Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker, 1.5 Quart Double Insulated, Sorbet and Frozen Yogurt Maker, Ready in 20 Minutes, ICE-21P1, White

I love this ice cream maker! It makes ice cream so quickly and easily. I love knowing what is in my food! It has a wonderful texture, the softserve is nummy, but it stays creamy when it freezed solidly. It is kind of noisy, but it only takes 15 minutes or so, so it is bearable. Very lightweight, and easy to clean and handle.

This is easy to use and makes great ice cream. It does not come with any recipes, but they are easy to find online. It's fairly quiet. It's easy to clean.

One button, on or off. Too simple. Cook up your fav gelato, ice cream or other frozen dessert recipe. Chill your cooked batch overnight in fridge. Keep the Cuisinart bucket in the freezer overnight. Fill it up with your chilled mix, turn it on and come back in fifteen minutes. Too easy. It's done when the ice cream is so cold it won't churn around anymore. The bigger choices are the recipes, but this machine will make it all. Forget wasting your time with machines with too many buttons and sensors, this machine works - it's simple and to the point and will probably last three decades. The recommended volumes in the Cusinart recipes are about 30% too much material and will overflow a bit, but it's easy to clean up and adjust the volumes for the next batch. Take notes. Lots of good recipe ideas on the web. There's even Marcella Hazan gelato recipes available online (in her book too.) Things to consider - how much fat to use, all milk, or half milk with half and half, or milk and full cream. They will all work. Baker's sugar is super smooth, especially when beaten into farm fresh egg yolks. The better the vanilla, the better the flavor. Vanilla paste from Madagascar rocks. For chocolate, Valronha Feves Guanja and Valrhona Dutch Process Cocoa will beat any chocolate dessert you have ever tasted. I promise you will never go back to the grocery store "gourmet" ice creams which are loaded up with cheap ingredients, fillers etc. Homemade is so superior. Go for it and have fun. To store in freezer, I use the paper One - Pint Frozen Dessert Containers with Lids. Fold up some wax paper and put it on top of the ice cream to prevent crystalizing. Put the whole container in a plastic bag with a tie, so that when you open and close the freezer, it stays super cold and doesn't crystalize on the outside. For the truly obsessed cooks, here's my version of Vanilla Gelato: 325g whole milk - 325g half and half - 50g really thick Icelandic yogurt - 145g bakers sugar - 2 tsp. madagascar vanilla paste - 5 egg yolks - separate the egg yolks, put in bowl, gently whisk in baker's sugar, don't over mix; mix the milk, half and half, yogurt and vanilla together and heat up to about 150 degrees in a good double boiler, stir so it doesn't stick but not too much or it will take forever to warm up; take off heat; slowly add in about a half cup at a time while stirring the eggs, not too much too fast or your will ruin the eggs, then put the mixture back in the double boiler and bring to 165 degrees - not higher - take off the heat immediately, put into a bowl with a good lid - set bowl in some ice water to cool it down quickly. Then put the bowl in the fridge overnight. The Cuisinart mix bowl goes in the freezer overnight. Put it in a clean plastic bag to keep crystals out. Next day, set up the Cuisinart with freezer bowl, pour in chilled mix, let it spin. Mine takes twelve minutes to make. It's done when the gelato stops churning because it is soft frozen. Scoop it into the paper containers with wax paper on top. Makes two pints. Ok, real Italian gelato does not use cream, yogurt or eggs, this is just my version. The amount fills the Cuisinart up without overflowing. You can use only milk, or heavy cream instead of half and half. More or less sugar to your taste. If you don't use the egg yolks, you won't have to mess with the double boiler, but then it won't have the deep crazy good custard flavor. I have tried lots of fancy vanilla pastes. While I can't promote who makes the best, lets just say look for N & M. For the chocoholics - add 70g of melted 70% great chocolate into the warm milk mix plus 42g of Dutch Process cocoa powder. Just don't blame me if you get addicted. Ciao...

