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1.0 out of 5 stars
A really dumb product
Not to imply that the ice cream maker isn’t well made, but it is simply a dumb idea. All of the product literature implies that this product MAKEs ice cream, as if it actually…

1.0 out of 5 stars
would rate ZERO if possible
Makes cold, sweet milk and a big mess. Tried several times. Froze bowl; chilled ingredients; checked periodically; and NEVER got anything like soft-serve ice cream.

We received this as a family Christmas gift. My son has severe nut allergies and we cannot buy much in the way of ice cream products from the store. Plus I love soft serve ice cream. So this has saved the day. We use it almost every night. We mix up the liquid when we make dinner. We put it in the refrigerator until dinner is ready. Then a few minutes into dinner I hop up insert the bowl and pour in the mixture. The only catch is the recipes in the booklet are way too much volume to get a proper consistency of ice cream. So we half all recipes and it it works great. We make the vanilla most often and use 1/2 cup 2% milk and 1 cup nonfat. The full fat version in the recipe book is yummy, but not appropriate (way too much fat) for our family given we have it for desert most nights. Approx. 20 minutes ice cream is done. We have done as much as a 3/4 recipe (3/4 cup 2% – 1 1/2 cup non fat)and it works. But that is the maximum you can use if you want it to freeze to a proper soft serve ice cream consistency. The lid also tends to pop up once the consistency gets thicker so we use one of my 5 lb weights to rest on top and keep the lid in place. The only draw back is if you have a bigger family (it is just the 3 of us) it doesn’t make a bunch of ice cream relative quantity. This is a great machine. We all highly recommend it.

1.0 out of 5 stars
This is a toy
I bought this for my wife for Xmas. I pre-chilled the bowl and was ready to go today. I decided on their simple vanilla recipe. Basically, it made frozen whip cream.

We found the key to making great ice cream is to get some dry ice. Put the dry ice inside the bucket and into the freezer for about one hour. The dry ice accelerates the freezing and really works great for fast turnaround. Without the dry ice, the bucket has to freeze for a minimum of 20 or so hours. Awesome and fun machine..

We bought the Cuisinart soft serve ice cream maker for our daughter’s 13th birthday. she was so excited and it was beautifully packaged; the photos of the ice cream looked exquisite.
The reality is quite different. We followed the instructions carefully; froze the bowl overnight, etc etc. We mixed the first flavor, started to mix and the motor overheated in less than ten minutes and stopped. We read the instructions carefully and lo and behold there is a warning that if the ice cream starts to get hard the motor will get hot and there is an automatic cut-out safety feature.
But the ice cream wasn’t ready! The inside was runny and the outside was frozen. The consistency would never have been good enough for soft serve ice cream. We stirred it around by hand and dished it up with a spoon. We were so disappointed.
We’ve tried it twice more and each time, the same problem. Even if we modify the cream, trying to keep the motor running for longer, the ice cream never turns out as it should. The motor always cuts out before it’s of a consistency to dispense.
We think the motor is not powerful enough for the job because we can even smell it start to overheat.
Very, very disappointed.