Flings Ice Cream a city Block!
928792
Long spoons for Floats, iced Tea, cocktail stir spoon, I have yet to use them but they seem nice.
1659515
So excited about this book, there aren't many pictures but the recipes all sounds great! The book takes you through what you need to make the perfect bowl of ice cream, techniques, different flavors, and of course my favorite toppings. I received this product at a discounted rate in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. Just to get everyone started there is a selection of classic ice cream flavors from Madagascar vanilla to banana. You are taught how to make the base and how to freeze for the perfect dish. We are looking forward to making the Warm Caramelized Pineapple With Rum and Candied Nuts for our Madagascar Vanilla ice cream this weekend. Yum!
473767
It has a heavy handle and a slightly curved, sharp scoop to get through the ice cream even its frozen rock-hard. Highly recommend!
4174797
Used it and used it! Bought another and used it to make ice cream for sale! Love this machine. Still works great!
923892
Works really well....had fun making ice cream and eating it!!
872791
I tried out the Lemon Cream Ice Cream. Wow! So good! I am now going to try this ice cream in her Macaroon Ice Cream Sandwich recipe. Not sure if I made the Macaroons correctly because I had a ton of batter left over (oh well)....they are pretty though :)

I am dying to make the push pops.

:: UPDATE :: February 2, 2012

Ok I made Jeni's "Roasted Strawberry & Buttermilk Ice Cream"...it's so stinkin delicious is just wrong!! I mean, I was licking the bowl after I put it in the ice cream maker. I was going to bring it into work and share with my friends but I couldn't stop eating it. What an amazing recipe. The straberry puree is enough to make several batches...and I will be making more tonight!
451973
Darn thing is so good at scooping ice cream.... I can't get it to stop. My bowl is never empty!
1086505
This little shaved ice machine is wonderful! It makes a large cereal bowl of "snow" from each frozen disk. It even works with ice cubes, though it comes out slightly more granular. It takes up little space on the counter, is easy to use and easy to clean. Not a lot of moving parts to break either. I keep a large bag of frozen discs in the freezer. We top the snow with fruit juice, expresso, pur&eacute;ed frozen fruit, green tea, cold hot chocolate, and on occasion a little ice cream. The combinations are endless. I especially enjoy creating low fat, low calorie, low sugar snacks and desserts (although you can go decadent just as well). Highly recommend this little gem!
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"Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream Desserts" By: Jeni Britton Bauer. If you love ice cream - run - don't walk - and buy this book! Don't even read the rest of my review - just BUY IT!  If you don't like ice cream - let me see if I can change your mind. What is it you don't like? The flavors? The texture? Do you think you would like "Black Forest Cake Ice Cream" (page 32), "Farmstead Cheese and Guava Jam Ice Cream" (page 34), "Juniper and Lemon Curd Ice Cream" (page 39), "Graham Cracker Ice Cream" (page 46), "Hummingbird Cake Ice Cream" (page 50), "Moonshine and Corn Syrup Custard with Pecans Ice Cream" (page 54), "Salty Vanilla Frozen Custard" (page 60), "French Toast Frozen Custard" (page 62), "Fresh Ginger Frozen Yogurt" (page 76), "Bellini Sorbet" (page 84) or how about "Red Raspberry Sorbet" (page 88)!? All sound amazing - right!? Well if THAT didn't get your attention - buy the book and flip to page 95 and explore Jeni's delicious desserts! This is my favorite part of the book - I know - big surprise. Some of the recipes that make up this amazing chapter include "Macaroon Cake" (page 96), "Meringue Cake" (page 102 and INCREDIBLE), "Stone-Ground-Grits Pudding Cake" (page 106), "Blueberry Cobbler" (page 118), "Fried Biscuits" (page 123 - and HELLO!? Fried. Biscuits.), "Jake's Chocolate Truffle Cookies" (page 126), "Cast-Iron Pancakes" (page 134) and "Bananas Foster" (page 146). The recipes in this book are delicious and very "outside the box". The book concludes with delicious sauce recipes - and "gravel" recipes. Yes - gravel... It's amazing - don't judge. I highly recommend this book to - like I said earlier - to the ice cream lover AND - those people like me...who have sweet TEETH instead of just a sweet TOOTH. Jeni has created yet another fabulous book... Congratulations Jeni... And PS - open a store in Indiana!!! I'll be first line...
2753186
I'm lucky enough to live near a Jeni's scoop shop and I absolutely love her ice cream. For a long time, though, I held off buying this book because I thought there was no chance I could make ice cream at home that was as good as the real version. I'm so glad that I gave it a shot because wow--nearly every flavor I've made from this book is (I think!) worthy of a Jeni's scoop shop. I'm not known for my great cooking skills, so I'm pretty sure anyone could replicate Jeni's ice cream with these recipes. The most amazing part is the texture, which is worlds better than any other homemade ice cream I've tried. So get the book. Your friends will think you're an ice cream genius.
843279
Works very well on the cold, slick Illinois ice. Helps to have a smaller container to shake/spread it over the sidewalk, just something to keep in mind! I believe amazon sells something just for that in the related product under it, Or if you have an old smaller container of ice melt just save it and refill it from this!
4469981
I just received my ice cream ball earlier this week and we have made ice cream every night! The kids, age 12 & 9, plus a neice - age 7 have enjoyed the heck out of this.  The ingredients are simple (half & half, sugar and vanilla) for vanilla ice cream and the taste is great!  The texture is not what you would get out of store bought ice cream, but still ok.  When you read the directions, it will tell you to mix the ice cream half way through the freezing process.  This helps with it not being so "soupy" in the middle.  Also, we just rinse ours off with water on the outside before any ice cream dries in the cracks. A smooth outside surface would be an improvement here!  To prevent it from being so hard to get out, we drain the ice and water and rinse the bottom portion out (where the ice and salt go) before we begin scraping out the ice cream.  It does melt fast if you do this, so make sure you have plenty of people to eat it if you drain the ice & water.  Also, we have only rolled ours and not tried tossing it.  It weighs about 10 pounds!  Overall, this was a great purchase and lots of fun on hot summer days.
796480
I purchased this as a gift for my eight year old who loves ice cream beyond words. I wanted to use it as a teaching aid about what goes into our food and encourage her love of cooking.  It has not disappointed. It is not the quietest machine but it is certainly no noisier than a traditional ice cream machine. The huge plus is no ice or salt needed!  The key really is freezing the inner bowl for at least 24 hours and make sure it is on a flat surface for even results. We have made several batches and all have turned out creamy and wonderful. When we want firmer than soft serve consistency we just put it into a plastic container and pop it into the freezer for a couple of hours. The family no longer wants store bought ice cream! Highly recommend this product.
3250817
Nothing says vacation in my family more than a box of ice cream sandwiches in the freezer wherever we are staying.  It is my Dad's only request at the grocery story so this new journal from Random House will be the perfect place to record those vacation memories and special moments.  Designed to look just like an ice cream sandwich with Neapolitan ice cream layered between the two chocolate cookie outsides, each page is waiting for your thoughts.  Even the pages themselves carry the Neapolitan theme with the top chocolate third being lined in brown and then bottom strawberry third being lined in pink.  The middle vanilla layer is blank encouraging you to draw a small sketch or be creative.

