Product Description

With the unique Mega Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker, you can make ice cream anywhere! You don't need electricity, just add ice and rock salt in one end and ice cream mix in the other end then have a ball as you shake it, pass it or roll it! The ice cream mix can be as simple as cream, sugar and vanilla. Try flavors from our recipe list included or make up your own. Made of durable polycarbonate, it's lightweight, portable and easy to clean. It's ideal for Camping, Boating, Picnics, Parties, Travel...anywhere!

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Product Details

• Size: 1 Quart
• Color: Blue
• Brand: UCO
• Model: f-iceq-Blue
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 8.75" w x 9.25" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• NEW!!! Makes TWICE the ice cream of the Original Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker!
• It's ideal for Camping, Boating, Picnics, Parties, Travel...anywhere!
• The ball is approximately 9" in diameter and makes a quart of ice cream in about 30 minutes. It weighs about 3 lbs when empty and 9 lbs when full.
• The ice cream mix can be as simple as cream, sugar and vanilla. Recipes included.

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

387 of 426 people found the following review helpful.
Have a Ball!! (and make ice cream)
By L. Keller
I received the Ice Cream Ball (in Green) for Mother's Day after I mentioned it would be fun to have when I saw it on the Food Network. Even though it does not make a large amount of ice cream, it makes enough to satisfy one's cravings without going to all the trouble of a normal ice cream maker. You put ice and rock salt in one end and the ice cream mix in the other. I made vanilla the first time. Then my family and I went outside and rolled the ball, tossed it short distances to one another (it is much too heavy with all the ice to throw far,) and generally shook the heck out of it. I did have to drain the melted ice once and refill with more ice and rock salt. After 20-25 minutes I opened the ice cream container and ice cream had been made. It was a little soupy in the middle, but I had to scrape the sides to get the solid portion out. If I would have "played" with the ball a little more all of the mix would have been solid. This method of making home-made ice cr eam definately would not work for a large number of people or a b-day party. But it works to satisfy a craving for 1-3 people. I guess you could say that you burned enough calories making the ice cream, that you should not feel guilty eating it!!

261 of 287 people found the following review helpful.
neat idea, just doesn't work well
By A. Newhouse
I got this for Christmas, and finally got around to using it this summer. It's a great idea (one of the 2 stars), and on the box it looks very easy to just kick or toss around and make ice cream! However, it is HEAVY once it is loaded with ice, salt, and cream ingredients. If you tried to kick it, you'd break a toe. It's quite a workout to toss around, which can be a good thing, so there's the other star.

However, after a half hour of hard work, we ended up with some soupy sweet cream in the middle of the container (softer than a milkshake) and some rock-hard ice sort-of-cream around the edges. It was difficult to get the hard parts off the edges of the container, and even though anything with that much fat and sugar has to taste good, the texture left a lot to be desired.

No stars for the actual ice cream part of this ice cream maker. Get a nerf ball instead if you want something to throw around, and buy some "slow churned" ice cream that's he althier and tastes much better.

100 of 108 people found the following review helpful.
Does what its supposed to... and fun.
By Eric Olson
Rube Goldberg device (as stated in a snarky review below)? Give me a break. Heads up, food snobs: This isn't a Kitchen Aid. In case the pictures didn't clue you in.

It makes a quart of ice cream. Good for portion control and satisfying cravings. And rolling the ball around with the wife made for a good little workout. Sort of like a medicine ball, but with this one you eat back the calories you've burned.

And its fun to chase the dogs through the house with is ball of rolling noise!

Not for a family of 40. Not for the National Ice Cream Eating Contest.

Tip: Like with anything, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.

It says roll the ball for 10 minutes, stop and scrape the sides. It is pretty amazing how thick the sides became on our first try (and considering that it was over 100 degrees outside testament to the cooling feature).

Scraping the sides keeps the ice cream from being overly "soupy" as complained about below. Du ring the remaining 5-10 (we only went 5 as we were hungry) minutes of rolling.

Then PRESTO! Good soft-serve quality ice cream. Not Ben and Jerry's. Not Italian Gelato. Good soft ice cream that was made in 10 minutes of prep and 15 minutes of work out.

Don't use anything bigger than mini chips as they tend to suffer from centripetal forces and don't evenly spread through the ice cream.

Are there better ice cream makers? Yes. Is this one fun and worth the money/effort? Certainly. Maybe there is a Rube Goldberg quality to it. But that gives it the charm.