Cuisinart Mix-It-In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker ICE-45
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Customize your cone with this ingenious soft serve ice cream maker that automatically adds up to three of your favorite mix-ins. Make a heaping 1-1/2″ quarts of fun, fresh ice cream in just 20 minutes, then pull out tabs to release mix-ins – like chocolate chips or sprinkles – down the chute and right into your frozen dessert for an extra tasty treat. When your combination is just right, simply pull down the handle to dispense! Removable parts for easy cleaning. Three-year limit…
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9:14 am on November 28th, 2009
We received this as a family Christmas gift. My son has severe nut allergies and we cannot buy much in the way of ice cream products from the store. Plus I love soft serve ice cream. So this has saved the day. We use it almost every night. We mix up the liquid when we make dinner. We put it in the refrigerator until dinner is ready. Then a few minutes into dinner I hop up insert the bowl and pour in the mixture. The only catch is the recipes in the booklet are way too much volume to get a proper consistency of ice cream. So we half all recipes and it it works great. We make the vanilla most often and use 1/2 cup 2% milk and 1 cup nonfat. The full fat version in the recipe book is yummy, but not appropriate (way too much fat) for our family given we have it for desert most nights. Approx. 20 minutes ice cream is done. We have done as much as a 3/4 recipe (3/4 cup 2% – 1 1/2 cup non fat)and it works. But that is the maximum you can use if you want it to freeze to a proper soft serve ice cream consistency. The lid also tends to pop up once the consistency gets thicker so we use one of my 5 lb weights to rest on top and keep the lid in place. The only draw back is if you have a bigger family (it is just the 3 of us) it doesn’t make a bunch of ice cream relative quantity. This is a great machine. We all highly recommend it.
11:29 am on November 28th, 2009
We found the key to making great ice cream is to get some dry ice. Put the dry ice inside the bucket and into the freezer for about one hour. The dry ice accelerates the freezing and really works great for fast turnaround. Without the dry ice, the bucket has to freeze for a minimum of 20 or so hours. Awesome and fun machine..
2:07 pm on November 28th, 2009
We “bought” one of these using our reward points from a credit card.
Used it last night for the first time. It worked just as it said it would. We froze the bowl overnight, making sure there was no noise when we shook it. Whisked the ingredients in a bowl, turned the maker on and slowly poured the ingredients in. The grandkids watched it almost the whole 20 minutes! We made the vanilla last night and are trying the chocolate tonight. The first little bit that comes out is liquid (as it says in the booklet) and it takes a little practice getting in the cone, but over-all we all enjoyed it. I’m ordering a second bowl to have on-hand for larger gatherings. (Although, we figured the cost out – it’s cheaper to buy store bought ice cream on sale! too bad…)