Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker for $19.99! | David Lebovitz
by daveleb26
This kind of machine has a canister that gets pre-frozen in ahead of, twenty four hours prior to churning—some people simply store theirs in the freezer all the time. The upside is that they’re inexpensive and they don’t churn a lot of air into the custard.
They also chill up a pretty mean margarita, too.
Don’t know how long they plan to feature these machines, but since they’re at the top of their beat-selling kitchen items, they’ll probably go fast…
For more opinion on ice cream makers: Meet Your Maker
*Update: Amazon is currently sold out of the very low-priced reconditioned ice cream makers, but it’s worth keeping an eye on their site as these kind of deals come and go frequently. To those who got machines—happy churning!
David, I have wondered about electric ice cream makers. I have an old Donvier that you just turn the paddle on by hand. Do the electric ones just do the turning for you? Do they do anything else? (It doesn’t take a very long time to do it by hand, though you do have to make sure you don’t wait too long between turns or the paddle freezes up.)
This feeds into a one person discussion I have been having with myself lately. In high summer, it would be so nice to offer a special flavor of gelato with dessert when I am cooking for clients, but and it is a big one, many jobs are way too far away to keep a canister frozen, empty or full. So I looked at the ones that also freeze and they are way too huge to cart around! Is there any plea in the marketplace?
I love my cuisinart ice cream maker (Kitt: yes, the churning is done for you) and I also often borrow my brother’s so I can make two flavors at a time. It is a pain to have to make sure the canister is frozen, but if you plan in front, this is a great little machine, especially at that price. Thanks David for tipping us off, my mother’s been wanting one of these.
Judith: I don’t know what’s convenient in Italy, but I’ve never seen a compact machine that was self-refrigerating. I would imagine the chilling mechanism is just too large.
There are (relatively) small self-freezing units to hand, but I don’t know how well they work since I’ve never used one. One is a brand called Lello, and may be an Italian company?
Just bought this through your Amazon link. I’m excited to try it. We’ve been looking at and talking about getting and ice cream maker for a long time. We have the old fashioned ice-salt maker in the basement but it’s pretty much unusable when the wind chill is 50 below here in Nebraska (lovely Januarys we have here…).
My husband is an ice cream fanatic. We were going to get the Kitchen Aid extra but for the huge difference in price, we’ll try this one! Thanks for the “heads up”.
Trish
You are a bad, bad, bad person. I’ve been convincing myself not to buy your book because I don’t have an ice cream maker, and convincing myself I don’t need an ice cream maker because I don’t eat ice cream very often. But seriously 10 minutes after reading this, I found myself on Amazon. Not nice at all. And now I have to go get your book too. Hmph :)
::sigh:: I’m a college student and I don’t even have a kitchen…But now I have 2 ice cream makers! I mean what if some dire situation occurs in which I need to quickly create frozen desserts? What if I just really want ice cream? What if I just REALLY wanted an excuse to buy your book? Crisis overted? I think so. :)
4. I also think that the KA freezes significantly faster, which is especially nice when working with something with a lot of John Barleycorn in it.
If you do go for the Cuisinart, make sure you get a second bowl. I find that many recipes (including several of David’s) produce too much custard to be processed in a single pack in the Cuisinart . . . and there is no way that I am letting a pint of incipient malted milk ice cream go to waste!!!!!
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