Ice Cream Maker, 1.5 Quart Double Insulated, Sorbet and Frozen Yogurt Maker, Ready in 20 Minutes, ICE-21P1, White

I love this ice cream maker! It makes ice cream so quickly and easily. I love knowing what is in my food! It has a wonderful texture, the softserve is nummy, but it stays creamy when it freezed solidly. It is kind of noisy, but it only takes 15 minutes or so, so it is bearable. Very lightweight, and easy to clean and handle.

One button, on or off. Too simple. Cook up your fav gelato, ice cream or other frozen dessert recipe. Chill your cooked batch overnight in fridge. Keep the Cuisinart bucket in the freezer overnight. Fill it up with your chilled mix, turn it on and come back in fifteen minutes. Too easy. It's done when the ice cream is so cold it won't churn around anymore. The bigger choices are the recipes, but this machine will make it all. Forget wasting your time with machines with too many buttons and sensors, this machine works - it's simple and to the point and will probably last three decades. The recommended volumes in the Cusinart recipes are about 30% too much material and will overflow a bit, but it's easy to clean up and adjust the volumes for the next batch. Take notes. Lots of good recipe ideas on the web. There's even Marcella Hazan gelato recipes available online (in her book too.) Things to consider - how much fat to use, all milk, or half milk with half and half, or milk and full cream. They will all work. Baker's sugar is super smooth, especially when beaten into farm fresh egg yolks. The better the vanilla, the better the flavor. Vanilla paste from Madagascar rocks. For chocolate, Valronha Feves Guanja and Valrhona Dutch Process Cocoa will beat any chocolate dessert you have ever tasted. I promise you will never go back to the grocery store "gourmet" ice creams which are loaded up with cheap ingredients, fillers etc. Homemade is so superior. Go for it and have fun. To store in freezer, I use the paper One - Pint Frozen Dessert Containers with Lids. Fold up some wax paper and put it on top of the ice cream to prevent crystalizing. Put the whole container in a plastic bag with a tie, so that when you open and close the freezer, it stays super cold and doesn't crystalize on the outside. For the truly obsessed cooks, here's my version of Vanilla Gelato: 325g whole milk - 325g half and half - 50g really thick Icelandic yogurt - 145g bakers sugar - 2 tsp. madagascar vanilla paste - 5 egg yolks - separate the egg yolks, put in bowl, gently whisk in baker's sugar, don't over mix; mix the milk, half and half, yogurt and vanilla together and heat up to about 150 degrees in a good double boiler, stir so it doesn't stick but not too much or it will take forever to warm up; take off heat; slowly add in about a half cup at a time while stirring the eggs, not too much too fast or your will ruin the eggs, then put the mixture back in the double boiler and bring to 165 degrees - not higher - take off the heat immediately, put into a bowl with a good lid - set bowl in some ice water to cool it down quickly. Then put the bowl in the fridge overnight. The Cuisinart mix bowl goes in the freezer overnight. Put it in a clean plastic bag to keep crystals out. Next day, set up the Cuisinart with freezer bowl, pour in chilled mix, let it spin. Mine takes twelve minutes to make. It's done when the gelato stops churning because it is soft frozen. Scoop it into the paper containers with wax paper on top. Makes two pints. Ok, real Italian gelato does not use cream, yogurt or eggs, this is just my version. The amount fills the Cuisinart up without overflowing. You can use only milk, or heavy cream instead of half and half. More or less sugar to your taste. If you don't use the egg yolks, you won't have to mess with the double boiler, but then it won't have the deep crazy good custard flavor. I have tried lots of fancy vanilla pastes. While I can't promote who makes the best, lets just say look for N & M. For the chocoholics - add 70g of melted 70% great chocolate into the warm milk mix plus 42g of Dutch Process cocoa powder. Just don't blame me if you get addicted. Ciao...

