This is pretty easy to use but I found my icecream comes out super soft so I have to put it in the freezer after it finishes mixing. I did the recipe for the vanilla icecream that comes in the manual but I tried to substitute honey instead of sugar and it came out very soupy, so the lesson is, follow the recipes! Similar to baking its kind of a chemistry so it was not easy to sub/change the recipes and I tried looking on their website for more recipes and couldn't find any. So that's my one complaint, is it works different than traditional icecream makers and I found you really have to follow the recipes they provide but there's only 4 recipes provided. Fun for the kids but if you're limited on kitchen space I would probably skip this product and go out for icecream.