KUMIO2.2-Quart Ice Cream Maker with Compressor, 2 in 1 Ice Cream Yogurt Machine, No Pre-Freezing, Stainless Steel Ice Cream Maker Machine with LCD Display, No Pre-Freezing

I've been making ice cream for decades. Starting with the old hand cracks & ice, then on to hand churned frozen custards, a Kitchen Aid frozen drum, and most recently a Cuisinart frozen drum. Yes they all work, and they are ALL work on some level, but this thing is simply too easy. Hand washed all of the food touching parts and started w/ a batch of lemon sherbert, and followed that immediately with a batch of vanilla ice milk using high fat cream line whole milk from our local grass fed Jersey cow dairy. No cream, no custard making, just sugar, milk, and vanilla. It was absolutely delicious! And incredibly simple. Poured my ingredients into a small bowl after dissolving the sugar, pre-chilled in the frig for a short while, and then poured into the machine's mixing bowl. Pushed Power button, then menu, where it defaults to ice cream, then pushed start and voila, an hour later it was all done. The consistency was a good deal firmer than soft serve, and it all transferred easily into the silicone containers that we bought specifically for this purpose. Dropped them both in the freezer for another hour each to firm up some more, but it all came out of the machine ready to eat. Frozen custard tomorrow, and then a five day fast to try and spare my liver and pancreas. This thing is dangerous, it's that easy.Clean up was a breeze, but I would suggest adding your ingredients as a pre-chilled mixture and do it with the mixing bowl out of the machine. That way there's no chance of spillage getting down into the freezer compartment. The Amazon driver delivered it upside down, in spite of the box markings, so I let it sit properly oriented for a couple of days before plugging it in and everything ran great. The noise level was about equal to our range exhaust fan on low, so those watching TV in the next room could barely hear it all.I've read a lot of reviews for much more costly Italian machines of this type, but I can't imagine how they offer any real value compared to this. With part of the money I didn't spend I added the extended warranty, but it seems well built, and it's not the sort of applian e that's gonna get beat around, so expect it should last a good while. It may leak refrigerant eventually, but for now it runs like a champ and I see no reason to expect it to not hold up.Over all I couldn't be happier with the purchase.

Before I go further I want to give you a recipe for delicious peach ice cream that is super easy and quick, and, if you will indulge me, a bit of reminiscence.Five minute prep time.You need 3 ingredients, maybe 4.1. Canned sliced cling peaches. Mine were in "lite" syrup, I don't think it matters. Some kind of syrup.2. Heavy cream, about a cup.3. Vanilla extract. We used Great Value, which, to me, tastes better than McCormick.4. Some sort of sweetener. We used Toriani sugar free Peach because that was what was on hand. If your peaches were in heavy sweet syrup, you probably don't need another sweetener.Steps:1. Drain the peaches, reserve the syrup. Fill the churn about 1/4 full of sliced peaches in whatever syrup sticks to them. The reserved syrup will be used to top the ice cream when it is served. If you have leftover peaches they can top the ice cream as well.2. Add 1 teaspoon (more, less or none, to taste) Vanilla.3. Put in the syrup, probably enough to sweeten two cups of coffee. If you use granulated sugar you may need to make simple syrup. You want to be sure that the sugar is dissolved. Maybe heat the peaches...or leave the sugar out, use peaches in heavy syrup.4. Add heavy cream until the inner churn is 1/2 full. Do not overfill. You want close to equal parts of peaches and cream.5. Assemble and start the machine. Let it mix for a couple minutes and then taste and adjust. We needed no adjustments.No ice, no salt. Stop the machine when the ice cream is the consistency of firm soft serve, about 35-45 minutes. Turn it out into a prechilled bowl and let it harden in the freezer. If yours takes longer, great. I never needed to let the machine run the full hour.Making ice cream in this gadget can be that simple. Five minutes to assemble the ingredients, and 45 minutes to an hour later you have ice cream. If you want hard ice cream, you want to put it in the freezer for a while.The recipes in the book that is supplied with the machine are too big for the small machine, they seem to want to fill the reservoir twice. Beware. We made vanilla (mixed milk and cream), pistachio (unsalted pistachios crushed up added to vanilla, with a couple drops of green food coloring for old times sake) that was better than any commercial pistachio, simply because every bite of ice cream had enough nuts in it to give it tons of pistachio flavor.The inner aluminum churn transfers the cold from the outer churn really well, because it fits well, don't dent it or assemble it wet. You can overchurn, so once the contents are solid, stop the gadget, pull out the beater, and use the plastic scraper to get the frozen ice cream off the walls.My grandmother used to give me peach ice cream when I was a kid, yellow food color and artificial flavor, tasted like sweetened chemicals. Truly horrid. Then, about 30 years ago I made homemade peach, frozen peaches, cream and eggs, and it was one of the best ice creams I had ever eaten, but, ice, rock salt, and churning forever.I expected it to be horrid, peach after all, but was persuaded to try it. I'm glad I did.My memory of that peach made me consider getting another churn. I wanted good peach ice cream! Then I saw this gadget, no ice, minimal mess, fresh ice cream for one or two people. I have a countertop icemaker that I believe uses the same refrigerant, so I expected it to freeze well. It does.Don't put any parts except for the all plastic bits in the dishwasher. The lid has an electric motor in it, so I would not dunk it. You do not want to dent or corrode the inner churn, and dishwasher detergent eats the coatings off aluminum. Hand wash it in mild detergent, rinse and dry well.I want to try raspberry frozen yogurt, with whole milk Greek style yogurt and fresh raspberries. There are a ton of other recipes, coffee ice cream with actual coffee, green tea ice cream, and this machine makes all that possible. Just a cup of mix to try a recipe won't be too small for this gadget. If it is screwed up, it is just a cup of cream.It makes Ben & Jerry's sized portions. A couple big scoops for two people and the ice cream is gone...but the good news is that you cam make more.The downside is that it won't make ice cream for six ice cream lovers in one run. The upside is that you can make two or three different flavors without that much work.I am surprisingly enthusiastic about this machine.