Hello,
I am not sure if going for an ice cream maker is going to be fun
I was looking at this and it seemed nice enough.
Is it too much work ? People who have bought/used ice cream makers - could you please give your views on this.
With ice cream consumed every weekend, we spend around $20 a week on ice cream. Is going for an ice cream maker any good ?
Cheers,
This is a prime motivator for me. I am surprised that there are so few and so bad sugar free ice cream options in Australia. Back in the States, even Walmart sold extremely good sugar free ice cream and sometimes they costed less than the real ice cream. I miss eating tubs of ice cream :(
If you are into the foodie thing, they are great. You get to customise the flavours and experiment, make creamy versus gelato, etc.
Downsides are:
- You may find yourself paying out for emulsifiers or expensive flavour ingredients. Not necessarily, but it can become addictive.
- You make a batch of ice-cream, or two or three, and need to store them until finished. Not everyone will prefer the same flavours.
- Too easy to have some, every day, not just weekends.
Never heard of that thing.
We have something like this https://www.amazon.com/Whynter-ICM-200LS-Stainless-2-1-Quart…
Can experiment with whatever.
If you buy anything from amazon check the voltage.
$20 a week???
That’s only around $80,000 over a lifetime. Better than an investment car.
Damn now i'm craving ice cream
I reckon you need to spend more to get a quality ice cream maker
It is a lot of work especially with the cleaning and having to freeze the inside tub thing overnight before use, I tried one and only made around 10 batches before it went to the garage. You can't make much at a time, like 600mL maybe. So not really worth the effort.
I don't think you need to pre-freeze the bowl with the one OP linked to.
I have one of the pre-freeze the bowl ice cream makers. I rarely use it as it's so easy to buy nice ice-cream in a variety of flavours as it is. It is handy if I want to make eg a dairy free ice-cream as there are far fewer of those around or a specific flavour that's more difficult to come by.
My ice cream maker is a magimix one. I find the ice cream it makes is way too soft and needs to go in the freezer for a few hours after churning.
There are quite a few recipes out there for no-churn ice cream that you can just make without an ice cream maker (need space in the freezer). I don't know how good they are.
I don't find the one I bought makes good ice cream (cusineart) and would not recommend. Our new freezer doesn't seem to make the bowl cold enough to make ice cream so I have given up on it entirely.
Buy a machine with a compressor and save the hassles.
Totally agree those ones where you have to freeze the bowl are a complete waste of time and never work
I've got the fancy Breville compressor one , and it hasn't been used in a couple of years. It is a lot of work to make ice-cream, and store it in the freezer, an keep milk/cream/eggs on ready supply too. If you get the freeze-bowl type, storing the bowl in the freezer permanently gets on your nerves, but so does having to plan 24 hours ahead to put it in the freezer if you don't want to keep it in there.
One thing I learnt the hard way and didn't read online beforehand is that you'll never get 'hard' scoopable ice-cream straight out of the machine, it has to set for at least 4-6 hours in a very cold freezer to get scoops. A very soft soft-serve comes out the machine, even the fancy ones, and it melts within 2 minutes so you have to get it into a container and into the freezer fast.
BUT saying that it is very addictive trying new recipes and techniques, and you will learn to appreciate what goes into a good ice-cream. Also don't pay full price for the Breville one, it often comes up in stores that are in ebay sales.
I also read a lot of people complaining about soft-serve thing. Thanks for replying.
Is it too much work?
What a baffling question. Only you can answer this. All the information about how to make ice cream with various machines is on the internet. After you learn this, you can then decide for yourself if you think your time and effort is worth it.
With ice cream consumed every weekend, we spend around $20 a week on ice cream.
This information isn't helpful. How much ice cream is that? Is it one litre of premium ice cream, 10 litres of the cheaper stuff, or is it servings from a gelato bar?
Thanks for your insight. No further questions.
yes make it healthier with less sugar