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    Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker, Silver, 1-1/2-Quart

    • You can make nice bowls for two people and smallish bowls for three people, but you cannot make enough ice cream for four people.
    • The machine makes just enough ice cream for a small family
    • It makes delicious ice cream with the correct texture, and it's totally hands off
    • Mix ingredients, chill, place in machine, homemade ice
    • It makes absolutely perfect ice cream, gelatos, sorbets, and froyos
    • Love the Cuisinart ICE-100
    • Makes good ice
    • The great news is you can easily make fantastic ice cream
    • Delicious ice cream every time
    • The fourth photo is right after scooping the soft serve consistency ice cream into a Sumo ice cream tub (get these.
    • I always ripen my ice cream for a few hours in the freezer to give it a harder, more ice cream-y texture.
    • The downside, you always have available delicious ice cream and if not - you can quickly whip a batch together!
    • no freezing a bowl makes great ice cream.
    • I was leery about the ones that concerned ice cream not freezing in the middle of the batch and also reviews that mentioned loud noises or squealing
    • Makes excellent ice cream.
    • A lovely and generous man from Oxford, England has studied the chemistry of ice cream and tested every approach you can think of and come up with a method that is complicated (you will need a thermometer and some time), but produces the absolutely most smooth and creamy ice cream you have ever tasted
    • A few of the common concerns: Want SMOOTH ice cream, without crystals?
    • It is quiet and makes wonderful ice cream very quickly
    • The ICE-100 brings this capability into the home, with no salt, no ice, and perhaps best of all, no mess.
    • I am very glad that I did because it is so simple to use, pour mix in, set timer, and in no time at all you have great ice cream!Everyone in my family
    • Win for quality, Win for price and Win for healthy ice cream.
    • So easy to use and make perfect ice cream and gelato and frozen yogurt
    • If you can get it to work, it makes excellent ice cream, but don’t expect much for reliability.
    • But we have managed some very nice ice creams in our first 5 attempts, from super rich to some lighter blends with less cream (and calories!)
    • And have unfortunately gained weight from all the readily available ice cream
    • I KNOW I will be moving more in this direction because a. cheaper b. healthier c. still tastes just as good as any other ice cream
    • and it made great ice cream.
    • If it would get colder and make a more solid ice cream in less than and hour I would have kept it and rated it better
    • Makes great ice cream in a short time and you don't have to keep that silly cylinder in the freezer.
    • It's easy to operate, easy to clean, and makes the best ice cream we have ever had
    • Now I get 1L containers of coconut milk for $3.50 and sweeten ice cream with coconut sugar, agave syrup, honey or maple syrup
    • GREAT ice cream.
    • It makes great ice cream
    • If you want reasonably-well frozen ice cream, you need to remove it from the jammed machine and put it in your freezer for a while, because
    • add a few other favorite items and pour the liquid into the machine - after 40 minutes I have the best ice cream/frozen yogurt product.
    • But if you like super premium ice cream and/or enjoy creating unique flavors you should really enjoy this machine
    • When I finally got to try it, all I can say is: This unit makes wonderful ice cream!
    • The machine made delicious homemade ice cream...and flavors the entire family loved!
    • We have made a dozen or so batches with the machine and it makes great ice cream.
    • I am going to have an excellent summer with sweet and savory ice creams
    • it is very easy to operate and it is very easy to clean in 50 minutes you have a batch of awesome homemade organic ice cream
    • Makes a very smooth ice cream
    • The result is no better (actually not even as good) as the ice cream I make from the freezer bucket with my standmixer.
    • This unit makes wonderful soft serve ice cream in 45 to 60 minutes, and freezes will for harder ice cream.
    • We can have a conversation in our smallish kitchen when it's on without problem.--It's convenient to make two (or more) batches in a row.--It produces consistently good ice
    • Favorite ice creams has become Orange Cream - mix tang, vanilla soft serve mix or carnation instant breakfast packets, and 1/2 milk & 1/2 heavy whipping cream in blender or shaker bottle.
    • However, the idea of intermittent churning on which the Donvier is based just didn't work with sugar free ice cream
    • Makes great ice cream.
    • Works as expected: soft serve ice cream in one hour
    • Makes great ice cream, sorbets and gelato
    • No more...now I can whip up some fresh ice cream anytime
    • I can use high quality ingredients for very good ice cream or create flavors that are hard to find like cinnamon
    • It's basically a mini version of what previously had been available only commercially to make smooth, velvety ice cream
    • We have rarely been without fresh, homemade ice cream since it arrived
    • Super easy and ice cream comes out great!
