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Back to Basics PC17591 Microwave Popcorn Popper
Healthier popcorn -- the Back to Basics Microwave Popcorn Popper starts healthy by requiring no oil and stays healthy by allowing for control of added flavorings. The Microwave Popcorn Bowl uses regular popcorn seeds, eliminating the packaging costs of microwave popcorn in a bag
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Back to Basics PC17591 Microwave Popcorn Popper Reviews
Just put in some popcorn-some oil if you want and put in microwave-and voilaa few minutes later perfect popcornand no messy popper to clean-BUT BUT - the amount it handles is less than 3 ounces-too small for the prepacks -other than that a great product I have been using the Whirlypop Popper for some timeit easily handles a 4oz prepack of popcorn and oil and I thought was very easy to use-until I tried this microwave bowl. This makes the Whirlypop seem burdensome. This popper is great in all respects except one-it needs to be a larger bowl.
At the time of this review four others had reviewed the popper favorably. I returned the Back to Basics and ordered another brand that will hopefully work. The Presto, which I gave up because of the need for paper cups, is way better than this popper. In any event, my take is this popper will not pop even 1/4 a cup of new high quality popcorn. It takes two poppings of some 3-4 minutes each - LOTS of power. After using the popper I read their reviews again and noticed some wording that seems consistent through them - hmm.
Without oil the results are much better than any air poppper. For instance I used some bacon with the lean trimmed off, just fat. In our Microwave I find it takes 4:40 to pop as much as possible and not get a burned flavor.
Cook's Country was correct, this makes better popcorn than any commercial prepackaged microwave popcorn. One unique advantage is that since the heat comes from all around such that the corn would pop with or without fat, you can use unusual fats. That's with 60g of popcorn, and 14g of oil. The results were very tasty.
I'm sure uncured pork fat, or beef suet would work as well giving a different savory flavor. With oil or other fat, the results are as good as doing it on the stove (YUMMY).
(Even the packaging was extra good) I used 1/3 cup of organic popcorn with (2) tablespoons of oil. I selected this one. In a world where everything is over-hyped, this thing actually lives up to it. BUY ONE. Set the microwave on high for 3 minutes. I was looking for a popcorn popper to trim some money off the grocery budget AND eat healthier popcorn. Perfect, (although I might set it at 2:50 next time).
There was NO plastic smell, which some claim to have had. Added some salt and it was great. This popped just about the exact same amount as a bag of store-bought microwave popcorn. I'll keep it short: This thing works great.
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