Customer Ratings & Reviews

I am now 2 years into my journey of a healthy lifestyle. I've lost 105 lb over this period of time, so let me start this review by saying that an ice cream machine was not really a temptation that I wanted to have widely available at home. Until I learned exactly WHAT all this machine can do and...it's crazy! Hint - you can have ice cream AND be healthy (or, just have ice cream, haha)! To start, it can do 6 different standard CREAMi programs from regular ice cream to frozen yogurt, sorbet, gelato, milkshakes and lite ice cream. This is ON TOP OF various soft-serve options as well, including regular soft-serve, fruit whip, frozen custard, swirled lite ice cream, frozen yogurt and CreamiFit. So, yeah, from my understanding, this does everything the CREAMi can do, PLUS Soft Serve. It really is the ultimate all-in-one stop for ice cream. I love the fact that you can do both Scoop or Swirl options and the Swirl is always so much fun to do and never gets old...it just brings out the kid in you, lol. Our daughter always volunteers to pull the handle and do the serving. However, my bread and butter with this machine is the CreamiFit setting. In the short time I've had this machine, I've already made two servings of ice cream with protein powder in it. Both servings were great and neither tasted overly "protein powder-ish". Anyway, unboxing this monster wasn't bad at all. I'm so used to Ninja products coming with a huge swathe of parts and various other tools and such that make it all work. I will say that it does seem a bit intimidating at first, but after making your first ice cream or two, it's not bad at all. All of the pieces and parts play together with each other, for the most part, so there's not like 10 different things to keep up with at once. Everything was packaged super well and in typical Ninja-fashion. The quick start and recipe book included are very nice and get you up to speed pretty quickly. There was some confusion at first because we thought we had to freeze the two pint containers first, before doing anything at all. But turns out, that's only for certain programs. Our go-to program so far has just been the Soft Serve and it's been amazing, in every way. Even our daughter was blown away by how great it tasted and said it was even better than the Vanilla cones from Dairy Queen! Score! We've tried several flavors, including Vanilla, Strawberry and Orange Creamsicle. The important thing to remember is for this, you cannot use ice cream that had "chunks" or "bits and pieces" in it, so make sure it's only the basic "flavors" and not the ones with say, cherries, chocolate pieces, etc, in it. And while I talked about the CreamiFit setting in the beginning, I can still use "healthy" yogurt-style, low-calorie ice cream in the soft serve function as well, if I don't want to do anything fancy, like adding protein powder or anything. Like, if I just want a typical "cone" ice cream, but not the full amount of calories. Really, with all of this being said, our only real complaint is when using the machine to make the ice cream, it gets SUPER loud. But this seems typical for Ninja, in general, from our experiences, especially with their various blenders. Not sure why this is the case, but it's a good sacrifice for some fantastic ice cream. The wife has used this way more than I have and when she does, I can hear it all the way across the house! Overall, I give the Ninja Swirl a solid 5/5 stars. It's design is minimalist, for the type of machine it is. Cleanup isn't bad at all - just make sure you rinse everything as soon as you're done with it. Don't let it sit overnight or you'll have a bit tougher of a time. There aren't too many stray parts to keep up with, which I love for a change and once you're over the initial learning curve and intimidation of all the various options this offers, you're well on your way to making the best ice cream in town, right in your kitchen. The little recipe book is only a start - your imagination is truly the limit with this one. We are having a small birthday for our teen daughter in the coming weeks and absolutely cannot wait to bust this out for the guests and it'll be amazing when we get into the hotter weather of Summer. We cannot wait to see what ideas we come up with for this and how creative we can get!