I got this to make Sorbets mainly because we LOVE Sorbet! When I bought this, I also bought a recipe book for Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt and once for Sorbet <in Kindle form> so I'd have a few recipes to check out. I was so excited when this arrived yesterday, I went straight out and got Strawberries and Pineapples to make a sorbet. It took me more time to let the syrup mixture cool then anything else! But it was so easy to do. I just took a tiny little taste of the finished sorbet, and it is AWESOME!!! Here's the Pineapple Strawberry Sorbet recipe I used: Make sure your freezer bowl is frozen before starting <mine took 3 hours> 2 Cups Strawberries, core and cut into pieces <not too small...I quartered my berries> 2 Cups Pineapple Chunks <I got it in the can - only because we didn't have any fresh in stock at the store> 1 Cup of Sugar 1 Cup of Water 2 Tablespoons Honey 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice **Pour the Sugar & Water in pot and put on stove on medium <5-6> and let it start a quiet boil, once boiling turn down to 1-2. Once your sugar is completely melted in <no granules>, take off the stove and let it cool. <All together this should take 5-10 minutes>. After the pan is cooled off, I put mine in the refrigerator for an hour. You want the sugar water to be cool before putting in your machine. Take your cut Strawberries, Pineapple, Honey & Lemon Juice and put all in a blender and pulse until it's creamy. Add the sugar water syrup and blend a little more. Make sure it's creamy - unless you want a chunky sorbet! **Pour the entire mixture into the FROZEN Freezer Bowl. Place paddle inside making sure the "nub" on the bottom fits into the small hole it's meant to go in. Place the top on the machine and make sure it's in the lock position. Turn on your machine. I let mine spin for an hour. It was still very "liquid y" but it was starting to gel on the paddle. I took the freezer bowl <w/out the top and paddle of course> and put a plastic cover over it and put it in the freezer. I let it freeze from 9pm last night until 2pm this afternoon, without disturbing it. It was solid when I took it out of the freezer, but also soft. The top looked like glass! I took a tea spoon and grabbed a little bit to taste and it really is delicious! I've never used an ice cream/yogurt/sorbet maker before and have never seen anyone else use one, so this is very new to me. It appears to be very easy to do, and you can make some really yummy deserts! Grab a cookbook or look online for recipes...there's thousands of them out there I'm sure. Experiment and make your own recipes! In my opinion, this is an AMAZING Ice Cream/Yogurt/Sorbet maker, even with only making Sorbet first! I will definitely be making other goodies as time permits! I wouldn't hesitate to buy this again if mine were to break or just get old. The price is great and it's easy to use. What more could you ask for?!