Just in time for summer, the softly padded cover journal is perfect for anyone who loves ice cream or is simply fanciful and enjoys a less serious looking place to record their thoughts.  The volume contains 368 pages so you have more than enough for a year with a few to spare or perhaps you're like me and more of a sporadic journalist and this volume will last you several years.  Whichever the case, I think this will be a big hit in spite of it's relatively small size of about a 4x6 photo. Journalists will like the fact that, when open, it lies flat unlike many other journals on the market today.

I did receive this free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and am in no way obligated to write a positive one.
3296059
I could hardly wait to receive my ice cream maker. I had a Taylor commercial maker in the past and thought it would be great to have a home size machine without ice/salt. There were no reviews(if only!)when I purchased this in June, but it really looked great so I took my chances.  Bad choice... the worst purchase I have made in years in fact.  ( I guess we have to have one of these experiences now and then?)

Well, the control panel had fallen off before it was out of the box and it seemed a little flimsyish, but, okay, no problem, I'll just keep my kids away from this equipment.  The motor started up smoothly, nice and quiet but...
Like the other reviewers experiences, it never froze anything. Ever.  We did 4 tries of ice cream (leaving machine on for about 3 hours each time) and tried again with 2 sorbets last night, but absolutely nothing froze. This was total shock and awe.  I mean I really thought it was going to freeze!  Nothing close.

I might try to return this but since I live in the west indies and spent a great deal shipping the thing here and paying all the taxes and duties to get it into the country, it has been a very costly mistake already before any additional expense of sending it back to the US.  So far no one from the company has returned my emails.  I wonder if they are evading me.  From the other reviewers info, I suspect they know the product isn't good.

But first I think I will take the interesting information from J Murray !(thanks J Murray!)and test it out.  Gonna put the machine inside my freezer and run it in there for awhile and see if that works. I will let you know if I have positive results.  And I'll take precautions not to shock myself :)  Now if this doesn't work perhaps I can store spices or cutlery in it or something..

Meanwhile, I just ordered a big ice and salt machine (again) which makes 6qt per batch.  For my family of 9, I just calculated that to make this much ice cream with the Koolatron would take me about 5 spins.  And for 2 flavours, omg, 10 spins!!
I suddenly realized with great clarity that I would rather break a little ice than do 10 batches. And like another reviewer I am not happy that the metal bowl cannot come out....it is hard to remove liquid, probably ice cream too and then to clean it properly isn't so easy.

So although I am out some $, I am over the disappointment and can hardly wait for the arrival of the ice/salt bucket with a great new love and respect for this old time method..lol ..until i get the courage up to try another machine of this type again in the future.
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I purchased this because my husband and I are trying to live a Paleo life, yet we need something sweet every now and then.  I'm able to make tasty ice cream without the cream.  I just use the creamy part of coconut milk (I throw the watery part away...I know, you love it, but I don't).  We add some vanilla, some blueberries, and Tadaa!  In about 30 minutes we have delicious ice cream.  I've also made chocolate using chocolate nibs.  I don't know why I struggled with the "bowl type" ice cream makers for so long.  This works so much better!

I'll be telling the listeners to my podcast, Rock Your Retirement about this for sure!
3887423
I love that this book has seasonal ice creams since Seattle doesn't always have a lot of hot weather, and because my family is an ice cream year-round kind of family. My kids said the salted caramel ice cream was the best ice cream they'd ever had, and they're pretty experienced with ice cream. The lavender ice cream is amazing and the Mexican chocolate was also delicious. I can't wait to try every flavor, even the salted licorice!

There's very little cooking involved in these- even the salted caramel was relatively easy to make. I appreciate the many topping recipes, many of which I could see enjoying even without ice cream- compotes, brittle, etc.(if necessary :)

*I'm updating this to add that the frozen goat yogurt with blueberry compote is the most delicious frozen yogurt ever ever! The goat yogurt from Trader Joe's is perfect in this recipe. SO good!