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Andrew James Professional Fully Automatic Ice Cream Maker With Built-in Compressor + 128 Page Ice Cream Maker Cook Book.


4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
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  • Professional fully automatic Ice cream and Frozen Dessert Maker - simply fill the bowl and switch on
  • Large Capacity 1.5L ice cream Bowl
  • Ice Cream can be made in less than 60 minutes - Professional built in compressor.
  • Makes Ice Creams, frozen yoghurt, sorbets, Italian Ices, Chilled soups and Frozen slush drinks
  • Window allows you to add nuts or fruits during the ice cream process- perfect for adding chocolate chips or fresh fruit
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Product details

  • Boxed-product Weight: 14 Kg
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  • ASIN: B004K9BCX6
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 21 Jan 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,501 in Kitchen & Home (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Home)
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Product Description

Andrew James Professional Fully automatic ice cream maker with built-in compressor + 128 Page Ice Cream Maker Cook Book

Professional fully automatic Ice cream and Frozen Dessert Maker - simply fill the bowl and switch on.

The Ice Cream Maker was recently voted by The Independent Newspaper as being in The Top Ten Best Ice Cream Makers

Large Capacity 1.5L ice cream Bowl

Ice Cream can be made in less than 60 minutes - Professional built in compressor.

No pre-freezing is needed.

Makes Ice Creams, frozen yoghurt, sorbets, Italian Ices, Chilled soups and Frozen slush drinks

Add your own natural ingredients for the perfect ice cream

Window allows you to add nuts or fruits during the ice cream process- perfect for adding chocolate chips or fresh fruit.

Powerful Mixing mechanism with a strong motor

Electronic control panel with LCD, easy programming, presetting, resetting and break.

LCD display indicates the inside temperature and remaining time

Elegant, solid stainless steel design.

Non-stick coating removable bowl, easy for cleaning

Extended cooling function to stop the ice cream defrosting if you are not there.

Cooling Temperature -18 to -35 degress

Unit Dimensions - 385 X 300 X 313 mm

N.W 12.5kg

GW 14.6kg

I year guarantee

128 Page Ice Cream Maker Cook Book

CE and ROHS Approved,/p>


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
59 of 59 people found the following review helpful
By CJ
This Ice Cream maker is an extremely good product. Add fruit, sugar and cream, and in 50 minutes perfect ice cream. Other ice cream makers are being reviewed as "noisy"; this one isn't. In fact, it's so quite that one can only just tell if the compressor's running. It is very easy to clean, and does appear to stop driving the paddle if the mix sets too solid for it to turn. My only criticism is the aluminium tub for the ice cream; it would be better if it were made of stainless steel.
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121 of 122 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this item because my previous experiences with the "freeze the bowl and pray" type ice cream makers had been very disappointing. This machine does make very good ice cream. but it is fiddly and to my mind there is are two huge whopping design flaws which detract from the entire experience.

The machine makes just over a litre of ice cream. To freeze the ice cream mix you set the machine going, make sure the paddle is rotating and pour the mix into the freezing cylinder. The paddle is driven at the top and has a slightly concave bottom to the main shaft which sits on a nub at the bottom of the cylinder. The paddle is very prone to freezing solid at the bottom and having a puddle of unfrozen mix sitting above. The drive mechanism seems terribly fragile and I'm worried it will break.

The other design flaw is the size of the orifice through which the mix is poured into the cylinder. It's minute, and pouring a pint or more of goopy custardy mix or youghurt through an orifice with a width of approximately 1.5 cm (the orifice is roughly rectangular and is longer at say 3cm) but it takes a steady hand to pour. I ended up customising a funnel that I could fit into the gap and pour more safely.

The machine is built in China and the instructions are a bit cursory. It doesn't stress the fact that you need to set the machine off before you pour in the mix. I got that from the free book of ice cream recipes which came with the machine.

Over all it's good and makes nice product, but it isn't a set it off and go away to do something else experience, you may well find yourself disassembling the machine to manually stir the mix a couple of times.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Here's My ReviewsCast of my Andrew James Fully Automatic Ice Cream Maker.

In the video I'll quickly tell you
1. A bit about the machine
2. What I like about it
3. What I don't like

Then I'll show you
4. How to set it up
5. What the ice cream is like
6. How to clean it
7. What the body of the machine is like

Pros
Lovely Ice Cream
Very Quiet
Easy to Use
Easy to Clean

Cons
Body prone to marks and scratches
Lid and churn arm feel a bit plasticky

Overall
For the money, the Andrew James Fully Automatic Ice cream maker is a great little buy. It makes lovely ice cream, it's quieter than any other fully automatic ice cream maker, and it's very easy to use once you've got the hang of setting it up. It's also easy to clean.

Because it is a budget fully automatic, I feel this is reflected in the body and the churn arm. Although the machine is solid and well made, the body has a brushed steel finish which can be a bit more prone to marks. And the lid and churn arm do feel a bit plasticky.

