Cuisinart ICE-45 Mix It In Soft Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, White
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart ICE-45 Mix It In Soft Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, White
Customer Review: False advertising
Summary: 1 Stars
The outside of the box states: "Perfect consistency. Cuisinart ice-cream making technology ensures the right consistency."
The directions then read, "if your bowl is too warm ice cream may not freeze properly" or even better "if machine stops dispensing, simply open the top and scoop out by hand."
Umm, how does scooping out by hand equal a "Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker with perfect Consistency"?
A huge disappointment. I feel this is simply a repackaging of their disappointing "freezer bowl" technology. Most people can't get the bowl cold enough and those that can end up with an icy, inferior product.
Save your money.
Customer Review: This works!
Summary: 5 Stars
Aven after reading a few not so great reviews, I decided to go ahead and order this. I am glad that I did! We've used it 3 times in the past 2 weeks and each time came out with great tasting soft serve ice cream. We froze the bowl, and refredigerated ALL the ingredients including the sugar and vanilla. It only took 15 minutes for if to freeze to a nice consistency for cones. We used the basic vanilla recipe in the book and once tried altering it to make a sugar/fat free ice cream. While it did freeze and tasted fine it was more of an ice milk since it had none of the creamy fat, but good nontheless. My son loves it and I can control the sugar and ingredients.Customer Review: Worked great for me!
Summary: 5 Stars
After a trip to Oahu,Hawaii I was desperate for more Dole-Whip (on a side note I highly recommend to anyone going to Oahu a visit to the Dole Plantation for the real thing). I got a powdered mix online and after much debate bought this soft-serve machine. It worked great, although it did take longer than the directions said to mix and still seemed a little softer than it should be. I left the rest in the freezer and it hardened well and tasted great. One bit of advice from my experience - make sure the dispensing handle is all the way up before pouring your mixture into the freezer bowl if you want to avoid a sticky mess all over your countertop. :)Customer Review: Not at all what i thought
Summary: 1 Stars
I guess from the pictures i was thinking this was going to be easy... it wasnt. You have to mix everything in a blender first (yogurt, whole milk, sometimes heavy cream, sugar, etc etc etc etc) and get it PERFECT, dump it into the bucket and set your timer for 18-20 minutes EXACTLY (recipe depending). Any less and its to runny, any more and its to hard and it wont dispense. What i thought would be a fun, easy thing to do as a family turned into a huge messy hassle.
Not at all what i thought it would be, and am very disappointed, as i love soft serve (and all ice cream in general), and was really looking forward to this product.
Customer Review: Looks don't always count
Summary: 2 Stars
This unit looks like it would be fun for the kids, but in fact, it barely works. Even when the insert is pre-frozen in a zero degree freezer, the maching has problems getting the mix even into a "soft" state, and even when it gets close to that, the ice cream does not dispense in a manner that allows for the classic soft-serve look in the cone. An email to cuisinart regarding the problem went unanswered. We used it twice, and gave up. One hint that's not in the instructions: you have to keep the machine running while dispensing -- or trying to dispense -- the ice cream. Another hint that's not in the instructions: don't buy this item.