ZOKU Ice Cream Maker, Compact Make and Serve Bowl with Stainless Steel Freezer Core Creates Soft Serve, Frozen Yogurt, Ice Cream and More in Minutes, BPA-free, Green

Love this ice cream maker. It's small and easy to use. Takes up very little space in the freezer. Makes the perfect single serving size, about 6 oz. And it's very affordable. For best results keep the freezing bowl in the freezer, so that it is always ready for use when you have a craving for a cold sweet treat, but can't get to the store, or maybe you want to make your own flavour. Several recipes are provided, or you can use your own. Once you've mixed your ice cream base, take the bowl from the freezer and pour in the mixture. Quickly mix with the Provided spoon. The creamy blend becomes a nice soft serve ice cream in a few minutes. Can be put in freezer to become firmer. Great purchase if you want to make ice cream, but don't have room for a large machine, or you just like to make a single serving.

Like most here I wanted low carb ice cream without needing to make a gallon. I’m on a keto / low carb diet and can only have 20 grams a day. This is perfect! Ice cream came out great! And I can enjoy a treat with my kids. It was ready in less than 10 minutes and fun to make. My ice cream came out to 8 grams of carbs for 1 serving. I made Caramel Cheesecake Ice Cream. 😋 Here are my ingredients - this makes 2-3 servings, so I put about half away in the fridge to make ice cream again tomorrow: Caramel Cheesecake Ice Cream 8oz Cream Cheese (softened to room temp) 1/2 cup of heavy cream 1/4 cup water Torani sugar free caramel syrup pinch of salt 1tsp vanilla extract Whip the heavy cream with a mixer until you get soft peaks. Throw in the softened cream cheese. Add in the water, Torani, salt and vanilla as you mix. Mix on high until smooth. Done! Stick it in the fridge for like an hour or more to get cold. Then grab your Zoku and put 1/3 to half of it in the bowl and mix mix. Ice cream in less than 10 mins. Enjoy!

Works good. Takes a bit of effort to scrape down the sides, but it's not too bad. It's a great single serving size. I've made frozen yogurt, ice cream made with milk and protein powder and ice cream with milk, vanilla and monk fruit sweetner. I like that I can make a guilt free treat while sitting on the couch watching tv.

I'm trying to eat healthier and cut calories but who can resist ice cream during a hot summer. Some people think this is a bit small but it works for me. It IS small so it doesn't take up too much room in the freezer. Mine is always there ready to be used. In addition to portion control, it allows me to experiment with different flavors, combinations and concoctions and not be stuck with a lot of something that doesn't thrill me. Right now I am experimenting with sorbets as well as cottage cheese ice creams (yesterday was peanut butter cup made with peanut powder and a crushed peanut butter cup). Next will be some fruit flavors. It doesn't take long to have a soft-serve ice cream but it can become harder and icier if you eat it at too leisurely a pace. Another use for it is to keep store-bought ice cream cold. Again keeping with portion control, I sometimes buy ice cream pops or bars. They can start to melt in the heat so I rest them in the Zoku. If I break down and buy a container of ice cream, I serve it in the Zoku. The parts of the ice cream maker come apart easily (and assemble easily) for easy cleaning. Just dry it thoroughly before putting it back in the freezer. If you have a Zoku slushy maker (as I do), I think this basically works the same way. It is just shaped differently.

They need to re-advertise the lack of simplicity of this item. There are a lot of requirements. Particularly freezer space is needed. All your ingredients have to be chilled before. It only shows heavy cream as an option for the milk. Some reviewers said they could make vegan ice cream or use yogurt, but I think they should put their recipe and pictures up. You have to know how to use ingredients well in order to be creative. Probably would have been fun for me. But the person I gifted it to said it was too tedious. Particularly the soft serve part.

I got this for my grandchildren, five and three years old, but they're too young to really stick with it and to understand that you have to keep scraping the sides and bottom. No problem because I can have a nice soft serve in just a matter of minutes and if I keep adding a little of my ice cream mix to the bowl I get enough for them and me as they don't generally eat a lot of sweets so a little is all they really want. I find the mixture really starts hardening up on the sides as soon as you pour it in. I pour in about a quarter cup and immediately start scraping the sides and bottom with a small stainless steel children's spoon and not with the plastic spoon thing that came with it as overall we don’t use plastic items. The spoon hasn’t scratched the surface and works great. Once the ice cream starts to thicken I then add more mixture and go at the sides and bottom again and it all combines and helps the new mixture to freeze up fast. I do this about two to four more times as I usually get a nice soft serve to dish up to the kids right away. Right away is less than ten minutes. I'd read that this won't work with different sweeteners but it works great for me with Pyrue sweetener which is an organic blend of erythritol and stevia and it works with monk fruit powder. I haven't tried sugar as I don't buy sugar. I usually have just plain vanilla ice cream but I've added cocoa for really good chocolate ice cream and cherries for cherry ice cream. It's easy to make up a mixture and to add anything you want once it starts getting a little hard. I haven’t tried a sorbet yet or frozen yogurt. I liked this enough to buy another one even though the kids aren't really into it as young as they are. It's nice to have one in the freezer ready to go while the other one dries. It's also nice to have a stainless steel method to make your homemade ice cream that can match up to many store-bought brands. A little organic cream, organic milk, organic sweetener, a dash of Himalayan salt and a little bit of scraping and mixing and I'm a happy organic grandmother.

It's so frustrating. :( Yesterday I tried it for the first time by pouring in some chocolate flavored almond milk and telling my husband to scrape. After a few minutes he said that there was a 1/4" thick frozen layer that would not be scraped off because it was stuck so fast. The little bit that he was able to scrape off was just like a chocolate slushy - was nothing like ice cream. So this evening I decided to try it with Greek yogurt. I put in some yogurt & a little honey, and immediately the exact same thing happened! About 1/4" thick frozen rock hard layer coats the inside of the bowl and I can't scrape or chip it off for the life of me. And because of that, the remaining liquid isn't able to come into contact with the metal bowl, so it doesn't freeze. Also, the little bit that I was able to chip off had the icy consistently of a slushy, not of ice cream. This thing is making me mad! What am I doing wrong??

This is my new favorite kitchen gadget. Super simple in concept and design (it really is just a fancy frozen bowl), but it does make a delicious product. I have been using this to make a frozen yogurt for dessert almost every night since I purchased it last month. I have not tried making ice cream yet as I have been too lazy to make and keep a base. Plus, the frozen yogurt really is delicious and makes a dessert with a thick and scoopable ice-cream consistency that is also far healthier. I highly recommend this product as long as you know what you are getting. You must not mind a few minutes of scraping/mixing. You must also be satisfied with a single (and sometimes a little bonus) serving. Here is my routine: 1/2 cup of my favorite yogurt with fruit chunks (fat free and reduced fat work just fine) 3-4 tablespoons of yogurt drink (I use store bought kefir) 1 squirt of agave syrup to taste I mix the above ingredients in a cup so that it's smooth. i make sure to add enough kefir or milk to make a thin pancake batter consistency. I also mix in other things such as frozen berries, chocolate chips, nuts. Then I pour this into the frozen bowl and scrape the sides down immediately. I found using yogurt gives me ice cream very quickly and with a thicker consistency. That's really it! In a few minutes, you have frozen yogurt!