Krups 358-70 La Glaciere Ice Cream Maker
by Krups

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Product Summary

• Makes 1-1/2 quarts of ice cream
• Includes an instruction booklet with recipes
• Electrical one-speed
• 9 by 13 inches
• Limited one-year warranty

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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Krups 358-70 La Glaciere Ice Cream Maker

Customer Review: Great Results; Flawed Design
Summary: 4 Stars

This ice cream maker is a pain to use. The top is difficult to snap in. You should dump the sorbet/ice cream mix in before snapping on the top, because the hole provided is ineffective. It's incredibly noisy. It takes 24 hours to freeze the ice cream maker so that it's cold enough. You also have to pre-chill your sorbet or ice cream mixture after making it for at least four hours before freezing it in the ice cream maker. Gratification is further delayed, because when you're done aerating and chilling your mixture with the ice cream maker, you have to freeze the ice cream or sorbet until it becomes the right texture for at least another four hours.

Some of these problems are inherent in ice cream making. Ice cream can't be frozen solid and aerated by the ice cream maker simultaneously. So when it's done in the machine, it has to go in the freezer. And no matter which machine you use, the recipes in books by professionals all have you chill the sorbet or ice cream mixture first. And I'm afraid any freezer-chilled ice cream maker will take 24 hours to chill. Despite the fact that there are no acceptable shortcuts, the results are worth the wait.

This machine makes a scant half gallon per batch if you estimate properly. That's four pints. It makes you realize both how stingy Haagen Dazs is and how expensive good ingredients are.

Unfortunately, my inherited machine broke in two ways. First, the paddle snapped. So be careful. Second, I ruined the bowl in the dishwasher. (Just a warning in case you also skip the warning section of the user manual.)

So I thought I'd have to buy another one for my friend. He still thought he'd never use it, and so told me to keep it. I then went and bought another one because I liked it so much.

It's small, and the results are great. I can't believe you'd get better results with a larger or more expensive machine. My results are as good as any ice cream or sorbet I've had anywhere.

You can't go wrong with the Chez Panisse Desserts cookbook by Lindsey Shere. (I reviewed that on its page.) It has dozens of ice cream and sorbet recipes. Every one I've made has been fantastic. It's a veritable clinic on the art of cooking with seasonal American and tropical fruits.

P.S. Get a good strainer and a good blender. It makes all the difference.

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