Helman Carnival Ice Cream Maker - ICM562 Review

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(More customer reviews)We bought this product as a Christmas gift this year. I liked that it made soft serve style, it used simple ingredients and looked easy to use.
It was!
The drum must be in the freezer for at least 24 hours before you want to make ice cream so I immediately washed and dried it and placed it in our freezer where we have decided to 'store' it so the kids can make ice cream whenever they desire it without having to wait.
Ingredients are simple; milk, cream, sugar and vanilla.
It took about 25-28 minutes of churning but the ice cream was stiff and perfect. It was not 'melty' or too soft. It was perfectly 'soft serve' just like you get at a restaurant.
You leave the machine running to force it to dispense from below. The only thing I wish I could change is to have it dispense in a constant flow as McDonalds or similar can do, but because the paddle is what dispenses the ice cream it comes out in 1-2 inch 'strips' with each pass of the plastic paddle from the inside.
Soft Serve in less than 30 minutes with quick clean up and easy storage (especially if you keep the drum in the freezer!).

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Make fresh Soft-Serve ice cream just like the carnivals of yesteryear. This nostalgic looking ice cream maker resembles the carnival style carts of the early 1900s. It is however a technologically advanced product that will provide fun for everyone over and over again.Easy to use and fun to watch.Electric countertop appliance is safe and fun for the entire family.

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Cuisinart 1-1/2-Quart Additional Freezer Bowl, fits ICE-20 Ice Cream Maker Review

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(More customer reviews)While I do have the ice cream maker, I ordered an additional freezer bowl to have on hand. It is helpful if you want to make two flavors of ice cream, or if you want to cool the warm custard for vanilla ice cream before you freeze it.
I have also used this container to quickly cool items (like Jello which must be cooled for a mousse, raspberry mousse comes to mind :) in a metal bowl. Place any metal bowl on the top of this container. It will be stable and the bowl will get ice cold. The contents will then cool very quickly.
Try this bowl to cool down custard when you are filling pastries. Just pour in the custard and stir with a spatula for a few minutes. Soon, you have creamy, cold custard to fill those pastries.
I recommend keeping one of these in the freezer at all times. There are just so many more uses! Use it everytime you need to cool a liquid quickly. You will love the results.
~The Rebecca Review

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Rival 8806-BL 6-Quart Oval Electric Ice Cream Maker, Blue Review

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(More customer reviews)I just received this ice cream maker yesterday and made a batch of french vanilla ice cream. I ordered Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Dessert book at the same time I ordered the ice cream maker and they both came the same day. I used the French vanilla recipe from their book. The recipe is only for one quart so I quadrupled it. I used a lot more salt than the directions with the ice cream maker calls for to get the temperature down and also used a little table salt along with shaved ice. Use enough salt with the ice and you should have no trouble getting the temperature down. The ice cream was done when the motor stopped as per the directions. It only took 18 munutes from start to finish. The brine didn't even run out the drain hole in the can before the ice cream was done. The ice cream was pretty stiff consistency right away. We ate some for a taste test and put the whole can in the deep freeze for about an hour and the stuff set up very well. The ice cream was smooth and not gritty like it can be if it takes a long time to get done. After reading some of the reviews before buying this maker, I had some reservations about buying this particular model. I see now that they were unfounded. I had no problems with it at all. I would recommend this maker to anyone looking for a reasonably priced ice cream maker. Just be sure you use plenty of salt with the ice and be sure your ingredients are good and chilled when you put them together. By the way the recipe I used is excellent. Page 35 of Ben and Jerry's book.

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