Cuisinart ICE-45 Mix It In Soft Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, White
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: CuisinartBrand: Cuisinart
Release Date: 2006-05-15
Model: ICE-45
Color: White
Product features:
- Fully automatic soft-serve ice-cream maker with double-insulated freezer bowl
- 3 built-in condiment dispensers; cone holder; removable parts for easy cleaning; instructions and recipes included
- Produces 1-1/2 quarts of ice-cream in just 20 minutes; no chemicals, salt, or ice required
- Handle makes ice cream swirl out like with an authentic soft-serve machine
- Measures 9-3/4 by 9 by 18-1/5 inches; 3-Year limited warranty
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart ICE-45 Mix It In Soft Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, White
Customer Review: A Good Investment for Ice Cream Lovers
Summary: 4 Stars
After much anticipation, I finally got to try my ice cream maker today. Before purchasing and using this product, I read the reviews carefully being that this is a rather expensive investment in ice cream.
Before using the machine I wrote down some of the most helpful tips from reviewers (there were many!) so that I had them handy while making the ice cream. In summary, I found these most important:
1. Put the bowl in the coldest part of the freezer standing upright for at least 24 hours. There's been much debate concerning this so I'll make it simple - shake it. If you hear no liquid, it has froze enough.
2. Wash and assemble all machine parts (excluding frozen bowl) BEFORE mixing ingridients.
3. Whip/mix chilled ingridients together. The only ingridients that shouldn't be chilled are the sugar and vanilla!
4. Take the bowl out of the freezer, pour ingridients, and start the machine right away.
Being that my bowl was in the freezer for at least a week and my ingridients were well chilled, my ice cream was at the right consistency [for cones] in about 13 minutes; in 15-16 minutes it was "hard" ice cream!
The whole process of making and dispensing the ice cream was not hard at all; I found the most difficult part to be sliding the clear "mix-in chute" onto the machine. When actually dispensing the ice cream, hold your cone as close to the dispenser as possible to give it that "DQ ice cream swirl."
I think the ice cream came out good, however, I believe it tasted too much like frozen Cool Whip. This could be because of one of three reasons:
1. This is just how ice cream from this machine tastes.
2. I whipped the ingridients too much giving it a too airy/light texture.
3. I just need to try another recipe.
Does it taste like Dairy Queen? No. Thus far I have only tried the simple vanilla recipe and think it's OK but I will seek out others. To make ice cream, have on hand heavy cream, whole milk, granulated sugar, and vanilla - this way your not running to the store at the last minute.
As far as mix-ins go I have not used the bins. Instead, my kids just rolled the cones in a dish of sprinkles; they had a blast swirling their own ice cream. All in all this gadget is nice to have if you have the extra cash. Do not expect this product to compare exactly to DQ ice cream machines (they cost thousands of dollars!) but this one works well for home use.
***Update - I found that trying different recipes definitely worked out better than the simple vanilla recipe in the instruction manual. As mentioned earlier I felt that recipe tasted too much like frozen Cool Whip (of which I am not a fan). I was worried that all ice cream would have that taste/texture coming from this machine would have that texture but that is not the case. Places like Walmart and Amazon have ice cream mixes available where a few cups of milk are all that's need, albeit they have a lot more chemicals than a homemade recipe. Anyhow, those mixes work well with this machine too. Again, experiment with different recipes to suit your family's tastes!
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Description of Cuisinart ICE-45 Mix It In Soft Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, White
Professional-quality soft serve ice cream, yogurt, sorbet and sherbet is now available right at home, with the Cuisinart Mix It in Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. Not only does it make everyone's favorites, but with three built-in condiment dispensers, it makes them extra delicious! Just a pull of a tab send sprinkles, chips and other mix-ins down the chute to mix right into frozen desserts as cones or bowls are filled. Operation is fully automatic; simply pour in the ingredients and turn the dial!Ice-Cream Machines
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