Update: I tried to use this ice cream maker a few days ago and it wouldn't freeze my recipe. Since other items in freezer were frozen, I assumed the freezer bowl had stopped working so I posted a negative portion to my review. When I buy a pound of bacon, I roll each slice like a jelly roll and freeze the rolls. They don't take up so much room that way and they thaw in a couple minutes. So I put a tray of rolled bacon in the freezer and it didn't freeze. True bacon has a high fat content but in a zero degrees freezer, the bacon should freeze. So on Amazon I hopped and bought two fridg/freezer thermometers to check the temp in my freezer. I wanted two so that if they were near the same temp then I'd feel they were working okay (then I'd have one for the fridge). I bought these: amazon.com/gp/product/B071F5MD27/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I don't know why this doesn't appear as a link like they usually do but the item # is B071F5MD27 Turns out my freezer had warmed up to 21 degrees according to one themometer and 22 to the other (I can live with a one degree difference since it isn't possible to put both thermometers in the same exact location in freezer). The story continues but I won't bore you all with additional details but once properly frozen the ice cream maker bowl did work (I made a bowl while ago). So I deleted that negative portion of my review and now assure readers that I'm back to supporting my original review below. Should I actually have any additional problems with this maker, I'll come back. I do recommend checking temps in freezers/fridgs since had I not put the bacon in the freezer, frozen food would have stayed frozen but the freezer wasn't cold enough to freeze certain items like bacon or this ice cream maker bowl. Original review: I've owned this Cuisinart ICE-21PK Frozen-Yogurt, Ice Cream maker long enough to have made a half dozen quarts of ice cream. Since I'm the only person eating it, that is a lot of ice cream, I'm thinking!! There is a lot to like about this little freezer and topping that list is that I know what is going into the ice cream. And even using quality ingredients, it is cost efficient especially since I bought organic ice cream which is a lot more than regular ice cream. I've made vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and various fruit ice creams using the recipe book that comes with the freezer. For the fruit ice creams, I simply add a berry mix (for example) in the same amount as strawberries are called for in that ice cream recipe. So far, all have turned out firmly frozen and they stayed frozen until eaten but not so hard frozen one has to chisel it out of the container! I already owned the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream book and the only difference in the basic recipes for the ice cream maker is that Ben & Jerry's calls for whole eggs and the Cuisinart recipes do not. I looked up a peach ice cream recipe on-line and that recipe called for two egg yolks. I intend to add eggs to the next batch and if they make a great difference I'll post about that later but I imagine the eggs just add extra texture but can be left out if one has qualms about eating raw egg. All my ice creams have been super great without the egg. Keep in mind however that most bacteria, etc. will not survive freezing. I purchased the smaller quart & a half size since that makes 5 cups which will last me for a few days. I also wanted the pink freezer since it looks like ice cream! The round circular part seen in the photo has to be frozen for 24 hours before use so if one does not have a freezer, one will need to set aside that much space in their refrigerator freezer for that period. I have an upright freezer so as soon as I clean mine up from freezing a batch, I just put it back in the freezer and it stays there until I use it again. Clean-up is a breeze. Instructions for use are well explained and are simple. Two minutes and the ice cream is churning away. Mine usually freezes in 15 minutes. This is a great little ice cream maker and I'm so glad to own it. I love the ice cream I make especially since I know it is healthy, at least for a sugared item :))

As someone who has used the vintage crank ice cream maker and the ball ice cream maker with rock salt, I can honestly say this ice cream maker is absolutely awesome! We got it less than a month ago and have made 3 batches of ice cream and a batch of frozen yogurt. The yogurt is great but a little tedious. The ice cream is so easy and delicious! Our family agrees the simple chocolate ice cream recipe in the User Guide is the best chocolate ice cream we've every had (it doesn't hurt that my son bought Ghirardelli cocoa for this)!

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We had to replace our 30 year old machine which needed bags of ice and salt and we weren't sure we'd find a replacement that we loved as much as our original one. This one works great! So far we've made coffee ice cream and cherry vanilla ice cream and raspberry sorbet and they all came out perfectly. Of course, a lot of the taste and texture has to do with the recipe you're using, and we only make ice cream with a good egg yolk based custard, to make it really creamy, but we'd heard that the one downside of some machines is that the paddle doesn't always churn all of the contents. This one absolutely does, and we love the open top so that we can add things like nuts and cherries near the end of the cycle as it's churning. It's also a good size so doesn't take a lot of room on the shelf.

Had it for a few months , tried a few recipe's. Need to get more creative but the machine works great. Ah, harken back to the days of the hand crank ,ice and salt!! Only advice i would give, make sure the tub is 'frozen" If making 2 batches ,you should make one, freeze overnight ,then make the other. The only time we have had problems with soft ice cream is when we rushed between batches. Also let it churn right to the top-don't rush the process.