Whilst this machine does produce a quality product, the 30 minutes it takes requires that, unless you buy some industrial strength ear-plugs, the machine be in a totally different part of the house (and we had to move ours 2 rooms away to carry on a conversation) . I "traded up" from an ancient Phillips machine made 30 years ago, and that was silent in comparison. Surely, in this day and age Cuisinart could have done much, much better on the silencing aspect.
Quality outcome.
NOISE

A new purchase for our household this summer. Very keen to getting it going once it arrived, but should have followed the instructions closer. 12 hours in the freezer is not the same as the 24 it recommends. To date we've had 2 batches of ice cream and both have been fantastic. It's not a money saver by any means (ingredients cost well more to make ice cream than to buy a punnet), but good to know what's going in. Looking forward to making the next batch now!!
Easy to set up & clean
It's quite noisy

Good machine, sometimes when using thicker recipes the ice cream will stick to the bowl and will be chucky when u take it off which also can be difficult, but in all myself and the family love coming up with all different types of ice-creams, would recommend to anyone over the cheaper brands
easy to use, nice looking
The bowl takes up a alot of space in the frezzer and a bit noisey

It is the best investment for fur pleasure I have ever made, It make the ice cream so quickly we start eating before it finishes the process. The ice cream recipe book comes with is the best for it but still you can make your own flavour too base on the basic recipe.
It is quick and easy, hassle free ice cream in no time
It is a little bit noisy

Our Cuisinart ICE Cream Maker is great. It does everything it promises. Easy to use, easy to clean. No problems at all thus far. Yes it is a bit noisy, but hey? Not so much as a mixer.
.. And yes, - the secret is to get the bowl really deep frozen. Just wish I had a spare bowl.
We could get seriously overweight with all this yummy ice cream, sorbet and frozen Yoghurt. I have to get serious with the low fat options...
The recipes are great, - but I feel the importer should have gone to a little trouble to re-write the ingredients in "Australian" units.

"Foreign" units of measure in the recipe ingredients detracts ever so slightly.

I've only had this ice-cream maker for a couple of weeks but I can see that I'm going to use it a lot! It's half the price of the ones with their own compressor yet works a treat. The freezer bowl has to be in the freezer for at least 12 hours but I just leave it in the freezer after cleaning so that it's ready anytime I want to use it.
2 litre capacity means it makes a decent amount of ice-cream for my large family. The consistency of the ice-cream is great. Easy to clean - just 3 parts which wash up easily in warm, soapy water. Ice-cream only takes 15-25 minutes depending on recipe.
It's a bit noisy. I sometimes put it in a bedroom and close the door and go back to check it regularly so the noise doesn't bother us.

This is a nice machine. I wouldn't say it's brilliant but it performs exactly as described and is not expensive. I mean, what else could an ice cream maker have?! Comes with a basic recipe book which could be expanded (very few recipes but adequate to get started). Good value for the price. Fully automatic? You turn it on for 25 minutes. Is that fully automatic?!
Nice brushed stainless look an easy to clean
Noisy. This is just poor design. Even when you stripout the bowl and lid this machine has an irritating grinding noise that gets worse when the plastic lid is mounted. Everything about the materials of the base and lid amplify the base noise.

This machine makes a little noise, but you soon get used to it. You can make ice-cream, frozen yoghurt and sorbet, making it very versatile for the whole family. Simple to use, great recipes included, very easy to clean and store.
Makes amazing ice-cream, yoghurt and sorbet, you can add different ingredients to make up your own, and then just store in the freezer!
Even the kids can do it!
The range of products you can make from it.
A bit noisy

I bought this for my husband for Xmas as he loves ice cream and has wanted one for ages. At first it wasn't churning up to a sloppy mixture, but we set the freezer to a little colder and presto - beautiful tasty gelati and ice cream! Tastes great and is very easy to make. It is noisy but no more than the washing machine, dishwasher ect. We can make tasty low fat treats for the kids or all go out and make creamy ice cream that beats anything you buy at the supermarket! I would recommend to family and friends.
Inexpensive, quick and easy.
Noisy but we dont find it to be a problem but some might.

This is the first ice cream maker I have ever owned and am wondering why I didn't get one sooner. Homemade ice cream is really easy to make and tastes SO much better than even good quality store bought ice cream. The machine is VERY noisy which is annoying but as it's not an appliance that is used every day this can be overlooked to some degree. There surely must be a way to make it quieter however.
Inexpensive, easy to clean
VERY noisy