This is a fun, but ultimately pricy machine. It lands somewhere between being a pure novelty and a practical device you could real value from. That ultimately comes down to whether you take full advantage of all of its potential to create unique treats, or your desire to appease children (and adults) with swirled cones in Summer. You can make soft-serve from scratch (recipe) or simply process store-bought ice cream and extrude it into a cone. I tried a range of options, mostly with success, but probably the biggest point of advice is to be careful of how hard you make it work. It’s well constructed, but every machine has its limits. Regardless, I feel it’s important to mention that this thing is consistently loud - extremely loud - no matter what you make. The first thing you’ll realize is that this thing is both large and heavy. It seems very sturdy, but it also comes plastered with tons of stickers to encourage you to follow the instructions and make not of various locking buttons, etc. These stickers come off easily, but between them, the instruction booklet, and overall number of components, the machine gives the impression of its complexity. Luckily, once you get using it, everything makes sense and it’s not that hard to use properly. It’s worth noting that this ‘makes’ ice cream through shaving down pre-frozen concoctions in their special pint containers, and cannot freeze your mixture on the fly. The soft serve feature simply extrudes your treat right after you’ve processed your frozen recipe on the core part of the machine. (Using store bought ice cream speeds this process up, more on that below.) That said, *** Read all instructions! *** It’s easy to do just enough steps incorrectly in your first experiments to stress the machine. I jumped straight to the Signature Vanilla Soft Serve recipe because I was excited to see the machine make real, from scratch, soft serve. I followed the instructions, but used skim milk instead of whole. There are plenty of warnings about making sure you use proper amounts of sugar, fat or replacement ingredients to keep things going as expected. After freezing them for 24 hours, I suspect my mix had more ice crystals in it than it should have. The result was a toasty motor smell that emanated from the machine as it worked hard to get through the frozen block. You can find plenty of stories of people putting these through a bit too much stress, so be careful. My latter attempts went a bit better, with a little less worry about burning out the motor on my brand new machine. Ninja Test Kitchen provides a lot of recipes with various levels of difficulty, based mostly on how many steps, ingredients, or time waited are involved. I tried several so far: — Protein-Rich, Lite Soft Serve: With a little less prep than the Signature Soft Serve recipe that had me melting sugar (easy) this one required simply mixing protein powders and a few other ingredients and then freezing them. The machine seemed to struggle on this one as well, so if I did it again, I’d add a bit a cream or an emulsifier to the mix. After processing, it was a bit more watery than the others as well, but still extruded ok - yet melted quickly. I didn’t love the flavor of my Butterfinger-inspired recipe, but I could see its potential of being a protein-rich snack for summer months. — Frozen Yogurt: While there are more involved recipes, I chose the one-ingredient recipe, which is basically just instructions for freezing store-bought yogurt and processing it into soft serve the following day. It largely worked, but the mixed berry yogurt used remained a bit too tart in soft-serve form. Like the protein-rich recipe, it also melted fairly easily, so consuming your swirled cones quickly can be necessary. — Simple, Store Bought Soft Serve: This is by far the easiest way to make soft serve on this machine… mostly because you’re not really making it. You simply take a store bought ice cream (without chunky fillings) and scoop it into the machine’s pint containers. Since it’s already frozen, you don’t need to wait. You just need to process it on a lesser setting. This is perhaps an example of it being somewhat easy to overlook subtle differences in how you use this machine. I should have read the instructions and chosen ‘Re-spin’ in this case, but my brain defaulted to selecting ‘Ice cream’ - While the machine didn’t have to work that hard, it got slightly unbalanced as chunks of soft ice cream flung around inside. (Again, it’s all about following instructions, even if not many steps!) - This resulted in the best-extruding soft serve. My swirl technique was never mastered, but it still looked the part and didn’t melt as fast as my prior creations. I imagine this being the best way to appease young kids and have enough to go around at parties. The two included pints only provide 4 servings, so this route allowed for refilling quickly. — Summary: If you want to serve up unique soft desserts, whether that be ice cream, fruit sorbets, or protein desserts regularly, this could be the unique tool to do that. Some people swear by their Creamis, so there’s an audience for it. Similarly, those with kids who insist on swirled cones will find this fun. At the same time, cost and space requirements would still make this a novelty machine for many. It’s fun, but how much that fun is worth to you is subjective. Its learning curve is small, but I definitely felt like damaging the machine is a real possibility if you’re not careful, or if you fail to follow all of Ninja’s suggestions on prep and operation. And of course, the biggest downside is just how loud the machine is. I consistently registered 90 dBs during the height of use. I leave the room and close doors when running a program, it’s that loud. Yet, I still like mine, even if only for its fun factor. Making unusual or custom frozen mixtures seems to be the highlight of this machine. Where else can you get any kind of soft serve or real fruit sorbets you can imagine? *** The Good Stuff: - Ability to make unique desserts you won’t find elsewhere. - Making soft serve at home is a fun novelty. - Well designed, robust components. - All core components are dishwasher safe. Easy to take apart for cleaning. *** The Less Than Good Stuff: - Even with all its robustness, feels like you could easily destroy machine if not careful. - Extremely loud, no matter what you make (90 dBs) - Most recipes require a 24-hour wait time for freezing. - Small learning curve, lots of pieces to learn about and sort out before first use.

