37 MINUTE READ The Lello Musso Pola 5030 Dessert Maker, available from amazon*, 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…
Ice Cream Makers
Breville BCI600XL Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker – A Comprehensive Review
24 MINUTE READ The Breville BCI600XL Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker, available from amazon*, is a domestic ice cream machine with an in-built freezing system. After a month of testing, I’ve found that it produces excellent ice cream that is smooth and creamy. It has an optimum capacity of 700 ml (0.74 quart) of mix, producing about 900 ml…
Cuisinart ICE-30 Ice Cream Maker – A Comprehensive Review
27 MINUTE READ The Cuisinart ICE-30, available from amazon*, is a domestic ice cream maker with a large 1.89 litre (2 quart) freezer bowl that needs to be frozen for at least 12 hours before it can be used. After nearly 7 years of use (this was the first ice cream machine I ever bought), I’ve…
Cuisinart ICE-70 Ice Cream Maker – A Comprehensive Review
27 MINUTE READAfter a month of testing, I’ve found that the Cuisinart ICE-70, available from amazon*, makes good ice cream that is smooth and creamy with very few coarse or icy bits. I’ve found that it makes ice cream that is nearly comparable to that made in the more expensive Cuisinart ICE-100*, which has an in-built freezing…
Nemox 5K Crea Commercial Gelato/Ice Cream Maker – A Comprehensive Review
27 MINUTE READ I’ve been testing the Nemox 5K Crea, available from amazon*, for close to a month now and have found that it makes exceptional ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. The dasher rotates at a relatively low 70 revolutions per minute (rpm), resulting in dense ice cream with about 7% air. It has…
Lello 4080 Musso Lussino Ice Cream Maker – A Comprehensive Review
26 MINUTE READ The Lello 4080 Musso Lussino, available from amazon*, 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,…
Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker – A Comprehensive Review
34 MINUTE READ The Cuisinart ICE-100, available from amazon*, is a domestic ice cream and gelato maker with an in-built freezing system. After more than 2 months of testing, I’ve found that it produces excellent ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. It has an optimum capacity of 800 ml (0.85 quart) of ice cream mix, producing about 1000…
Cuisinart ICE-100 vs Breville BCI600XL vs Whynter ICM-200LS
The Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker, Breville BCI600XL Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker, and the Whynter ICM-200LS Stainless Steel Ice Cream Maker, are three domestic ice cream makers with self-refrigerating compressors and are available from amazon. All three make excellent ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy, but each has its drawbacks. This will…
Whynter ICM-200LS Stainless Steel Ice Cream Maker – Review
The Whynter ICM-200LS Stainless Steel Ice Cream Maker, available from amazon, is a 2.1 quart domestic ice cream maker with a self-refrigerating compressor. It has an impressive 1400 ml (1.48 quarts) maximum capacity, producing about 1600 ml (1.69 quarts) of ice cream with 14% overrun, an optimum capacity of 1000 ml (1.06 quarts), producing about 1100 ml…
RECOMMENDED READING
Here is a quick list of some of the books I use and would recommend. I’ll keep adding to this as I find new books. 1. www.journalofdairyscience.org – An excellent, and free, journal packed with the science behind ice cream production. 2. Ice Cream (2013) by Douglas Goff and Richard W Hartel. This is, in my…