We love this! We make what we call frozen smoothies with it by putting the bananas through and then other types of fruit like strawberries to make a wonderful dessert. I have added candied nuts, dried fruits and chocolate chips to it as an added bonus. We also made ice cream sandwiches using the pureed fruit by using lace cookies putting the puree in-between them and put them in the freezer for a couple hours. I can't say the pureed fruit tastes like ice cream but I can say it is wonderful and clean-up is a breeze; much easier than using my blender. I haven't had any issues with the machine to this point. The machine came with a booklet with some starter recipes in it and I also purchased a separate booklet.