Hi There

I am thinking of buying an ice-creme machine. Just wantd to know if its worth it, or will it be sitting in my cupboard just like the foot massage machine is sitting. Last week had a home made yoghurt ice-creme at a friend`s house and now am very tempeted to buy one too.

Thanks for reading n sharing your experience.

I bought one about 5 years ago and I have used it twice. I plan on using it more often in the next year or so when my little girl is a bit older and I have more time so I'm not planning on getting rid of it just yet.

I have one. It's sitting on the shelf above my foot massage machine haha!

Joking aside, I used it alot when my children were smaller, it really makes lovely icecream and there are lots of really good recipies about.

If you have any Coop Superpoints, they have one on the promotions site at the moment, which is the same one that I have and would recommend. It has discs for the freezer so that you dont have to find the space for a whole bowl like ther machines.

http://www.supercard.ch/scin/giftSearchByNumber.do

Once you make your own vanilla ice cream, you'll be wondering what the heck you've been eating all your life!
Think chocolate sorbet, think any fruit sorbet, think pure deliciousness without any chemical additives. You might not use it every day, but when I think that I pay about CHF10 for a tub of Ben&Jerry's, I'm thinking that as soon as I have all my basic furniture after the move, a steamer and an ice cream machine are an absolute must.

I have battery powered one back in the UK.

I tried it a couple of times but wasn't overly pleased with the results. The ice cream (vanilla) tasted quite eggy. I've since read up about this and other people suggest it might have something to do with letting the temperature get too high when making the base. I've bought a cooking thermometer since but haven't got round to giving it another go. You know how it is.... :-)

I have one that I bought last summer and have used it twice. I did make a very nice choc mint chip icecream with it though, and another one which wasn't so good. Those who use their makers regularly, have you got a good recipe to share? As I said, some of the recipes I looked up did not make a good ice cream. Vagabondbz, your sorbets sound good, any recipes you'd like to share?

Cheers

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How much you use it will, of course, depend entirely on you, but there's no denying the quality of product you can get if you do use it regularly.

One important thing which held me back from buying one until recently - nearly all of them (not including the ones with built-in freezers that cost from several hundred francs upwards) require that the entire bowl is kept in the freezer for 12-24 hours before use, and it basically takes up so much space you'll need a bigger freezer to accommodate it.

Eventually found one, from Philips, that just uses a cold disk on the bottom of the bowl, so it takes up much less space, and effectively means that you can leave it in the freezer so the machine can be used at any time, whereas the whole bowl options really need you to think about it a day in advance, which is why, I suspect, so many people end up leaving them in a cupboard after the first few uses. The disk can, I now found, be purchased separately to allow multiple uses without neededing to wait until it's refrozen. http://www.philips.co.uk/c/household...hr3936_01/prd/

Does it work? Yes, it works very well indeed.
Do we use it? Well, yes. sometimes. when we have guests.

One other interesting point to note: lots of recipes are available now, including all the Ben and Jerry's range, many of which don't require you to make up a custard base in advance. Worth experimenting a bit with different methods.

I have one and I loved making ice cream with it last summer!
I think it's really worth to have one!

due to imminent relocation I am selling mine, it's a phillips one and in excellent conditions!
drop me a line if you are interested!

That's exactly the one I had

I have a Simac, 20 years old now.

It has a built in freezer, so nothing to put in the freezer, nor a need to think ahead, and if I run out, I just make more.

Sure, it costs more, but after 20 years of use, it works out quite cheap!

Tom