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Designed to help you make ice cream quickly and easily, the Cuisinart Supreme 1-1/2 qt. Commercial Quality Ice Cream Maker features a built-in compressor so that you do not need to pre-freeze a bowl. This product can be used to make ice cream, sorbet, frozen yogurt and your favorite icy summer drinks.
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PostedApril 30, 2011
Davidinnyc
from nyc
The product works. It's fairly heavy to pick up and move and appears to be solidly built and clad in attractive stainless steel metal. The motor housing on the top is plastic and seems a bit more flimsy. It's billed as "commercial grade" but I doubt it would hold up to heavy daily use. Perfectly adequate for a home user though.
You pour/place your ingredients into the receptacle (the metal pot slides into/out of the freezer/mixer) attach the motor+mixing blades on top and set the timer. No need to mix the ingredients before starting since the device churns the mixture as it is slowly freezing it. The motor is quite loud-while running the machine we could barely carry on a conversation in the kitchen and could hear the thing 2 rooms away.
After a while the churning stops (as the mixture gets frozen and firm) and the freezing mechanism continues to operate. Thankfully this is fairly quiet. After the preset amt of time (30-60 min, whatever the user has set--this determines how hard the finished product is) the whole thing turns off. This is my one major criticism. If the user doesn't respond to the "ding" of the bell when the timer finishes, the mixture sits in the machine and melts again. We found this out when we started the machine, went into the other room to watch a 2 hr movie and came back at the end to see that the "ice cream" was an unappealing thick liquid. Best thing to do was simply run it again but I think a better design would allow the machine to continue to keep the finished ice cream cold until the user turns it off.
When used properly the finished product is too hard to pull the mixing blades out of--you need to take the canister out of the machine (which can be a challenge--it's a very snug fit and sticks a bit to the inside well of the machine) and scoop the mostly frozen product out of the canister from around the mixing blades until it's mostly freed up. The instructions specify putting the product in the freezer for another hour to "firm it up" but I like the ice cream somewhat soft so I found it best to eat immediately.
Overall, we're satisfied with the product and are glad to have purchased it.
Yes, I recommend this product.
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