Flash Sale 😍 Ninja NC301 CREAMi Ice Cream Maker, For Gelato, Mix-ins, Milkshakes, Sorbet, Smoothie Bowls & More, 7 One-Touch Programs, With (2) Pint Containers & Lids, Compact Size, Perfect For Kids, Silver 👏

3 reviews for Flash Sale 😍 Ninja NC301 CREAMi Ice Cream Maker, For Gelato, Mix-ins, Milkshakes, Sorbet, Smoothie Bowls & More, 7 One-Touch Programs, With (2) Pint Containers & Lids, Compact Size, Perfect For Kids, Silver 👏

1. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   g – September 19, 2022

   A must for home made vegan ice cream / sorbet. Much easier to end up with something with a good consistency with this than a traditional ice cream freezer. By “much easier”, I mean this thing is practically fool-proof.Mango with carrot is my current favorite sorbet– just cut a large carrot into thirds, and jam the carrot pieces, vertically, into the center of a cup filled with pieces of mango (optionally sweeten to taste) and freeze. Comes out nice and creamy. Nearly every random thing I’ve tried has come out well (partially fermented berries was really interesting). Raw cashews are good to make stuff extra creamy– cashews with cocoa powder, vegan sugar (all sugar except the common white cane sugar which is filtered through “bone char” [charcoal made from bones]) and water makes amazing _creamy_ vegan chocolate ice cream (recipes using cashews are best run through a blender before freezing, but the less liquid ones can just have cashews mixed in whole before freezing since they won’t separate out). Extra strong lemonade (one large lemon per pint), run once through on sorbet setting makes a really refreshing shave ice. Over-ripe bananas just jammed into a cup and frozen comes out super creamy and yummy. Etc.I’m really happy with this purchase.Negatives:This thing is loud! No, this thing is *really* loud! I close the kitchen window to not disturb the neighbor, shoo the cat outside, and wear industrial hearing protection ear muffs when running it.It has a lot of structural plastic parts. I hope replacement parts will be made available because with all that plastic, something is going to break eventually.Minor nit, it requires you to lower the bowl and re-raise the bowl before it will let you run ‘re-spin’. I have to ‘re-spin’ nearly everything I make (everything where the goal is a creamy texture gets a ‘re-spin’). I’m worried about the extra wear and tear on the plastic mechanisms caused by this ritual lower bowl + raise bowl + ‘re-spin’.The portion of the splined shaft that the blade rides on, that is exposed when the unit is not running, needs to be wiped off after each use, but you cannot access most of the length of the shaft (it extends down into the cup when in operation). I hope they have some sort of seal that self-cleans this shaft, since the user cannot.The separate two packs of additional pint cups are very expensive for what they are (and you will probably want to buy some extras).

2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   SJ Holley – October 23, 2022

   I got tired of walking past the ice cream/sherbet aisle in the market. All I saw was sugar infused, excess ingredient cartons that the same old flavors I’ve been seeing for decades. Now I have endless options. Just about any fruit can be turned into sherbet. I’ve done banana, apples, cherries, blueberries, melon, peach, fruit cocktail, and strawberry already. I know exactly what I’m getting because I was the one who put the ingredients into the container. Now if there’s a sale on fresh fruit I can buy extra and freeze it in one of the containers and have it available when I want it. I don’t have to worry about throwing things away because they get too ripe.The ice cream option allows for me to use only natural ingredients to get a smooth and more healthy option than I can get at the super market. There is also a lite ice cream option for those who want less fat. That’s my option most of the time. I use oat, soy, or almond milk to cut down on the fat. Dark cocoa powder gives me all the flavor I need to a rich chocolate treat.

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jennifer Barlow – December 7, 2022

   This is now the third time in my life I’ve tried a home ice cream maker. Well, third time is the charm! This machine is AMAZING! The chocolate hazelnut gelato you see pictured above is made with skim milk and sweetened with allulose, making it low calorie while still completely delicious and creamy. How the machine gets skim milk so creamy I have no idea! It’s even better if you use a little half and half. The pint I made tonight was 315 calories for the whole pint, and it has exactly what I want in it. I hate all other non-sugar sweeteners, and I prefer not to have tons of fat and sugar. Here are the advantages of the Creami over my discarded ice cream makers of the past:–it seems to be nearly fool proof. You won’t always get a great result if you’re just winging it, but you do generally end up with actual ice cream. In the other ice cream makers, if you got the proportions wrong, it would sometimes not really freeze or it would get icy.–It’s so much easier to get the ice cream out and to clean! The ice cream maker I had with a compressor was such a pain–you had to get the ice cream out around the paddle, or dig the paddle out of the ice cream, and invariably you end up making a mess. The Creami pints are so much easier to deal with. Even the lid, which is a little more annoying, is pretty easy to clean once you know what to do. (Read the manual, even though you have to go online to get it–it’s important to take out the rubber gasket and clean under it.)–It doesn’t matter if you have leftovers that freeze hard as a rock. We never enjoyed eating ice cream from our other makers on the next day, because they always hardened so much in the freezer. (And you had to make so much we always had leftovers.) With the Creami, if the leftovers freeze hard, you can just process them again and have just as good an experience the next day.The only real downsides I can see are 1) you have to wait 24 hours for your pint to freeze before you can make it into ice cream, and 2) the horrendous noise the machine makes. It’s seriously loud, and the sound changes in alarming ways as the blade makes its way down and back up. The first few times I ran it, I was afraid something was going to break or blow up or something. I am now starting to get used to it and know the weird noises are normal. Dealing with the racket is totally worth it!If you’ve tried an ice cream maker before and decided it wasn’t worth the hassle, give this one a try. It’s wonderful!