Cuisinart Ice-45 Mix-It-In Soft-Serve 1.5 Quart Ice-Cream Maker – White
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- Adds favorite mix-ins into soft serve ice cream as it’s dispensed!
- Pull out tabs to add one, two or all three types of mix-ins
- Pull down handle to dispense soft serve ice cream directly into cones or bowls
- Makes 1-1/2 quarts of frozen dessert in as little as 20 minutes
- Fully automatic – just add favorite fresh ingredients and turn the dial
Product DescriptionCustomize your cone with this ingenious soft serve ice cream maker that automatically adds up to three of your favorite mix-ins. Make a heaping 1-1/2″ quarts of fun, fresh ice cream in just 20 minutes, then pull out tabs to release mix-ins – like chocolate chips or sprinkles – down the chute and right into your frozen dessert for an extra tasty treat. When your combination is just right, simply pull down the handle to dispense! Removable parts for easy cleaning. Three-year limited warranty. . . . More >>
Cuisinart Ice-45 Mix-It-In Soft-Serve 1.5 Quart Ice-Cream Maker – White
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December 10th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Makes cold, sweet milk and a big mess. Tried several times. Froze bowl; chilled ingredients; checked periodically; and NEVER got anything like soft-serve ice cream. Would take it to Goodwill but I don’t want anyone else to waste their money on this plus all the ingredients and only be disappointed!
December 10th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Not to imply that the ice cream maker isn’t well made, but it is simply a dumb idea. All of the product literature implies that this product MAKEs ice cream, as if it actually chilled the cream mixture. What they don’t tell you directly is that you have to chill the mixer bowl in your freezer for many hours before you can use it. I can say that 4 hours wasn’t enough, and all I got was soup.
I can make more ice cream faster and better using a bag of ice and my Sears ice cream maker in about 25 minutes. No long annoying waits for the bowl to chill!
The only creative idea in this product is that it allows you to mix in 1 -3 different streams of solids like mini-M&Ms or crushed Heath bars while you are extruding a cone. I never got to try this because I sent the whole thing back, but I think I could do as well with a spoon and save a lot of money and effort.
And incidentally, cleaning this thing is a major project. There are lots of pieces to be hand washed and dried, including the little mix-in reservoirs.
Cuisinart should be ashamed of foisting this thing on us.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:17 am
We bought the Cuisinart soft serve ice cream maker for our daughter’s 13th birthday. she was so excited and it was beautifully packaged; the photos of the ice cream looked exquisite.
The reality is quite different. We followed the instructions carefully; froze the bowl overnight, etc etc. We mixed the first flavor, started to mix and the motor overheated in less than ten minutes and stopped. We read the instructions carefully and lo and behold there is a warning that if the ice cream starts to get hard the motor will get hot and there is an automatic cut-out safety feature.
But the ice cream wasn’t ready! The inside was runny and the outside was frozen. The consistency would never have been good enough for soft serve ice cream. We stirred it around by hand and dished it up with a spoon. We were so disappointed.
We’ve tried it twice more and each time, the same problem. Even if we modify the cream, trying to keep the motor running for longer, the ice cream never turns out as it should. The motor always cuts out before it’s of a consistency to dispense.
We think the motor is not powerful enough for the job because we can even smell it start to overheat.
Very, very disappointed.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
This is a poor quality product with a weak motor. As indicated in other reviews, the mixing bowl requires pre-freezing overnight (not a total surprise in a unit of this price). The BIG problem is that the motor quits spinning the paddles long before the ice-cream is of a consistency for “soft-serve” ice cream, resulting in a rapidly melting mess of ice cream. Furthermore, the dispensing of the ice cream is painfully slow. Just when you think you might (*might*) be able to get away with spooning out the ice cream that the machine could not dispense because of an overheating motor…you remember that the bottom of the ice cream mixing bowl has a hole in it (where the ice cream should dispense)…so just taking apart the machine is a mess. Try getting the ice cream out and you’ll waste a lot of effort, waste a lot of ice cream, and have a real mess on your hands (literally).
SKIP THIS MACHINE and either buy a traditional ice-based freezer, or a simple frozen gel chill machine or go for the gusto and get a real freezer with a built in compressor…but don’t buy this or you will be terribly disappointed!
December 10th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
We “bought” one of these using our reward points from a credit card.
Used it last night for the first time. It worked just as it said it would. We froze the bowl overnight, making sure there was no noise when we shook it. Whisked the ingredients in a bowl, turned the maker on and slowly poured the ingredients in. The grandkids watched it almost the whole 20 minutes! We made the vanilla last night and are trying the chocolate tonight. The first little bit that comes out is liquid (as it says in the booklet) and it takes a little practice getting in the cone, but over-all we all enjoyed it. I’m ordering a second bowl to have on-hand for larger gatherings. (Although, we figured the cost out – it’s cheaper to buy store bought ice cream on sale! too bad…)