Gaggia Geletiera 74500N Ice Cream Maker

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Product Details

Binding : Kitchen & Home
EAN : 0000021070952
Manufacturer : Gaggia
Model : 74500N
Product Group : Kitchen
Release Date : 2003-10-24

ASIN : B0000BY7RU

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Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

Good but no cigar (2008-06-30)

I have never had an ice cream maker and though I would give it a go. I was torn between the Cuisinart and the Magimix (top in the Which report). However I stumped for the Gaggia.It works very well, freezes well and makes lovely ice cream. However, it does have a few problems:1. It is just too small. It only makes just enough ice cream for about four medium to small servings. This is a real problem because the ice cream it makes is delicious and you will always be wanting more.2. It is very fiddly to use. Lots of small plastic bits which I an sure I am going to lose at some point. It is also difficult to get all of the ice cream out of the bowl when it has been made.3. It is difficult to clean. There are lots of exposed screws on the lid and surrounding the bowl housing. There really is no need for this.4. The second bowl is next to useless. If you use the inner bowl then you have to add an alcohol mix to prevent them sticking together. However, if you want to make a second batch you have to scrape all of this alcohol frozen slush out. Even then it is difficult to clean out the second bowl once you have made some ice cream because it is not removable.For this sort of money I though it would have been better designed. I'm afraid I will be selling mine and replacing with either the Cuisinart or Magimix.Very disappointing.

Gelato squisito (2007-11-28)

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.

Excellent product - but still some room for improvement (2005-12-22)

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).

Great for vegans (2005-11-04)

Living anywhere other than Rome (where you can get fabulous gelato di soja) is a frustrating experience for a vegan of Italian ancestry. You can get vegan ice cream in the UK but it's not that good and nothing like Italian ice cream. I'd been thinking about getting one of these machines for ages but was put off by the price. However, in the end the craving for delicious ice cream that was vegan and slso not really high in sugar got the best of me and I took the plunge. I was not disappointed. The day the machine arrived, I wanted to try it out straight away but all I had to hand was some soya milk, a mango and some concentrated apple juice. I bunged these ingredients in and 30 minutes later I had a really delicious and satisfying ice cream. Because I had only used soya milk (no soya cream to hand) it was not very rich but it was full of the flavour of fresh fruit and was very refreshing. I also knew exactly what was in it and that they were all healthy ingredients. I've sinced tried the same recipe but with fresh strawberries and no-sugar strawberry conserve and that was even better than the mango. I'm looking forward to trying lots more fruit combinations and maybe some vegan chocolate as well. The only criticsm I have (and the reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5) is that, for such a large, heavy machine, the actual amount of ice cream you can make in one go is not very much. OK if you're just making it for 2 people, but if you are making it for a dinner party it wouldn't go very far. That's the only thing wrong with it though.If you're a vegan and love ice cream (or for anyone who wants healthy ice cream), I'd really recommend getting one of these machines.

totally satisfying! (2005-07-27)

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.

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