Nostalgia Electrics 562 Ice Cream Maker

by Nostalgia Electrics

Product Features

• HELMAN ICE CREAM MAKER SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM ICM562

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9.2 pounds
• ASIN: B0016NUYC4
• Item model number: ICM-562
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,038 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Make fresh Soft-Serve ice cream just like the carnivals of yesteryear. This nostalgic looking ice cream maker resembles the carnival style carts of the early 1900s. It is however a technologically advanced product that will provide fun for everyone over and over again. Easy to use and fun to watch. Electric countertop appliance is safe and fun for the entire family.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Soft Serve Ice Cream From Home, December 30, 2007

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Meritt (Midwest) - See all my reviews

We bought this product as a Christmas gift this year. I liked that it made soft serve style, it used simple ingredients and looked easy to use.

It was!

The drum must be in the freezer for at least 24 hours before you want to make ice cream so I immediately washed and dried it and placed it in our freezer where we have decided to 'store' it so the kids can make ice cream whenever they desire it without having to wait.

Ingredients are simple; milk, cream, sugar and vanilla.

It took about 25-28 minutes of churning but the ice cream was stiff and perfect. It was not 'melty' or too soft. It was perfectly 'soft serve' just like you get at a restaurant.

You leave the machine running to force it to dispense from below. The only thing I wish I could change is to have it dispense in a constant flow as McDonalds or similar can do, but because the paddle is what dispenses the ice cream it comes out in 1-2 inch 'strips' with each pass of the plastic paddle from the inside.

Soft Serve in less than 30 minutes with quick clean up and easy storage (especially if you keep the drum in the freezer!).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars carnival ice cream maker, February 15, 2008

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Doris F. Woolf - See all my reviews
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You HAVE to use whole milk. Also, it helps if you put the ice cream mixture in the freezer for about 30 minutes before you use the machine, then it works well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice to look at - not an adequate ice cream maker., August 2, 2007

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M. Garcia (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews
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I love old fashioned appliances, so when I saw this, I figured what the heck. If you are looking for a table top machine that makes ice cream, get something else.

I've found that most of the variety of appliances from Nostalgia Electronics/Helman Group fall just short of being adequate. My unit didn't cool the ice cream enough to make ice cream. It was kind of in the state of "melting" ice cream and very "liquidy".

If you want something that looks old fashioned, it's pretty decent. If you want something practical, it isn't.