Update: I tried to use this ice cream maker a few days ago and it wouldn't freeze my recipe. Since other items in freezer were frozen, I assumed the freezer bowl had stopped working so I posted a negative portion to my review. When I buy a pound of bacon, I roll each slice like a jelly roll and freeze the rolls. They don't take up so much room that way and they thaw in a couple minutes. So I put a tray of rolled bacon in the freezer and it didn't freeze. True bacon has a high fat content but in a zero degrees freezer, the bacon should freeze. So on Amazon I hopped and bought two fridg/freezer thermometers to check the temp in my freezer. I wanted two so that if they were near the same temp then I'd feel they were working okay (then I'd have one for the fridge). I bought these: amazon.com/gp/product/B071F5MD27/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I don't know why this doesn't appear as a link like they usually do but the item # is B071F5MD27 Turns out my freezer had warmed up to 21 degrees according to one themometer and 22 to the other (I can live with a one degree difference since it isn't possible to put both thermometers in the same exact location in freezer). The story continues but I won't bore you all with additional details but once properly frozen the ice cream maker bowl did work (I made a bowl while ago). So I deleted that negative portion of my review and now assure readers that I'm back to supporting my original review below. Should I actually have any additional problems with this maker, I'll come back. I do recommend checking temps in freezers/fridgs since had I not put the bacon in the freezer, frozen food would have stayed frozen but the freezer wasn't cold enough to freeze certain items like bacon or this ice cream maker bowl. Original review: I've owned this Cuisinart ICE-21PK Frozen-Yogurt, Ice Cream maker long enough to have made a half dozen quarts of ice cream. Since I'm the only person eating it, that is a lot of ice cream, I'm thinking!! There is a lot to like about this little freezer and topping that list is that I know what is going into the ice cream. And even using quality ingredients, it is cost efficient especially since I bought organic ice cream which is a lot more than regular ice cream. I've made vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and various fruit ice creams using the recipe book that comes with the freezer. For the fruit ice creams, I simply add a berry mix (for example) in the same amount as strawberries are called for in that ice cream recipe. So far, all have turned out firmly frozen and they stayed frozen until eaten but not so hard frozen one has to chisel it out of the container! I already owned the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream book and the only difference in the basic recipes for the ice cream maker is that Ben & Jerry's calls for whole eggs and the Cuisinart recipes do not. I looked up a peach ice cream recipe on-line and that recipe called for two egg yolks. I intend to add eggs to the next batch and if they make a great difference I'll post about that later but I imagine the eggs just add extra texture but can be left out if one has qualms about eating raw egg. All my ice creams have been super great without the egg. Keep in mind however that most bacteria, etc. will not survive freezing. I purchased the smaller quart & a half size since that makes 5 cups which will last me for a few days. I also wanted the pink freezer since it looks like ice cream! The round circular part seen in the photo has to be frozen for 24 hours before use so if one does not have a freezer, one will need to set aside that much space in their refrigerator freezer for that period. I have an upright freezer so as soon as I clean mine up from freezing a batch, I just put it back in the freezer and it stays there until I use it again. Clean-up is a breeze. Instructions for use are well explained and are simple. Two minutes and the ice cream is churning away. Mine usually freezes in 15 minutes. This is a great little ice cream maker and I'm so glad to own it. I love the ice cream I make especially since I know it is healthy, at least for a sugared item :))

It's fabulous. Works amazing. Simple to use, simple to clean up and DELICIOUS. It's awesome because you can have icebreaker towards healthier because you decide the ingredients. We've made coffee ice cream, vanilla ice cream with blueberries, and right now we have partial ice cream partial yogurt with coconut and lime. All are fabulous.

This is easy to use and makes great ice cream. It does not come with any recipes, but they are easy to find online. It's fairly quiet. It's easy to clean.

