Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker, 1.5 Quart, ICE-48

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.

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.

Brought this for my daughter and she loves it. We all get icecream now

I guess I was expecting something better, my husband said I should have known better. Candy dispensers are way bigger than they need to be, and they clog easily. Does not dispense ice cream like a soft serve machine, comes out in a glob in cone, it's ok if you are using a bowl. The fudge warmer is a mess. Wasn't the experience I remember as a child, but is anything ever?

This ice cream maker is so easy to use and best of all, easy to clean up. Great for family gatherings or small parties or an after dinner snack.sonce you pick how big or little the amount of ice cream to make. The grandkids love how it comes out like at the ice cream store across town.

Just used this on New Year’s Eve, and I was very pleased. I had to find the directions online and print them because they did not come with the product. We used the Cuisinart vanilla base recipe and it made more than our family of 4 (kids age 12 and 15) could eat. Plan ahead because the freezer bowl needs to freeze for at least 24 hours, and I think the churning would have taken less time (took almost 40 minutes) if we had chilled the vanilla base overnight as well. The Cuisinart vanilla recipe was delicious and I liked that I knew all the ingredients that went into it (very simple recipe). The mix-in feature didn’t “mix in” very well; sprinkles went all over instead of mixing in. And we opted not to use the sauce warmer. Clean up was relatively painless, just a lot of parts. Overall very happy with it.

Let me first say that I rarely review products I buy and that I’m generally a big fan of Cuisinart. I have a number of the brand’s products and will continue buying them. But I really felt compelled to offer an honest review of this disappointing product. So here goes: I was looking forward to being able to create my own recipes (high protein, keto) for this soft serve machine. I decided to try a couple recipes from the book first to make sure I’m familiar with the machine using what I would expect to be well-tested recipes. What a huge disappointment. First, the machine is huge, so unless you have counter space for it to “live” or a large accessible cupboard, I wouldn’t recommend this. If I’d kept it I would’ve stored it in the garage (although it was like a logic puzzle getting it back in the box!) and probably rarely used it. But for me, it’s not even worth keeping. The process is cumbersome and takes a long time (over 24 hours from start to finish) - as long as any traditional homemade ice cream machine. So there’s no advantage there. The first attempt, we weren’t quite ready to eat the ice cream when it was ready so it sat there for about 15 minutes. By the time we were ready, it had frozen so hard that the flimsy mixer couldn’t spin Through the thicker mixture anymore. Once it finally thawed to be “spinnable” again, we opened the serving arm and it came out in “plops,” not a steady stream from which you could make a cone. My husband gave up and opened the lid to serve himself with a spoon. Also the name is misleading because the toppings are just that - toppings. There’s no mixing IN to the soft serve like the name implies. We tried a second recipe on the second night we had it and we’re equally disappointed. Furthermore, the cleaning is a challenge. You can’t submerse the machine - obviously - but the receptacle where the ice cream bowl sits gets ice cream all over it and it does not appear to be detachable. For me, it was not worth the money for a large gadget that I’ll rarely use. I’ve read many reviews and am befuddled by claims that this is easy to use or clean or that it’s sturdy. IMHO this was a swing and a miss for Cuisinart. I’m sending it back today. Grateful that we do have that ability.

Followed instructions and the results, for us was perfect soft serve ice cream at twenty minutes. If you want it made as hard ice cream for scooping go for twenty seven minutes. Would buy again as a gift for Christmas.

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

Take your time. Don’t blow a gasket! It takes two or three times to master this wonderful machine. I had 2 failed attempts and then when I found my patience I made the best creamiest soft I cream I ever had. I am going to really enjoy this machine when summer comes. I love it.

Muy entretenido y además ricos los helados

This ice cream maker is easy to assemble and use, but I've been a bit disappointed. It seems to glitch occasionally, and quite a bit of ice cream gets stuck in the bowl instead of dispensing properly. The biggest issue is that if you go over the processing time, the machine stops and won't dispense the ice cream at all. Which means manual extraction. defeats the whole point of the dispenser. It makes good ice cream, but the design could definitely be improved.

This product must be the worst says ice cream maker ever. Value for money what a waste . Followed instructions and ice cream . Couldn’t even say it was ice cream . Will be returning this product avoid at all cost