaged microwave popcorn.

I really like it. It pops the popcorn really good. I have found very few leftover kernels.