Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker Machine, 1.5 Quart Double Insulated Machine, Sorbet and Frozen Yogurt Maker, Ready in 20 Minutes, ICE-21RP1, Red

...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.

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...

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Excelente opción para preparar helado artesanal en casa. Calidad y precio

Me gustó mucho, si es lo que esperaba.

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.

Made delicious full cream raspberry ice cream and raspberry sorbet. Simple to use and has good recipes book.