The Ninja Swirl Creami is another well built, well thought out device from Ninja. I picked this up to appease my children who are both ice cream lovers as well as mini chefs, and we haven't been disappointed. The build quality on this Creami is very good. All the parts are pretty durable, with the machine itself being mostly metal with a few plastic parts, and the containers being durable plastic. The pint sized cups have survived a couple drops so far, as well as the lid for the soft serve portion being frozen on. The machine itself comes with 2 pint sized ice cream containers, and one mixer. I do wish that it came with more pint containers, or that they were larger, but if you find yourself needing more they can be ordered online (which I plan to do). The machine itself is as intuitive as I think is possible, with buttons the correspond to what you want to do. That said, I do highly recommend reading the instructions to be sure. As for the instructions, I advise looking online for recipes. While there are some included in the booklet, I found the two that I made to taste a little off and the instructions not entirely clear on how to make ice cream vs soft serve. Almost all the entries say soft serve while only a few say ice cream (or it might say bowl). Once I tried other recipes and experimented on my own, we were making very good ice cream that the family enjoyed. One critique I will give the machine is that I wish it was audible. There are times when you need to do something and it has a light flashing indicator that doesn't stand out vs all the other lights, which leads to momentary confusion as to what to do next. For instance, when attempting to remove the container after making soft serve, the retract button faintly flashes on the display, but if you're trying to figure out why it won't release, you won't see it. As for the ice cream and soft serve it makes, its very good. The consistency of both has been in line with what I expect from the store or an ice cream shop. I haven't tried making sorbet or any of the other things listed yet, but I have faith in this machine. Overall very happy with this machine and look forward to making more deserts with it.

Tired of going to fast food restaurants only to find their ice cream machine broken? Well, now you have an option to make it on your own. About the Ninja Swirl The Ninja Swirl lets you create a variety of frozen treats and personalize them how you want. You can make ice cream, soft serve, milkshakes, sorbets, gelato, frozen yogurt, fruit whip, and frozen custard from the comfort of your own home. Set Up Setting up the machine was really easy. Set the main base on the countertop. There are smaller components that create an outer bowl that houses the pint. The lid and paddle attach to the outer bowl. The pint, when ready, goes inside the outer bowl for mixing. Note, you have to make the ice cream mixture in the pint and freeze for 24 hours before you can use the pint. Once assembled with the pint filled, the next step is to select between Scoop and Soft Serve. When you pick one of these buttons other buttons will light up showing you what frozen treat options you have. You let the mixer run per the preprogrammed button. If you want soft serve you take the pint out of the outer base and install it in the soft serve dispenser. Once you get used to the machine, you can use the re-spin button to achieve the texture you want or use the mix-in button to add other items into the mixture. The instructions come with one scoop recipe and one soft serve recipe. There are tons of other recipes if you look online. Clean up Clean up isn’t as involved as I anticipated. All parts of the pint and outer bowl are top-rack dishwasher safe or can be hand washed. Simply take the components apart and reassemble them after they have dried. Comparison to Original CREAMi There are two main differences between the Ninja Swirl and the Original Ninja CREAMi: Soft Serve Feature & Size. Soft Serve Feature - Is a way to get swirled ice cream treats. Otherwise, you can get the same soft serve out of the normal pint. It causes the pint containers to be made differently. Size - The Swirl is much larger than the Original CREAMi and takes up more counter space (an increase of 3 in L x 3.5 in W and 2.5 H), though it does still fit under a standard cabinet height. It also weighs about 7 pounds more than the original CREAMi machine so if you need to store it, it’s a bit heavier in addition to the larger size. Important to Note – The Original CREAMi pints are not interchangeable with the Swirl. If you want more than two pints, you’ll have to purchase those separately. The Swirl pints cost more than the standard pints. In addition, the Swirl pints themselves are taller than the Original pints so they take up more freezer space. Here is a quick list of Pros and Cons for the Ninja Swirl. Pros *Variety of treats *Ability to make healthy treats *Easy to use and clean *Fits under a standard upper cabinet *Added functionality with swirl feature Cons *Large item on countertop *Have to be prepared ahead of time with pints already made *Only comes with 2 pints. Have to buy more pints for variety or to cater to larger groups *Not compatible with Original Ninja CREAMi pints *Swirl pints are considerably more expensive Overall, this is a device that has lots of functionality and will be used often by the whole family. I would recommend the Swirl for home use if you love ice cream, milkshakes, and soft serve ice cream. I’m giving the Ninja Swirl by CREAMi 4 stars.

