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Gaggia Geletiera 74500N Ice Cream Maker | 
 enlarge | Brand: Gaggia
Category: Kitchen
Buy Used: £215.99
New (4) Used (2) from £215.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 11877
Media: Kitchen & Home
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 29.1
Dimensions (in): 19 x 14.1 x 11.3
MPN: 74500N
Model: 74500N
EAN: 8012335200514
ASIN: B0000BY7RU
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
GAGGIA GELATIERA makes great tasting ice cream. It's motorised paddles churns the ice cream well and leaves it smooth and creamy. The machine is ready to use in 10 minutes and produces 600 grammes of ice cream. It also comes with an additional bowl which means that you can make multiple batches of ice cream. GELATIERA is easy to operate and clean. It comes with lots of recipes. The machine is robustly built and sits enviably in the most modern kitchens. The GAGGIA GELATIERA has been admired and loved by famous cooks and was recommended by the WHICH magazine as the best buy in the summer of 1999. The machine can be seen on television on the famous MASTERCHEF TV series in all three kitchens and has been regularly featured in Magazines, Television and Newspapers for its shear quality and performance. Self refrigerating bowl, easy cleaning, additional bowl with machine , 165 W, makes 2 pints of ice cream. Please Note: All electrical products sold by cookinstyle (InStyle Products Limited) are supplied with a UK 3 pin plug.
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 brilliant!! June 12, 2005
220 out of 221 found this review helpful
I have been looking at getting an ice cream maker to indulge myself and did some research. This ice cream maker has been recommended on several cooking websites. I finally bought the Gaggia as "retail therapy" in a sudden moment of madness and although it is more expensive than the ones that you have to prefreeze, I have no regrets.
It arrived well packed and is ready to use after standing for 12 hrs to allow the coolant to settle because it has a built in freezer. It is well built and is a nice rectangular shape, but is not easy to move about so it is better if you have an allocated space for it on the desktop.
It is extremely easy to operate, there are 3 buttons: 1/ to start freezing 2/ timer 3/ to start the mixing paddle.
To make ice cream, you pre-cool it for 5 mins, start the paddle, pour in the ice cream mix and you get lovely ice cream 20-30mins later.
It comes with a removable bowl that fits inside the fixed bowl. If you use the removable bowl you have to put a little bit of alcohol in between the fixed and removable bowl to help conduction, it says "alimentary alcohol or spirit" in the instruction book, I use gin and have no problems. You can make ice cream in either the fixed or removable bowls and so can have different batches one after the other. I have so far only use the removable one as I think it is easier to clean as you can take it out of the machine. It is cylindrical in shape and easy to clean once you have removed the paddle.
It can make 600g of ice cream in one go, which translates to roughly half the volume of the bowl in ice cream mixture as the ice cream expands as it freezes and air is added by the mixing process.
The instruction booklet comes with some classic Italian ice cream, sherbet, long drinks and granite recipes, but there are plenty of variations that you can find on the internet. I have been randomly changing the ingredients and have yet to make a batch that doesn't taste wonderful. e.g. I ran out of cream and made chocolate ice cream with double the quantity of milk instead of half milk and half cream and it still turns out lovely, an excellent texture, smooth with no lumps or bits of ice. I have also tried mango-tofu ice cream with soya milk just to try something different and found that just as yummy and less rich (better for the waistline).
Best of all you don't have to plan a day ahead to make ice cream, all you need is to get the ingredients and switch the machine on 5mins before you have the mix ready. Press the button when you serve dinner and it will be ready when you finish your main course, perfect for having people round!! The only thing is, you can hear it churning, so if you can't bear noise at all, you will need somewhere out of the way to put it, but then it is only for half an hour.
If you have never made ice cream before (like me), you will probably find a blender handy for making the ice cream mix. Other than that, it couldn't be simpler. You have total control over what goes in the ice cream, fresh ingredients, no preservatives and you can have whatever you want, whenever you want!! Perfect!!
totally satisfying! July 27, 2005
Z. Herbert (Lancashire, UK)
62 out of 64 found this review helpful
I am delighted with this wonderful machine. Having had ice cream makers before that have not done the business, I hesitated to plunge again. It does what it says - excellent ice cream swiftly and easily, simple to operate, easy to clean. The main bowl capacity is about 1pt of finished ice cream, enough for two greedies. It is more fun to use than those without a freezer unit and well worth the extra money. Making (and eating) ice cream is carefree! Best recipes from Ben & Jerry book qv.
