Whynter Ice Cream Maker Machine Automatic 1.28 Qt Upright with Built-In Compressor, LCD Digital Display & Timer, No Pre-Freezing, ICM-128BPS, Black/Pink

This was the best gift I have ever received! It is rated top quality by best kitchen. It comes with a quick and easy recipe guide, it makes 2 quarts of ice cream and it does it quickly. The ice cream is soft and delicious and easy to add flavors. The noise level is very acceptable and it allows me to make healthy ice cream without all the chemicals of store-bought. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves ice cream, plus there's no freezing and waiting 24 hours to eat your ice cream, it's quick and under an hour you can have delicious ice cream sorbet or other recipes of your choosing. It's a beautiful appliance, sturdy and holds up well. I have never been happier with an appliance, definitely worth every penny spent! ♥️♥️♥️

Intuitive interface, nice looking, replacement parts / additional bowls available if you want to switch between flavors. High quality and works perfectly as described. It comes with a 1yr warranty, so when I had an issue after six months, I reached out to the manufacturer -- and Whynter's customer service was amazing, super responsive, and super helpful. I can't say enough good things about this company or product. Worth the price, absolutely. I find most recipes only take 20-30 minutes, but it gets firmer the longer you let it go softserve consistency is usually about 30 min. Storebought ice cream firmness can take 45 min. Milkshake is like 10-15. Also, the more liquid, the longer it takes. So you can do a smaller batch for a quick snack. I can usually get the equivalent of a pint in 25min min. Pro tip: super easy, lazy ice cream mix = blend a nutition shake with chia seeds and a bit of extra sweetener (I use Splenda), and optionally a bit of peanut butter or coconut cream to make it extra creamy, and you have a super-fast ice cream that you can eat as a meal guilt-free. I love it. (Full disclosure: i've found that a high-quality blender is a must if you're starting from a powdered mix). I make only weird vegan recipes and it still manages to make yummy ice ceam of anything I throw in there.

I've had mine for a couple of weeks too, and I think it's fantastic. A couple of things- -- I know it shows in the manual that the mixture should not go above these things on each side of the churner, BUT I found it better be a half inch BELOW that. It still gets on the underside of the plastic cover as it churns, but then at least it keeps the mix a bit lower and stops any chance of overflowing the bowl. I actually think it wouldn't matter anyway as the bowl seems to sit in a pretty tightly gasketed ring, so maybe I'm being overly cautious. Either way, I'm still quite happy to get 2 Qts (4 pints) of really good ice cream instead of the 2.5 Qts it claims to make. To get the most actual ice cream out of it, add any mix-ins (choco chips, nuts etc) into it AFTER it has finished freeze churning. When it's done churning, it is soft serve consistency... so I turn it out into a big bowl, THEN I mix in the mix ins (gently so as not to incorporate a lot of ice crystal forming air into it). Then I pack it in pint containers tightly, (using the handy plastic flat spatula thing that came with the machine), cover with a circle of parchment paper against the top of the ice cream, and put them all away in the freezer at least overnight. --- If your ingredients are cold (should not be frozen) when they go into the churn bowl, it can take substantially less time than the 60 minute timer is set to default for. If you come back in 60 minutes and the machine is not still churning, it has probably stopped churning and already gone into 'just chill' mode. This will make it more difficult to get the churn bowl out. That plastic spatula thing that comes with the machine is handy here. First try to hold the handle on both sides of the bowl close to the bowl's top (instead of at the top of the handle) at both of the handle's hinges. Try to pull straight up wiggling a tiny bit. If your churning stopped minutes before and it went into keep cold mode, that bowl will be really tightly held to the frozen sides of the machine. Take the flat spatula thing and (GENTLY) put it between the very top of the bowl and the side of the machine it's against (BUT ONLY about 1/4 inch down!!) and move it back and forth. It will sort of break a vacuum hold. Do it 4 or 5 more times in different places around the bowl and then try again to pull it up. Just be careful not to jam that thing down too far or back and forth to hard. This has always worked for me with no apparent damage to anything. Most of my ice cream recipes include 2 TBS of some kind of liqueur (raspberry, hazelnut, coffee, cherry etc) which will help it from getting so rock hard. It shouldn't be added until the last few minutes of churning, as it can affect the freezing too early) OR after churning and after it's gone into another bowl to add mix ins to, before packing (my preferred method). Commercial ice cream has up to 25 percent more air whipped into it- more money for the manufacturers for less actual product- which makes it more 'fluffy' and also less hard in storage. You can leave the liqueur out of course- either way your homemade will be more dense (more flavorful if you ask me). As to the hardness- 2 things can help- keep it in a freezer that's part of your fridge as opposed to an upright or chest type freezer. Or.... don't worry about any of it, and just leave the pint out on the kitchen counter to soften a tad, for 10 minutes, before you dig in. OR dig it out when rock hard, put in a bowl and microwave for 10 seconds or so. You really can't go too wrong, right? The very few recipes that come with the machine (in the manual) are pretty useless to me (for the egg reason). I went on their web site but couldn't even find any there. I got 5 books from Amazon for ice cream recipes (and sorbets, sherbets, etc). Since I make egg free ice creams only (since 'custard-style' recipes are WAY TOO MUCH work with the cooking and tempering the eggs with the dairy), I have found only one book that has more great egg free (also known as 'Philadelphia style') recipes. That was the 'Perfect Scoop' by David Lebovitz. Very nice book, great recipes, great photos. A favorite recent recipe I made was Peach, Vanilla, Pecan ice cream- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk; 1 pint (16 oz) of half and half; 3 cups of uncooked peach puree made from unpeeled (but washed), pitted & chopped peaches pureed in a bowl using an immersion blender; 1 TBS vanilla; 2 TBS raspberry liqueur (added along with the nuts AFTER it came out of the churning bowl into another bowl before packing); 1 cup chopped pecans. I'm sorry to say I don't remember how much this made (ounce wise), or whether I might have also added al cup of whole milk to it also. But the combo of sweetened condensed milk, half and half and whole milk is a great EASY way to get ice cream fast. For chocolate= instead of the peaches- add 4-5 TBS dutch process (dark, european-style) cocoa and 1/4 cup of hersheys syrup, with 2 teaspoons of vanilla, to the dairy combo. Instead of nuts, add in (after freezing & churning and turning out into another bowl) 1/2 to a cup of mini chocolate chips and instead of raspberry liqueur add 2 TBS of Kalua (coffee liqueur) either a few minutes at the end of churning, or with the chips. Don't be afraid to TASTE the mix before you freeze/churn it!! There are no eggs so it's safe to taste- it can then be most to your liking (less vanilla etc). I must say this taller machine fits much better in my kitchen than the wider would. It is quite heavy (as all compressor machines are), so it's not something you want to put on a lower shelf to pull up to the counter to use. But all summer long, this sucker will be sitting on my counter and will be keeping me in ice cream heaven. It appears to be well made, quiet enough when in use, easy to clean, easy to use and I only need to make 16 batches of 4 pints each to pay for itself (our favorite was 5$ a pint before). I think this machine will have no trouble managing that (certainly better than my husband and I can manage eating it all- so it's been a great summer gift to friends !!)

