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 – 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 – Review
25 MINUTE READ After 5 months of extensive use, which has included using this machine to make ice cream to sell at 4 food markets, I’ve found that the Lello 4080 Musso Lussino Ice Cream Maker, available from amazon*, produces incredible ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. I’ve found that it has an optimum capacity of…
Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker – Review
34 MINUTE READ After more than 2 months of extensive testing, I’ve found that the Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker, available from amazon*, produces excellent ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. In a taste test, I found that it produced ice cream that was creamier than that produced by both the Whynter…
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…
Breville BCI600XL Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker – Review
The Breville BCI600XL Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker, available from amazon, is a 1.5 quart domestic ice cream maker with a self-refrigerating compressor. It has an optimum capacity of 700 ml (0.74 quarts), producing about 900 ml (0.95 quarts) of ice cream with about 29% overrun, and produces excellent ice cream that is extremely smooth, dense, and creamy. This…
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…
Cuisinart ICE-30 Ice Cream Maker – Review
The Cuisinart ICE-30BC Ice Cream Maker, available from amazon, is a domestic ice cream maker with a 2 quart double-insulated freezer bowl that must be frozen before it can be used. It has a maximum capacity of 1200 ml (1.27 quarts) of mix, producing about 1370 ml (1.4 quarts) of extremely smooth, dense, and creamy ice…
I run a small-batch ice cream start-up based in Manchester, U.K.