However, having owned this machine for about 6 months now, I would say that the positives for me far outweigh these slight negatives. You won't find a quieter ice cream maker, and the ice cream is on a par with other more expensive machines. Plus If you have a place for it to live permanently, then you shouldn't mark the body like I have. (Because I have a small kitchen I often put the machine in it's box when not in use, so this may account for the marks).

The Ice Cream
The bowl is 1.5L, the maximum amount of ingredients you can add is 1L because you need to leave room for the ice cream to expand and for the churn arm to move (this is the same for all ice cream makers). This will make just over 800g of ice cream. How much it costs depends on your ingredients, but I make 826g of Ben and Jerry's Maltesers ice cream for £3.09.

For best results run the machine for 10 minutes with no ingredients. This will bring down the temperature of the ice cream maker from about 22oc (depending on the room temperature) to about -34oc. This will result in smoother ice cream, and the ice cream will generally be thicker straight from the machine. Please remember that ice cream straight from any churn will only ever be half frozen, so expect to see Mr Whippy style . If you want firmer ice cream you will need to freeze it for at least 2 hours (again this is the same for all ice cream makers).

I also own another ice cream maker, the Cuisinart ICE30 ice cream maker. Out of the 2 I would give the Andrew James 4/5 for the ice cream, and I would give the Cuisinart 5/5. This is because the Cuisinart ice cream is fluffier and thicker straight from the churn. I think this is due to the larger bowl, the way the mixing arm churns, and the big opening in the lid which allows more air to get into the mixture. This superior design makes it different to any other ice cream maker, however it has its faults. It's a freezer bowl ice cream maker so its not as convenient as the Andrew James, plus it takes up precious freezer space. And it's very noisy. The Andrew James on the other hand is quiet, and it's always ready to use.

Setting up the machine
The first time I set up this machine it completely did my head in. But then once I'd done it a few times I wondered what I had found so difficult. As long as you have the bowl in the right place, the lid should go on, and then everything else should slot into place (see this in the video).

Small Ingredients Hole
Yes it is small, but as long as I use a jug I don't have any problems pouring in the ice cream recipe, or adding extras like chopped nuts etc.

If your recipe is too thick to pour through the hole, you can always just add the recipe straight into the bowl. It doesn't actually say this in the manual, but I contacted Andrew James and they confirmed that you can add the ingredients either way.

Mixing Arm Freezes
This can happen if you use the Extended Cooling Function, which is basically just the ice cream maker continuing to freeze the ice cream once the timer has finished. According to the manual "When the count-down ends, the operation automatically stops and it hears 10 times of Di Di Di sound....If no one seems to serve the ice cream or turn off the machine in 10 minutes, it automatically extends into a Extended Cooling Function to keep the ice cream not defrosted".
Personally, I'd just say take it out as soon as the timer goes, otherwise you can end up playing tug of war with the churn arm and bucket.

Cleaning
It's very easy to clean, easier than the freezer bowl type because you don't have to wait for the bowl to defrost, or spend time scrapping off the ice cream from the sides.

I hope this covers everything, but if you want to know anything else please let me know.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Cream Maker
Excellent value for a quality product. Production noise is not in the least intrusive, although I found that the ice cream still required an hour or so in the freezer before... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Clare
3.0 out of 5 stars Great product for the price.
Quiet machine, that will make you a decent batch of ice cream. The stirring mechanism, as other people has pointed out, is a bit questionable and flimsy though, and it's stirring... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Mr. M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant ice-cream maker
This is a really good ice-cream maker. Used to have a 'freeze the bowl for 24 hours' type of machine before, but not prepared to spend £300 for the Gelateria machine. Read more
Published 10 days ago by J. Khambatta
4.0 out of 5 stars My first ice cream maker
I think this is good value,and easy to use. I am still experimenting with recipes, and have not yet made my perfect ice cream, but am having fun trying.
Published 28 days ago by Beatrice Corbett-Harbeck
5.0 out of 5 stars The best buy ever
I bought this a year ago and haven't looked back. I have made every ice cream and sorbet under the sun on this machine and it never fails. Read more
Published 29 days ago by Mrs B
5.0 out of 5 stars The one to buy!
The only problem is all the weight my family are gaining from all the awesome ice cream!

This is definitely the one to buy if you want it for domestic use with a build... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Aine Mannion
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ice cream maker
This is a super machine, easy to use and easy to clean. Does exactly what it says it will do. We are vey pleased with it.
Published 1 month ago by J. Campbell
4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than you'd expect
I bought this machine two years ago when there were *no* reviews but I decided to take a chance. I have used it regularly ever since and have had no problems at all. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Tom Kavanagh
5.0 out of 5 stars perfect ice cream all the time
Just a great machine, l bought it for a christmas present,it is easy to use, very quiet, which friends on mine have been impressed with,easy to clean, and great value for money, Im... Read more
Published 3 months ago by KAZAKAY
5.0 out of 5 stars ANDREW JAMES AUTOMATIC ICECREAM MAKER
Arrived well packed & in good condition. This was a product which we spent a lot of time researching. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Roger J. Stiles
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