    • otherwise the machine will not chill down enough to freeze ice
    • The ice cream it makes does not get as thick as the old ice and rock salt mixer I had, but it gets thick enough for reasonable homemade ice cream
    • Only disappointment: I wanted to purchase a made in the USA appliance- looked up top three ice cream
    • Perfect, no ice makes it simple and easy to use any time
    • The built in freezer works like a charm, cranking out excellent ice cream in about 40 minutes.
    • It makes very nice ice cream.
    • It made excellent ice cream but was quite difficult to assemble and was very noisy
    • My only disappointment is that making truly superior ice cream takes a lot of "fiddling" and preparation time I don't readily have.
    • If you're making a recipe that has a higher water content, it will freeze your ice cream to a consistency like that of soft serve - enough that you won't get any ice crystals in your firmly frozen ice cream once it's sat in the freezer over night
    • This machine is perfect if you want to eat dairy-free ice cream without emulsifiers and binders.
    • On top of that it makes fabulous ice cream.
    • had it for 3 months, I have made some very good ice cream
    • No ice mess!
    • Makes very smooth ice creams and sorbets
    • , I wanted a great ice cream.
    • I make sugar free ice cream.
    • It is simple to use and turns out great Ice Cream
    • Makes great ice cream in less than an hour and the clean up is very easy
    • Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home  for classic, divine gelato,  The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments  for perfect ice cream, and  Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream  for unusual ice cream and toppings
    • What I have made it a lot of delicious ice cream
    • I was able to make delicious ice cream 60 mins.
    • This ice cream machine makes really good ice cream.
    • Made peach ice cream on the first day it was wonderfull, not like the old crank by hand in salt and ice where it comes out like a milk shake
    • But if you like harder ice treats freeze for 1 or 2 hours.
    • Been making perfect ice cream like crazy!
    • Been making perfect ice cream like crazy!
    • My kids are enjoying making their own homemade ice cream and mom loves serving ice cream without all the other junk additives!
    • I bought this machine on May 18th of last year and made about 10 batches of great ice cream last year
    • I purchased a  Cuisinart ICE-30BC Pure Indulgence
    • I made a homemade brownie brickle with a salted caramel swirl and candied pecans then added it to a sweet cream ice
    • I'd strongly recommend this machine for anyone wanting fresh, homemade ice cream.
    • I make dairy free ice cream
    • This unit is easy to use, and makes fantastic gelato and ice cream
    • She says it makes good Ice creme.
    • I bought this machine to (1) avoid having to freeze the bucket, to make more room in my freezer for extra food for shelter-in-place, (2) make superior ice cream than I currently make with freezer bucket.
    • Not very noisy and ice cream is ready in much less than an hour.
    • I enjoy making ice cream without having to worry whether or not I have enough ice or rock salt, and without having to clean up the mess from the ice and rock salt.
    • Due to our longing for some good ice cream during the crisis, we decided to pull the trigger and invest in a machine
    • If you’re wanting to make normal decadent ice creams or healthy alternatives you can do both
    • I bought some soft serve mix and a bag of DOLE Whip to have on hand to mix up in minute even when I don't have anything on hand, but we have also made some great ice cream from scratch
    • this is so easy just add ingredients and start timer perfect ice cream each time
    • The Cuisinart makes great ice cream and gelato.
    • It’s expensive, but it does make great ice cream and make it quickly and easily
    • Of course, ingredients determine the quality of the ice cream, but the machine itself provides the correct freezing temperature and speed of mixing to create as great an ice cream as one could want at a reasonable price.
    • An hour later I was hooked for life on my new favorite ice
    • Very easy to use and makes delicious ice cream, hands down the best kitchen machine ever
    • Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home  for classic, divine gelato,  The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments  for perfect ice cream, and  Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream  for unusual ice cream and toppings
    • I had delicious ice cream made in 40 minutes
    • The ICE-100 is more quiet than the 30R but because of the smaller bowl and the difficulty cleaning and the price tag and the reviews about the unit breaking and stopping I'll keep my 30R and buy an extra bowl for my 30R.The quality of the ice cream between the two units was comparable to us, and like I said, we prefer to eat ice cream at the soft serve stage so the 30R was preferable
    • cough**Update* I have been using this machine nonstop for the past year for the most GLORIOUS ice creams, sorbets, sherbets . .
