Excellent home ice cream maker that can churn yummy treats to your heart's desire.  Easy to use. You get fresh and firm ice cream that is not store hard, but also not melty like softy. Keep cool feature is nice!  Minor observations/improvement suggestions: 1) Clean-up is not easy, unless you are ready to lick the mixing blade (or let your dog do the honors!) or let go of the yummy ice cream stuck in nooks and crannies of mixing blade.  2) Motor is good, but if you stop in the middle by error, torque is not sufficient to push through semi hardened mixture (so, do NOT stop the machine half way through). 3) If you do not account for expansion of liquid while it turns into ice cream, the spill along the edges needs deeper cleaning of rubber gaskets and has two spots that need special attention (where the aluminum bowl handle rests)