4.5
Customers say
Customers find the ice cream maker easy to use and making great ice cream. They mention it works well with following all the directions and is delicious. Many customers are pleased with this product and enjoy trying different recipes. However, some have reported issues with resiliency, such as the dash breaking or cracking after a few uses. There are also concerns about the motor performance. Opinions vary on the overall quality.
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The Americana 1.5Qt. Electric ice cream maker churns out delicious homemade ice cream in less than 40 minutes. It features a 1.5-Quart quick freeze bowl and a powerful motorized paddle, so making ice cream is fast, convenient and fun for the whole family! It’s great for entertaining at family parties, BBQ and picnics using all of your favorite ice cream, sorbet, gelato and even frozen yogurt recipes. The motor turns the paddle that whips air into the ingredients producing a smooth, rich soft serve ice cream. The paddle quickly crushes cookies, fruit, chocolate chips or a variety of other yummy toppings and thoroughly integrates them into the mixture. All parts conveniently remove for easy cleaning.
SIMPLE FREEZING BOWL: The Americana automatic ice cream maker comes with a convenient freezable bowl that allows you to quickly make ice cream directly in the unit.
SIMPLE FREEZING BOWL: The Americana automatic ice cream maker comes with a convenient freezable bowl that allows you to quickly make ice cream directly in the unit.
PERFECT SERVING SIZE: The 1.5 Quart capacity provides just the perfect amount of servings for family and friends.
cQUICK & EASY TO USE: The ice cream and dessert maker is simple to use. Simply freeze the bowl overnight, then add the ingredient mixture into the machine, push a button and you’ll have a tasty dessert in a short time.
INCLUDES RECIPES: Prepare homemade frozen yogurt, gelato, ice cream or sorbet from a variety of recipes included with your purchase.
Amazon Customer –
Quick and Works Well
Love the ice cream! Our old Ice Cream maker died and we were unsure about whether we would be as happy with this new maker. It’s easy to use and the ice cream is ready faster. Love it!
Pamela Ragsdale –
Great ice cream maker
Love this ice cream maker. It’s just the right size for me my husband & my mom. Always have leftovers. Just stick the canister in the freezer with the extra & have it the next night.
jaw2004 –
Very east to use and to clean
I purchased this to see if I could make a decent frozen yogurt at home. I’ve recently started making my own yogurt in my bread maker, and wanted to get away from all the additives in store-bought frozen yogurt. This was very easy to use and once I found a good recipe, I am very happy with the item. This is mostly plastic, so I so not expect it to last for very long. But I didn’t want to invest in the Cuisinart or KitchenAid until I knew I would use them regularly.For frozen yogurt…you need to drain it or use Greek, as the extra whey liquid in regular yogurt turns to ice and makes it too hard and not taste good. For a quart of Greek yogurt, I added about 1/2 cup whipping cream and it made all the difference! Tastes rich and creamy, and 10 minutes after taking it out of the freezer, it is easy to scoop. Doesn’t become icy when refreezing, either.
SD Young –
Crack in the lining of the tub
This was a gift. The machine does work but the lining did have a crack
This product works great –
Very good product
Love this it is a very good design and will get a lot of use out it. Love Ice cream
Tulsan –
Obvious Designed Failure Point / Avoid!
Bought in 2022 and used this maybe 3 times ever and then the Dasher broke. This spot is way too thin of playoff material to be expected to survive. It’s an obvious Designed Failure Point. I am a mechanical engineer, I know, and I know this tactic by company’s. I reached out to the manufacturer, expecting a redesigned and free replacement of this part. Not redesigned, and they also wanted $21 + S&H to replace this part that’s just going to fail again. Now, why would I do that? To add to the insanity, due to high demand (I wonder why), the part is on backorder. IMHO, the company should be replacing these as a recall quite frankly. Amazon should pull them from the store as defective and for bad business tactic until they rectify their gross mistake. This is a obvious designed failure point that fails too easily. It’s on backorder probably because they’re failing in mass and people are ordering the part faster than they can make and replace them. The plastic is way too thin at this spot for what this part does. It’s so obviously going to keep failing in this manner. Other models have this spot designed as metal, go look around and see for yourself. Many people will just buy another one vs repair. Cost of one part is too high of a percentage cost of just buying a new one. I cannot believe we dropped $80 bucks on it originally, to be honest. These same units are now going for about roughly $40-$50, probably because people are onto the shady design tactic, intent on boating units and party sales. I certainly will not buy another one of this brand to support bad business tactics. If they just make things to last and they’ll get customers for life! Too bad it had ruined my daughters moment when we were about to make some ice cream. She was so looking forward to it all week.
S. Page –
Big hit with the family!
I ordered this for our summer reunion and it was perfect. We used a recipe I found online and followed the directions in the box for the Ice Cream Maker.Unboxing was easy and the Maker is quick to set up. We washed everything and started making ice cream right away.The little instruction book comes with a few recipes for different types of ice cream and we have yet to try those.With this recipe, it started to slow down and sound like it was stressing the motor after about 40 minutes. We set the timer for 45 so we turned it off early both times. The ice cream was soft serve quality and tasted amazing. We put it in glass containers and then into the freezer for about 2 hours before the kids got at it. We added strawberries for the second batch. I do recommend if you are going to add fruit make them super small when cutting. The strawberries we cut were big and they blocked the paddle so when it was done we had a big clump of strawberries. It still tasted amazing but we had to mix them with a spoon into the two containers so they were evenly distributed.The Recipe we used was 2 cups heavy cream, 2 cups half and half, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix well.Also, we did not freeze the container before using it, I don’t think it made a difference the second time.Love this and will make more of our own ice cream and try out new recipes.Clean-up was super easy, finding a place for it in our pantry took some moving around but we are super happy with the ice cream maker!
Leon B –
Gift
This was a gift and apparently it does a great job.
Cliente de Kindle –
Es un excelente producto para utilizarlo en compañía de la familia y amigos 👌😁, en media hora se obtiene un delicioso helado, otra ventaja de tener este producto es que, se puede controlar los niveles de azúcares.
Alejandro Alvarez –
Es un excelente producto, lo único que noté y que le hace falta, es un interruptor de apagado y encendido, de ahí en fuera es un excelente producto.
caperlady –
It makes delicious ice cream. And a lot more than we thought. I purchased it for a christmas gift for my hubby. So one of my friends remarked what a great hubby I have as he made me ice cream for my birthday…..I replied “what a great wife he has, it was a gift from me”!!!
Samantha –
I’ve made two batches of homemade ice cream so far and it’s fantastic. It’s not the quietest but it’s easy to put together, very easy to clean, simple to use and makes a great batch of ice cream.The recipes in the instruction book are awesome – the blueberry cheesecake was a huge hit!The bucket itself has wood around it and is cute. It doesn’t do anything really but looks nice. While it recommends freezing the metal canister, we just used cold liquid and had no problems.The only thing I don’t like is there is no on/off switch. When you plug it in, it starts.
X S Pillai –
Main drive plastic lid is broken