Before talking about this specific machine, I need to say that I have over 5 devices and appliances from Ninja, and I have never had an issue with any of them. the build quality is outstanding and they are always elegant and dependant. The Ninja Swirl is a wonderful addition that I found to be extremely helpful in my household. Right out the box, the instruction labels are placed for easy, quick learning and the all the mechanisms and switches and buttons are solid. the machine is also heavy. it comes with 2 tubs if you want to make and have 2 different kinds ready, I found t his very helpful and a nice touch. as a health concerned person with a family of people who eat and eat and don't seem to gain weight, I have been suffering and not enjoying the delicious ice creams my family eats. so when I got t his machine I got it for 1 reason and one reason only, to make protein based, healthy ice cream and I have been experimenting with it with different flavors and I couldn't be happier. cleaning it is easy and accessories are not an issue. I have placed it permanently on the kitchen counter under the cabinet and it fit nicely. I haven't tried the cone yet but am planning to do so soon. this has been a home run for Ninja and I really am happy I can make protein based ice cream and not worry about the quality of the calories am eating.

TLDR The Ninja Swirl is a full-featured make-it-at-home machine. While easy to use, it takes some trial and error to not only find good recipes, but to make whatever just like you like it. INTRODUCTION My family and I have been looking at the Swirl for some time now. We were very excited when it came up for review. Who doesn’t love a good bowl of ice cream? When the Ninja arrived, it was like someone had called a family meeting. Everyone was in the kitchen and couldn’t wait to see it. Ooh and aahs were heard all around and everyone had their own opinion on what the first kind of ice cream should be made. While unboxing, I was a little shocked to learn that the Swirl isn’t just a one trick pony that does only ice cream. The product advertisements show making ice cream and everything else is overlooked or just not advertised. But the Ninja can do so much more than just make a good bowl of ice cream. It can make very tasty protein shakes, milkshakes, gelato, soft-serve, whips, froyo, sorbet, etc. I was very impressed and didn’t realize the Ninja had a whole other side to it. USE Let’s be clear, protein shakes, and healthy snacks can wait. It’s all about ice cream. With each family member having their own idea of what ice cream is the best, grocery shopping is often a compromise. Who has room to fit multiple ice cream containers in their freezer? To me, this is the biggest benefit of the Swirl. Now each person can have their own personalized bowl of ice cream or ice cream cone whenever they want it. Surfing the interwebs and watching some YouTube videos showed me that, for most treats, you can just make a basic vanilla base and have multiple different flavorings or toppings as options. Super smart! Just keep some pints of vanilla “base stock” frozen and then each person can add what they want. Whether it be Snickers, Oreos, fruits and berries, etc. most desserts can be built with ease. There are dozens of recipes around the web for homemade desserts, protein infused desserts, healthy drinks and snacks, etc. The possibilities seem nearly endless. So many, it is hard to find one that you like. With 9 different food options available, the Ninja does its best to guide you without fuss to making your desired treat. Ninja has done an excellent job of making a product with so many moving parts and pieces, easy to use. Assembly and disassembly procedures are intuitive and very well labeled on all the parts. Items that fit together are clearly labeled and all snap with a reassuring click so you know everything is right. However, forget a step or not have things connected perfectly and the Ninja will let you know. The Swirl will give you an error code showing something is amiss. It won’t tell what it is, but it will tell you something isn’t right. NEGATIVES Without a doubt, using the Ninja is not as convenient as going to the freezer and grabbing a carton of ice cream. With the Ninja, you must plan ahead of time. The basic vanilla base stock I referred to earlier; the ingredients need mixed together and placed into the freezer a minimum of 24 hours ahead of time. The same goes for any other ice cream treat as well. Everything must be made ahead of time and kept frozen until use. Again, it is not nearly as easy as grabbing a spoon and container. There is quite a bit of clean up with the Ninja. It’s not horrible, but it’s not throw the spoon in the dishwasher when done easy either. Thankfully, Ninja has made most everything top rack dishwasher safe, so rinse off your stuff and throw it in the dishwasher. Mine come out squeaky clean after a cycle. There is a learning curve with the machine regardless of how well Ninja has worked to make things user friendly. There