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Cuisinart - Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker - White
Average customer rating
3.9
(272 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 272 reviews
5 Stars
138
4 Stars
58
3 Stars
29
2 Stars
16
1 Star
31
75%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Cuisinart - Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker - White
Customer Rating
4
Wife + kids ask to make ice cream all the time now
on February 17, 2023
Posted by: JaredSC
Verified Purchase:Yes
We are pleasantly pleased with our soft serve ice cream maker. Have made several batches of different flavors, mostly following given recipes and they’ve all worked well and enjoyed ice cream in 20-25 minutes of eager waiting. It’s not very good at dispensing unless the ice cream is very soft (too soft). We can get about 1-2 cone’s worth at the right consistency before it just gets too hard for the machine to dispense, even though most of the ice cream is still quite soft. They know it’s a problem because they have a clear label right on the front that says once the machine has a hard time dispensing, it’s time to scoop out manually. Which we do and enjoy regardless. (Watch out, it’s messy!) Yes it does dispense mix ins, a bit roughly and with unsettling grinding and crunching sounds but it works. Clean up is decently easy, with only a couple harder to clean parts that take thinking and creativity. I wish more of the parts were metal and not plastic, especially the dispensing lever piece. I’d respect it a lot more if it wasn’t so plastic-y and cheap feeling, but it definitely makes soft serve ice cream and pretty quickly. Kids are always excited when we bring it out. Overall, satisfied customers and yet glad that it was partially funded by a gift and we didn’t have to pay full price for it. Not sure it would have been worth full price. This is now my go-to over the old fashioned salt and ice route. I’m probably going to have to make ice cream every week now, and this makes it easy.
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Posted by: Lewis4
from Provo, UT
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
The ice cream maker is a big hit! It was bought as a birthday gift. Assembly was simple. We made the included recipe for piña colada ice cream. It was tasty! It yielded about 10 soft serve cones. The freezing process took longer than stated in the instructions to get the firmer consistency we felt would stand up in the cone. Clean up was easy. We haven't tried the mix-ins yet. This ice cream maker will have a productive life in our household. Yum!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Omegas
Verified Purchase:Yes
I really wanted to like it but its not working out, a family member is diabetic so we try to substitute product and its failed miserably. It freezes to the sides after a few minutes then the mixer mechanism starts stripping gears and making a horrible noise as its unable to spin. Ive even bought another tub to be sure that was not the issue. Now even following the official recipe in the book it skips gears and fails to work. Perhaps we got a lemon.
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Posted by: JABAR
from Hawaii
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
The machine does not produce soft serve ice cream . It comes out watery using the recipes in the book. I have churned it for an hour and it still doesn’t freeze up to hold shape. A disappointment.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Posted by: Charisma
from USA
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
You have to make sure it is soft enough to come out, but it will not be sturdy enough to sit on the cone and will melt fast! Too frozen or firm and you will have to scoop it out because it won't come out! Hit or miss!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Posted by: No nothing
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
I was expecting some sort of a challenge in making ice cream for the first time. Nope. It was as easy as they made it look. From opening the box and puting the machine together to the following the recipe for delicious soft serve to eating it. I would actually given it a 4.5 but I could not figure out how to make a half star . Why not 5 stars? Because it takes to long for the bowl to actually freeze. I tried at 12 hours like the book said. No. I then tried 18 hours. No. It actually took over 24 hours to freeze properly. For me, that is way too long to wait for another go at making more.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Rosebudd
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
I’d give it 5 stars except for the fact I needed to adjust the recipe to less milk, and the (condiments don’t come work very well when using them More like a toy) my tip is-freeze the bowl longer than specified. Thank you
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Tnoller
from Indiana
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
The machine itself, while it does tale up quite a bit of counter space, it's fairly easy to set up and use. I tried several recipes and it always comes out the same, so if what you really want is a frosty, like the milk shakes from a restaurant, then this is a Good machine. It was just too soft for me. I thought it would be more like dairy queen but its not. That's ok, it was still fun.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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