AIRMSEN Ice Cream Maker - Electric Self-cooling, 2.1 Qt, White, Automatic, No Pre-cooling Required

Ice cream is my favorite food. I cut sugar 3.5 years ago so I needed a more cost effective way to make delicious sugar-free ice cream. This ice cream maker works perfectly! It is so easy to use and clean up. Plus it makes the most amazing ice cream.

This machine produces an excellent ice cream. It is fast (30 to 40 mins), quiet, and doesn't need salt and ice. I used the book, The Perfect Scoop making the first batch of Butter Pecan. The ice cream turned out creamy and smooth and gelato-like. A couple of recommendations to guarantee a quality experience: 1. Do not churn too long. The default is 60 mins, but usually your ice cream is ready in about half that time. 2. Allow the machine to sit a few minutes completely off (without cooling on, so unplug if necessary) before attempting to remove the pale. 3. You might consider using a liquid weld (JB weld) on your screw to keep in secure. The Airmsen makes enough ice cream quickly so that you could make several batches in a couple/few hours. One last point, the Airmsen churns slowly so that less air is incorporated into your cream and this keeps the iced cream smoother, creamier with less crystallization.

Works great, instructions were easy to follow. The 2 recipes I made were chocolate, and buttermilk both wetre easy and good tasting,

Wonderful machine to make quality Ice Cream, without the mess of ice and salt for the freezing process. Machine is efficient, making about 4 pints of goodness in as little as 25 mins. This really lets you be creative to make any sort of desert you can think of. My only complaint (and it really isn't a complaint, but an observation) is the port for adding ingredients is sort of small, and makes it hard to add certain things to your recipe. Yes, you "can" remove the cover and add your favorite items that way, but I don't like the added stress it would put on the mixing paddles (which are high-strength plastic, but plastic nonetheless) while mixing your creation and adding those items. And stopping or pausing the mixing to remove the cover and add items will actually freeze the mixer into place and cause issues with restarting the mix operation (just ask me how I know......fortunately I didn't break the unit.....<whew>). A very nice addition to your family sweet tooth desires.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I make 1qt of ice cream every other day. I do not put anything in the freezer. I put 1tsp vanilla, 1 cup half and half, 1 cup heavy whipping cream in bucket and hit start twice. In 30 minutes I have soft ice cream. Any longer then 30 minutes is a waste. If bucket is stuck just pull out paddle, most ice cream will come out with it. The rest can be scooped out . I would buy this machine again.