I bought for my grandkids to be able to make icecream together. Very easy to use a little loud. I haven't tried all the recipes but the ones we have are really good
This is the best thing next to a industrial soft serve machine. The recipes are easy and delicious. You can alter them as well. I just made chocolate banana ice cream and raspberry ice cream. Soooo good!
Poorly made and designed. The blades do not properly move the mixture as it freezes on the outer wall . This causes frozen build up which is too thick for blades to penetrate. Blades stop, motor overheats and shuts down. The blades are mere plastic and cannot do a proper job. You are left with a container with frozen outer and liquid middle. Unfortunately you cannot remove anything as all liquid will drain out thru the bottom—I learned that one thru experience. Talk about a disaster with it all over the machine, counter top, and floor. I’ve tried several recipes but they all ended the same. Now the machine makes a horrible”clicking” sound when you turn it on. Total waste of $$, ingredients, and time.
Easy to use, cleaning is easy too. I keep the bowl in the freezer so it’s ready to go when we want ice cream. The vanilla takes a bit longer to get to correct consistency but taste is great- although will “melt” quickly in higher temperature weather.
I love making ice cream, but I enjoy even more making ice milk. I love that I can control the fat level and the sugar level of my iced desert! I can be as creative as I want with this wonderful little machine.
Really neat to have, comes with a lot of gadgets which I like but had a hard time turning the mix into soft serve, it melted so fast and not crazy how the sprinkles just shoot out into the ice cream while you're pouring it. Would prefer to be able to pour the sprinkles at the end on top. Other than that, nice product. Easy to clean up!
The ice cream mixture firms up in fairly short order, which is good; in fact, it firms up more quickly than in my regular ice-cream maker. Cleaning the paddle, however, is not fun, unless one is inclined to sacrifice a fair amount of ice cream lodged in the various nooks and crannies of the paddle. Other than that, cleaning is pretty much a breeze.
The reason I have this ice-cream maker stemmed from a question I posed my wife when we were at a ballgame this summer. While we indulged in soft-serve, I asked whether soft-serve makers were manufactured for home-use. She did not know, but learned that they were, with Cuisinart one of them. When my birthday came around, my present was, you guessed it, the Cuisinart. But here's the thing. If one expects the soft-serve from the Cuisinart to dispense as it does from one of those pricey ballpark models or the sort in use at soft-serve ice-cream stands, forget it. For one thing, the stream of ice cream dispensed with the Cuisinart is unpredictable--and for another, there's not much room in the dispensing area to manipulate the cone or to catch the swirls as they emerge, whichever way they drop, from the maker. Of course, it may be that I need more familiarity and practice with the machine to get my soft-serve to look as well-shaped as the ones in the Cuisinart pictures.
Finally, the recipe in the Instruction/Recipe booklet for the Chocolate Frozen Yogurt produces a soft-serve best avoided.