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Cuisinart Ice-45 Mix-It-In Soft-Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice-Cream Maker
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List Price: $235.00
Our Price: $99.95
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Manufacturer: Cuisinart
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Binding: Kitchen
Brand: Cuisinart
Color: White
EAN: 0086279011725
Feature: Fully automatic soft-serve ice-cream maker with double-insulated freezer bowl
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Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Cuisinart
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Manufacturer: Cuisinart
Model: ICE-45
Publisher: Cuisinart
Release Date: 2006-05-15
Size: Ice Cream Maker
Studio: Cuisinart
Variation Description: White
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Features
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Fully automatic soft-serve ice-cream maker with double-insulated freezer bowl
Simply pour in the ingredients and turn the dial--no chemicals, salt, or ice required
Makes up to 1-1/2 quarts in just 20 minutes; 3 built-in condiment dispensers
Cone holder; removable parts for easy cleaning; instructions and recipes included
Measures 10-1/2 by 12-1/2 by 19-4/5 inches; 3-year limited warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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Simply pull down the handle and dispense / Room to store all sorts of different mix-ins / Makes 1.5 quarts of frozen dessert in 20 minutes
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Be Creative
Comment: I read the reviews, and yes, you get what you pay for. This is a great price, but you must make your own recipes. The simple chocolate recipe is horrible, waaay to much cream (causes tummy ache). So if you have the time to 'experiment' in the kitchen, it is a cool product. My advice: freeze the bowl like everyone says but also, you MUST refrigerate your mix as well before you pour it in. Also, there is only a short window from when your ice cream dispenses properly 30-40mins, then it's hard, then it starts to melt! Overall, I'd rather pay Mr. Softee $2.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Machine
Comment: Great machine for the price. Works great as long as you follow the directions. I tried to make back to back batches, but that wouldn't work, so the basin is only good for one batch of ice cream at a time without refreezing for twelve more hours. But overall, a very good machine for the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very kid friendly. Enjoyable to use. Easy cleanup.
Comment: Hi,
I received this as a gift. Started out with the vanilla ice cream recipe. Followed it exactly. Tasted wonderful. Our kids had fun mixing the ingredients and waiting for the soft serve to be ready. I agree with the other posters that it takes longer than 15 minutes. Was worried at 15 minutes that something was wrong. Having used the machine now, I would say about 25 minutes gets the ice cream ready. If the ice cream is runny. Wait. It is ready when the ice cream comes out thick and long.
We keep the bowl for the ice cream maker in the freezer so that it is ready at any time.
Cleanup is very easy. A little soap and water for the plastic parts. I just rinse the bowl out with water and put it straight back into the freezer. Paper towels will stick to the inside (cold) if you try drying it that way.....
We made the lemon sorbet today. We made the sugar water solution the previous day so that it could cool in the fridge. Today, the kids squeezed the lemons and the sorbet came out great.
It seems that most of the negative reviews are for a few constant reasons. One...No the ice cream maker does not mix the ingredients for you. All it does is mix the ice cream mixture into ice cream. No different than a rock salt ice cream maker. But the Cuisinart is much easier.
Two..."My home freezer doesnt get my bowl cold enough." I have a few thoughts. First. Maybe you need to put a thermometer in your freezer and see how cold it is. If your freezer is above 10 degrees, you should turn the temp down. A regular freezer should be around 5 degrees to 0 or below. I am talking about like a Sears freezer, not some special freezer.
I could see where the top freezer on a fridge might have trouble holding that temp if it is opened often. We use our standup freezer in the basement. Also, if your ice cream comes out runny, maybe you have not waited long enough. It takes about 25 minutes for me.
On a side note. This ice cream maker produces a good amount of ice cream. It serves about 8 people. We are talking about whole cream and sugar here. You really shouldnt make the servings huge if you want to enjoy the Cuisinart often.
Again, we like the machine. Clean up is a breeze. I mean, you are cleaning up ice cream...not very hard to do. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great!
Comment: This does exactly what I wanted it for, and thats to give me soft serve ice cream, even if it's store-bought ice cream converted to soft serve. I tried some of the recipes in the booklet but wasn't wild about the ones I tried, that's not the machines' fault though, it made the ice cream perfect, I just didn't care for the taste. I found a recipe online using vanilla pudding which my husband really liked, but I love my store bought or Shwanns low-fat yogurt, so I scoop a bunch of it along with some milk in the blender until its milkshake consistency, then pour it in the canister, and 15 minutes later I have delicious soft serve. No problems with the canister not getting cold enough. It gets so freezing cold that a couple of times the motor has stopped running because I waited a little too long to open the spout, & its frozen the ice cream hard as a brick to the point that it quit turning, so I had to eat it out of the canister. Anyway, I love it, like I said it works great for what I wanted it for. I don't use the sprinkles so I don't bother to attach the spout for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A thorn in my side
Comment: I HATE this machine. I wish I could return it. The biggest problem I have with it is that the machine has to be assembled just right or else the unfrozen ice cream leaks out. Every time I've used it, I've ended up with a big puddle all over the counter. I know that it's operator error and not anything to do with the machine, but it is still enough to make me want to get rid of this piece of junk.
Next, in order for it to dispense, the ice cream has to be barely frozen. Imagine if you were to have a frozen bowl of ice cream that has been left out for about 20 minutes and is starting to turn into a soupy mess. That's the consistency it has to be in order to dispense. That's no fun-- it totally melts in about 30 seconds. If it gets any more frozen than the soupy mess previously described, it is too thick to come out of the dispenser.
That leads me to my next complaint-- the canister doesn't hold a freeze long enough to do much good. This is probably because it has to be so runny in order to dispense. I was under the impression when I got this that it could be used as a regular ice cream maker if you didn't intend to use it as a soft serve machine. Wrong!
Most of my complaints are my own fault since I failed to completely understand the capabilities of this product before purchase. Before purchasing this, be sure that you understand exactly what it is that you are buying.
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