Cuisinart Ice Cream Deluxe, Pre-Freeze Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt and Sorbet Maker, Silver, ICE30BCU
DELICIOUS HOMEMADE ICE CREAM AND MORE
With homemade ice cream you can experiment with different flavours, and have complete control over the ingredients. Why not try out a vegan or dairy free recipe for an alternative frozen yoghurt or sorbet?
With the Ice Cream Deluxe you can make up to 2L in one batch, perfect for family desserts.
2L CAPACITY
The 2L capacity means you can make delicious ice cream for the whole family – simply add your ingredients and turn on.
PRE-FREEZE
Pre-freeze the bowl for at least 12 hours, preferably overnight before use. Handy Tip – store the bowl in the freezer so it’s always ready.
EASY TO USE
Simply add your ingredients and turn on. Your ice cream will be ready in as little as 25 minutes and can be eaten straight away.
ADD TOPPINGS
Add ingredients through the lid during churning, such as nuts, chocolate chips, fruit pieces and sauces for a ripple effect.
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ICE CREAM
Make all your favourite ice cream flavours. Add toppings such as nuts or raisins or sauces for a ripple effect during churning.
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SORBET
Fancy something a little lighter? You can also make delicious sorbet.
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FROZEN YOGHURT
Try a healthier frozen yoghurt recipe – you could even make it with your favourite dairy free alternative.
RECIPE IDEA – Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream is rich and creamy and made using almond and coconut milk, or any other plant-based milk. The perfect summer treat – watch our quick recipe video and make your own Vegan Ice Cream using the Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker.
Compare Models
 ICE30BCU |  ICE100BCU |  ICE31U |
|---|---|---|
Capacity2L | Capacity1.5L | Capacity1.4L |
Pre-Freeze BowlYes | Pre-Freeze BowlNo | Pre-Freeze BowlYes |
Time25 Mins | Time40 Mins | Time25 Mins |
Paddle Type1 – Ice Cream | Paddle Type2 – Ice Cream & Gelato | Paddle Type2 – Ice Cream & Fresh Fruit |
Dimensions24cm (W) x 29cm (H) | Dimensions29cm (W) x 22cm (H) | Dimensions21cm (W) x 29cm (H) |
| Weight: | 4.7 kg |
| Dimensions: | 22.5 x 20.5 x 29.01 cm; 4.7 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Cuisinart |
| Model: | ICE30BCU |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Colour: | Silver |
Great fun to make ice cream with the grand childre
The product looks sturdy, but a bit pricey, Overall is does the job and churn beautiful ice cream in 2o plus minutes!
Bought this as a gift for my boyfriend because he’s obsessed with ice cream and he absolutely loves it! It makes great ice cream in 30-40 minutes. I’d try doing gelato first, it’s the same amount of effort and way more delicious. Highly recommend this product for anyone wanting to make their own ice cream.
We consume a lot of icecream, almost on a daily basis so finally decided to buy an icecream maker and decided on the cuisinart due to customer reviews.
We followed the vanilla icecream recipe and ooo what a delight! Simple ingredients, easy instructions and voila.. homemade delicious icecream!
Will be trying out more flavours tomorrow.
Must add that the recipes call for double cream for the icecream but I just used normal fresh cream which was what was available and it turned out well! Have now put the rest of the icecream in the freezer and will see how that turns out tomorrow.
Very very happy with this machine so far.
Product recieved in good time. On reading instructions you need to place bowl in a freezer bag! Woth including in the sale and offering supply of same!
I was very pleased with the ice-cream result – especially as I tried a dairy free recipe. However, I was surprised and disappointed by the noise it made. I had to walk out of the room and I still could hear it several rooms away. Every time I make ice-cream I will have to wear ear defenders. Im surprised this passed safety standards.
Sturdy construction, simple to clean and use, quiet when on makes great ice-cream in less than half an hou
Did a little research on different machines and settled for this one, I love it can actually now have banana ice cream, being home made as well i know exactly what ingredients go in it. Only down side is i wished it lasted longer when making batches of ice cream without having to re freeze the mid section.
This ice cream maker looks good, very neat and easy to use.
The recipes are easy to follow and the end product far surpasses the mass produced commercial ice cream.
