Americana Collection Elite Pint Perfect™ EIM1205M 1 Pint Ice Cream Maker Freezing Mug, Frozen Yogurt, Sorbet, Gelato Treat, Recipes, Mint

Make sure to read the directions!Many people keep saying this has no power and doesn't properly make ice cream, more of a soft serve, but allow me to introduce you to a unit that is MUCH cheaper than its competitors (Ninja Creami, talkin' to you) and is versatile depending on how you use it.1. Freeze the freezer unit for at least a full 24 hours. This ensures it is cold enough to create ice cream/froyo/soft serve.2. Follow recipes specifically designed for the amount of ice cream you're making. You can alternate ingredients for taste/diet purposes, such as using a DF alternative or sugar substitute.3. Run it for a LONG TIME. It takes a while to freeze and create your frozen snack, like a half hour. It WILL make ice cream that's harder, it just takes longer.4. Clean the unit properly before AND after using. This helps with the freezing process and keeping it just generally clean.It takes up little space, its noise level is a minimum, much less than bigger units I've tried, it's more convenient because you don't need to make a single serve/mix and freeze ingredients beforehand, and it's cheap. It make an amazing Oreo froyo/ice cream for my husband and I and works if you follow the directions.

I love it! It doesn’t make too much noise and it fits well in the freezer. It says to freeze it for 24 hours I’m not sure if you can freeze it for less I think I froze it for like 25 hours but it doesn’t really matter. It works really well and I let it spin for 40 minutes because I thought 30 minutes wasn't enough but I also was using dairy free milk and stuff so it’s different for me. It tasted so good and the consistency was also really good. The freeze time annoys me because why should I wait 24 hours for ice cream but whatever

Works well and is very fast. Container is pretty small. Made ice cream with a can of coconut milk.

I don't normally take time to write reviews, but this was bad enough that I wanted to spare others the misery of buying a piece of trash. I didn't use my choice words to describe this product for fear of censorship...I bought this as a family Easter gift and right out of the box I was disappointed with the quality; a surprising amount of cheap and brittle plastic in the hand crank, the churning rod, and the motor. Additionally, the metal bands that encircle the outside of the bucket were much too large, meaning that they were for a bucket whose circumference was larger than this one resulting in the bands not being flush against the wood making them integrally useless; I guess they are for looks, but they look ugly as they make it look cheap. I had the faint suspicion that perhaps the wood might expand when wet and thus necessitate their being oversized, but this was not the case; just ugly and too big. Now to the functionality...I'll begin saying I used this once and was scrupulous in adhering to the exact manufacturer instructions and it broke in multiple ways. The product description craftily tells you that the motor will automatically shut off when the thickness of the ice cream creates the necessary resistance; what high quality!...not. There is no sort of clutch in the motor or any design qualities for this purpose, it's just code speech for "when the ice cream gets too thick that the motor overheats, it burns out and can't run anymore!" I'm not kidding, this is actually how it's designed and if you detach the motor component after it burns out with it still plugged in, you'll find that it will not operate after you've made a batch of ice cream until it cools off because what made it shut off was it being overheated; this is an unquestionable recipe for a destroyed motor if used repeatedly in this fashion, which means longevity is out of the question.Let me continue in saying that when the motor did quit on me, the ice cream was NOT at the proper consistency (I'm saying this knowing that the manual says it should be soft serve consistency; it wasn't...more like slushy soup), so I pulled out the hand crank thinking that I could manually finish it. As I cranked for several minutes, it was thickening up more, but the crank's internal plastic components were making a racket (seriously, it was obnoxiously loud and annoying when cranking under resistance that I felt self-conscious that everyone inside eating lunch was annoyed while I was outside on the porch). As I went on, I suspected that the plastic churner was going to brake since it's so flimsy, but to my surprise, it was actually the cast aluminum-alloy handle that snapped off while I was cranking it (I see now that another reviewer has a picture of the exact same thing).Needless to say, at this point I wanted to hurl the thing in the trash can and be done with it, but my frustrations were mildly assuaged when I discovered that at least the handle snapped off right as the ice cream was a little less thick than soft serve consistency, so we were still able to eat it.It actually makes me mad how cheap this product is, I wouldn't "darken the doorstep" of this seller again if they can stomach selling junk like this to unsuspecting customers.

I made Blackberry frozen yogurt. Trying to change my eating habits to get more fruit and vegetables in my diet. I think this will help with the fruit. I can make apple 🍎 sherbet or something similar and you cannot get that in a carton. I love my ice maker. It is quiet, fun to use, frozen in 20 minutes, didn't have to put in freezer to finish freezing. Better than ice cream because you are in control of how much sugar and chemicals that is added. I made mine with Greek yogurt and fresh blackberries and 1/4 cup sugar. That is less than any ice cream that I have found.