Bought the Model 21 in time for homemade peach ice cream. Had gone back and forth whether to purchase a newer, more expensive version but after reading someone else’s recommendation that the older, simpler model worked just fine, decided to follow their advice and after having made nine batches of various flavors, agree that the “21” couldn’t be any better. No bells and whistles are really necessary other than the on/off switch, and it’s overly pricey to upgrade. The machine does make some noise, but not like a revved-up Harley or anything. I continue putzing around in the kitchen while the ice cream churns, and the high-pitched hum is not overly annoying. The slightly smaller capacity (1-1/2 qt) is advantageous since we can polish off a batch and go on to the next “experiment” without much delay. Finally, the smaller canister is easier to fit in a small refrigerator-freezer for the necessary pre-chilling. I haven’t found a second canister to be necessary for a small family, but if you have the freezer space and need to make larger quantities more often, it could be the ticket. This little gadget has been fun to use and it’s so easy, almost foolproof, to have great-tasting ice cream without the mess of an old-fashioned salt-and-ice freezer. After trying one of the Cuisinarts I ordered another as a gift, along with a 1-1/2 qt oblong storage container (have tried both Tovolo and Sumo—they seem practically identical). After the initial experiments with various “rich” recipes and flavors, we will probably try some of the lower cal versions such as sorbets and ices, but for now, it’s full bore with the creamy goodness. Life is now measured “before homemade ice cream” and after! Observations/methodology: Have tried various recipes—with eggs, cooked custard; with eggs, uncooked; no eggs, adding some instant vanilla pudding powder for extra thickness and body, and using fruits--peaches, cherries, strawberries, as well as butter pecan. (B.C. was hands-down fave!—toasted the chopped nuts in the oven first, with melted butter, a little sugar, and a sprinkling of kosher salt. In the custard, used dark brown sugar, maple syrup and Jack Daniels for flavoring—yummilicious!) Finally decided to stick with the cooked custard approach, adding a small amount of vanilla bean instant pudding powder, say 1-2 TB, to the cooled custard just prior to freezing. (I feel uneasy about using raw, uncooked eggs.) Have had excellent results using a Thermapen to measure the temp, whisking constantly while cooking in a heavy pot. It doesn’t take long to come to temp and thicken, but does need to be cooled prior to freezing, so if in a hurry you may prefer the easy-no-eggs-instant pudding type of recipe, readily available online. Not one batch so far has been a “failure”—in fact, they’re all so good that we’ve become addicted and eat ice cream three times a day. It should come with a warning label! We prefer a rich version, with a combination of heavy cream, evaporated milk, condensed milk and regular milk for a vanilla base resulting in that “from my childhood” taste. It can be modified with add-ins as you please. Be sure to write down what you do as you go, in case tweaking is needed next time or in case you pronounce the latest batch a sure winner. Have plenty of tasting spoons at the ready while churning, and several rubber spatulas will come in handy. As many have noted, it’s key to have the canister frozen rock-solid prior to churning. We keep it in the freezer between uses and even put the plastic shell (aka “lid”) in there while prepping the custard. There’s no actual lid as you might imagine. I wring out a wet dish towel and lay it on top across the open hole, and put some ice cubes atop that to help insulate. May not be necessary, but every bit helps. So far the “21” has worked great and we make a batch every other day. The most challenging part is transferring the just-frozen custard to a storage container for additional hardening. Take out the paddle first and scrape it off (another opportunity for tasting). The filled canister is heavy and to hold it with one hand while scraping out the soft ice cream is a bit unwieldy. A very firm plastic spatula works best (rather than a flexible one) to get all the ice cream out. Never use metal, anywhere, anytime! Wash and dry the canister when empty and return to your freezer pronto. You WILL want more ice cream soon and it’ll be ready to go, so keep a spot empty for it. It’ll be worth it. (I scream for green beans? Not so much….) Some have complained about the freezer not working for long, but being a new owner, I can’t say.. It seems like if you treat the parts gently it would last “forever,” but maybe that’s just like the honeymoon phase with a new lover. Time will tell but we’re very happy for now—even obsessed. Be cautious of OVER-filling the container which can cause an overflow mess since the mixture expands while freezing. Err on being conservative with the amount of custard mix. I use 2 eggs per 3 to 3-1/2 cups of liquid per batch and add the mixings the last few minutes to help ensure they don’t add too much volume. Keep an eye on it from time to time during the freezing process to make sure it isn’t about to overflow. You can always remove some of the mixture if it seems necessary. In the case of the toasted buttered pecans, I folded most of them into the mixture AFTER pouring it into the storage container because instructions say not to add anything larger than a chocolate chip, and I wanted some to be larger chunks. This delayed-addition technique works well for other fixings, too. On one hand, adding pureed fruits at the outset is good, for overall flavor intensity, but adding extra cut-up fruit later may be to your liking. Be aware that too-large chunks will likely get icy in the long run and be hard to scoop up, so there’s a fine line. The other “misteake” was making a double portion of custard in order to have back-to-back batches of half vanilla, intending to make another flavor with the remaining half of the mixture. Apparently the second half of the custard wasn’t chilled enough to overcome the freezing canister having gotten warmer on the first run. Although most batches froze in 15 to 30 minutes max, after a longer time it was obvious this batch refused to set up, so I returned the chilled custard in a bowl in the refrigerator, returned the canister to the freezer and decided to try again later. About five hours worked. Lesson learned—be patient. OK to double the batch, but chill it all thoroughly prior to churning. If pondering whether to get a countertop ice cream freezer, go for it. It’s fun and easy to use. You’ll be a proud as a brand-new parent after you make the first batch.

