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The biggest issue of this sweetcorn steamer is that sweet corn equipment tend to fly out of the container, like hot air corns which blow many of the good out. You should monitor it and shake the handle when popping starts to minimize waste. Quality gourmet sweetcorn equipment like Orville Redenbacher's is a larger and will yield bigger, fluffier per batch.
Naturally, you will have to wipe out the inside before the first use to get any dust and loose Styrofoam out. Then rinse and dry, plug in, slip on the mount, and screw in the handle counterclockwise.
Instructions say to run the steam empty 3-5 minutes just to heat up BEFORE you add 2 teaspoons of oil and corn. The instructions get fuzzy at this point. It says, "... add _ cup of popcorn..." Cup of what? I called and found out just one scoop - equal to 1/4 cup. Doesn’t double it or you risk burning and stuck kernels. It yields 2 quarts which is pretty good. Measuring spoons are provided for oil, but no scoop. But the door and opening tray should make sweetcorn machine retrieval easy enough.
The sound of the motor spinning is much quieter than hot air sweet corn table top which sound like rattling blow dryers. This should let you make more popcorn mid movie with less distraction. This unit is more work for sweetcorn However, we live with the trouble because we want theater quality popcorn, right?