My husbane eats litres and litres of ice cream so I thought I'd hit the perfect Christmas prezzy idea with this Breville Soft Servce Ice cream maker. How wrong could I be?!? - I'd done a bit of research on ice cream makers and basically you have to chill the cannister to 'freeze' the ice cream on most models under £80, but with this one, you have to measure the temp of your freezer and then freeze for the appropriate number of hours,and you must be exact, not under or over or the consistence of the ice cream is lost! - we duly did this and chilled the mixture appropriately as well, but when it finally came to the exciting bit of churning up the mixture and dispensing 'Whippy' style ice cream, we listened to the noisy mixer for 20 mins, not right, 25, not right and on it went, but still all we were getting was little dollops of runny ice cream. I loved the idea, but I just can't recommend this, it's too much hassle and even if you follow the instructions exactly, you still don' get nice ice cream. Sorry Breville..!