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Yet another great find at my tiny little goodwill store - .00 and they said they would take it back if it did not work properly LOL for 3 bucks I guess it's worth a shot...
First of all, I read a bunch of the reviews about the bowl not freezing so I was afraid that this might happen to me. I put the bowl in the freezer for a day and I could still hear the liquid swishing around - I was anxious to try it anyway and ended up with... liquid... ok... i was going away so I put the bowl back in the freezer and left it for the 4 days that I was gone - still not solid... hmm getting a bit frustrated now... looked at the temperature dial for my freezer and saw that it was set a bit too low (meaning a higher freezer temp) so I adjusted the dial one notch and waited about 24 hours.
YAY!!! a frozen bowl - the problem was my temp setting. Once I fixed that all was well. The bowl freezes up perfectly in less than a day now. I have used the simple vanilla recipe twice - once with oreos and once with 'green & black' organic baking chocolate chopped up - yummy and perfect - came out like soft serve but was the perfect texture after an hour or so in the freezer. I've made the peach frozen yogurt, easy and good. A few days ago I made the gourmet vanilla - added finely chopped oreos and it basically turned into chocolate cookies and cream ice cream - decadent! That was gone in one sitting between the four of us. I found that the custard recipe seems to decrease a bit when cooked, so you may want to increase your amounts a bit - you may have to play with it to get it right. Anyway, the cuisinart does what it is supposed to; without the bother of rock salt - nice.
Cuisinart Ice 20 Ice-Cream Maker - Carol Schlotterbeck - Kokomo, IN
I bought this product on the recommendation of my son to make cranberry ice for Thanksgiving. I did everything that I expected it to do. Great machine.
It is just a noisy milk-shake maker - Rat Kiley - SF Bay Area, CA
I feel deceived by the marketing department of Cuisinart. The box says it is an ice cream maker, but if you read the instructions carefully you can tell that it doesn't make ice cream but milkshakes instead. You won't be able to store the "ice cream" you make in this machine in your freezer without it turning into a chunk of ice. The cooling capacity of the bowl that comes with the machine isn't sufficient to make real ice cream. Maybe if you bought a replacement bowl, froze both of them overnight in your freezer, then ran it for 20 minutes to start the batch, and swapped bowls, maybe it would make actual ice cream - I don't know. It also makes a lound grinding / vibrating noise while it is in operation. Also I noticed that it doesn't churn the ice cream well enough - sometimes you have to stir it through the hole in the top to keep it from getting stuck.
I recommend sticking with the old fashioned ice cream makers that use rock-salt and ice, or buy an ice cream maker with a compressor. However, if you have an instant use for 1 1/2 quarts of ice cream every time you make it, then this machine could work for you. Just be prepared to consume it all before it melts.
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