    • Amazingly, the ICE-100 isn't all that loud.
    • I honestly prefer using a Kitchenaid ice cream attachment instead because its faster, cheaper, easier to clean, and gives me smoother ice cream
    • ICE-100 put those fears to rest
    • This is so much easier to use than all the home ice cream makers we'd tried before (that required messy ice and salt or freezing a bowl for a day or so before using), that it easily allows us to make homemade ice cream several times a week.
    • 30-40 minutes later you have the perfect soft serve ice cream
    • Doesn't really do any better job than the much cheaper ICE-20 model.
    • I will definitely be making sugar-free ice cream quite often!Here are some tips I'd like to pass on:1
    • OBSESSED with this :) makes amazing ice cream
    • Easy to use, excellent recipes, makes delicious ice cream.
    • Ice cream well get smudged around the edges, so you gotto clean the base every time as well .Still 5 stars as there is no major flows.
    • I would highly recommend the Cuisinart ICE-100 to any serious ice cream aficionado
    • really a great ice cream makerjust as expected.specially for making yogurt ice cream which is one of my favorites
    • I love this ice cream machine!I make dairy-free ice cream with it at least a few times per week
    • Just measure ingredients (and wait until sugar is dissolved,) pour into machine, press button and, in 40 to 50 minutes, you will have soft serve ice cream
    • I bought the Cuisinart ICE-100 after not wanting to mess with the freezer or ice and salt variety machines any more
    • If you want very soft ice cream then it is ok.
    • I did everything according to the recipe and like magic, had a perfect, delicious ice cream.
    • The easiest and most delicious ice cream you'll ever make
    • This product makes excellent ice cream, and functions exactly as promised
    • I haven't tried too many recipes, but have made decent gelato & ice cream in the machine.
    • This makes the best homemade ice cream
    • It just makes me happy to have good ice cream whenever I crave it and in the heat of the summer it is quite often!
    • Excellent ice cream
    • I had hoped to make gelato as well as ice cream,
    • This unit makes wonderful soft serve ice cream in 45 to 60 minutes, and freezes will for harder ice cream.
    • Cleaning is easy, but my only complaint (and I’m sure it’s the same for every type of ice cream maker) is that it’s difficult to get all the wonderful ice cream off the paddle.
    • But my solution works great and if I choose to make fresh ice cream while company is in the house for dinner, it will not be a nuisance at all.
    • Make ice cream, sorbet and gelato pretty fast with this machine, easy to clean.
    • Best ice cream I have ever made!!! get this one!!1
    • Makes delicious ice cream on less that an hour
    • If you have a good recipe this will make good ice cream every time.
    • Great ice cream
    • It truly creates easy, delicious ice cream
    • It makes great Ice Cream or Gelato.
    • This unit can reasonably make "hard" ice cream on the fly in about 60 minutes.
    • (I know the directions call for 24 hours of freezing on that model, but I found it took 36 hours to end up with a quart of satisfactory ice cream.)• Big Plus - little to no waste of ingredients.
    • For nearly the same price, you can buy a standmixer with the ice cream freezer bucket and make better textured ice cream.
    • It does not make superior ice cream to the two other methods I own, but it does allow me to make two batches, back to back, and to not have to plan far ahead except for making the base.-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann
    • If you want reasonably-well frozen ice cream, you need to remove it from the jammed machine and put it in your freezer for a while, because
    • but it certainly isn’t anywhere near as loud as our ice/salt ice cream maker.
    • It makes creamy, delicious homemade ice cream, a little over one quart per batch.
    • All but the coffee with Kahlua came out like soft ice cream and had to harden up in freezer.
    • Now we can have homemade, guilt-free, sugar-free ice cream with Stevia, and no one notices it's not sugar
    • The little piece of crap that fell out the first time appeared to be a piece of dry, hardened ice
    • Good commercial ice cream down here can be over 12 dollars a quart, so this is both delicious, better than anything I could buy, and economical....if you don't count the cost of the machine.
    • So overall, the same superb ice cream with a brilliantly tweaked, upgraded machine
    • I would never give up this machine - my husband loves ice cream and this machine allows for a nutritional high-quality product.
    • My wife loves it , and I reap the rewards 😃 makes the best ice cream ever
    • Makes great gelato and ice cream
    • The second drawback is the time it takes, I'm used to ice cream being ready in 7 minutes so waiting 45 is asking a lot, but overall, it made some great ice cream and was really easy to use.
