PREMIUM AUTOMATIC ICE CREAM MAKER — Make delicious soft ice cream professionally with the Andrew James Premium Ice Cream Machine. You can also add in extra ingredients during the freezing process if you suddenly feel inspired.

As you’ll see below, different ice cream makers will work with different time scales — somewhere between 20 and 50 minutes. It’s worth noting that pre-freezing a bowl can take around eight hours or more. If you live in a household with kids who are likely to start demanding ice cream at any given time, it might be worth keeping that bowl in the freezer permanently, so it’s always ready to go. What features do ice cream makes offer? Learn how to make ice cream from scratch. Angela Nilsen's recipe for homemade vanilla ice cream recipe will give you a beautifully smooth and creamy result. For basic ice cream and sorbet churning you could do a lot worse than this cheap-and-cheerful edition from Kenwood.

If you plan to make a lot of ice cream, this is the one to go for. It's so good, it'll probably encourage you to make more, in fact.

The refill opening in the lid allows you to add extra toppings and ingredients as you go. With just four removable components, the set-up process could not be any simpler. The easy-to-follow instructions mean you can get it up and running in just minutes. Another selling point? It's cheap. Only three ingredients and a doddle to make, try serving in crisp pistachio cones so they look extra special

Once cooled, clip on the top which houses the motor and stirring paddle, switch it on and pour in the ingredients. After 15 minutes, the mixture was slushy and partially frozen. I continued to run the machine until it had been churning for 30 minutes. After this time the sorbet was much firmer and smooth, but still soft enough to remove from the bowl in clumps, including from the sides and base. It froze well in the freezer, free of any ice crystals. Ice cream makers have never had a moment like other popular kitchen devices. They’ve never quite been on the trending list, like bread makers or air fryers, which we can’t understand. After all, ice cream in objectively delicious. REFRESHING FROZEN YOGHURT & SORBET — Choose this ice cream machine for a fun kitchen activity for your little ones as you can make ice cream, sorbet, and frozen yoghurt that they are sure to love. Make super-creamy vanilla ice cream and eat it as it is, or add different flavours to suit all tastes