Review on 🍦 Lello 4080 Musso Lussino 1.5-Quart Stainless Ice Cream Maker - 110/120V 60 HZ by Henry Johnston

Lello Lusso Mussino Review My Experience: I make about 200 pints of artisan ice cream/ice cream a year. So, ice cream you can buy at expensive ice cream shops for $9-10 a pint. I've had a Cusinart DeLonghi GM6000 canister (for 4 years), tried the Cuisinart ICE-100 1 time (then returned it) and tried a Breville ice sample in the store. If you want to make ice cream, 3 factors are important: 1. The quality of the ice cream and/or ice cream. Incidentally, gelato may contain some other ingredients such as cornstarch, but it will always be lower in fat and less whipped air. The highest quality ice cream is more like ice cream in that it is denser. The key factors in making the best ice cream are fast freezing to get smaller ice crystals and of course, great ingredients. reliability and service. The lifespan of many home ice machines is 4 to 5 years. The more expensive the car, the more important the warranty and affordable maintenance.3. User friendliness. Making ice cream takes a little longer than most people think; maybe 15 minutes for Philadelphia-style recipes and longer for pudding-style recipes. In general, making good ice cream always involves more than just adding ingredients. That being said, the machines differ in ease of use and cleaning, but in general they all seem about the same. Additional factors - heaviness/portability, appearance, noise, etc. - are aspects that may be relevant depending on your circumstances. My Machine Review: Cusinart style canister - requires you to freeze the canister in the freezer beforehand. If you make ice cream intermittently and are not picky about the quality of ice cream, it will be much more economical. However, canisters have a high failure rate (we returned 1 out of 3) and produce ice cream at the thin upper limit of the device's capabilities; everything complicated like alcohol content etc. causes problems (liquid ice cream, no hardening). Even with less problematic recipes, very good ice cream was made about 1 out of 4 times. Canister against the compressor. With the caveat that I've never attempted to use a rock salt machine, I firmly believe that you can't make the highest quality ice cream. cream without compressor type; The canister style just can't do it. In fact, you can't replicate the quality/quick freeze ability of top-of-the-line commercial machines with a sub-$1,000 home machine either. However, home compressor machines must be able to produce truly excellent ice cream. Breville - we only tried a sample of ice cream made in store in Breville; it was slippery and icy. The reviewers are right when they say that all ice cream comes out soft, but bad ice cream has an inconsistent texture and larger ice crystals; these problems are not solved at the hardening stage (further cooling in the freezer). YMMV as we don't know if the ice cream was done well. Service/Reliability - 1 year. The warranty isn't impressive for a $400 machine. When we looked at all the Revain reviews, the Breville seemed to have more mechanical flaws than the Cuisinart. On the other hand, Breville has many service centers in our area. (San Francisco Bay Area) Cuisinart - got it, everyone loves it - tried it once - returned it. The ice cream (using an ice cream scoop) was icy and fell. Unfortunately, we are now used to much better ice cream. YMMV - One review said their first batch was a failure and the next batch was amazing. Although we waited the required 24 hours for the coolant to settle, perhaps a second batch would have been better. We were too overwhelmed to keep trying. Service and Reliability - the longest 3 year warranty, see Breville comment above. Ease of use - a little "uncomfortable" compared to the DeLonghi and the paddle is a bit difficult to clean. DeLonghi GM 6000 - excellent value for money. . I've been making great ice cream for 4 years now and have made about 800 pints in that time. It matches the quality and is easy to use. The paddle isn't very durable (it costs about $15 to replace). Service – There is a DeLonghi Service Center in San Francisco. but they don't actually fix ice machines. We've since found a local ice repair shop - by calling a place on Breville's list - that could fix it - but we just bought a Musso Lussino Lello 4080. Musso Lussino Lello is the absolute Mercedes of ice cream. Manufacturer. They're very expensive, they're just great, and they make really great ice cream. However, most of us then put our ice cream in a regular home freezer rather than a commercial blast chiller. Thus, after the ice has cooled and hardened, the difference in quality is not so pronounced. It's still the best homemade ice cream, but not much better than the ice cream DeLonghi makes. Service and Reliability - 1 year warranty which is an absolute disgrace for a $700 machine. Customer service is abysmal (we left questions on voicemail prior to purchase and never got a response from them); Judging by the reviews, the repair service is also very poor. My question about reliability was answered by very kind Revain reviewers, and many of them have had cars for a long time; up to 10+ years. There is no authorized local service center in the San Francisco Bay Area; Count on having your machine shipped to New Jersey if it breaks down during the fleeting warranty period. After that period, the local (Breville-approved) repair shop in our area says they can probably fix the Lello since parts are available. Incidentally, the workshop also said that there are often no spare parts for household appliances from China. Ease of use - Incredible simplicity - 2 buttons, one timer button. Cleaning is no more difficult than other machines - the paddle is easier to clean, which evens the situation out. A final note on cost - the very expensive Musso Lussino Lello makes financial sense if you're making a lot of ice cream. I'm estimating my ingredients from organics etc are around $4-$5 a pint. High-end local ice cream parlors (Ici, Tara's) are $9-$10 a pint. It will be worth it for us, but I think consumer magazine will have no hesitation in giving DeLonghi a Best Buy rating.