Cuisinart Ice Cream and Gelato Maker Makes Ice Cream, Gelato, Sorbet, Frozen Yoghurt in 40 Minutes No Need to Pre-Freeze Bowl Stainless Steel ICE100BCU, Silver

I am very impressed with this machine. Previously I'd had limited success with the pre-freezing types, so thought I'd try out one with its own freezer compressor. Excellent simple recipes provided (two ice cream flavours, a sorbet and a frozen yoghurt) in the instruction booklet enables me to make my first batch of vanilla. The churning took about 45 minutes and this gave brilliantly tasty soft scoop. I put some into my freezer, and after an hour or so, I had hard ice cream. So much better than shop ice-cream. The speed that you can make fresh desserts is truly impressive. I next tried mint choc chip, then honeycomb. This versatile machine makes brilliant lemon sorbet, and frozen yoghurt. I made vegan ice cream for my wife who is lactose intolerant. It's really easy to use and once I'd mastered the basics it was simple to experiment with alternative ingredients. I've not had any failed attempts and the family are all impressed with the quality of the desserts produced. The machine itself is about the size of two toasters, and does take up a fair bit of my kitchen worksurface, so it will live in it's box when not in use rather than being a permanent kitchen fixture. I'm very happy with the price and the build quality. The motor, plastic lid and paddle simply clip together and are easily separated for washing. I shall gently hand wash these and will take care when clipping them back together to avoid any stress on the plastic clips. At time of writing, replacements for these parts are not available if they break. It comes with a 3 year warranty but hopefully I will not have to use that. I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of use, and speed of making ice cream.

Before I review the machine, I’d like to just say that this was very well packaged so no chance of being damaged, thank you Amazon. Once unpacked we left it for 36 hours to settle (recommended 24 but I wasn’t making ice cream at 9pm). Made our first batch yesterday morning and to be honest I’m surprised there’s any left. Followed a recipe I found online for strawberry ice cream. Really simple to prepare, only used 5 ingredients and was ready to go in ten minutes. Poured it into the machine and set it off. Firstly this machine is NOT huge, no more so than my bread maker or multi pot, but it won’t be staying on my work top or hob because it does take up space. Secondly it’s NOT loud but it is a constant noise, unlike a bread maker that stops and starts, it’s a similar sort of noise level and isn’t clunky at all just a smooth sort of churny hum. Thirdly, do NOT overfill. My mix once poured into the container came about a cm from the top and it did get all over the underside of the handle once it was churned but that brings me to the final point and that is it’s REALLY easy to clean. Hot water and a spot of washing up liquid to remove the fat layer deposited from the cream and it’s all done, packed away into itself and ready to use again or put away. I’ve had no issues with locking the paddle into place, it’s really easy and the operational touch pad is very simple. I’m so pleased I got this and not the ninja creami, I don’t have freezer space to put a canister in and freeze for 24 hours beforehand or just leave until we want it, I don’t want to try and pre-plan when I want ice cream (British weather is notoriously unreliable) and frankly I don’t want to wait for ice cream. The finished result was creamy, soft serve dense and gorgeous ice cream with chunks of strawberries in. No artificial nasties and pure decadence. Plonked it into a container and froze it for a couple of hours and it was perfect. I’d been eyeing this up for a very long time and finally bit the bullet. My only negative is I’m gutted I waited so long to buy it. Really good value, about the same price as the basic ninja creami but so much better. If you’re considering an ice cream machine, a proper one where you don’t have to freeze anything first, and not just something that smooshes a pre frozen mix, may I respectfully recommend this to you. You will not regret it or be disappointed.

