This popper is a HIT. The popcorn can sweetened, be as well produced salted. Several portions are thus possible until you can fill a huge bowl of it without great expenditure of time, per serving about 3 minutes. Cleaning the machine, in spite of caramelized sugar is easy when you cool the pot and then with a little washing up liquid and hot Water can soak, then purified. The purchase was worth it because I have tested the Popper extensively. So far they ran every day. Unfortunately, as stated in the description, no CD was placed, but the manual is easy to understand and sufficiently.