Cuisinart Ice 20 1.5 Quart Ice Cream Maker Review
2009 May 24
Memorial Day kicks off summer, and it’s no surprise that ice cream makers have been one of our best sellers lately. For one, making your own ice cream has never been more efficient both in terms of price and time involved. We now have the luxury of controlling what ingredients we use to make the ice cream. Amazon has helped bring these makers to us with some favorable deals.
The Cuisinart Ice-20 Automatic 1.5 Quart Ice Cream Maker has nearly 850 five-star reviews at Amazon, as it provides simplicity in making ice cream and at 1.5 quarts is one of the more accessible ice cream makers around. It is normally 90$ but has been on sale, with the white Cuisinart 1-1/2 Quart Automatic Ice Cream Maker being 48$ and the red Cuisinart 1-1/2 Quart Automatic Ice Cream Maker being 49$. Either way, you save 45%!
Until recently, making ice cream at home took a lot longer, and it was a very loud process. Many ice cream makers are still loud, but the Cuisinart models have been quiet in comparison. Nothing messy about clean-up and figuring out how to use it is easy – just add ingredients and your ice cream is made in 20-30 minutes. One extremely useful tip after using these models for a while, is to keep your ice cream bowls in the freezer at all times (and use your ingredients when they are as cool as possible). This helps create the creamiest ice cream – if you do not freeze the bowl, it will be more liquidy. Having the bowl in the freezer for around 12 hours should suffice. This means you can’t make one batch after another. Thus, you may want a second ice cream bowl for your Ice-20 – if so, save 25% on your Additional Cuisinart 1.5 Quart Ice 20 Freezer Bowl.
After a few uses you will be able to tinker with the ingredients to your liking, to create your ideal ice cream base. Eggs and cans of condensed / evaporated / regular milk are a good start. Vanilla and almond extract are two essentials for adding into the mixture. Of course, you can add caramel, oreos, fruit, cookie dough, etc. Amazon suggests The Best Ice Cream Maker Cookbook Ever or Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Dessert Book to fine tune your ice cream recipes. Can’t go wrong with either book, plus you’ll save extra if you get the book with the Ice-20 maker.
Wow, that is a good deal. I just got myself the red Cuisinart!!!
Ok I found the White Ice Cream Maker but how do I get the FREE shipping at Amazon??????
Simple.
http://shop.kitchenproductdeals.com/show/amazon/B00000JGRT
Just add the Ice Cream Maker in your cart, and go to check out. When you get the chance to choose shipping, choose free which is like 7 days or so. I think anything over 20$ can be free shipping on Amazon.
Hello,
Thanks for the review. I have one question though. Do the other Cuisinart Ice Cream models have the same quality as this one? I want a Cuisinart Ice Cream maker but maybe a tad bigger than this, let me know.
Thanks
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Hey Bill R
As you might guess, Cuisinart has big ice cream makers too. In fact the Cuisinart Ice 30 BC Icecream Maker is probably the best value out of any of them. For the people who get annoyed by having to wait to make more ice cream (or having to buy a second ice cream bowl), the Ice 30 at least provides more ice cream each session. So unless you are serving for many people, the Ice30 BC will suffice.
If you really want to get crazy, Cuisinart has the Ice 50 BC Supreme Ice Cream Maker. Normally 400$ it is 250$ now with free shipping. This is a compressor machine, meaning you don’t need to freeze bowls – you can just run the machine one batch after the other, making ice cream.