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 - Great Buy!I bought this for my Mom's birthday and we decided to experiment. I left it in the freezer overnight with a bag of ice in the pot. I also chilled the ice-cream mixture before putting it in the machine. It did a great job of churning the ice cream, however, I did not think it was firm enough to be eaten right away. I left it in the freezer overnight and the next day we had great, tasty ice cream. You may find that the recipes call for a bit more sugar and cream than necessary. The next time I am going to try it with less of both. I am also more interested in low-fat and low-sugar recipes for my parents. Rating:  - Something must be wrong with the machineI followed the directions to a T. However, it didn't seem to work. I tried making two batches. It was disappointing since I was looking forward to it. I am going to try one more time, then dump this piece of machinery out. Rating: - Lots of funI looked at reviews for all sorts of ice cream makers before buying this one. I was going to get the stainless steel cuisinart version, but I'm glad I didn't pay the extra money. This one works great. It was at least a third more than this, and I store it away anyways. I have used it to make a 1/2-batch of ice cream almost every weekend now (I recommend the Ben & Jerry's book)--I like it fresh and I'm the only one that eats it usually so I don't want a lot of leftovers. It is a little noisy but it only needs to run about 20 minutes and it is less noisy (and messy and work-intensive) than hand cranking ice cream. I was a little unsure of having to store the bowl in the freezer since I only have a small freezer, but like others said, it really doesn't take up much room at all. Rating: - Didn't work for usWe tried this twice with 2 different recipes. Both times the bowl was frozen solid in a 0-degree freezer. Both trials resulted in a slurry that was far from ice-cream. Returning this. Rating:  - Louder than my dishwasher!!!I finally pulled this out and used it after owning it for more than a year. Everything went smooth and my sorbet is fine but....this machine is so loud that it is annoying. To have to listen to this for 20-30 minutes is extremely difficult. Having never used another ice cream maker, I don't know how it compares.
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