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497 of 499 persons found the following review helpful.
Delivers on what it promises – just make sure you understand what it promises!
By Dwain M. Gleason
In reading the reviews for this product, I’ve noticed that a great deal of persons may have been expecting something more than what Cuisinart is selling. Having applied this unit various times now, here are my impressions and thoughts.
- The unit uses a freezer bowl to freeze the product. That means that the bowl MUST be frozen solid and the product MUST be very well chilled, other than as supposed or expected you will not get good results. We have just held our freezer bowls in the deep freeze when not in use so that we may make ice cream reasonably quickly. It’s in all likelihood best to mix up your soft serve mix at least an hour in advance and put it in the coldest share of your fridge or (as another reviewer suggested) in the freezer for 10-15 minutes to get it as cold as possible without prematurely freezing it.
- The freezer bowl doesn’t have a big capacity. It may make “10-12″ servings – if your servings are small. 6-8 is in all probability more like it. If you want more, make sure you buy an further and added bowl and keep it frozen.
- The instructions on time expected values in general say 10-15 minutes, and this may be true if you chill the ice cream mixture very thoroughly. Otherwise it will take longer, probably more like 15-20 minutes.
- The basi serving or so may be somewhat soupy – I have found that I may dispense a lot of into a cup and then re-add that into the top of the bowl.
- The “mix-ins” in truth don’t mix in to the soft serve at all, they are actually topping dispensers. If you’re expecting something like a DQ Blizzard, it’s not the same. Also, don’t over-fill (or pack in) the mix in bins. I’ve had good luck with chopped peanuts, sprinkles and the mini M&Ms.
230 of 235 persons found the following review helpful.
Cool summer treats
By J. Scott
We purchased this ice cream maker thinking we could use it for a huge party we were having. It turns out that the freezer bowl will give you in regards to 10 – 12 servings before it needs refreezing. So we opted not to use it for the party (not sufficient servings) but rather use it for our family.
I was a little apprehensive when it comes to buying this product since similar product reviews were none to flattering. This unit howover seems to work just fine.
The instructions assert that the ice cream is ready to serve in regarding 12 – 15 minutes but we found that 20 minutes was necessitated to reach the right consistency. But, once it’s ready, the ice cream poured out utterly (we even got the knack of twirling the column of ice cream into our cones). We’ve decisive that the vanilla ice cream recipe is our family’s favorite.
Clean up was a snap since all the parts may be without apparent effort got rid of and cleaned.
We tried the condiment dispensers and my kids loved it. We found that sure things don’t work well if they aren’t chopped finely or if they don’t have a slippery surface (like m&m’s). Otherwise, it’s cool to have the ‘extras’ intermixed with the ice cream.
Overall, this product is nicely engineered and works very well.
137 of 145 humans found the following review helpful.
ICE-45 Soft icecream maker
By R. Vaughn
This product works as advertised – but it is exceedingly important to place the freezer bowl in the back of your freezer to insure that it freezes solid. The basi two times using this product we failed to make ice cream because we froze the bowl in the front part of our freezer for 24 hours and it did not freeze solid. The condiment dispenser works fine for sprinkles, but items like chopped nuts don’t rather work as well. The recipies are very good and once you get the feezer bowl froze solid (really takes when it comes to 48 hours the original time) the ice cream is very very good.
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