Immergood - PREMIUM 6 qt. - Stainless Steel Ice Cream Maker - Hand Crank

This ice cream maker seems well built, and durable. We just made our first batch with it today. Fantastic! I would recommend this to anyone that is interested in do it yourself ice cream. It only took us 20 minutes turning the handle before we had ice cream.

We are thrilled with the quality of this Immergood ice cream maker! It arrived quickly and we made our first batch of ice cream the next day! It worked as well as all the videos I’ve seen on line! We had delicious soft serve ice cream after 20 min of churning! No Ivey crystals. We put some in a container in the freezer and it froze beautifully to a harder ice cream but not too hard to scoop! All our friends have raved at how delicious it is! Would absolutely recommend to others!

I purchased the 6 Qt hand crank plastic tub ice cream (IC) maker. So much thought has gone into the design of this amazing product. We have had old White Mountain IC makers growing up that were great and some other generic brands of electric IC makers. We are loving the hand crank!
Benefits of this product:
1. No super loud motors to deal with.
2. I've NEVER seen ice cream come out so solid. It's usually a milkshake consistency. But with the hand crank, you can churn the ice cream much longer than you can with an electric motor so your ice cream turns out WAY thicker! (The electric motors usually burn out over time. White Mountain did send a replacement for free, but that was in the 90's and I doubt they still do that) Disclaimer: I use a country vanilla recipe of my grandma's, so you beat the eggs and sugar until they're fluffy, so it also makes the ice cream thicker.
3. I LOVE the green plastic insulated tub with lid! I don't have salty water leaking everywhere (like the wooden tubs), the ice doesn't melt away as fast since its so well insulated and I can do it inside (no leaks and loud motor).
4. I did buy the stainless lid separetly and I really like that I can leave all the ice cream in the bucket with the ice until it's ready to be served so I don't have to scramble to get the IC into another container before it melts and find room in my crowded freezer.
5. I LOVE the clear lid. I can visually decide when it's thick enough, instead of guessing by the amount of resistance. It also makes it more fun for the kids and is helpful for remembering which direction to rotate the handle.
6. The gears and the housing are very well built. You can really crank on it without fear of breaking it. (I have a hand crank honey extruder from Amazon/China that broke on the first use. It was around $250! So these parts matter!)
7. The ice cream container sits and rotates nicely on the little guide on the bottom of the tub. This had been a huge source of frustration with other IC makers. The perfect alignment allows the IC lid to line up nicely with the little cogs on the hand crank.
8. I really appreciate the stainless steel! No rust. Especially when dealing with all that salt. And it is very thick metal, so I'm not worried about punching a hole in it if it gets dropped or something. (Our last IC maker wore a hole through the thin metal) Seriously, this thing would survive the apocalypse!

My only area of improvement would be that the hand crack handle slightly rubs a nut on the side of the green bucket. All I had to do was push the whole hand crank housing toward the side with the handle and there was enough space/ tolerance to rotate the handle without touching the nut. I put a popsicle stick where the extra space was created for reference.

Overall we are VERY pleased! It is worth every penny. We will have this for the rest of our lives I'm sure. We support US made. We also have our own family business and we know what its like to make products in the US, competing with foreign labor and material costs. I want to be able to buy products in my own country. Thank you for this remarkable IC maker!

We love it! It only takes around 20 mins of churning and the ice cream is amazing! It’s kind of fun to crank it. And all the pieces are really nicely made.

I'm so pleased with this purchase. I used it at a 4th of July get together with my family and it was a huge hit.My granddaughters ( 4 & 5 years old) were able to turn the crank and contribute. Everyone agree it was the best ice cream they've ever eaten.