    • The ICE-100 brings this capability into the home, with no salt, no ice, and perhaps best of all, no mess.
    • I usually transfer the fresh ice cream to an airtight container and let it harden in the freezer for a couple more hours
    • The ice cream is bursting with intense flavor, unlike store bought ice cream where, in my opinion, even the high end brands disappoint
    • I got it because I need to watch my blood sugar levels and couldn't find sugar free ice cream available.
    • All methods require this since none can get as hard as parlor ice cream -- otherwise, the paddles wouldn't churn.
    • It would be easier just to buy super premium ice cream from the store than go through the trouble of making it
    • When we first got it, we made so much really rich creamy ice cream and custard that we had to start inventing low calorie batches
    • Usually taskes between 30 and 40 minutes for great ice cream
    • I love ice cream and this product makes good ice cream
    • Some reviewers complain of soft ice cream
    • During the summer I take special requests from my family and friends for their favorite ice cream flavors
    • because I love thick milkshakes as well as ice cream, so it's all good
    • I had a Cuisinart ICE-50BC Supreme Ice Cream Maker, Cuisinarts's previous top of the line ice cream maker.
    • It makes delicious ice cream in a very short time.
    • We place the warm mixture into the ice cream maker and we get delicious ice cream in 1 hour
    • I can't have dairy, cane sugar or artificial sweeteners, but love ice cream
    • Simple to operate, no prefreezing needed and delicious soft serve ice cream in 60 minutes.
    • Also the ICE-100 doesn't freeze as to the soft serve stage so you have to let the ice cream harden in the freezer for at least a couple hours
    • This machine gets cold enough to make soft serve ice cream that can be eaten immediately after the cycle completes.
    • I chose a compressor ice cream maker rather than the freezer-bowl type because of:-Ease of use-Better quality ice
    • Pros: No rock salt and ice; easy clean-up; make multiple batches quickly and easily; customer service was good when I required a replacement because the first unit was defective
    • Automatic 1-1/2-Quart Ice Cream Maker, which makes good ice cream in about 25 min
    • This baby makes the smoothest, creamiest, best ice cream ever
    • Made several batches of the best ice cream and gellato.
    • She made many great ice cream and sorbets.
    • Great, smooth, rich, professional, non-icy ice cream
    • but I am sure once I find a good recipe it will make some delicious ice cream.
    • The Cuisinart ICE-100 Ice Cream maker is easy to use, and made the most delicious ice really quickly
    • What a great ice cream/ gelato machine
    • Bottom line, just do it and you’ll enjoy some really excellent ice cream.
    • I recommend the ICE-100 highly, how can you go wrong with Gelato and a three year warranty?
    • Makes great ice cream and gelato.
    • Makes good ice cream
    • every bit as good as the ICE-100.
    • That being said, one can pretty much blend whatever you want together and give it the slow freeze in this unit and you have instant ice cream or whatever else you are freezing
    • The machine is quiet enough, and churns out delicious ice cream in minutes
    • Have three types of delicious homemade ice cream in our freezer now and will probably have another by tonight.
    • It produces a nice creamy ice cream or gelato that can then be hard frozen if you prefer.
    • In 40 minutes I have good healthy ice cream!
    • Very little mess just don't over load it with ingredients and its easy to clean no ice and salt to play with worth every penny because it's so simple to use, I make ice cream 3 or 4 times a week heavy cream, coconut milk, stevia, vanilla and sugar free torani coffee syrup for different flavors super low carb and unbelievably good
    • Does it make better ice cream than the non-self-freezing models
    • This Cuisinart ice cream maker is the best - having had the earlier versions where you have to freeze the bowl - this one is MUCH more user friendly - just add ingredients and start the machine - viola! - instantly delicious ice cream
    • It had the consistency of soft serve ice cream, but from my past experience, I knew this was normal.
    • ICE-100 is superior to the old 50BC in almost every way.
    • 04/15/2014I have used this machine quite a bit now, and have made superb ice cream, gelato, sorbets and granitas
    • Does it make it into hard ice cream?
    • I thought it would have a few more control options, and my ice cream is done well before the suggested times, but making great homemade ice cream is amazingly easy with this machine.
    • After some research I found a couple of machines that were self contained and did not require the use of the the dreaded ice and salt
    • I have been making ice cream commercially for over 50 years and this machine made some of the best ice cream I've ever made
    • Makes the BEST ice cream ever and quickly too!!!
