I cant even express how fun this has been. We watch weekend movies with our kiddos and this makes a big bowl of popcorn. We love to watch it work. After you start the process it takes about four minutes for it to go through the entire process of heating up and popping all the corn. Why dont use any oil or butter or anything and its done great although you can use oil or butter. The bowl part washes up really great the heating part on the bottom you cant submerge so we just wipe itwith a little bit of water and very light soap and it cleans up really well. I cant recommend this enough. It has been awesome. Super fun for the kids if you like making popcorn, I highly recommend this.