This ice cream maker is simply Brilliant
So easy to use and clean
My family and friends where amazed that I had made the ice cream I served
All-in-all, the taste and texture of the ice cream has exceeded the expectations of the whole family. The amount made per batch is about the same as a regular shop bought tub (2 litres) and the complete control you have over the ingredients is a massive bonus for our family. My son has a nut allergy, so this device means that we can now make any flavour we want, without any fear whatsoever of nut contamination. I’d recommend the product for this ability alone.
We’ve also served the ice cream to friends as a dinner party dessert, and they’ve been equally impressed.
You do need to be mindful of a few things however, although none of which I feel are deal breakers:
1. Firstly, the rotating tub is big. It’s about 20cm in diameter by 17cm high. This tub needs to be pre-frozen in a freezer before you make the ice cream, hence you do need sufficient freezer space to do this. This works very well in our chest freezer, but I’m not in the least bit convinced that we could fit the tub into our standard fridge freezer. Therefore if you don’t have a chest freezer, you may wish to consider a smaller model of ice cream maker.
2. The device itself doesn’t freeze the ice cream. As outlined above, you need to place the tub in a freezer beforehand. The tub appears to contain liquid (I’m assuming similar to the liquid found in freezer blocks) and several hours in the freezer before use effectively turns the tub into a block of ice that stays sub-zero throughout the ice cream making process. The instructions advise that you freeze the tub for 12-24 hours before making the ice cream. However our experience has shown that you really need to give it the full 24 hours. Anything shorter, and the ice cream comes out too soft.
3. Even with the full 24 hours, the ice cream still comes out fairly soft at the end of the process – a kind of Mr Whippy consistency. Although then transferring the ice cream into a tub and leaving it overnight in the freezer results in the harder texture of shop bought ice cream.
4. Some prep is required, so don’t expect to simply pour in all the ingredients and let the ice cream maker do all the work. Although this prep is fairly simple. It normally involves just pre mixing some ingredients and then leaving to chill in the fridge for a few hours, before then pouring into the ice cream making.
Despite the above, we are still completely thrilled with the ice cream maker, as the end result is phenomenal. Hence I’d call the above 4 points “considerations” rather than criticisms. Why then only 4 stars?
For some reason, Amazon decided to use a courier to deliver the ice cream maker, rather than their own delivery infrastructure. I’m a big fan of Prime next day deliver, therefore was not very happy when a courier arrived with the product on a Friday, left a card, and said they’d be back on the Monday. There was no option for me to do anything about this. So my advertised next day Prime delivery took 4 days.
That aside, I’d recommend the product itself without hesitation.
This machine produces fabulous ice creams and sorbets. Well worth buying, experimenting with your own recipes, enjoying and sharing the results.
Very impressed and happy with my purchase.
The machine is easy to use. Not nosey at all. Very easy to clean. The instructions are very easy to read. The ice cream maker is not that big. It would fit in the corner perfectly.
I would recommend. And would buy a again
9/10
Easy to use, it makes excellent ice creams
Much better and healthier !
Perfect in summer and in winter too
Read all reviews and took a punt omg easy easy easy love it. Made lemon water ice (own recipe) so quick only thing is now all the family have put in their orders !
Not too noisy. Makes ice cream quite simply and quickly. You require to put the freezer bowl in the freezer for a few hours before use – fine.
Bought for my partner, a win win…he makes ice cream, I eat it.
Our only gripe is that the machine is so noisy its really antisocial. Holding a conversation in the kitchen with anyone whilst the machine is in use is not possible!!
Really pleased with this machine. It’s a bit bigger than I expected which is great. We were looking to replace an old small ice cream machine where the plastic arm was forever getting jammed and the motor couldn’t cope with thicker mixes.
With this machine the bowl moves instead of the arm which makes a huge difference to its robustness. Also the arm is not a single blade but more of a frame which stops it being super flimsy.
We keep the bowl in the freezer so it’s ready when we need it but the guide book does say that most recipes will need a few hours additional chilling time after 20-30 mins in the machine.
You can obviously eat it from the machine but it’s pretty soft, so the extra freezer time improves the texture (if you have the patience!).
