I purchased my ice cream maker in August as a birthday gift to myself, but I was rather disappointed when the sealed box was missing the Dasher attachment. As a result I couldn't make my planned birthday ice cream cake. I called and the sent a replacement which arrived after a month. I froze my bowl over night and tested using the recipe provided for the vanilla ice cream in the book however it didn't set as I expected. So I cleaned the bowl left it in the freezer for 3 days and made a batch of my rasberry cheesecake ice cream and it came out like a dream. I made by strawberry margarita sorbet and had great results. I would suggest keeping it in the freezer at all times or at least 24 hours as the gel between the Chambers need to setup. This weekend I'm testing my coconut froyo so I'll give an update [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]