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Kitchen & Housewares : KitchenAid KICA0WH Ice Cream Maker AttachmentBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Kitchen & Housewares and KitchenAid KICA0WH Ice Cream Maker Attachment. Rating:  - Great icecream maker, but a little smallThis is a great device for making frozen treats fast! I've made ice cream several times already, and it is always delicious. The only drawback is that the freezer container is a little small. Stick to the recommended ingredient amounts and you'll be fine... overfill and the ice cream will not combine properly, and you'll have some icy bits. Still delicious, but the texture will be lacking noticeably. Overall an excellent device for making enough ice cream at one time for 5 or 6 diners. Rating:  - This ice cream attachment is awesome!This ice cream maker is fantastic. My first batch was a 2 gallon batch, which is the full capacity of the bowl - it didn't freeze as well since it expanded as it froze and was above the top of the bowl! I recommend doing a 1 gallon batch. It quickly freezes to the consistency of soft-serve. If you like hard ice cream, you'll want to put it in the freezer for 1-2 hours before you eat it. What fun this is a such a great product! Rating: - I Love This Thing!I purchased the Kitchaid Icecream Maker about 1 month ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it. It is easy to use, easy to clean, and makes a great product. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an ice cream maker for home use that bypasses the hand crank, salt method. It only makes about 2 quarts but for me that is fine. The ice cream is light and airy and holds up well in the freezer. Of course this also depends on your recipe. I recommend a cooked recipe made with the sinful ingredients...cream and lots of eggs. Keep the mixing bowl in the freezer and it is ready to go anytime. I found that it does not require a lot of attention during mixing either. Just check for consistency occasionally, 20 to 30 mins. should do it. Rating: - KitchenAid Ice Cream Attachment v. Special Purpose Ice Cream MakerI own both the KitchenAid ice cream attachment and the Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker, two devices that work on the same principle of using a liquid filled freezer bowl and a machine-operated paddle to make homemade ice cream. I decided to compare the two using the same recipe for French vanilla ice cream (from the KitchenAid cookbook) to see which performed better. The KitchenAid: The bowl has a greater capacity (about 5 cups of mix) than the Cuisinart ICE-20 Automatic 1-1/2-Quart Ice-Cream Maker, White. Although it also takes up more room in the freezer, I liked this aspect. After all, if I'm going to make homemade ice cream, I want enough to make the effort worthwhile. The KitchenAid attachment added more air, which created a slightly grainier, more commercial texture but faster flavor delivery. Perhaps because it froze more mix, the KitchenAid was also slower to finish, taking eight minutes longer than the Cuisinart. Removing the frozen cream was easy except from the complex shape of the dasher. Although both machines were noisy, the KitchenAid was by far the quietest. Because you have to pour the mix into the bowl while the paddle is running and because the thick walls of the freezer bowl make it difficult to access, I recommend resting the pouring shield on the edge of the bowl -- it doesn't fit completely, but it's good enough to minimize spillage. Also, if you expect to add nuts, chips, cookies, or other harder items near the end of the cycle, decrease the mix by the same amount. Five cups of batter plus a cup of nuts will overflow the bowl. The Cuisinart: The ice cream was definitely denser and silkier, although in more limited quantity. The machine takes about 3 cups of mix, and, unlike the KitchenAid, some of it was wasted when it froze solid to the walls of the bowl. The KitchenAid, on the other hand, had little or no waste. My husband preferred the ice cream from the KitchenAid attachment; he claimed that it tasted much better. I preferred the denser texture from the Cuisinart, although the ice cream was much more difficult to scoop after a day or so of ripening in the freezer. Both tasted much better than anything I can buy in the supermarket. Despite my preference for the Cuisinart texture, I'm giving this attachment five stars because it still yields great tasting ice cream with minimal work. You do have to plan ahead, however: the bowl must be frozen for at least 15 hours, and the mix must be chilled a full day in advance. Since many ice cream recipes call for a cooked custard (with egg yolks), this means cooking a day or more before you want to make it. If you have the room in your freezer, you might want to store the bowl there. I recommend wrapping it in a plastic bag to keep ice crystals and freezer-taste out. The decision to choose between this attachment and a special purpose machine depends in part on how many people you want to feed and whether you have the freezer space for a bowl that measures 7 " high x 12" wide x 9" deep (it's not symmetrical because of the outside pieces that allow attachment to the lift mixer). The Cuisinart bowl is only 5.5" tall, with a 7" diameter. Another point to consider is longevity. I expect a KitchenAid mixer motor to far outlive anything on a special purpose machine. This makes a great gift for people who already own a KitchenAid since most of us are also attachment junkies. I highly recommend this ice cream bowl, although I strongly suggest some comparison shopping to make sure this is right for you. -- Debbie Lee Wesselmann Rating: - Great!I still don't know why this costs so much more than the Cuisinart products, but I choose it since I already have a KitchenAid mixer and didn't want to have to worry about storage space for another appliance. It works great and the ice cream tastes delicious! I store the bowl in the freezer. It does work a little better when I set the freezer on the coldest setting. |