are a bunch of little tips and tricks that you learn either by trial-and-error, by reading the included documentation, or by watching some YouTube videos. For example, if you want Oreo ice cream, you can’t just grab the pint from the freezer, throw in some Oreo chips and hit the Mix-In button. Nope. Won’t work. It will just stir your Oreos in about a half inch down. Same with any other topping or ingredient. Instead, you must dig a hole down to the bottom of the pint and fill it up with topping as well, to ensure a thorough mix. Lastly, the Ninja Swirl is LOUD when blending and preparing. Using an Android app on my phone, I measured a peak of 95dB. That’s equivalent to an electric drill, heavy city traffic or a jackhammer at 50’. Thankfully, the longest blend cycle I’ve used was 5 minutes, but it was a loud 5 minutes. Plan on it waking the family up if used in the morning. FINAL THOUGHTS The Ninja Swirl has been a resounding hit so far in this household. It’s been used nearly every night so far. Whether it be for a bowl of ice cream or a quick milkshake, it has been put to good use. I think this is what sums up the Ninja Swirl better than anything. This is something the whole family is into. Everyone finds it user friendly enough that they all still love making a treat even after using it the first time. Not an easy feat for any manufacturer and Ninja has brought the goods. This scores a major win in everyone’s book. Ninja continues to impress me with their innovative products that are durable, easy to use, and easy to clean. Like all my other Ninja products, I have no doubt the Swirl will become a valued member of the family as well. RECOMMENDED

One of my favorite new gadgets of the last few years was Ninja’s Creami. My family and I enjoy the frozen treats. It has been nice knowing exactly what is going into our desserts. When I found out that Ninja was making a variant of the Creami with a soft serve dispenser, I leapt at the opportunity to give it a go. For the most part, the experience has been very good. It is not an experience without a few shortcomings, but my family and I have really enjoyed it. I can still make every treat that I love for the original Creami, but now we get the benefit of soft serve treats at home. Anyone looking into making their own soft serve ice cream cones, should pick up a Swirl by Creami. For more on my experiences, please read on! Setup: The Swirl comes with quite a few accessories. There are some obvious differences from the original Creami out of the box. For one, this comes with two new pints. These pints have a twist open base and a dispenser opening built into the pint. As far as I can tell, old pints from previous Creami models are not compatible with the Swirl. When making soft serve, there is a plunger lid that is made up of three different components. Beyond that, you still have the base unit, the container with handle, the paddle, and the lids for the pints. Experience: My favorite recipe for the original Creami is the Strawberry ice cream recipe from the original Creami recipe guide. Making a scoop recipe for the Swirl was exactly the same as it had been with the original Creami. I had heard that the Swirl was quieter than the original Creami. It may be a bit quieter, but it is still loud enough to wake up every kid in your house or to annoy apartment neighbors. Still, the recipe came out well. I tried my hand at a few soft serve recipes. There is a beginner soft serve recipe and an intermediate soft serve recipe. The difference primarily being that the beginner recipe uses vanilla pudding mix and the intermediate recipe uses milk powder and xanthan gum. Between the two recipes, I highly recommend the intermediate recipe. It is not much more difficult to make, and the product is much more stable than the beginner recipe. The beginner recipe tastes fine, but it melts super-fast. Nitpicks: I have already mentioned the noise, but there are a few other items that concern me a bit with the new model. First, the Swirl wastes a decent amount of soft serve from the pint. When the machine believes it has gotten all the ice cream out of the pint, there was still about a half of an inch of ice cream left in the bottom of the pint. More was stuck near the nozzle. The second complaint is that there are a lot more moving part now than there were with the original Creami. As mentioned above, the Swirl has many pieces to keep track of and clean. The original Creami felt more “self-contained” whereas the Swirl has an extra plunger lid that I must keep track of for making soft serve and the pints themselves have more working parts. And these new pints can leak beyond their base. They seal up, but the seal is not always perfect. Conclusion: Still, I have enjoyed Swirl by Creami. The frozen treats taste great. It is fun to make the recipes. Everything has worked well overall. I am not entirely sold on the new pints, and I wish the unit were quieter, but this is a great device for anyone looking to make frozen treats at home. 4.5/5 Recommend

