Lovely looking ice-cream maker, easy to use
5/5
This is a great looking appliance- it's a nice simple design, and brushed steel, so looks good out on the work surface! It's very straightforward and easy to use so no fiddling around working out complex instructions! It consists of the main body, with a very simple 'on/off' switch', a bowl which needs to be frozen before use, a plastic churner which just fits easily and loosely inside the freezer bowl, and a lid which clicks into place on the top, and through which you can pour the ice-cream.
The bowl needs to go into the freezer at least 12 hours before using, so you do need to have freezer space- I don't have a huge freezer, but had no trouble fitting it into my bottom freezer drawer- you might however want to check your freezer dimensions to make sure it will fit!
The instruction manual includes a few recipes to get started, we made the simple chocolate ice-cream first which was delicious. After half an hour of churning, you have a soft-serve ice-cream- you wouldn't be able to scoop it, more spoonable! It tasted delicious and was a lovely consistency, however we preferred it once we had popped it into a tupperware and let it freeze so that we could serve it up in scoops!
I'm really looking forward to trying out some more recipes in this, to find some healthier desserts for my children. It would be perfect for frozen yoghurt, sorbet and we will be experimenting a lot to find some good recipes! Equally, just the most simple ice-cream recipe really tastes 100 times better than bought ice-cream, and is much more cost- effective than the higher end ice-creams- you can get a huge tub of homemade for the same price as a little tub from the supermarket.