Rival 8806-BL

Pros: Easy to use, delicious!

Cons: None

Review: My 5-year old daughter and I just made coconut ice cream in this ice cream maker and it was so easy, she could do it! The ice cream is delicious! We followed the directions exactly and had no problem -- we are already excitedly talking about new ...

Pros: Inexpensive and utilitarian

Cons: Instructions and recipes are on the skimpy side

Review: I have made 3 batches of ice cream and while a learning process, each was a basically success. If too much ice is used particularly at the beginning it will not run. Freeing it by turning by hand worked or just turning it on and off. I bought it to ...

Pros: Could make a large batch of ice cream

Cons: Messy, motor malfunction after 2 minutes of first use

Review: Just tried out our new Rival 6 qt ice cream maker. After all the work of getting the ingredients ready, adding the ice and rock salt around the can as it turned, the thing turned for all of about 2-3 minutes and then it made a sound like it was jammed ...

Pros: none

Cons: jammed continuously

Review: After only the second time trying to use this, it jammed continuously! Making it a REAL PAIN to try to use! It is also hard to use because of it's size, bulky and hard to get the ice cream, from the bottom scraped out. It did not make creamy ice cream ...

Pros: Included Recipes, the claim of making 6 quarts of ice cream, the price (about $27.00).

Cons: Rival's machine does not have the power to turn the canister against ANY resistance!

Review: I bought the Rival Ice Cream Maker because of it's size and price. However, after I prepared the almost 6 quarts of liquid needed to make the ice cream, followed the given directions regarding the order of assembly and the proper layering of fine ice to ...