We purchased this as a gift and also received it as a gift. We just plugged it in to pop some popcorn. It came on for approximately 10 seconds. The fan shut off and caught on fire. Our entire house now smells like an electrical fire. Thank goodness we didn't walk away from it or we would have a serious situation. As it is, we were able to get it outside before it caught anything on fire in our home. This was an instant fire folks. Nothing to mess around with. Would not recommend this product at all. In fact we just notified our son who we purchased one for to throw the entire machine out.