BAPyessir6
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For my birthday this year, we got me a really cool (really good!) soft serve ice cream machine that also makes slushies and milkshakes!
The brand is Abuke (a Chinese brand that actually works!)
But finding it took some doing!
Long story time! I was looking for a soft serve machine or a good milkshake machine after seeing the Ninja slushi online, so I figured "hey! I have a lot of Ninja products! I'll just add to them and get a ninja slushie!"
So I did. It made good slushies out of soda pop, but when I tried making a milkshake using the exact recipe in the provided Ninja booklet, all it gave me was very cold chocolate milk; it never froze. Figuring I got a dud product, I sent for a replacement and got another Ninja slushi a few days later. This time I made more milkshake mix (so it wouldn't warm up too fast after reaching temp) and I also put the slushi maker in the living room instead of the kitchen as the kitchen gets hot.
Same thing again. Cold chocolate milk. After online snooping, I found many people who own said Ninja slushi maker say the Ninja slushi doesn't really make milkshakes very well, which is convenient considering it has a milkshake button/function!
Disappointed, I returned it and got a random Chinese product "BKPPM" slushi maker. Now this one makes milkshakes! Hurray! Also it's only 200$ USD, whereas the Ninja slushi is 300$ USD! And it also has an ice cream function that seems to work fairly well! (Though the ice cream is so heavy cream based it's more like a thick frozen chocolate mousse). Very light and airy.
So almost soft serve, but not fully soft serve. And I love me good soft serve.
Still not fully satisfied (it IS a birthday present after all
) I wanted to try 1 more product. I saw a different slushi/ice cream maker that was said to make very good soft serve, so after doing some serious Amazon snooping, I found my current final product! This one comes the closest I've found to soft serve! (I would say 90 percent there, the only thing is it's perfectly smooth and soft, not mousse but still slightly softer than traditional (say McDonald's) soft serve. But really close and once I tried it I was dancing with joy.
It also makes great milkshakes and slushies! Spiked slushies too if you like alcohol! It's what I wanted in a (compressor based) soft serve machine! It was like 250$ USD. The different functions of the Abuke slushi maker have different RPM (auger rotating speeds) and funnily enough, while it goes from liquid base to ice cream within 15 minutes, you DO gotta get it the soft serve out fairly quickly (serve it all in 10 minutes) or else it churns it to butter! So don't let that happen. Ask me how I know.
I was surprised at how disappointing the Ninja slushi was. So wouldn't recommend. If you want a slushi maker, I'd recommend either of those other brands. Unless you don't like milkshakes? Then maybe? (But I also didn't do spiked slushies in the Ninja, and I assume if it can't freeze a milkshake base very well, it could also struggle to freeze alcohol bases as well?)
This is a chocolate soft serve base! Milk, cream, sugar, cocoa. I tried semisweet chocolate, but it pill-ed up a bit in the augur for some reason. I carefully emulsified the chocolate into the base, but it still got pilly. So I trashed that idea and just used cocoa. It was very good!
The brand is Abuke (a Chinese brand that actually works!)
But finding it took some doing!
Long story time! I was looking for a soft serve machine or a good milkshake machine after seeing the Ninja slushi online, so I figured "hey! I have a lot of Ninja products! I'll just add to them and get a ninja slushie!"
So I did. It made good slushies out of soda pop, but when I tried making a milkshake using the exact recipe in the provided Ninja booklet, all it gave me was very cold chocolate milk; it never froze. Figuring I got a dud product, I sent for a replacement and got another Ninja slushi a few days later. This time I made more milkshake mix (so it wouldn't warm up too fast after reaching temp) and I also put the slushi maker in the living room instead of the kitchen as the kitchen gets hot.
Same thing again. Cold chocolate milk. After online snooping, I found many people who own said Ninja slushi maker say the Ninja slushi doesn't really make milkshakes very well, which is convenient considering it has a milkshake button/function!
Disappointed, I returned it and got a random Chinese product "BKPPM" slushi maker. Now this one makes milkshakes! Hurray! Also it's only 200$ USD, whereas the Ninja slushi is 300$ USD! And it also has an ice cream function that seems to work fairly well! (Though the ice cream is so heavy cream based it's more like a thick frozen chocolate mousse). Very light and airy.
So almost soft serve, but not fully soft serve. And I love me good soft serve.
Still not fully satisfied (it IS a birthday present after all
) I wanted to try 1 more product. I saw a different slushi/ice cream maker that was said to make very good soft serve, so after doing some serious Amazon snooping, I found my current final product! This one comes the closest I've found to soft serve! (I would say 90 percent there, the only thing is it's perfectly smooth and soft, not mousse but still slightly softer than traditional (say McDonald's) soft serve. But really close and once I tried it I was dancing with joy.It also makes great milkshakes and slushies! Spiked slushies too if you like alcohol! It's what I wanted in a (compressor based) soft serve machine! It was like 250$ USD. The different functions of the Abuke slushi maker have different RPM (auger rotating speeds) and funnily enough, while it goes from liquid base to ice cream within 15 minutes, you DO gotta get it the soft serve out fairly quickly (serve it all in 10 minutes) or else it churns it to butter! So don't let that happen. Ask me how I know.
I was surprised at how disappointing the Ninja slushi was. So wouldn't recommend. If you want a slushi maker, I'd recommend either of those other brands. Unless you don't like milkshakes? Then maybe? (But I also didn't do spiked slushies in the Ninja, and I assume if it can't freeze a milkshake base very well, it could also struggle to freeze alcohol bases as well?)
This is a chocolate soft serve base! Milk, cream, sugar, cocoa. I tried semisweet chocolate, but it pill-ed up a bit in the augur for some reason. I carefully emulsified the chocolate into the base, but it still got pilly. So I trashed that idea and just used cocoa. It was very good!
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