This is our first ice cream maker and it couldn't be easier. We started out with the two vanilla recipes that come with the quick start guide and they are literally 5 ingredients. We mixed them up, put them in the provided pints, and put them in the freezer for 24 hours. While we were waiting, we had plenty of time to learn how to put the machine together. The instructions are easy to follow and several of the parts have a locking mechanism to show you that they are in the right spot and to make sure things are secure for when you operate the machine. Once your wait is over for the frozen mixture, the mixing has several pre-sets on the machine for what you are making. We have made soft serve ice cream that mixes for 4 minutes. It’s very loud in the first couple of minutes but not sure what they can do about that because it takes a lot of power to whip a frozen mixture. Once the mixing is done, to dispense the soft serve you simply lock on the cap and insert it into the locking mount and pull the dispensing lever. Kids can operate this as well with no fear of them getting injured as it has to lock into place to run. Once you are done, there are only a few pieces that need to be taken apart and cleaned which we have done by hand, but they are also dishwasher safe. And that's it! With only a few minutes of mixing, a day of freezing, and then a few minutes of operating followed by cleaning, it’s a very simple process. The machine also comes with a recipe book for many flavor ideas, but we also found one of my relative’s recipes that they made in an old-style ice cream maker and we duplicated it with ease. So, if you want to have some fun with the family, this Ice Cream Maker is easy to use, no mess, and safe for the whole family to operate. My kids thought it was great and commented that our ice cream was like getting it at a restaurant.

The Ninja Swirl is likely the most unique appliance I have in my house, and one I never imagined liking as much as I do! I was mainly interested in this machine because my son struggles with trying new foods. He is diagnosed with mild autism and has always had severe challenges when it comes to introducing new foods or textures. My hope was that making ice cream together would provide him with a hands-on experience where he could learn about each ingredient, add them at his own pace, and feel more comfortable trying the final product. This may not seem like a big deal to some, but he refuses to mix foods—he loves tofu and he loves rice, but once combined into a single dish, he won’t touch it. I'm excited to say that my plan has worked amazingly well! He has already tried several new ingredients, including yogurt, and he’s genuinely excited about making ice cream now. As with all Ninja products, the design is incredibly well thought out. My wife was initially against getting this machine because she thought the cleanup would be excessive. To our surprise, it’s actually very easy to clean. The machine itself never gets dirty, only the pint containers and the various lids (blending and soft-serve tops) need washing. The lids have rubber gaskets, ensuring no ice cream ever touches the machine itself. I expected a steep learning curve, so I watched several tutorial videos before making my first batch. However, once you learn the process, it’s amazingly simple, and you’ll never need to refer to the instructions again. Interestingly, the machine is only used for the final step of the process (turning the mixture into ice cream or soft serve and dispensing it). This means you can store it away and only bring it out when needed, which is what we dot. I initially assumed the machine would be involved in the entire ice cream-making process, but it’s actually just the finishing touch. The soft serve function is incredible! My son absolutely loves soft serve, and this feature alone has made the machine worth it. So far, we’ve made a Mango Fruitwhip and a Peach Fruitwhip for soft serve, along with a Nutella Yogurt for scoopable ice cream. All three have been amazing and seem much healthier than store-bought alternatives. The machine is a thoughtfully designed machine that has exceeded all my expectations. I love that you can purchase extra pint containers, allowing you to store multiple flavors in the freezer and always have ice cream ready to go. A friend of mine is even considering buying extra containers to make homemade protein ice cream to bring over for the final step in the machine. Beyond the product itself, this appliance has given us a fun activity to share with our son. It’s helping him gradually overcome his sensory processing challenges in a fun and low-pressure way. I couldn’t be happier about it!

