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DIY Ice Cream!

Advantages: Simple set up, simple to use, inexpensive.
Disadvantages: Time consuming to prepare bowl&ingredients.Maximum of 2batches at a time

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why an Ice Cream Maker? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well I'm with a website where you earn points and these points can be exchanged for free gifts. So after not much deliberation I decided to get an ice cream maker. I chose this particular model as it was the one that I could afford with my points! The advantages of having an ice cream maker are pretty clear when you look at the price of my favourite Ben and Jerry's Ice creams. ...
...going into my ice cream. There are only natural fruits and none of the nasty E numbers that we all dread to see on the ingredients lists of our foods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Price and availabilty ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's not a very expensive peice of kit to be honest and it is readily available both online and in store. They sell this for £14.99 from amazon.co.uk and my friend got her's from Currys for £19.99. It's great value for money but you can ...

nereesa85 22.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Kenwood IM200 0.8LT

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The best ice cream maker

Advantages: Easy to clean and maintain. Automatic. Big capacity.
Disadvantages: Noisy

This professional ice cream maker is excellent for making great quality ice cream, sorbets and ice cream yoghurt. It comes with a good selection of ice cream and sorbets recipes for everyone's taste. It's easy to clean and maintain. No need to pre-freeze the bowl. Everything is automatic. You only need to add the ingredients to the bowl and let the ice cream maker do the rest. And here you are left with time to do other things in the kitchen or around ...

cscott 02.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Cuisinart ICE50BCU

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I scream for ice-cream! Gaggia Gelatiera

Advantages: Simple, quick, easy to clean
Disadvantages: Some might consider it quite big

I'd forgotten we even owned an ice-cream maker (that's how long it hasn't been used for!!), when my mum today suggested I make an ice-cream to go with the deserts for tomorrow afternoon's barbecue... Ok, Ok, I admit, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to kitchen gadgets, people always seem to buy things, use them once or twice, then the novelty wears off and they just clog up the cupboards for years and years until there's a massive clean out, and ...
...you I may well change my mind when I get my own kitchen to fill up with things!! So, I had a trawl through the various recipe books we've got and then the internet to see what I could find, and I have to say I'm amazed at how easy and quick it was! Firstly, I'll tell you a bit about the process, and then I'll get on to the machine itself. ~*THE RECIPE*~ I decided to go for Rocky Road ice-cream today, and chose a recipe off the 'net. (I've put the ...

Ostinato 22.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Gaggia Gelatiera

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Magimix 1.1 Ice cream maker

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: time consuming

Budget ice cream maker. You must freeze the bowl for 12 hours prior to making the ice cream. Also you must refrigerated the mixture before putting it in the machine. The instructions aren't the easiest to understand, but the parts are pretty self explanatory. Over all it's a good cheap product but also quite time consuming. I still had to put my ice cream in the freezer after it had been in the machine. On the plus side the instruction booklet comes ...

Jobird12 14.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Magimix 11047 1.1LT White

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License to chill

Advantages: Quick, built-in freezer, makes delicious ice-cream
Disadvantages: Bulky, no alarm indicating the ice-cream is ready, expensive

Last spring, I decided I would try to make my own ice-cream. After all the summer was just around the corner. So I went on a quest for the perfect ice-cream machine. I didn't want to have to wait hours for the ice-cream bowl to pre-freeze, as is the case in a lot of ice-cream machines on the market. After a long search, I finally found a real ice-cream machine, the GELATO CHEF 2200. It has its own built-in freezer, therefore there is no need to ...
...~~~ LOOK and DESIGN ~~~ The Gelato Chef measures 29cm high, 34cm long, 24cm deep, therefore quite big, and weighs approximately 10kg. I have it in the white finish but it also exists in a satin finish, at a higher price. The appliance is quite elegant with rounded corners. The lid is partly transparent and has an opening looking down at the bowl at the front, which allows you to check progress and add e.g. chocolate chips or pieces of nuts during ...

Chardon 12.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Magimix Gelato 2200 1.42LT

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