Came a day early which was great, we let it sit for a day before using it to settle.This machine is great, so easy to use and easy to clean. We put comelle ice cream in to it and it like mr wippey wonderful Not to sweet. We put the machine on for 45 min to 55min depends how thick you want it😜 it has a timer on it and counts down when it finishes. I can recommend it 😃

UPDATE 2026 (2 years on): Machine still works perfectly so the 5* review remains. Unfortunately the bowl fell onto a hard floor which broke the mechanism, causing some of the ice cream mix to leak into the base of the machine but very luckily it was immediately dealt with & did no lasting damage to the machine! I ordered a replacement bowl from Cuisinart which was reasonably-priced & arrived next day, so it was soon good to go again! (They also stock replacement lids and paddles.) Re. cleaning the bowl - I recommend unscrewing the base of the bowl every few uses, to clean the parts you can't access normally. It only involves 2 screws, takes literally seconds & is well worth it. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Amazing piece of kit - makes the finest ice cream you'll ever eat, with minimal effort and you don't have to keep waiting 12 hours for a bowl to freeze! Believe me, once you've had this ice cream, you'll never want to touch any commercial variety again (not to mention goodness knows what additives.) This is a heavy chunky machine that you probably won't want to keep dragging in and out of a cupboard (and it really shouldn't be moved around anyway) so you ideally need permanent space on your worktop. I've sat mine on one of those black oven liners so I can easily slide it aside when I want to clean the granite worktop underneath etc. When the machine arrived, I left it to settle for 24 hours before using it. Next day I made a batch of strawberry gelato and blackberry/mango gelato, using the gelato paddle - pic attached shows the strawberry. The results were out of this world - smooth, creamy and full of fruit. I used one of the online recipes from the excellent 'Ask Chef Dennis' website using fresh strawberries, half full-fat milk/half double cream, lemon juice and granulated sugar (I used less sugar than the recipe called for, as the fruit was quite sweet.) And that was it. No messing about with egg yolks and making custards. You can substitute virtually any fruit. I don't find this machine excessively noisy at all - it's a lot quieter than even most kettles and you can easily talk over it. Some people have also marked this machine down because they say the ice cream is hard to remove from the paddle but I had no problem with that at all - I just used two small silicone spatulas. TIP: get a teaspoon ready to just eat the residue left on the paddle - it's too good to waste! Getting the lid in place can be a bit of a knack but once you've got it, it's very easy - just make sure the small lock icons line up on the lid and the machine. The handbook is very clear and well-written. It's got a small but good selection of basic recipes but I find the (free) 'Ask Chef Dennis' recipes much less of a faff to prepare and give great results. Although the handbook states that 1 litre is the total maximum quantity you should make at a time, I'd actually recommend using slightly less because as the mixture freezes, it expands massively and depending on what you're making and how long your chosen cycle is, it rises right to the very top of the bowl. If your paddle squeaks as it goes round when the mixture starts thickening, a tiny drop of cooking oil or butter on the top part of the paddle spindle where it touches the lid should stop it. You'll probably have to re-apply the oil every time though because it will come off when you wash the paddle. All in all, although this is a relatively expensive machine, it's solidly built and imo worth every penny. My only regret is not buying one much sooner.

I really like this machine and the concept of a self-freezing ice cream maker. It works well, and the compressor is powerful enough to make good ice cream without pre-freezing a bowl. However, my unit arrived with a manufacturing defect. The plastic retention notch in the lid that holds the stirrer in place was missing on one side. Because of this the stirrer could not lock properly and jumped up and down during operation. This is clearly a moulded part of the lid, so it cannot be repaired or replaced separately. Amazon customer service handled the issue well and immediately arranged a replacement. My advice to new buyers: when your machine arrives, check the two plastic locking tabs in the lid where the stirrer attaches. If both are present, the machine should work perfectly. Aside from this quality control issue, the machine itself is well designed, and I’m looking forward to using the replacement. I can only give this 3 stars, as I could not find anywhere to buy a replacement lid, so I had to opt for using Amazon's help desk which is often time-consuming, with tedious, silly questions.

It arrived and I left to stand 24 hours, just before the red heat alert. I care for my elderly Mum, so I keep her stocked up with ice cold water and the ice cream was brilliant to help her to keep cool too. We made raspberry and it was delicious! Kept us cool too. I loved that it froze it, itself. I don't have freezer space for faffing with pre chilled bowls, so for just under 100. I've got a bargain. No more buying ice cream and trying to create space. I can just make it, when we fancy some. It was so creamy too. Mega impressed!