...or later, pair with dark-dark chocolate sorbet to make a frozen Mounds bar parfait. The Persian Melon sorbet was a mind-blower, too -- maybe the best fruit sorbet I've ever had. Hmmm...but the red and black raspberry with a hint of Chambord makes me nearly swoon. In short -- a great little appliance, lots of fun, and truly remarkable results. It is not excessively noisy -- no more so than a food processor, though it does run for 20 minutes at a time. Easy to clean. I am using it a couple times a week, making sorbets and ice milks. The tastes of homemade fruit sorbets are so fresh and intense that I can't eat a pint at a sitting -- unlike the commercial garbage -- and I'm actually losing a bit of weight. You just have to plan ahead a few hours and figure out the fine points: 1) Make sure the freezer bowl is totally frozen, and don't try to short-cut the 24 hours in a deep dark corner of the freezer. I recommend getting an extra freezer bowl, btw. You'll get inspired very easily. What to do with those dead-ripe peaches... 1.5 quart size is perfect for one or two people, especially if you want to experiment with different flavors every few days. 2) If you only make a small amount (2-3 cups liquid) it may freeze quite firm as it churns, but generally you'll want to pack it and freeze it for an hour or more before serving. While churning, I also put a small plastic lid over the pour-spout and wrap a loose towel around the upper bowl/dome to insulate and keep it cold. At 25 minutes, it's time to stop. Won't be getting much firmer, and may start to soften as the freezer bowl thaws. 3) The recipes in the booklet are a good start, however I do not bother to strain the fruit through cheesecloth. I mash or food process it with just a little boiling water and let it drip through a medium-gauge strainer or fine colander -- with soft fruit, I don't strain it at all. Also, I have found that using superfine or "baker's" sugar rather than simple syrup (sugar-water) makes a thicker, more intense flavored sorbet that freezes better. (Use a little good quality jelly to add new flavor twists.) Mix the sugar with your fruit, juice, cocoa or whatever and then add a little more water or juice as needed for taste/volume. Do chill it in the fridge for at least 1-2 hours, or in the freezer for 30 min. Things taste sweeter when they freeze, so aim for a just-barely-sweet-enough ice-cold liquid mixture. 4) Don't overfill. Freezing and churning expand the contents, so never go over 4 cups of liquid in a 1.5 Qt container. Whatever churns above the rim will not freeze well and will soften everything else. If that happens, scoop off the overflow and freeze it separately. Or... eat it up. I swear to you, fresh coconut sorbet for breakfast is so decadent... No, refreshing! I meant refreshing. 5) One way to control how hard it ultimately freezes is by adding a teaspoon of liquor to the blend. If the mixture is cream-based or rich like coconut, this isn't really needed. My first two sorbets (mango and peach) froze to rock-hard texture. One tsp of vodka per 3-4 cups fruit/liquid, or a flavored liqueur, won't interfere with the churning freeze, but will prevent the final product from becoming impenetrable once packed away. DON'T overdo, use a scant tsp per quart of mixture - a Tablespoon of chocolate liqueur was way too much on my first try, and I ended up with this glorious thick half-frozen dark chocolate fudgy goo. Tsk. Indulge yourself.

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We had to replace our 30 year old machine which needed bags of ice and salt and we weren't sure we'd find a replacement that we loved as much as our original one. This one works great! So far we've made coffee ice cream and cherry vanilla ice cream and raspberry sorbet and they all came out perfectly. Of course, a lot of the taste and texture has to do with the recipe you're using, and we only make ice cream with a good egg yolk based custard, to make it really creamy, but we'd heard that the one downside of some machines is that the paddle doesn't always churn all of the contents. This one absolutely does, and we love the open top so that we can add things like nuts and cherries near the end of the cycle as it's churning. It's also a good size so doesn't take a lot of room on the shelf.

Had it for a few months , tried a few recipe's. Need to get more creative but the machine works great. Ah, harken back to the days of the hand crank ,ice and salt!! Only advice i would give, make sure the tub is 'frozen" If making 2 batches ,you should make one, freeze overnight ,then make the other. The only time we have had problems with soft ice cream is when we rushed between batches. Also let it churn right to the top-don't rush the process.