Product Description

The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Maker - Pro Line by KitchenAid. Prepare a variety of delicious frozen drinks and desserts, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, gelato, granita, and margaritas. The horizontal freezing cylinder makes it easy to control "overrun", or the amount of air mixed into a dessert. Brushed stainless steel housing is durable and easy to clean. Freezing cylinder is stainless steel for lasting performance. System begins to chill with the flip of a switch. Most desserts are ready within 30 minutes. When one half-gallon batch is finished, simply add more ingredients to start another. Unequaled convenience that's also great fun! When the freezing cycle is complete, just pull the lever to dispense frozen drinks and ice cream. Built-in funnel and ingredient pusher make it a cinch to add the initial mixture, as well as delicious fruits, nuts, or candy. The unit fits easily underneath will cabinets on the countertop. All parts and assemblies are designed to resist trapping ingredients for sanitary operation and quick cleanup. Comes with a 2-Year Hassle-Free Replacement warranty.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203638 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Stainless Steel
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: KPFD200SS
• Released on: 2004-10-01
• Dimensions: 16.80" h x 16.00" w x 16.00" l,

Features

• Self-contained commercial-style batch freezing system for frozen drinks and desserts
• Brushed stainless-steel housing and cylinder; half-gallon-capacity; front-loading design
• Gourmet controls; built-in funnel and ingredient pusher; professional-style dispensing head
• Horizontal freezing cylinder helps control "overrun"; drip tray; overload protection; easy to clean
• Measures 16-3/5 by 15-3/4 by 15-3/4 inches; 2-year replacement warranty

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent
By MGSWS
Does everything as advertised, and does it well. This thing makes great home-made ice cream. The ability to modify the volume by varying the amount of the ice cream mix works, but takes some practice to get the desired result. Cleaning is very easy, which is a good thing, because it weighs 50 lbs and basically has to stay where you put it. I think it has only two caveats. This is a noisy piece of equiment, although, with some experience, the change in the noise as the ice cream get processed can indicate when its done. The second is that its a good idea to stock up on the gaskets it needs to keep the seals in the dispenser because they will wear out, although KitchenAid did provide an extra set in the box.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Great if you understand what it is and what it's not.
By atozauction
I have had this machine for a month now. It was a leftover stock from an Expo design center. Kitchenaid has quit producing them. I paid around $650 for it as they wanted it off their stock and it was the last one.

When some see this rather large looking machine they think it may offer a large capacity than it does. This unit can freeze room temperature liquid in about ten minutes more or less. Impressive! But you have some heavy duty freezing units getting it done. Alas the actual containment drum for this unit is fairly small. It's probably good for a quart of softserve, or 3-5 frozen drinks depending what size glass you use.

Now, as to what this is and what it isn't.

It isn't technically called an ice cream maker. it's a frozen dessert maker. This unit is basically like those frozen slushee/slurpee machines you see at the convienence stores. With a couple differences. One being capacity is obviously smaller. Second, the Kitchenaid unit freezes things to an increasingly cold point. So unlike the slerpee machines which maintain a temperature point where the drink can still be dispensed efficiently, the KA keeps freeing it and it's up to the turbines to keep it in liquid form. Heres where the cost cutting comes into play. In order to have a merely excessive price point for a consumer dessert maker, KA had to simplify the freezing aspect by not having a maximum freezing point. And if there is one, it lacks fine tuning. But no worries, if you overshoot the runway and the KA freezes it a little too much, you just turn off the freezer switch and the turbines keep the dessert moving and it will eventually become less frozen enough to dispense. the plastic dispenser slope and dispenser could probably be better designed.

The KA is a great little item if you are aware it isn't created equal to a commercial soft serve or slurpee machine which costs $10,000-20,000+.

It was a good, solid attempt. And comes away a winner more than a loser. But with this being a consumer item, and one that came out at around $1600, it was not as refined as it's concept.

There have been some reviewers who complain about the noise level. Well, the thing freezes by means of a compressor. Those make noise no matter what. and given the short time you actually have it on this is not a big issue. It isn't really that noisy anyway.

This is probably as close as your going to get to having a soft serve or slurpee machine in your house. A for effort on Kitchenaid's part, but they know when to say when and it has been discontinued. (it still appears on the KA shoppers site, but KA reps have told me that there is no longer any stock on these. The strays you are likely to find will be refurbs or store displays).

Great product, but if your expecting it to do what a $10,000+ machine does from the local Dairy Queen or 7-11, then your going to probably be l et down a little.

KA Pro Line products are a very good line of products and KA backs them up.

If you want something Close to what is in the resturaunts or 7-11 then scout out a display model while you still can.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A very good compromise
By S. Anderson
This item is a very good compromise for obtaining a soft serve ice cream machine for use in the home without the monster size and expense of a restaurant machine. Easy to use and clean and comes with recipes or uses powder mix. The manual and video are informative and should be reviewed prior to first use of the machine. This machine is not easy to move and is somewhat noisy (but sound signals when dessert is nearly ready). Finished product is tasty and soft serve-like when dispensed from machine. Cannot leave product in the machine for long but packaging materials can be obtained and product stored in freezer but while still tasty, takes on the texture of frozen ice milk. Product will make other desserts and frozen drinks which is a plus. Glad I purchased it, products are quick, easy, inexpensive, fun to prepare and a big hit at parties!