Excellent product - but still some room for improvement December 22, 2005
C. N. Russell (UK)
138 out of 147 found this review helpful
Firstly, this product is great, we love it. Having fresh ice cream for our family in minutes is a joy. How often do you walk past the discounted section in tescos and see piles of cream reduced to clear? Quite often if our store is anything to go by, and now we have a use for it. My daughter is also wheat intollerant and lactose intollerant. If you buy the chocolate soya milkshake and use that instead of cream, the results are fab.So it works, but what are the improvements required? 1) The inner bowl is made from aluminium. We are probably supposed to wash it by hand, but it goes in the dishwasher and has a black tint to it now. I would have expected it to be stainless steel. 2) The bowl has a plastic tube in the middle. Again, I worry that this will not age well. The forces that the machine creates are strong and the bowl is kept still by a plastic lug touching a plastic lug. Again, stainless steel would make it feel longer lasting. 3) The machine is not as easy to clean as I'd hoped. There are 4 phillips screws close to the bowl which it's easy to get splashes into, but not so easy to wipe out. I would have thought that the whole area would have been a single smooth moulding. 4) The lid has square corners and these have little mini lugs on the machine. Again these are possible dirt traps and mean what should be a quick wipe clear takes a good deal longer. 5) The lid has a handle that is held on by a screw. The lid can get quite sticky as the ice cream rises as the air folds in and needs to go in the dishwasher. A single piece dishwasher safe design would be better. 6) If you use the inner bowl (which makes cleaning much easier) you need to give it a shot of vodka/gin. This allows the cold to transfer into the bowl. I suppose I could use meths or denatured alcohol, but these are not suitable for human consumption so I avoid. I tend to find that a shot is required every time, which means quite a bit of vodka is required if you use the machine. 7) Space - this is a machine that needs space. It's about the size of an A3 poster and 30cm high. Once out, it stays out as if you move it, you have to wait 24 hours for the refrigerants to settle (just like a fridge then). It's also weighty. It is also quite noisy - I am trying to think of an analog - perhaps it's as noisy as my dishwasher - but the sound is more mechanical. 8) You need a mixer/blender to blend up the ingredients before putting in the machine. Why? The machine is like a slow food processor. Why not give it a 30 second fast mix function so everything goes straight into the bowl. The result is more washing up at present and more mess. We've had ours now for about 4 months and we use it 2 or 3 times a week. The best time to show off is when you have guests round for dinner. You pre-load the machine and as you sit down to your starters, you turn it on. By the time everyone is ready for desert, it is ready. Our favourite recipes are chocolate and raspberry - use fresh frozen rasperries as they are cheap and just stir in pure cocoa powder (it converts automatically into milk chocolate).
Gelato squisito November 28, 2007
Dr. J. H. Beattie (Scotland, UK)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
You don't buy an ice-cream maker like this to save money - it is definitely cheaper to go and buy a lifetime's worth of luxury ice-cream from the supermarket. However, the sheer fun of experimenting and serving your own wonderful concoctions to appreciative visitors is worth every penny. When freshly made, the ice-cream consistency is superb and even fairly plain ingredients can be transformed into something special tasting.
I bought my Gaggia Geletiera about 8 months ago and it has performed well over that time. It comes with two paddles, one of which can be used directly in the unit container and the other of which is used in conjunction with the removable bowl. If you use the removable bowl, you have to add about 25 ml of strong "alimentary" alcohol (some of that vile spirit that tasted so good on holiday but now tastes like paintstripper will do nicely) to the unit container for efficient transfer of heat away from your ice-cream in the bowl without freezing up. There are on-off buttons for the paddle and the chiller unit and a timer dial which gives up to 30 min of mixing time. It's very simple to use, trouble-free and the result is consistently good.
One slight snag is if the timer switches off or the paddle stops because the ice-cream is too stiff, you have to be around to deal with it or the chiller will freeze your ice-cream solid. Getting all the ice-cream out of the removable bowl with the supplied spatula is a little messy due to the cold liquid alcohol on the outside, the embedded paddle of awkward shape on the inside, and the rapid melting of any ice-cream remaining in the bowl after removing the paddle. However, the Geletiera works well and I am very pleased with my purchase.
perfect ice cream July 2, 2005
Hambletta-Maud (sunny ireland)
57 out of 64 found this review helpful
i have used this ice cream maker a few times now since i got it last week and every single batch has come out perfect. i can (almost) guarantee that after trying fresh, homemade ice cream you will never eat shop-bought again.i can recommend ben and jerry's recipe book too. the strawberry ice cream was perfect. i added a bar of chopped up bournville chocolate to the mix and found it even better than perfect! enjoy!
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