COWSAR 1 Quart Ice Cream Maker Machine with Built-in Compressor, Fully Automatic, No Pre-freezing, 1 Hour Keep-cooling, Easy to Clean

I was going broke buying all those little pints of Rebel. This ice cream maker works beautifully and I get to make flavors I can’t find. I appreciate the smaller capacity and footprint on my countertop. Also absent is any loud branding splashed across the front. It’s easy to use and to clean. I just fill the container with the ingredients I want and I have perfect, fresh ice cream in less than an hour.

It does a good job when it comes to ice cream and frozen yogurt and is simple to use. My granddaughter had fun making ice cream when she came to visit. You have to make sure that the paddle clicks when you put it in or the paddle won’t turn. It makes about 2 one cup servings and takes about an hour. The recipes in the book are good but all ingredients are by weight so you need a kitchen scale to use those recipes. The paddle is a bit difficult to clean off and some ice cream is easily wasted. I got mine on Amazon Prime Days so it was a good price and I’m very pleased with it.

I really love this machine. I make healthy frozen yogurt with a sugar substitute and have "ice cream" to my heart's content all summer. It's easy to make, and even shuts off automatically, going to a chill feature for up to 3 hours if I forget to check it. The quart canister is just the right size. (One pint for me, one pint for the freezer.) Only hint, the sugar substitute must be dissolved beforehand or you'll have grainy ice cream. Create your own flavors, the sky's the limit.My only complaint is that they sent the wrong manual with it, so I have no instructions or warranty. I asked their customer service for a manual, but they scanned one page pdf. at a time. Maybe someday I'll print each one out and staple them together, but it's a lot of pages. I just wish they'd corrected their mistake an sent me a manual or told me where I could find it online.Other than that, it's a wonderful, self-contained machine that never uses ice and nothing has to be put in the freezer beforehand. I just mix slightly more than a 32-oz. carton of yogurt with some liquid sweetner and organic fruits or whatever healthy ingredients I want, and make it to taste.Clean up is so easy too. Put the leftover ice cream in a container in the freezer.Just wash the quart pail, the plastic paddle and the flat scooper spoon. That's all.It's my birthday present, and I love it!

Luckily, it’s fairly simple to operate. Easy to clean. It’s also fairly quiet, and seems to be very sturdy, I wish I could leave it on my counter, as it’s a bit heavy for me to schlep around at my age, but it’s doable. I like not having to put tubs in the freezer, or keep them in there, and to have the ability to make ice cream on demand. Depending upon where you read, this has 1-qt, 0.9-qt, or 0.8-qt capacity and they recommend not filling it past the maximum fill line. There’s a minimum fill line as well. I’d recommend filling it midway between the lines. I went to the maximum fill line with the first half of my buttermilk base and had to add just a bit of half and half as the rest of the base was not quite up to the minimum fill line. It’s easy to do two consecutive batches, or put the unchurned base in the fridge and churning it the next day, and you could vary the second half with mix-ins, different mix-ins, or flavorings. Not a bad thing at all. I was extremely pleased with the smooth and creamy Buttermilk Ice Cream I made. It even surpassed my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker. I have wanted a compressor-style ice cream machine for years, but couldn’t justify spending that much money. This Cowsar is reasonably-priced, and I saved more buying it during a flash sale. It’s a good size for me, and the ice cream is superior. I have had ice cream from hand-cranked freezers, electric models that need ice cubes and salt, or have tubs that need to be pre-frozen, and this is the easiest and best ice cream with a lot less cleanup. I highly recommend it. My worst con is that the instructions will leave you confused and make your head spin.Additional Notes: Swap the word “Single” in the instructions for “Only” and it will be clear that “Single Stirring,” and “Single Refrigeration” modes mean that these stir without refrigeration, and refrigerate without stirring. The only mode that stirs and refrigerates is the ice cream mode. It’s a money-saver. I was near an ice cream shop yesterday and wasn’t even tempted. I kind of wished after the fact, that I had checked the prices. I didn’t. I am sure I would have felt faint. I just waited to get home to my homemade coconut ice cream.

Perfect amount for 2-3 people. Machine is not too big, not too heavy and does a perfect job. I use equal amounts of heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk and kefir plus vanilla bean powder to max mark on canister. Heavenly. Instead of kefir, whole milk can be used. Kefir just makes it a little tangy and healthy. Very pleased with this purchase and just the right size for us. What a treat!

We have been using this ice cream maker since the end of May (over 2 months) and really are enjoying it. We have probably made more than 10 batches of ice-cream all of which have come out great. We started with the basic vanilla ice-cream recipe in the instructions. We have increased the volumes a bit to get the most per batch. Have now made vanilla, strawberry, mint chip, mocha latte chip, oreo cookie, vanilla oreo cookie, peppermint, Reese's peanut butter, peach, lemon sorbet, etc. Easy to use, easy to clean. Reliable. No need to pre-freeze an insert. Three comments: 1) could be a bit bigger (makes about a pint per batch), 2) would be nice to have a simpler way to add mix-ins and a 5 minute warning to know when to add (I'm stopping the machine taking off the top and adding), 3) it does take about 45-50 minutes to freeze and churn (but you can make another batch right after). We highly recommend this ice-cream maker!