Lello Musso Pola 5030 Dessert Maker - A Comprehensive Review
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Lello Musso Pola 5030 Dessert Maker - A Comprehensive Review

The Lello Musso Pola 5030 Dessert Maker was my recent upgrade from the smaller Lello 4080 Musso Lussino, which I'd been using for about a year. After close to a month of testing, I've found that it produces exceptional ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. It has a maximum capacity of 1500 ml (1.59 quart) of ice cream mix, although I've found an optimum capacity of 1100 ml (1.16 quart) of ice cream mix, producing about 1300 ml (1.37 quart) of extremely smooth, dense, and creamy ice cream with about 18% air in 11 minutes 55 seconds. I've also gotten great results with gelato: freezing 880 ml (0.93 quart) of gelato mix produces about 1000 ml (1.06 quart) of smooth, dense, and creamy gelato with about 14% air in 10 minutes 45 seconds. My only complaint is the gap between the central pin and the surrounding plastic, which can let in ice cream mix during extraction and cleaning if you’re not careful.

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Lello 4080 Musso Lussino Ice Cream Maker - A Comprehensive Review
Ice cream maker Ruben Porto Ice cream maker Ruben Porto

Lello 4080 Musso Lussino Ice Cream Maker - A Comprehensive Review

The Lello 4080 Musso Lussino is an Italian-made domestic ice cream machine with an in-built freezing system. After 7 months of extensive use, which has included using this machine to make ice cream to sell at 5 food markets, I've found that it produces excellent ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. It has an optimum capacity of 700 ml (0.74 quart) of mix, producing about 900 ml (0.95 quart) of ice cream with about 29% air in an average time of 17 minutes and 30 seconds. My only complaint is the gap between the central pin and the surrounding plastic, which can let in ice cream mix during extraction and cleaning if you're not careful.

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