    • If you like harder ice cream just set in the freezer a couple hours and its good to go.
    • So simple to make ice cream without all those expensive ice cream packets
    • Makes fabulous ice cream you do have to tweek the recipes, trial and error
    • Having said all that, though, I think it makes delicious creamy smooth ice cream and gelato
    • Delicious ice cream...so easy to use
    • You don't even have to wait for the bowl to freeze overnight... just mix it up you'll be eating delicious ice cream in 50 minutes!
    • The best chocolate ice cream I've ever made
    • I discovered the secrete to making "really hard ice cream" which is this; at some point during the churning cycle the mix gets too thick to churn and clumps up in the blade.
    • Having the ability to make creamy, keto friendly ice cream, when we want it, is monumental for us!
    • For the best performing ice cream, put it in the freezer overnight before serving
    • Don't get me wrong, the recipes in the booklet will make a good ice cream/gelato, I'm sure, but I didn't want just a good ice
    • I like freshly made "hard" ice cream.
    • Makes really good tasting ice cream, although I have a feeling that the ice cream recipe and technique you use might have more to do with this.
    • I can make and test recipes much faster and therefore make better ice cream.
    • Makes nice creamy ice cream quickly
    • It makes delicious ice cream, but several times it's jammed long before the timer expired.
    • It's nice being able to make ice cream on whim without worrying about getting ice or freezing bowls and having either consume space in the freezer.
    • Further, better ingredients make better ice cream, and that means it will cost more
    • Makes great ice cream
    • Awesome machine does all the work for you and makes a great tasting ice cream and gelato!!
    • Sadly it does not make better ice cream.
    • I love ice
    • The lid is sometimes hard to pop in, but other than that everything works great and it makes great ice cream.
    • This product helps us make wonderful homemade gelato and ice cream
    • Both the ice cream and frozen yogurt turned out beautifully
    • So far, I’ve made my favorite dark chocolate ice cream, a favorite coffee ice cream, and an intense & creamy grapefruit sorbet, and a very interesting strawberry ice cream (from Jenni’s cook book).
    • The compressor is not cold enough to make good smooth ice cream, even with the mixture pre-cooled in the fridge overnight.
    • It makes great ice cream.
    • My husband loves expensive ice creams and he said the homemade is better.
    • It is really easy to use and makes great ice cream.
    • Again,this machine makes amazing ice cream in terms of texture and overall ease of use
    • It makes good ice cream and it's very easy to use; it's just a huge pain if your recipe over-fluffs beyond the bowl.
    • I like it because I can make up low fat ice creams.
    • Makes excellent ice cream every time
    • It is fun to make fresh ice cream with kids and only takes about 40 minutes.
    • IF you want truly outstanding, prize-winning ice cream, search the web for Icreamscience.com.
    • I've been making my own low-carb, keto ice cream using the wonderful receipes at alldayidreamaboutfood dot com, and couldn't be happier that I can eat good ice cream, again
    • I am able to make SUPERB ice cream and sorbets, better than any store (to my taste).
    • This ice cream maker makes delicious ice cream.
    • I get a more solid ice cream with the ICE-20
    • Some don't require any cooking.... just mix up milk, cream, salt, sugar and vanilla and you have delicious vanilla ice cream within 60 minutes
    • There are some things to learn about making a great ice cream.
    • Since our immediate family had all been self quarantined for well over a month with really no contact with anyone else, we decided to have them over to celebrate our wedding anniversary and what better way to do that than with fresh homemade ice cream
    • And I anticipate making fresh ice cream for dinner guests a lot!Overfill:
    • It makes rich, creamy, stretchy ice cream, just like at the dairy farm
    • Makes amazing ice cream and is very easy to use
    • Its solid, heavy, strong but silent motor and gives some of the best ice cream you will taste
    • and it makes wonderful ice cream and easy to clean up.
    • In forty minutes, I had the best ice cream I have EVER eaten in my life
    • This machine makes decent ice cream and does it quickly but the short product life span and subsequent poor customer service make any Cuisinart purchase risky business
    • Cuisinart has taken the ICE-50BC and improved upon it's design shortcomings.
    • It makes great ice cream in about 30 minutes
    • Finally, they should include a spatula designed to clean ice cream off of the
    • Makes great ice cream but after developing a very loud squeak, Clint at Cuisinart said I needed to give them $10 to ship a replacement AND pay shipping for the one being returned under warranty!!
    • My husband bought this, and at first I grumbled