Ice cream maker recommendations

Penelope_Penguin

angchris wrote: »

fancy having a stab at making homemade ice cream? this is the cheapest i have seen a ice cream maker selling for! http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/index~modelcode~pan-bh941pemw~dept~smallapps~subdept~kitchenessentials~brand~panasonic.htm?aid=119&awid=60612
i know it shouldn`t be on the old style boards, tell me off board guides if you have to and delete the thread as i have already posted it on the grabbit board but i thought this would specifically be of interest to old stylers as most of the ice cream machines are at least double in price, don`t forget 2% quidco as well! :j

Thanks for that! Does anyone know if this model is any good? I've wanted one of these for a while, but if it's £20 down the drain, it's not a bargain, IMHO.

Penny. x

lil_me

I was thinking the same Penny, couple of people mentioned a Panasonic one on here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=756723&highlight=ben%2Brecipe

It's the ben and jerry's recipes that are tempting me the most :rotfl:

I am wondering if it'd fit in my freezer, looks huge on there and from what was said the whole thing goes in. Ah edit, sized on there too. Also someone mentioned only £30 on Amazon.. then another which links to it being £19.99 on Amazon

Gingham_Ribbon

Excellent find. Thank you.

Amazon £20 richer. Will report back on the icecream thread.

Muppet81

Having read the thread the other day, I felt compelled to order one of the Panasonic ice cream makers at £19.99. It is strange how this compulsion comes over me at times . I utter the words "I went on Martin Lewis's MSE site today" and OH groans and asks how much it has cost.

It arrived on Friday and I used it yesterday.

Size wise it is about the diameter of a side plate, much smaller than I expected and easy to fit in the freezer. It holds a maximum capcity of 750ml.

I followed the recipe book for vanilla ice cream and doubled up on the quatities so I ended up with about 600ml in total. Enough for 4 of us. I think the quantities in the recipe book provided are too small to be worth doing and would recomend always doubling them i.e. to a 4 egg yolk custard mix

I was really pleased with the texture but thought it was a bit sweet, think the vanilla extract I used was stronger than essence and would probably use much less in future.

I think the machine worked very well but I need to tweak the recipe a bit to my taste.

Hope this helps.

moanymoany

After years - well months - of desiring an ice cream maker, I've decided to take the plunge. Where else can I get the gen on the best one to buy but on these threads? So fellow OS'ers, I would love your recommendations.

Gingham_Ribbon

Okay, to my shame, I've just had home made pancakes and ice-cream for breakfast!

We made it last night but it took ages to freeze - about 4 hours. I think I put it in the freezer too soon.

The ice-cream maker is very small and light. My kitchen is tiny but it can fit inside my smallest saucepan so space isn't an issue.

I made a chocolate ice-cream recipe from the net with the help of my son and I am a bit rusty at making custard so it wasn't very thick. I think I'll use Delia's cornflour idea next time so I'm not worried about it getting too hot. But it was delicious. Really, really delicious. Better than Ben and Jerry's my son declared!

My best kitchen buy since the breadmaker.

moanymoany

I've got my ice cream maker and I've made my first ice cream.

It was for dd who is allergic to any dairy produce so I used soya 'cream'.

375mls milk or cream
4 oz sugar
3 ripe bananas

Because the soya cream was only 250 mls I used the other ingredients in proportions.

Puree the bananas - I used my hand held blender- pour in the milk or cream and blend really well. Put in the ice cream maker and set it off - it didn't take long!

I had intended to use Delia's rhubarb crumble ice cream recipe but the soya cream curdled the rhubarb. However, because I'd made the crumble I put that in when the ice cream was almost ready.

I made the crumble and cooked it on a dish. When it was still hot I 'forked' it into small bits, good job I did because it went really hard and was lovely in the banana ice cream.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/rhubarb-crumble-ice-cream,1277,RC.html

for the crumble recipe. I used non-dairy marge.

Note - if you use soya cream reduce the sugar a little - taste the mix to see how sweet it is.

It was really good, and so easy to make. Good for you too!!!

Gingham_Ribbon

Which one did you get, Moany?

I got the panasonic one discussed on this thread. Totally love it. I made choclate ice-cream. I can't find the recipe again but it was basically:

250ml milk
250ml double cream
1 bar morrisons bettabuy chocolate
4 egg yolks
4 oz sugar.

Heat the milk to almost boiling. Whisk the yolks and sugar and add to the milk with the chocolate. Stir until thick without bringing to the boil. Add the cream, cool down and put in the machine.

moanymoany

Gingham Ribbon, I got a Phillips HR2304. It has a 'disc' that goes into the freezer rather than the whole thing. The disc then goes into the body of the machine and freezes the mix. I found a site that gave lots of feedback on the varous machines and this was very popular because the whole machine doesn't have to go into the freezer.

On the experience of one batch of ice cream, it works very well.

angchris

i used my panasonic for the first time yesterday evening, haven`t been out to get cream till then and i`d been dying to try it. i doubled up on the recipe as oh normally eats for 4 and made mint choc chip ice cream using milky ways stars as the choccy, it was relatively easy to make except for the fact that we had to defrost the green food colouring?? ds had managed to put the rolls we bought yesterday into the freezer without checking the rest of the contents of the bag and the food colouring was rock solid:rolleyes:
the ice cream turned out lovely and creamy and moreish, was well worth investing £19.99, i can see us scoffing alot more ice cream in the future...bang goes my waistline (even more )