Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

DO NOT BUY!!! Amazon needs to give the ability to rate something zero stars. As an engineer, I am perhaps more critical of bad design that some, but this is one of the worst designed and engineered products I have ever seen. The stem (square shaft in picture) on the dasher (paddle inside the ice cream canister that holds still while the canister turns around it) is aluminum and too short. If it was longer (and could be by 3/8" of an inch), there would be more engagement so it probably wouldn't destroy the receiver cup quite so quickly. The stamped square receiver is also aluminum (small cup in picture). After ONE use the end of the stem is rounded off, the aluminum cup is rounded out and aluminum shavings was in the ice cream. One use. And in that use, it didn't work properly because the ice cream was not properly churned. Little to no air got blended in, which is essential to proper ice cream texture. The motor appears very powerful, the housing durable, but for another dollar in manufacturing costs this could possibly be a good product. If the dasher stem and the cup were made of steel, this would probably work fine. But then the cup would have to be machined, not stamped and that costs pennies. As it is, this is a piece of junk and needs to be avoided or you are throwing away your money and probably won't get one batch of ice cream. I happen to have a dasher from a previous ice cream maker that fits perfectly (I think it was the Rival version, so beware of that one as well). That dasher stem is steel, so I'm going to make a steel cup to make this whole thing usable, so unless you have your own lathe and milling machine and a spare dasher with a steel shaft, stay away, far away.