The great reviews are what made me want to buy this, so I want to share my experience. This product took some trial and error since the suggested directions did not work for my microwave (ended up with burnt popcorn and a house that smelled like burnt popcorn for days afterwards). Customer service was prompt at providing troubleshooting suggestions when I reached out. It's taken a bit of experimenting but I almost have the timing and temperature figured out for my 1200 watt microwave where we now have 1/4 -1/2 tsp of unpopped kernels. Not quite perfect - yet. Overall I'm finding this to be more convenient and easier to clean than the Whirley Pop, and less expensive than buying microwave popcorn at the grocery store.

I've been looking for a nice microwave popcorn popper and am so happy that I have found exactly what I was looking for. It is easy to clean, compacts down for storage, and it works great! From the other reviews, I understand that some people have used a little bit of oil with it and have also had nice results, but I am so happy with how mine pops with just plain popcorn that I don't know if I'll try any oil at all.
This is a great little corn popper!

Just received my salbree popper and it's awesome. I prefer a little oil in my corn so pop it with a couple teaspoons. It pops nearly every kernel of corn and tastes fantastic. Traditionalist that I am I prefer to add some butter and salt too. The popper is easy to clean and store as well. I was going to buy another electric popper with the whirlygig on the bottom but am glad I didn't. Get one....you'll love it!!!

I understand this is just for popping popcorn, but I was seriously blown away at how well this thing works!! So all the 5-star reviews on here are legit. This is a much healthier option as opposed to using the bags of microwave popcorn. Those are absolutely horrible for you. I usually pop around 1/4 cup (40 - 50g) of popcorn kernels using absolutely no oil. It probably fills the bowl around 3/4 of the way full. You just pop it until you no longer hear popping for 5 seconds. I still use the popcorn button on my microwave and it works great. Then to keep it healthy (but add some flavor) I spray a little bit of canola oil (or you can use any of the healthy type oils that come in the cooking spray bottles). You lightly spray the popcorn and then I use some of the "Kernel Season's Popcorn Seasoning" ($1.99 per bottle at Walmart). Sprinkle some of the seasoning on there and the oil helps it sticks to the popcorn. Then I'll mix it up a little bit, spray a little more canola oil on it, then add a little more of the seasoning. Much healthier way to enjoy popcorn! Absolutely love this product!

This thing is amazing. If you like popcorn but really don't want the oil, this is the way to go. No joke"”it's totally worth the money.

Waitaminute"”can't you just pop regular popcorn in the microwave? Yes, yes you can. However, you have to put that popcorn in something, because otherwise, those tiny exploding kernels will absolutely DESTROY your microwave. That leaves us with one little problem: what do you microwave your popcorn in?

Plastic containers will melt. Seriously"”all of them. I put the best microwave-safe plastic container Rubbermaid makes in my 1250-watt Panasonic microwave and melted it to a smoldering heap of bubbling plastic inside of three minutes. The grotesque amorphous blob of liquified polymer and charred starch I retrieved from its chamber of death resembled something from the final scenes of Akira more than a tasty snack.

Okay, what about glass? Glass and crockery exhibit the same impressive heat-absorption properties as plastic, only they just stay hot. As in, double up your pot holders, this is going to get ugly hot. So, you may be thinking: golly Phil, why not just wait for it to cool down before you take it out of the microwave? That would be a great solution, except that if you wait more than a minute, you can say goodbye to the outer layer of your popcorn, which will smolder into a crust that will ruin the rest of your popcorn, which will now taste like burnt socks. No... this is not the way to go.

Paper bags are a time-tested solution. They cool down quickly, keep the popcorn contained, and can do the trick well. Another thing that's both true and well known about microwaving paper bags (or just paper in general) is that it's a HORRIBLE IDEA! That paper bag trick will work just fine until that one time (actually, it took two times to teach me better) a kernel gets stuck in the corner and causes the bag to burst into flames. Trust me, flames are not something you want to see on the inside of your microwave.

Enter this bad boy. This thing is made from silicone, which means it can take the heat but cools down fast. The lid sits inside and cups the popping chamber, and the bottom of the bowl is concave, which keeps the kernels together so they pop evenly. The result is that I can pop a quarter cup of popcorn in under two minutes in this thing without a single un-popped kernel. The popcorn is nice and fluffy, I don't need to use oil, and there's no papery taste like what you get from an air popper. I couldn't be happier.