Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Ice Cream Maker

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Unclutterer » Archive » Unitaskers we love — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:58:33 +0000

[...] cream maker. Much to Matt’s disdain, I love my ice cream maker. I fill it with fresh cream from my farmer’s market and invent [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:55:02 +0000

I make egg free ice cream for my egg allergic daughter. Plus I can make a bunch of ice cream for family parties and it’s cheap. And it does really taste good and if I get a hankering for say, cinnamon ice cream, well, it’s easy to whip up a batch.

By: melsky

melsky — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:50:25 +0000

I make frozen yogurt in mine, that I like to eat with granola for breakfast on hot summer days like today. I had some this morning actually.

I make ice cream in it too.

By: maja

maja — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:57:05 +0000

Another reason for making your own ice cream is if you suffer from celiac disorder (gluten allergy). It is a serious problem, one that can lead to cancer. Gluten is in EVERYTHING it seems. If you make your own ice cream you know exactly what goes in it.

By: K1rk

K1rk — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:46:25 +0000

If you like to cook, making ice cream is one of the best things to make. It is SO MUCH BETTER when you make your own. I was going to be snotty and just drop this URL. It is a recipe for the best ice cream you'll ever taste...well, at least it is this week's best ice cream you'll ever taste: http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2007/04/salted_butter_c.html

By: Patia

Patia — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:51:01 +0000

I posted before, but I wanted to add that last night I made peach frozen yogurt with my new Cuisinart and OMG, it was SO good. Thirty minutes of churning and I got a nice, thick consistency.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:53:15 +0000

We got ours with a gift certificate to a department store. We use it every summer. We like knowing our ice cream is both cheaper and healthier than what we can get in the stores. We also can make more than 1.5 quarts at once – it wouldn’t be worth it for smaller quantities. We like being able to serve homemade ice cream to guests – especially at larger parties.

By: D-Day

D-Day — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:25:58 +0000

We love ours even though we only use it a few times per year. We spend more than cheapy store ice cream but save as compared to the premium ice creams by using the highest quality ingredients possible. The Cuisinart model is fantastic but if you’re looking for less of a Unitasker, the Kitchen Aid ice cream maker attachment to the stand mixer is a great choice. The ice cream maker part is bulky but at least you’re not buying and storing two motors.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:42:10 +0000

Definitely disagree here. If you like your ice cream (and have a little patience) nothing beats making your own. You control what goes into it and its a lot cheaper (well again I guess this depends on what goes into it) and you could make any number of flavours you wouldn’t be able to get otherwise.

By: Patia

Patia — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:40:38 +0000

I just bought the machine pictured. I’ve only made one batch, but am pleased so far. I’m lactose intolerant and I’ll be able to use my favorite Silk soy creamer instead of dairy. I also plan to experiment with sugar alternatives such as stevia, agave and lo han.

I’m following the advice to keep the bowl in the freezer at all times and it was only in there overnight before I made my first batch. Also, it took me 30 minutes of “churning” to make a soft-serve consistency.

I can’t wait to try whole-fruit sorbets and frozen yogurt this summer!

By: Jacki Hollywood Brown

Jacki Hollywood Brown — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:01:53 +0000

An ice cream maker is an essential if you are lactose-intolerant and allergic to nuts. All the soy ice cream I can find on the market may have been in contact with nuts or peanuts.
If we didn’t have this problem in the family, I would be buying my ice cream because when on sale it is litre-for-litre cheaper than the milk & cream needed to put in the ice cream maker!

By: vertigo

vertigo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:05:55 +0000

I bought that exact ice cream maker in the picute. Used it once and returned it. Granted the sorbet I made was delicious but I don’t have the patience to wait 24 hours for the container to freeze, then another 6 hours for the contents to mix and yet anouth 24 – 48 hours for it to actually set up to a really ice cream consistency. I don’t know about everyone else but when I want ice cream I want it now, not 3 days from now. If you really want an ice cream maker I would suggest actually making the investment for one that has the ability to actually cool itself. The ones that come with the container you freeze blow.

By: cary

cary — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:53:25 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me!! This many Unclutterer readers have, love, and regularly use ice cream makers? Knock me over with a feather. I mentioned mine in last week’s Waffle Maker comments. It is the largest small appliance I own, dwarfing even my beloved Kitchenaid mixer. (I learned too late that Kitchenaid makes an ice cream maker attachment for it.)

Now, Rodney – the Ben & Jerry’s cookbook? Hmm.

By: Meags

Meags — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:49:23 +0000

I bought an ice cream maker with the intention of using it all the time, thinking it would be loads of fun. (It was a crank type). I never even took it out of the box! I’d just rather scoop it out of the carton!

By: J Bell

J Bell — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:19:48 +0000

Where we live – Taiwan – real ice cream costs around $3 US a dip. The more “common” brands are less but only come in flavors such as Corn, Red Bean, or Green Tea. We have one of the pictured makers so that we can enjoy more “Western” flavors

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:06:15 +0000

Unitasker? Well, if you expand the definition a bit, it makes frozen yogurt, ice cream, gelatto, sorbet, etc. And it makes it with quality ingredients. We make lovely unique flavors as well as the most amazing coffee and chocolate ice creams. It doesn’t really take up much storage space for the amount of pleasure we derive from this

By: Nora Rocket

Nora Rocket — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:14:00 +0000

I just used my ice cream maker (pictured model) last night to make a buttermilk-lemon sorbet from the NYT online yesterday. From thought to treat in about three hours, and all I had to pick up was $1.69 worth of buttermilk. I’m with Shannon on non-standard flavours, too–I’m trying to work together a balsamic sorbet and also a honey ice cream this summer.

Oh and: we got the maker because we do not have a car and getting ice cream home from the store in non-soup form was impossible. Try biking a pint home on your back–or even in a pannier–in July!

By: Perri Kersh

Perri Kersh — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:03:07 +0000

We have an electric ice cream maker (not the freezer kind) that makes 4 qts. and we use it regularly throughout the summer. I like that we can use fresh fruit, control the amount of sugar that goes in, and feed our children ice cream without loads of artificial ingredients. Plus, our kids get a clue about how food is made. I grew up with the old hand-crank type of ice cream maker and we would all take turns cranking the ice cream. I love that concept…but you can’t beat the ease of the electric ice cream maker. I typically agree with you about single-use appliances…but in this case, I have to disagree! I’ll scream for ice cream any day!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:57:31 +0000

@chaddq: Great tip about multiuses of the bowl–I hadn’t thought of that. Beats having a gignatic bowl of ice cubes and water on hand to cool things in.

I love my ice cream maker. Have the one pictured. We don’t use it often, but it is totally worth it for the unique taste of homemade ice cream and the ability to make sorbets in non-standard flavors (like strawberry-red wine!).

By: Lee2706

Lee2706 — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:42:58 +0000

Unitasker (unit asker?), yes. A waste for us, no. Like most posters in previous comments, I like how we can really control what goes into our food.

Haven’t done the price breakdown yet, but someday soon I want to get a pint of store-bought premium and compare to my homemade version. Especially how much air there is in those brand-name pints.