This is amazing!!!!! Day 1 we made a batch of mixed berry sorbet, frozen strawberry and banana yoghurt and Oreo ice cream. Today I made Peach sorbet. So easy to experiment with recipes. I substituted all recipes that said sugar with a few squirts of honey. Just taste test before you freeze, it’s that simple. I do love a gadget so I have a magimix so I just whack all the ingredients in there then blitz and pour into the ice cream maker, that’s it, literally time spent picking ingredients nothing else and then 45 mins later frozen delight. I also learnt a clever hack of putting the ice cream in a ziplock once it’s frozen to desired amount in freezer and then it stops it from going hard. And I was even more excited to have bought it at £149 in the prime day sale to see it only a few days later in the CUSINART sale for £249. It’s big but it’s beautiful and it does exactly what you want it to over and over again. No more destroying my Magimix blending frozen fruit and yoghurt. If you’ve ever thought about buying an ice cream machine then buy this one. I was about on the fence as I was considering buying a Ninja that makes slush etc but so glad I went this way, if I want slush/smoothie I just stop the sorbet early. Absolutely perfectly timed purchase the cover the heatwave and beyond as honestly I make banana ice cream in my blender at Christmas so this is something I will use every week for forever more. To make Oreo ice cream I followed the vanilla ice cream recipe provided however I substituted for semi skimmed milk and added more milk and less double cream (only 300ml) then I added 4 Oreo’s to the blender and poured the mix into the ice cream machine. For berry sorbet I used 600grams frozen mixed berries partially thawed, squirt of lemon juice and honey to balance the taste I used 2 squirts. For the banana and strawberry frozen yoghurt I used 500ml of fat free Greek yoghurt, 4 bananas and a handful of partially thawed frozen strawberries. For the peach sorbet I used 2 cans of peaches and 3 squirts of honey and a squirt of lemon juice and then a small amount of water to bring it up to level in the ice cream machine. Enjoy

Fantastic ice cream maker! Made several types of ice cream including some with mix-ins. All came out delicious and a lot easier than my old freezer bowl maker as I didn’t have to remember to freeze bowl the day before. The best part is using your own everyday ingredients for any type of ice cream you can dream up. You can control, to a certain extent, how you want your ice cream to taste. Making ice cream doesn’t take as long with this type of machine either. Pour your cold cream base into the insert, set timer and start. Ice cream churns a lot quicker (40-50 minutes) and it keeps ice cream cold for a bit so you don’t have rush to get it into your container. The consistency of ice cream is a good deal better than freezer bowl IMHO so you can eat it straight away or put it in the freezer for a few hours to harden. Wash and dry insert and paddles after and machine is ready to go for the next batch. There are a few minor issues that I found while using it. Pouring the ice cream base directly into machine was a bit messy so I took out the insert to pour the base in and then re-inserted it back into the machine. It’s also a bit fiddly to scrape out just churned ice cream from the paddles but I just use a small spatula and a spare plate on the counter. The unit itself is quite big so you need a bit of counter space near an outlet. I had put off purchasing this since last year due to the price and size but I treated myself a month ago and have absolutely no regrets (except for the extra cm’s around my waist!). If you love ice cream all year round, have people to share it with and have the space, this Cuisinart ice cream machine is a great little investment.

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A very good product. I am very satisfied with it. Very easy to use and maintain. As of yet I have only made ice cream with it but also will to try it for frozen yogurt. It takes between 40~60mins to make ice cream depending on the quantity . I have been using it almost once a week for making ice cream and there hasn't been any problems yet. Definitely recommend this.

I am using this machine for last thirty years Old machine is not working due to gas leak And don't have any workshop to repair. I purchas this machine but due to duty and transport become costly.

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The ice-cream is delicious. However- from day one it beeps- constantly when in use. All the troubleshooting and still there. And after 10 weeks the ice-cream paddle cracked.