Ice Cream Makers

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

Ice cream for dessert?

Advantages: fresh, and you know what you are eating
Disadvantages: messy, fiddly

My first piece of advice when buying this ice-cream machine is to get the big size and not the smaller size.....most recipes cater for the larger size and it can be fiddly/messy either halving recipes, or having 2 churning sessions......as you have to make sure the bowl is clean after the first churn sesison, as if ice cream is stuck round the edges, the paddle won't turn. The machine itself looks a little flimsy and can be a little fiddly to fit ...
...it can catch on the top spout making the process messy. The ice cream when made is very soft and can be eaten immediately, however it is preferable to store in the freezer for an hour or 2 before eating. The ice cream can be stored for many weeks in the freezer and when left a long time becomes rock hard....so you have to defrost slightly before serving! Also when the ice cream is made it is quite difficult to scrape it all off the paddle and also ...

LS53LFU 03.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Magimix 11047 1.1LT White

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

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

In the Mix - Ice Cream Styleeeeee

Advantages: Home made ice cream, fresh
Disadvantages: noise, pre freezing the bowl

I received the Magimix 1.5l Ice-cream Maker for my birthday this year and was just so excited, we were just in the middle of a hot spell and it was the perfect present to receive at the time. The questions is, a couple of months on is it still behaving as the perfect present or is it just one of those kitchen gadgets that's taking up space on top of the cupboards? The ice-cream maker comes in a box about 1ft square with a height of about 18 inches ...
...up. Fortunately washing the Magimix machine is very simple, firstly the bowl really only needs a quick wash in warm soapy water; it has no little crevices on the inside so all the mixture comes out quite easily. The plastic paddle can be put in the dishwasher if needed but again some warm soapy water should suffice, similarly with the plastic attachment. The plastic cover should be disconnected from the motor and washed; again this would withstand ...

josarah 26.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Magimix 11048 1.50LTR