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Brand: Cuisinart
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$235.00~~
Buy New: $88.99
You Save: $146.01 (62%)

New (9) Used (3) Refurbished (1) from $70.00

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

71 reviews
Sales Rank: 580

Color: White
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.8 x 17.3

MPN: ICE-45
Model: ICE-45
UPC: 086279011725
EAN: 0086279011725
ASIN: B000F94GPQ

Release Date: May 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days

Features:

•	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:

Product Description
Customize 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.

Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

A thorn in my side July 14, 2008
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.

2 out of 5 stars

Hope you have a big, VERY COLD freezer July 12, 2008
I was under the impression that this was fully automatic, meaning you didn't need to find a huge spot in an already over crowded freezer to pre-freeze the bowl. Also, the freezer needs to be zero degrees. The average refrigerator freezer is NOT zero degrees. I opened this and expected to have ice cream in 20 minutes, not 13 hours later. I am disappointed. It is expensive, especially when the Tastee Freeze down the street has cones for 99 cents! I am going to pack it up and give it as a gift rather than buy a new deep freezer to accomodate the bowl.

4 out of 5 stars

ice cream review July 2, 2008
I thought this would be fun for the kids at my cookouts. It works only if you freeze the bowl and keep the ingredients really really cold prior to mixing. Otherwise, you just get soup.

2 out of 5 stars

Too Icy to be soft serve! June 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

the pics on the box show a very creamy soft serve (I know, you shouldn't believe what a box or ad shows anyway since it's usually photoshopped and styled). The end product is extremely icy in texture like a sorbet, not at all what soft serve is. Mine didn't even dispense because the bottom of the freezer bowl was too cold and froze the cream almost immediately on contact, so the dispenser hole was clogged. The dispenser hole is way too small to dispense easily it seems.

I did use the receipe for a low fat ice cream included in the booklet. It used 2% milk and half&half instead of whole milk and heavy cream. I also substituted Splenda for sugar. So I dunno if this altered the freezing ability too much (too much water in low fat milk perhaps). I'll be trying the full fat version to compare. I guess if we cared about the fat content we wouldn't be eating ice cream in the first place right?

Also if you use a fruit puree with seeds, make sure you strain it since that can also clog the dispenser. I recommend just using juice and not puree in the machine, it sinks to the bottom of the mixer bowl and clogs it.

5 out of 5 stars

Works great! May 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I was a little hesitant to buy this since the reviews are basically split, but it works great for us. I have a regular freezer above my fridge and I turned it to its coldest setting. I keep the freezer bowl in the back (and center) of the freezer, directly in front of the cold air. The bowl gets so cold that I usually can't wash it within a few hours after making ice cream since water freezes on it immediately and paper towels break off and stick to it... Even regular towels leave fibers frozen to the side of the bowl.

The first time we made ice cream, we didn't get really good results. I think the reasons are that the bowl wasn't cold enough, and we used the lower-fat vanilla recipe which lacked heavy cream to make it the right consistancy. The second time we got it right. That tells you that even if you get bad results the first time, maybe you're doing something wrong and just try again!

Although the ice cream is good, I must say that it's NOT exactly the same as you'd buy at an ice cream stand. It's a little lighter & fluffier and not as solid. Actually we like it better when it's too cold to dispense, because it's colder & closer to the kind you'd buy. The mix-it-ins don't work very well for us, but we just sprinkle the toppings on afterwards if we want them. So far we've tried the simple vanilla, chocolate, mint, strawberry-banana frozen yogurt and orange creamsicle sherbert. We did not like the chocolate at all, but the others were pretty good (You should use half mint and half vanilla extract for the mint ice cream because it tastes too much like double-mint gum if you don't). I always reduce the amount of sugar by half, and it's still very sweet. Also it usually takes 20-25 minutes to make, unless you're making less than half the recipe. Eventually I'll have all the recipes modified to our taste after trial and error.

As to the clean-up, other than the freezer bowl which I find has to defrost before washing & re-freezing, cleaning everything is pretty easy. I take all the pieces apart and let them sit in hot soapy water for a few minutes.

I ended up buying another bowl so we can make two kinds at once. Overall we're really happy. We haven't had any store-bought ice cream since we got this, although I have spent about $70 in ingredients! I think I went a little overboard though, at least now I'll only have to re-stock the milk and cream.

Check out the pictures I uploaded; I think our results look better than the pictures on the box!

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