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 - Who needs to bake when you can make ice cream?!I've just made my second batch of ice cream using this attachment. First was Tahitian vanilla (from Cooks Illustrated), followed by Blackberry Gelato (from Food & Wine). Next on my list is Chocolate Mint Cookie, using the chocolate recipe from the Ben & Jerry's book and Chocolate Mint Cream cookies. I don't think I'll be baking anytime soon now that I've started making ice cream. You can buy cookies anywhere, but where can you get homemade ice cream? Nowhere but home! A few tips I've learned: --You really need two of these bowls to make ice cream to feed a crowd. This is especially true if you make custard-based (cooked) ice cream bases, which need several hours to cool in the fridge (if not overnight). To make two batches with a single bowl, you need to have your custard ready around 7am, make your first batch, put the bowl back in the freezer for 15 hours, then make your second batch around 10pm. --The ice cream expands once it's in the mixer, so be careful not to overfill the bowl. Recipes tend to vary in how much batter you create, so you might want to make two batches if your mixer bowl will be more than half full of batter when you pour it in. --Buy heavy cream and half and half from a discount club if you can--you'll go through a lot of these products, and it's expensive to buy the small sizes from the grocery store. Rating: - Great machineI purchased this ice cream maker along with the Ben & Jerry book. It worked perfectly from the start. I did not have any problem following the directions to assemble the 2 parts to my mixer (it could not have been simplier) and it has not come apart once while making ice cream. This machine is all that my husband and I need to enjoy very good quality gourmet ice cream and it makes enough for at least 4 people. I add an extra cup of cream or milk to the recipes in the Ben & Jerry book and the ice cream maker accommodates it very well. If you are using a recipe that has chunks of any kind just be sure to follow the directions and add them during the last couple of minutes of making the ice cream. Add the chunks gently a few spoonfuls at a time and you will not have a problem. Your ice cream will be a trouble free gourmet quality ice cream experience. If it does not make enough for some families, well, you can only get 2 quarts of ice cream out of a 2 quart ice cream maker. If you have room to store the bowl in your freezer you can make ice cream most any time you want, which is what I do. I easily rate this KitchenAid attachment with 5 stars! Rating: - Love it!this is the best ice cream maker. I have had others and this one is so simple and easy to use, especially the cleaning. Rating: - Yumm-O!!Ice cream maker attachment works great! I have one suggestion for users about adding chunky bits to their homemade ice cream. You really have to wait until the ice cream is pretty much done b/c once you add the chunky bits, the mixing blade starts skipping. All the recipes I've read say that you are supposed to add chunky stuff during the last 5 minutes of mixing, but I had to stop my mixer pretty much as soon as I was done adding my chunks. Rating: - ice cream attachmentGreat great attachment for my mixer - I bought this and have used it constantly for different types of sorbet and ice cream - the vanilla ice cream recipe that comes with it is so rich!!
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