This ice cream and gelato maker is great! I've made ice cream and gelato and they both came out delicious. It's so nice to have a machine with a built-in compressor so that I don't have to take up space in the freezer by having to freeze a bowl like other ice cream machines. This product is worth the money.
I was not happy with the design, needed routine cleaning maintenance and end result quality of the ice cream and gelato. As the half filled canister churns and freezes the mixture spills over into the machine gears. If you don’t disassemble it and clean this out it smells like spoiled milk. In use the gelato I made according to their recipe was not smooth and has noticeable ice crystals right out of the churn.