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The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Maker - Pro Line by KitchenAid. Prepare a variety of delicious frozen drinks and desserts, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, gelato, granita, and margaritas. The horizontal freezing cylinder makes it easy to control "overrun", or the amount of air mixed into a dessert. Brushed stainless steel housing is durable and easy to clean. Freezing cylinder is stainless steel for lasting performance. System begins to chill with the flip of a switch. Most desserts are ...
- Self-contained commercial-style batch freezing system for frozen drinks and desserts
- Brushed stainless-steel housing and cylinder; half-gallon-capacity; front-loading design
- Gourmet controls; built-in funnel and ingredient pusher; professional-style dispensing head
- Horizontal freezing cylinder helps control "overrun"; drip tray; overload protection; easy to clean
- Measures 16-3/5 by 15-3/4 by 15-3/4 inches; 2-year replacement warranty
This Ice Cream Machines give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Excellent
Does everything as advertised, and does it well. This thing makes great home-made ice cream. The ability to modify the volume by varying the amount of the ice cream mix works, but takes some practice to get the desired result. Cleaning is very easy, which is a good thing, because it weighs 50 lbs and basically has to stay where you put it. I think it has only two caveats. This is a noisy piece of equiment, although, with some experience, the change in the noise as the ice cream get processed can indicate when its done. The second is that its a good idea to stock up on the gaskets it needs to keep the seals in the dispenser because they will wear out, although KitchenAid did provide an extra set in the box.
2. Great if you understand what it is and what it's not.
I have had this machine for a month now. It was a leftover stock from an Expo design center. Kitchenaid has quit producing them. I paid around $650 for it as they wanted it off their stock and it was the last one.
When some see this rather large looking machine they think it may offer a large capacity than it does. This unit can freeze room temperature liquid in about ten minutes more or less. Impressive! But you have some heavy duty freezing units getting it done. Alas the actual containment drum for this unit is fairly small. It's probably good for a quart of softserve, or 3-5 frozen drinks depending what size glass you use.
Now, as to what this is and what it isn't.
It isn't technically called an ice cream maker. it's a frozen dessert maker. This unit is basically like those frozen slushee/slurpee machines you see at the convienence stores. With a couple differences. One being capacity is obviously smaller. Second, the Kitchenaid unit freezes...
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Parts are no longer available "NLA"
BUYERS BEWARE as there are very few parts available for this DISCONTINUED Kitchen Aid appliance. This is shocking as I have a house full of their products. If you are very lucky you might be able to find maintenance O-Rings occasionally but that is about it. Pieces of the dispenser assemble broke on mine and this part is "NLA" or No Longer Available. This has left me with a $1200 item I cannot use. I used it four times, doing the math each cone of soft serve cost me about $200 each. There are also some sellers trying to sell-off their units for $2300 to $2500 these same sellers are not telling customers about the parts problem either. I find it quite shameful that some people attempt to sell products at more than twice the retail manufacturers' price as well.
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