Deni 5400 Scoop Factory Automatic Digital Ice Cream and Frozen Dessert Maker

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Product Features

• Makes 1-1/2 quarts of frozen desserts or drinks in 30 minutes or less
• Automatic digital timer sets in 5-minute intervals for 30-minute maximum
• Double-walled liquid-filled canister freezes evenly, stays cold longer
• 62-watt high-performance motor base with anti-slip feet
• Locking see-through lid; 1-year limited warranty

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00069ZX5M
• Item model number: 5400
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #543,426 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
This automatic ice cream maker produces 1-1/2 quarts, or 10 servings, of premium ice cream right from home faster than it takes to go out and get a cone from the local ice cream parlor. For ice cream, sorbet, flavored ice, or frozen drinks at the spur of the moment, dessert fans can store the 5400's canister in the freezer at all times; otherwise, the canister requires a minimum of 8 hours to freeze. The patented canister has walls that are liquid-filled for even freezing and double insulated to keep the bowl colder for a longer period of time. When ingredients are ready, the canister rests on the high-powered 62-watt motor base and the stir paddle fits inside the canister. The plastic lid locks over the canister and is clear for easily checking that desserts reach the proper custard-like thickness.

With the ice cream maker running, cooks pour their mixed recipes through the top of the lid and wait anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes for the ingredients to reach the proper consistency. The digital controls include a power button and a timer that sets in 5-minute intervals. The timer emits a warning sound when the ice maker has three minutes to go and sounds again when the set time has elapsed. Anti-slip rubber feet keep the maker from moving across the counter during mixing. This appliance comes with a book of 30 recipes and is covered by a one-year limited warranty. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, although slightly flawed, ice cream maker, June 27, 2005

By	Sarah Calkins (Orange County, CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We recieved this ice cream maker as a present, and it quickly became the most-used kitchen appliance that we have. It makes excellent ice cream and even better milkshakes from no pre-frozen materials but the canister, and is ideal for making ice cream and milkshakes to a custom diet (sugar free, low carb, no preservatives, with no-lactose milk, etc.) as well as for just experimenting with different flavors that you usually couldn't buy in a store. Some of our favorite recipies that we made up, modified from the basic recipies provided in the manual, included Chocolate Mint Oreo Shakes and White Chocolate Rasberry Ice Cream. The unit itself doesn't take up much counter space and some of the parts are machine-washable, although not the main canister that needs to be frozen. It's completely automated so no hand-churning is required and the motor is quite powerful, so it doesn't jam too ofen. The timer built in also lets you set it to go and not have to worry about watching a clock to stop it...in theory, anyway. More on that later.

So those are the positives. As to the negatives, though, there's one really big one - the canister is fragile. After being repeatedly thawed and frozen the plastic casing gets brittle, and we've had to buy two replacement canisters over the course of a year and a half when the canister has fallen and shattered into pieces. Replacement canisters cost 2/3rds of the cost of an entire new unit. And the other very big drawback is that the inside plastic part that scrapes the ice cream off the sides of the canister as it churns is flexible plastic and doesn't quiiiite reach all the way to the edge, and so unless you constantly babysit the machine as it makes ice cream and scrape the sides of the canister with a metal spoon it will in a best-case scenario make very little useable ice cream in the center of the machine and rock-solid inch-thick ice all around the side, or else it will jam the machine and require you to chip away the hardened ice on the inside until it can move again. A slightly thawed canister actually works a tad better in the long run than a frozen solid one. And for minor nitpicks, the machine itself is pretty loud. And there is also, oddly enough, no "Off" button - you have to unplug the unit entirely to stop it.

Despite those things, though, this unit allows us to make better-tasting shakes and ice creams at home than we could buy at a store (in particular since we use Splenda as a substitute for sugar,) and for cheaper too, and although it has some problems it's something I'd recommend to others.