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Kitchen & Housewares : Cuisinart 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream Makers
Rating: 
- Didn't work for us
We tried this twice with 2 different recipes. Both times the bowl was frozen solid in a 0-degree freezer. Both trials resulted in a slurry that was far from ice-cream. Returning this.
Rating:
- Louder than my dishwasher!!!
I finally pulled this out and used it after owning it for more than a year. Everything went smooth and my sorbet is fine but....this machine is so loud that it is annoying. To have to listen to this for 20-30 minutes is extremely difficult. Having never used another ice cream maker, I don't know how it compares.
Rating:
- Best (or worst!) investment ever
My 10 year old daughter convinced me to go in with her 50-50 on the purchase of an ice-cream maker. Based on reader reviews we ordered the Cuisinart ICE-20. It arrived the Saturday before Mother's Day, and she successfully made me a batch of peppermint stick ice-cream for Mother's Day all by herself (she did have one question about the set-up of the machine -- but that was it). She has gone on to make mint chip ice-cream, and has another batch of something underway as I write this. I often say this was the best investment I ever made -- it makes a delicious batch of home-made ice cream and is apparently simple to operate (although I don't know this from personal experience). On the other hand, unless she starts making fat-free sorbet soon, it may very well become my worst investment!
Rating: - Great machine!
I absolutely love this machine. I got it for Christmas and have made some really good flavors, including, Cookies and Cream, Cherry Cheesecake, Ginger Mango Tea Granita, Chai, and French Vanilla. Everyone of them has been a hit! Some batches take longer to freeze than others, but I've found that putting them in a bowl in the freezer firms them right up.
Rating:
- Takes longer than expected
I got this ice cream maker primarily to make sorbets and the occasional batch of ice cream. The item arrived well packed, accompanied by a very small instruction manual / recipe booklet combination.
To get a feel for the machine, I first froze the freezer bowl for 24 hours at zero degrees or less. My first attempt was a Quince sorbet from "The Sweet Life" cookbook. I pretty much followed the recipe instructions to the letter. I poured the chilled quince mixture into the frozen bowl with the machine running. 10 minutes passed. 20 minutes. 30 minutes. 40 minutes. My "sorbet" was just a frozen drink. Eventually, the freezer bowl defrosted and I had a lukewarm smoothie on my hands.
Thinking it was my ability to follow a recipe, I decided to try one of the recipes in the instruction manual. I tried the "basic vanilla". After about 20 minutes of churning, the ice cream started to firm up. But it never got past the soupy slush stage. So I waited some more...another 20 minutes. The ice cream was thicker but still a soupy mess. After freezing the concoction for 3 hours, it was fine, but more like frozen milk than ice cream.
Next, my wife stepped in and tried one of her recipes. Chocolate ice cream. Same results for her. A soupy half-frozen mess.
I have lost faith in this machine. I still think the best and most reliable way to make ice cream is with one of those old style churns. I just don't think this thing gets cold enough. My parents have a different model (anotehr brand) and theirs freezes the ice cream within 15 minutes every time.
Your mileage may vary, but I would be wary of this machine.
- Didn't work for usWe tried this twice with 2 different recipes. Both times the bowl was frozen solid in a 0-degree freezer. Both trials resulted in a slurry that was far from ice-cream. Returning this.
Rating:
- Louder than my dishwasher!!!I finally pulled this out and used it after owning it for more than a year. Everything went smooth and my sorbet is fine but....this machine is so loud that it is annoying. To have to listen to this for 20-30 minutes is extremely difficult. Having never used another ice cream maker, I don't know how it compares.
Rating:
- Best (or worst!) investment everMy 10 year old daughter convinced me to go in with her 50-50 on the purchase of an ice-cream maker. Based on reader reviews we ordered the Cuisinart ICE-20. It arrived the Saturday before Mother's Day, and she successfully made me a batch of peppermint stick ice-cream for Mother's Day all by herself (she did have one question about the set-up of the machine -- but that was it). She has gone on to make mint chip ice-cream, and has another batch of something underway as I write this. I often say this was the best investment I ever made -- it makes a delicious batch of home-made ice cream and is apparently simple to operate (although I don't know this from personal experience). On the other hand, unless she starts making fat-free sorbet soon, it may very well become my worst investment!
Rating:
- Great machine!I absolutely love this machine. I got it for Christmas and have made some really good flavors, including, Cookies and Cream, Cherry Cheesecake, Ginger Mango Tea Granita, Chai, and French Vanilla. Everyone of them has been a hit! Some batches take longer to freeze than others, but I've found that putting them in a bowl in the freezer firms them right up.
Rating:
- Takes longer than expectedI got this ice cream maker primarily to make sorbets and the occasional batch of ice cream. The item arrived well packed, accompanied by a very small instruction manual / recipe booklet combination.
To get a feel for the machine, I first froze the freezer bowl for 24 hours at zero degrees or less. My first attempt was a Quince sorbet from "The Sweet Life" cookbook. I pretty much followed the recipe instructions to the letter. I poured the chilled quince mixture into the frozen bowl with the machine running. 10 minutes passed. 20 minutes. 30 minutes. 40 minutes. My "sorbet" was just a frozen drink. Eventually, the freezer bowl defrosted and I had a lukewarm smoothie on my hands.
Thinking it was my ability to follow a recipe, I decided to try one of the recipes in the instruction manual. I tried the "basic vanilla". After about 20 minutes of churning, the ice cream started to firm up. But it never got past the soupy slush stage. So I waited some more...another 20 minutes. The ice cream was thicker but still a soupy mess. After freezing the concoction for 3 hours, it was fine, but more like frozen milk than ice cream.
Next, my wife stepped in and tried one of her recipes. Chocolate ice cream. Same results for her. A soupy half-frozen mess.
I have lost faith in this machine. I still think the best and most reliable way to make ice cream is with one of those old style churns. I just don't think this thing gets cold enough. My parents have a different model (anotehr brand) and theirs freezes the ice cream within 15 minutes every time.
Your mileage may vary, but I would be wary of this machine.
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