My two cents…I have a Ninja Creami (since last August), an Italian ice cream maker condenser style (40 yrs old) and a Vita Mix (15yrs). A while back, Mark Bittman had popularized using the food processor and frozen fruit.
The Ninja is a very efficient machine that makes as little as 1 cup of ice cream/sorbet if you so chose. The containers hold a pint, which is a nice size for a small quantity of frozen treats. Simple to use and store the product in its existing container, it has performed very satisfactorily for me.
In the winter I made sorbets with canned pears, I made an apple pie ice cream with apples I had cooked with pie spices, a pumpkin ice cream, tangerine sorbet with fresh juice.
Yesterday, I made a strawberry gelato in the Italian machine. Tomorrow, I will probably get enough strawberries at the Farmers Mkt. to make sorbet in the creami. The creami will blend the fruit , sugar, etc. in the container. You then freeze it for 12 to 24 hrs depending on how cold your freezer is, and then process it in the container for maybe two minutes. It can also be reprocessed if you want a more “creamy” consistency. I got mine, with coupons, etc. when Bed n Bath was running specials on it…it was very reasonably priced. I don’t regret it!
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