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425 of 426 people found the following review helpful.
Delivers on what it promises – just make sure you grasp what it promises!
By Dwain M. Gleason
In reading the reviews for this product, I’ve noticed that galore people 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 part 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 huge capacity. It may make “10-12″ servings – if your servings are small. 6-8 is in all likelihood 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 unfeigned if you chill the ice cream mixture very thoroughly. Otherwise it will take longer, probably more like 15-20 minutes.
- The primary serving or so may be somewhat soupy – I have found that I may dispense galore 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.
216 of 220 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 with 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 regarding 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 with regards to 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 perfectly (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 effortlessly 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.
124 of 131 humans found the following review helpful.
ICE-45 Soft icecream maker
By R. Vaughn
This product works as advertised – but it is exceedingly crucial 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 percentage 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 with regards to 48 hours the original time) the ice cream is very very good.
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