Sales Rank: 4985


Features:

Freezer can and dasher are dishwasher-safe

Makes 6 quarts of ice cream, frozen yogurt, and other frozen confections

Electric motor makes traditional family fun easier

Stainless-steel freezer can and dasher inside wooden tub

Ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sherbet recipes included

Average Rating:
Rating: - White Mountain is the Best
Twenty years ago when we got married we received a White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer as a gift. It was so different than any other ice cream freezer we had ever had. The ice cream turns out so smooth and the leftovers stay so smooth and good in the freezer, not turning hard like so many other ice cream freezers we had used. We have never had a problem with it at all, until a month or so ago our daughter dropped the motor on the ground and it broke--so we decided to purchase a new ice cream freezer. We would not purchase any other than the White Mountain. We have made many different flavors--the freezer works great with fruit and nuts, choc. chips,-anything. From the time our kids were little and still today as they are teenagers and beginning to leave home--we all look forward to the special days when we gather around and make homemade ice cream. It has become a tradition in our family. This is a great machine!!!!!

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Rating: - Painless Way To Make Lots of Wonderful Ice Cream
Our family loves this ice cream machine! It makes enough ice cream (6 quarts! not 1 to 1-1/2 quarts like the others) for our family gatherings or enough to store for future consumption. It's very simple to operate with the electric motor doing all the work and the Ice Cream is fabulous, smooth and creamy. We put it on a "rag rug" on the kitchen floor and everyone gets to help with the adding of ice/salt. It's a bit noisy, but my kids consider that part of the fun. Our only complaint is that very few recipes are included with the machine. Solution, purchase a book of ice cream recipes to supplement. Some good ones are: Frozen Desserts : The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets, Gelati, and Other Frozen Delights which gives DETAILED history/information and The Ice Cream Machine Cookbook by Melissa Clark which includes some very creative ice cream combinations.

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Rating: - Great capacity, but noisy and a bit expensive.
This is our first ice cream maker and it has worked well for us. I liked the ice-free machines that didn't require storing the bowl in the freezer, but they were too pricey and had small capacities. This machine has more than enough capacity (we have yet to make a full batch) and dealing with the ice and salt is not that much of a hassle. My only complaints are that it is noisy (like a mixer on high speed) and it seems expensive for an electric motor, a stainless steel container, metal mixing paddle, and a wooden bucket that leaks unless you keep some water in it to swell the wood). The noise is not extreme, but you do have to raise your voice a bit to be heard. The manual only has 3 or 4 basic recipes in it so I would recommend getting a recipe book as well (we use Ben and Jerry's).