Best appliance I ever bought. Easy to clean and use. Ice cream is perfect. Unbelievably amazing.
Easy to use, smart appearance. Comes with booklet with a few simple recipes. Ice cream is ready in about 30 mins, simple to make.
Really easy to use and makes excellent ice cream! The bowl takes up a lot of room as we don’t have a chest freezer but it fits in the top section ok, which is deeper than the drawers.
Great little machine which produces the best tasting ice cream using the included receipts.
Simple to use and perfect results every time. What more can you want?
Easy to use, clean & store. Makes a lovely smooth ice cream
Sturdy, easy to use, easy to clean and consistently excellent results.
Gorgeous vanilla and stem ginger ice cream as first attempt. Very easy to use and simple vanilla recipe was yummy. Only tiny issue is the noise its loud so you don’t want to be in the kitchen with it whilst its trundling round! still 5 stars as is going to be well used.
Easy to use, makes ice cream in around 30 minutes, bigger than expected and heavy, but really good at churning ice cream/frozen yoghurt, Best used in a chest freezer as the freezing bowl is quite deep
For the price this is a really good machine. It makes a good amount of lovely ice cream, the only downside is that is is very noisy. We shut it in a room while it is churning. If you haven’t had a machine before (and we hadn’t) this is a good machine to start with.
My ice cream machine cuisinart is great first time to use it this evening but I would like to as about warranty cover please
It’s a good machine, makes lovely ice cream. Only complaint I have is the machine is very noisy.
Love it, i am highly recommended.
Easy to use and easy to wash, i am using organic coconut milk as base and the ice cream taste delicious.
My wife bought me this for my birthday, what a great machine this is!! Chocolate Ice Cream heaven! Definitely worth investing in one of these if you like ice cream and experimenting with your own creations.
I don’t normally leave reviews but this ice cream maker is fantastic. I’ve just started making my own ice cream and it is easy and absolutely delicious. I was amazed how delicious it was! Will never buy shop made ice cream again and this machine is so easy to use.
Very good quality, easy to use and the icecream/sorbets are awesome !
We bought this for my 14 year old son. It has been in use so much since we got it – by him and us. Very straightforward – we have made delicious ice cream using the recipes that come with it in the instruction booklet.
Very good machine, easy to use but a little bit too noisy.
Makes nice ice cream, though the motor does struggle when it starts to get more solid. Needs some time in the freezer after churning/before eating to help solidify it a little.
Looks smart, makes plenty of ice cream and I look forward to trying new flavours. I’d like some more exciting recipes in the book, but can source those elsewhere.
This icecream maker is amazing, thoroughly enjoyed making icecream for the family.
Simple and totally effective. Only issue is that it’s making me fat 🙂
This I can say is one of my best kitchenware purchases yet, loving it. I used a couple of recipes from the internet and a couple from the machines book, I loved the recipes of the machine.
I can’t fault the operation of the machine and preface this review by saying I’m enjoying it so far…. but it’s not a complex beast.
I don’t really know what I was expecting in hindsight but you put a frozen bowl in it, put it from ‘off’ to ‘on’ and it spins round in a circle churning the ice cream. You decide when to put it from ‘on’ to ‘off’. Thats all it does.
I don’t have any other ice cream machines to use as a benchmark but it’s hard to think a 30 machine could get such a simple operation wrong.
It’s our first ice cream machine. It works really well. The kids had a great time making the ice cream and I can see this being a regular fun thing to do. Making it and eating it and coming up with new flavours
We were about to buy the refrigerated version of the Cuisinart but decided we don’t eat enough ice cream to justify the cost. Had we the money, I think I’d have still gone down that route as it would save a bit of time what with the need to pre-freeze the bowl and cool down the mixture before freezing. This does mean a bit of extra planning but we do keep the bowl permanently in our freezer so it’s always at the ready.
Compared with our older Magimix ice-cream maker, the ice cream from the Cuisinart is softer and easier to scoop, even straight from the freezer. This also means that the machine itself is easier to clean as the ice cream scrapes easily from the sides of the freezer bowl.
So simple to use and great ice cream in less than 20 minutes!
