Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker, 1.5 Quart

I love my old delonghi that finall gave out, after almost 20 years. LOVED IT. It was a compressor model and i know this was not. So I purchased two bowl, that amazon recommended to go with it. IT DID NOT, this ice cream maker is newer style and bowl revised, $50 bucks waisted after packaging gone and frozen bowl that did not fit.

I think what I do not like is the way this works, messy, too many parts that are unnecessary = hard to really clean and to make it, you really need a very cream based recipe, whole milk, not a way to make a healthy alternative like in a normal compressor nodel, so i made it (after the first bowl disaster) and it was ok, worked, not great, a bit soft and runny (just limp), or it then went too frozen and would not come out. Very little wiggle room, not good. But it worked about 80% of what I expected and have again, experience in making ice cream. I think if i was on a budget, and this was not a budget buy at $179, but if so, i would buy just a simple freezer bowl maker, more options in recipes, you do not need to worry about the soft serve being just right recipe and timing and better experience. I would not buy this again. BUT, i also would really not buy a freezer bowl model again, instead there are new compressor models out there, amazon and magazine recommended I am going to buy, they are about $280, but for the extra money, they do more, no freezing and will use more like my old delonghi. I just do not like this one from Cusinart, it has a limited window of results, take a bit too long, the recipe is really based on heavy cream and milk (not at all healthy and tastes like fatty ice cream) and the texture is only so so. It is way too many parts, messy, big and complicated. Add to this the shoot for kids toppings did not really work, was super messy. This is more of a novelty that was part of a party that I will just never want or like to use again. Waist of money, go better with a compressor if you really make ice cream or a smaller freeser bowl unit – same size both, but smaller machine and not mess and easier, cheaper and you just make ice cream over limp soft serve. I do not recommend this item.

This is a great machine!
We put it together, just follow the instructions (took me a minute to figure out the dispenser mounting location). Left the bowel in the freezer overnight, the strawberry ice cream mix well chilled in the fridge overnight (because the wife couldn’t wait for the bowel to start making it). Next day started the machine added mix to the bowel and 25 minutes later had awesome strawberry ice cream. It made about 5 waffle cones with a little swirl above the rim of each (just to show how much you’ll get from one bowel.

Great wedding gift for a lady he family

Soft serve shouldn’t mean so soft it just blobs all over your hand off the cone. We left the bowl thing in the freezer for a while, like 3-4 days. We left the mixed ice cream in the fridge for longer than that. 25 mins…too soupy..30 mins…still soupy… anything over 30 mins and it feels like it’s just melting at this point. It doesn’t work. I WANT to love this thing. The toppings, the warmer, all of it. But it just doesn’t work well enough. Bummer.

Hard to give anything else over 1/5 for a ice cream maker that doesnt make ice cream, at best ive gotten a very cold slushy soup. Bowl was left in the freezer for a whole day and the dessert base was left in fridge for 4hours + 30min in the freezer to make it the coldest i could without freezing it. didn’t work.

From what i’ve read the freezer need to be at -18C, ideally -26C, im not even sure mine can go that low even on coldest setting.

Once u get it thick enough so isnt to soft and melty as soon asu get on cone it doesnt dispense i will be looking at returning not what i thought and a lot of money to not do the job x