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 Does what it says on the tin December 30, 2008
vh1967
This is a great ice cream maker which is easy to use, works well and does not take up a lot of room in the freezer.
Great Simple Icecream the way you like July 26, 2008
M. T. Pedroso (Oxford)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought as a Valentine's present for an ice-cream lover. We do tons of ice-cream now. If you mix it well for a while it gets very soft and it is not hard to remove the middle thingy after use. It does melt fast - make sure you eat it faster! The battery lasted more than 7 batches. It does not take lots of space in the freezer and it does not have to be kept there when not in use. Ben and Jerry's book is great to go along as well. Enjoy!
Ice magic! March 6, 2008
D. BROWN (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This machine really is the perfect compromise between the small budget 'pre-freeze' machines and the big 'make it when you want it' countertop machines.
The quality can be excellent, with soft smooth texture and almost imperceptible ice crystals (and no crystals at all with the more cream-heavy recipes).
I use the Ben and Jerry's vanilla 'sweet cream' recipe as the base upon which to experiment with everything from chocolate orange to blackcurrant puree. The results are always first rate - genuinely, this is as good as shop bought ice cream.
Read the reviews here, and then buy it!
 No going back to shop bought ice cream January 24, 2008
B&Wsmum (Kent. UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got this for christmas, mainly to make ice cream for my son who's allergic to cows milk, so we could make decent frozen desserts for him. Also so we know what's in the ice cream.
The instructions suggested mastering basic vanilla ice cream first. I'm not usually a fan of vanilla, but mmmmmmmmmm, this is delicious. We've used goats milk products for some yummy ice cream - lovely, and out of this world frozen yoghurt. Oh, fab fruit sorbets too.
I thought it would need the freezer to be on the fast freeze setting - but it set extremely hard, so now we just leave it on the normal setting and it's fine, lovely and creamy, don't leave it too long before scraping it out, or it gets a bit tricky! It's so easy to use, we need a bigger freezer so we can stock up - unfortunately only makes small amounts, so if you want enough for guests, you need to make several lots!!
Big downside is the battery life - instructions reckon 25 uses, we've not used it anything like that much, so am going to have to get a rechargeable set and recharger.
But I think it's fab, thoroughly recommend it!
 Finished ice-cream is more like a thickshake! January 15, 2008
Jennifer E. Johns (Wales)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is very compact and does save space, but the problem is that the blade which scrapes the icecream from the side is quite flimsy and the motor is only battery powered: it can't cope with stirring through really thick icecream, so it stops when the icecream is still very soft. It makes for a sloppy looking dessert if you try to scoop it into dessert bowls for dinner guests. The only way round this is to empty the icecream maker while the icecream is sloppy and then freeze it in a tub instead - but you don't get a very smooth icecream as a result!
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