Just used it for first time wow real Ice cream great good manchine
Loved this ice cream maker. Looks good and makes beautiful ice cream. Easy to use and easy cleaned. The only down side is that it’s really noisy
Easy to use. You just have to remember to freeze the base ahead of time.
It makes fantastic Ice cream, cant fault it and the whole family really enjoys home made Ice cream, will never buy ice cream from the shops agai
Really pleased with product and thoroughly enjoying home made ice cream
Very pleased with this icecream maker. Straight forward to use
Easy recipes, easy to add ingredients while churning, and easy to store.
This machine is probably the best one in its price range: easy to use and the ice is really good.
I’m putting natural yoghurt, some fresh fruit and some honey in and eating that instead of ice cream.
My trousers now fit better.
Great machine. It looks great. It’s easy enough for a child to use, and if your bowl is already frozen you can have ice cream in 25 min.
The plastic cover scratches easily, and it is a little bit noisy.
Does what it needs to do and does it well.
The generic model I had was OK, certainly has downsides but by far the biggest issue I had was the capacity. No sooner had I made some ice cream, than it was gone again!
it got me searching for what other options were out there and this Cuisineart one seemed to fit the bill.
The big difference that I notice after using it, is that it churns properly!
I’m not sure if it’s because the bowl turns around a stationary paddle, instead of turning the paddle in a bowl but it seems to cope much better with the churning as the mix gets thicker.
It was even still mixing well as it spilled out the top a little (due to me maybe adding a bit too much)
The way the motor is contained, sealed, in the base instead of being part of the lid means that it is easier to clean up and less damaging with no fear of getting water in the motor.
I do feel, it could be a bit quieter and there’s not many products that deserve a full 5* hence 1* less.
I love this ice cream maker. A few recipes included but more can be obtained online. Sturdy construction and easily washable parts.
Very good machine create a quality ice cream like the shops it’s worth the money you paid
Things I’ve noted:
Immediately decant all ice cream as soon as made – otherwise remainder will freeze solid on the edges and base (have broken a heavy duty plastic spoon so far).
Using ‘Sugarly’ 70g instead of 230g granulated sugar gives a better taste in the standard vanilla recipe.
Heavy double cream is better than double cream.
Jersey full fat milk tastes a little bit nicer than standard full fat.
The ice cream straight from the machine will melt very quickly. Putting it in the freezer for too long will set it like rock. Haven’t yet experimented to try and create soft scoop. Closest texture-wise is a ‘McFlurry’.
This is an expensive treat – you can’t really beat store bought ice cream on price but you have a better product which doesn’t taste artificial.
Kids really love making this, good family activity.
Noisy.
Love, love, love. The bowl lives in the bottom drawer of my freezer. It makes great ice cream and sorbet.
As advertised and quick delivery. Already used it twice! Happy ice cream-loving family!
Great summer eating wonderful ice cream. Get one, you won’t be disappointed and think of all the plastic containers you’ll save from the environment .
Lots of lovely ice cream made this far. Easy to use
Absolutely delighted with this! So easy to use and clean afterwards. Would definitely recommend to anybody that is thinking of buying an ice cream maker! Doesn’t take up too much room either!
You have to try mango pulp sorbet. This machine is simple but it’s one of the best purchases this year and will always be used unlike other items that may sit on shelves.
Love using it to make vegan ice cream! Works really well after months of regular use.
Works well and well built, some noise but not obtrusive. Would recommend especially for its build quality – it should last a long time.
Used the recipes in book provided with machine, it’s spoilt us for any other ice cream, tastes absolutely delicious. Would recommend this product highly, and price on Amazon is cheaper than elsewhere, always a bonus. Fast delivery too.
We were very happy with the device! Thank you so much!
If you follow instruction to the letter you get great results!
Great machine, easy to operate. Ice creams and sorbets aregrea
Perfect Ice-cream maker. I followed the recipe mentioned in the book and it made a perfect ice cream.
I’ve had this for a month and so far, it’s been brilliant. I use it to make vegan ice creams and it works perfectly. We are super happy (if not a little fatter!).
Simple to work and so far good results.
The only downside so far is that when churning some of the ice cream sticks to the sides of the freezer bowl so you have to stop and scrape down every so often.
Very nice quality product, well made and substantial. Easy to use and clean and produces lovely ice cream.