I received this as a Christmas gift and we just made our first couple batches of ice cream. Super easy to use and quiet. Simply pour in the mixture, press a couple buttons, and the machine does the rest. We've used the "old fashioned" style of ice cream maker for many years that involves using rock salt and ice cubes. This is so much easier and faster, yet still produces the same quality of ice cream. One mistake we made with our first batch was to pour in the ice cream mixture when it was still warm. It still worked fine, but just took longer for the ice cream to thicken up. It has a nice compact design that will be very easy to store. If you've been considering this style of ice cream maker, I highly recommend this brand.

Best ice cream maker EVER. I actually asked for the Ninja ice cream maker because I have other Ninja products that I love however my son did research and found this one and bought it for me for Christmas. I made chocolate ice cream the day I got it and my family raved about it saying it was the best ice cream they have ever had. The machine is so easy to use, easy to clean and makes wonderful ice cream. Love that I don’t have to freeze bowls before making ice cream so I can make multiple batches in one day. Have had it a week and I think I’ve made 9 batches of ice cream and all natural ingredients none of the yucky stuff that comes from store bought. I will never buy store bought ice cream again.

Fun family item to use, homemade ice cream is a treat. Most recipes are simple, and ice cream maker is ready to use out of the box and delivers on its promises. Discover your creative side and try some adventurous recipes!

I am writing this review and I have only used the machine once to make two flavor of ice cream so I’m still to try more recipes to perfect my ice cream making. Right off the bat, the machine is very nice looking, stainless steel. Not too big, mine doesn’t live on the counter but it fits perfectly fine in its house in one of my pantry cabinets. It runs smoothly, not loud, it is mesmerizing to watch the ice cream be made. It gets really cold, I set it for 45 mins, it turned off on its own, and my first chocolate mint ice cream came out mostly soft serve to be honest with some spots that were frozen. The second ice cream I made (vanilla) came out very soft serve but got nicely frozen once I put it in the freezer. I didn’t want any of them to eat right away so not a big deal for me this time. Again, it could’ve been my recipe and not the machine. It doesn’t leak at all, it is super fun to use, the recipes are very helpful (I didn’t follow their recipes to the T) and even though it was expensive, I think it is worth it if you like to make homemade ice cream like I do. It is a fun way to keep your family away from all that high fructose corn syrup from conventional grocery store ice cream that is not healthy at all.

I wasn't sure what to expect, really, since the price was pretty low and the ratings were really high. But let me tell you, it's a great little machine. We've done three batches of ice cream in four days, it's addictive! I bought the pink one, it was even less expensive for some reason. I like how it looks on the counter, in fact will probably leave it there instead of hiding it in a closet. This machine is basically tiny, it's about the size of one you'd have to freeze the container in the freezer with, but it's NOT. It's got its own compressor and does a perfect job. All three batches have finished in less than 60 minutes. It's quiet, it's cute, and it doesn't take up much space! Love it!