This thing is amazing! I worked at a famous soft serve ice cream business as my first job. I remember over 20 years ago wishing for an in home soft serve machine. My dream has come true. The ice cream is super easy to make. Mix your ingredient and freeze in the provided container for 24 or more hours to really get solid. Then put in machine and select the proper function, it mixes it for the allotted time. You can respin if not smooth or adding more liquid. Then pop another lid thing on and place on the soft serve side and pull handle. The healthy options too, are endless on this thing! The only thing that would make it better would be to not wait so long for freezing.

Perfect texture, easy to use, great machine. Good set of instructions on how to do the Icecreams with the package.

TLDR: We made the best chocolate soft serve that even Joe Biden would enjoy! Prep the day before then in 24 hours enjoy! The machine is loud! The style is modern but the build quality is all plastic. Expanded review: Everything is included except the ingredients needed to make the best soft serve you ever had! The family was super excited to make their first batch. We used the included recipe book to make some chocolate ice cream. Once the ingredients were mixed we put the container in the freezer and patiently waited 24 hours to make soft serve. 24 hours later we put our previously frozen ice into the machine to convert it to soft serve. Wow the machine was as loud as a jack hammer. That is probably my only major complaint. The ice cream itself was delicious. Cleanup was easy and we just hand washed everything and cleaned the machine. The waiting time is another gripe we had. We couldn’t have instant ice cream. So if you are having a party you have to make the ice cream the at a minimum 24 hours before. The build is all plastic and it doesn’t scream luxury. It was easy to clean and wipe down.

Super easy to do. Lots of variety preparations and including açaí bowls. Device is very easy to clean too. Texture and flavor of the recipes have been top notch. Actually worried it might impact brick and mortar shops. It’s that good. The only downfall is that 95% recipes require you to prep the recipe to set for 24hrs. It comes with several containers to allow you to batch appropriately but it’s not instant.

Great investment. This has lots of recipes and works good. Only negative would be the size of the container. It doesn't hold much

This machine is an excellent addition to our kitchen. I have been using it everyday since receiving it. I love the fact that you can make even the simplest protein shake mixture into a frozen dessert.

Sounds a little scary while it’s running but I’ve had no issues to date. The machine comes with all the parts intact and has a little recipe booklet with all kinds of options. It’s pretty intuitive to use and the soft serve option is pretty nifty.

It’s incredibly easy to use with just one touch, and it makes soft serve, ice cream, milkshakes, and more. I love how smooth and creamy everything turns out. Cleaning it is a breeze, which is a big plus. My kids are loving all the different ice cream flavors we’ve been making—it’s such a fun way to spend time together as a family!

Wonderful machine. Does absolutely everything it says it does. Main benefit is the soft-serve ice cream, which comes out excellent. Just make sure to have your ice cream freezing for 24 hours before making or otherwise it will not work. Only downside is the machine is HUGE. If you don't have anywhere to store it or insufficient counter space, this won't work for you.

Ice cream machine that's super easy to use. The included recipe book is also a great baseline to use to create your own recipes. It doesn't have a compressor, so you have to freeze your combined ingredients before processing. However, so far it's worked far better than similar machines that have you freeze the bowl. The swirl function is good as well, but not sure if it's worth the price considering how much more the Swirl is compared to the regular CREAMi and it's Deluxe variant.

Works great, nice recipes easy to follow. Slight noise.