Product Description
What's Better than a quart of luscious homemade ice cream, sorbet or frozen yogurt? Two quarts! The fully automatic Cuisinart Pure Indulgence makes 2 quarts of your favorite frozen desserts or drinks in as little as 25 minutes. It's easy - an intergrat
- Fully automatic frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream maker
- Brushed stainless-steel housing; heavy-duty motor
- Large ingredient spout for easily adding favorite mix-ins
- Double-insulated 2-quart freezer bowl; instruction book and recipes included
- Measures approximately 8-1/4 by 8 by 11-1/4 inches; 3-year limited warranty
Customer Reviews
2010-05-17
By C. Kyhl (Midwest, USA)
- I leave the tub in the deep freeze with a saran wrap cover secured with a rubber band. Minus 10 degrees and can make ice cream in < 30 minutes with chilled ingredients.
- I like the 2 quart size for our family of 6. The 1.5 quart unit would be too small.
- It does make a bit more noise than I care to have in the kitchen, so I let it do its thing in the laundry room instead. It's not as noisy as my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer (not even close).
- I have made a couple custards (i.e. ice cream with eggs that you heat and thicken) from the recipe book so far and let them cool overnight in the fridge before freezing them. The chocolate recipe was excellent. Custards are MUCH more smooth than un-cooked recipes. I also like to use Baker's Sugar instead of regular granular/table sugar. Baker's sugar is much more fine and disolves in a snap.
- I'm going to purchase a 2nd tub so that we can make a couple different flavors and handle a larger group.
2010-05-14
By Elizabeth A. Cintolo (New England)
If you want ice cream that's fresh, free of thickeners and additives,and are not a purist who insists on crank-handles and rock salt, this is the machine to purchase.
I was directed to the Cuisinart when it was recommended in a recipe post for hot fudge sauce that contained no corn syrup.
The machine is compact, easy to use, easy to clean, and performs consistently.
I have tried some of the recipes from the enclosed pamphlet, and the ingredient and yield amounts are accurate. I've tried a few recipes from other sources, and they worked just as well.
The only drawbacks: The bowl for the machine is a double-walled water jacket and must be kept in the freezer for several hours before use. This is only problematic if you have a small freezer.
I've found that the ice cream sets up better on humid or rainy days. Whenever I've used the machine on dry days, it doesn't thicken in the machine. The finished product will set up nicely after a few hours in the freezer, without crystalizing.
I can't speak of it's performance with raw or slightly pasturized heavy cream~ I only have access to ultra-pasturized cream.
I ordered the Cuisinart and it was sent UPS ground (free shipping). Expected shipping time was 10 days; it arrived in three days.
2010-05-08
By Izmadiz (usa)
We make ice cream constantly with this machine, so much so, that I am on here to buy another bowl so we never have to wait to wash and refreeze the bowl. Here are some things you might want to know beforehand.
One, it is loud. Quite loud actually, so not something you want running with guests over.
Two, You can't make one batch and then try to make a second batch immediately afterward after transferring first batch out because it loses enough "freeze power" to not do well the second time. (Hence, why we need a second bowl!)
Three, It seems better to stick the bowl in our deep freeze. It's colder than our fridge freezer and doesn't get opened as much. In the fridge freezer, it seems to be more runny than when we use the deep freeze, so you may want to turn up your fridge freezer for better consistency. Definitely need to leave the bowl in for 24 hours if you aren't in a cold cold freezer.
Four, To refreeze if you wash it, you have to wait a long time for it to unfreeze so you can wash it (try to wash it too soon and your water/sponge freezes. But you can skip a few washings and just scrape out the ice cream, refreeze for just a few hours instead of all day if you intend to make the same flavor next b/c you can't get it all out.
2010-05-07
By Natalie Bates (Houston, TX United States)
I've made several batches of ice-cream with this now. It's the best ice-cream maker I've ever had! I was wary of the noise issues the other reviewers talked about, but it honestly doesn't seem that loud to me. Highly recommended.
2010-04-24
By G. Burkhart (Winter Haven, FL)
We have been making ice cream the old fashioned way - ice, salt, etc. We are "sold" on this item. It is a breeze to make delicious ice cream in 30 minutes instead of an hour and lot of clean up. As a matter of fact, we now own three of them and can make 3 flavors all at the same time. Great product.
