eBay Plus spotlight deal. Apply code, free delivery.
Slightly cheaper than recent $194 Amazon / TGG deals.
Delivery Excludes: PO Box, QLD Regional, SA Regional, WA Regional and WA Remote.
Link?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/887186
The product they are talking about is discontinued now, I think.
i have one of these, its noisy but it works. i would prefer the ninja. probably will try to sell this on ebay
What’s the go with the plastic shavings issue? Is it a case of people over doing it? Inclined to wait for gen 2.
Apparently not
This is copy/pasted from another user on ozbargain (sorry I don't remember their name)
The plastic shavings come from some common user errors. Things that tend to lead shavings:
1) Freezing wrong: liquids freezing in the containers start freezing from the bottom and sides. Freezing water expands so you want the top to freeze over last so the ice has free space to expand to. This prevents the containers from warping, which can lead to the blade hitting the sides causing shavings when the container is deformed enough. People tout 'freezing with the lid off' which can lead to this scenario since the top no longer freezes last.
2) The hump: if frozen properly the last of the liquid to freeze gets pushed up in a 'hump', which needs to be flattened before processing, since the shaft driving the spinning blade will deflect slightly if it's pushing against a non uniform surface.
3) Not freezing flat: similar to the hump, not freezing on a flat surface will lead an uneven processing surface with the blade getting deflected into the sides of the containers.
4) Defrosting before processing: people defrost their pints a bit to get them creamier on the first spin, make hump removal easier, and to reduce the leftovers on the sides. This allows opportunity for the block of ice to come loose from the sides and the divots in the bottom, and then it will freely spin with the blade. This can lead to blade deflection into the sides of the container, and/or motor burn out/ overheating due to the speed difference between the loose block of ice and the blade to be far less than what is needed to shave it down.
5) Not fully freezing pints: this also can leads to a similar free spinning scenario. The partially frozen ice block is more likely to come loose from the container and cause damage.
6) Bonus: not cleaning the shaft of the machine after use. This leads to a build up of crust in the grooves of where the shaft couples to the blade. With enough build up the blade will fall off while its running and the shaft will then grind against the loose blade. This causes the infamous fires where the shaft essentially friction welds itself to the blade. If you look at the after math pictures you'll usually see their shaft is also munted with weeks/months old ice cream built up in the grooves.
I have the deluxe and never had an issue. Just make sure you freeze your mixture level.
Plastic shavings in the mix, so for those reasons I’m out.
Yummy mix-in usually costs more
Get out of here Shark
This is copy/pasted from another user on ozbargain (sorry I don't remember their name)
The plastic shavings come from some common user errors. Things that tend to lead shavings:
1) Freezing wrong: liquids freezing in the containers start freezing from the bottom and sides. Freezing water expands so you want the top to freeze over last so the ice has free space to expand to. This prevents the containers from warping, which can lead to the blade hitting the sides causing shavings when the container is deformed enough. People tout 'freezing with the lid off' which can lead to this scenario since the top no longer freezes last.
2) The hump: if frozen properly the last of the liquid to freeze gets pushed up in a 'hump', which needs to be flattened before processing, since the shaft driving the spinning blade will deflect slightly if it's pushing against a non uniform surface.
3) Not freezing flat: similar to the hump, not freezing on a flat surface will lead an uneven processing surface with the blade getting deflected into the sides of the containers.
4) Defrosting before processing: people defrost their pints a bit to get them creamier on the first spin, make hump removal easier, and to reduce the leftovers on the sides. This allows opportunity for the block of ice to come loose from the sides and the divots in the bottom, and then it will freely spin with the blade. This can lead to blade deflection into the sides of the container, and/or motor burn out/ overheating due to the speed difference between the loose block of ice and the blade to be far less than what is needed to shave it down.
5) Not fully freezing pints: this also can leads to a similar free spinning scenario. The partially frozen ice block is more likely to come loose from the container and cause damage.
6) Bonus: not cleaning the shaft of the machine after use. This leads to a build up of crust in the grooves of where the shaft couples to the blade. With enough build up the blade will fall off while its running and the shaft will then grind against the loose blade. This causes the infamous fires where the shaft essentially friction welds itself to the blade. If you look at the after math pictures you'll usually see their shaft is also munted with weeks/months old ice cream built up in the grooves.
Too many loopholes, so for those reasons I’m out.
I was dumb enough to buy this at the end of summer for $220 because I was scared of a price increase. Haven't even had the chance to use it yet…
Cool, got one. Thanks!
What's this plastic shavings issues people are mentioning? Never heard of it having issues before, I thought these were the models that ozb recommended. Although I can't remember what the difference was between this and the deluxe.
This is copy/pasted from another user on ozbargain (sorry I don't remember their username)
The plastic shavings come from some common user errors. Things that tend to lead shavings:
1) Freezing wrong: liquids freezing in the containers start freezing from the bottom and sides. Freezing water expands so you want the top to freeze over last so the ice has free space to expand to. This prevents the containers from warping, which can lead to the blade hitting the sides causing shavings when the container is deformed enough. People tout 'freezing with the lid off' which can lead to this scenario since the top no longer freezes last.
2) The hump: if frozen properly the last of the liquid to freeze gets pushed up in a 'hump', which needs to be flattened before processing, since the shaft driving the spinning blade will deflect slightly if it's pushing against a non uniform surface.
3) Not freezing flat: similar to the hump, not freezing on a flat surface will lead an uneven processing surface with the blade getting deflected into the sides of the containers.
4) Defrosting before processing: people defrost their pints a bit to get them creamier on the first spin, make hump removal easier, and to reduce the leftovers on the sides. This allows opportunity for the block of ice to come loose from the sides and the divots in the bottom, and then it will freely spin with the blade. This can lead to blade deflection into the sides of the container, and/or motor burn out/ overheating due to the speed difference between the loose block of ice and the blade to be far less than what is needed to shave it down.
5) Not fully freezing pints: this also can leads to a similar free spinning scenario. The partially frozen ice block is more likely to come loose from the container and cause damage.
6) Bonus: not cleaning the shaft of the machine after use. This leads to a build up of crust in the grooves of where the shaft couples to the blade. With enough build up the blade will fall off while its running and the shaft will then grind against the loose blade. This causes the infamous fires where the shaft essentially friction welds itself to the blade. If you look at the after math pictures you'll usually see their shaft is also munted with weeks/months old ice cream built up in the grooves.
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got a ice cream maker from kmart with compresor bult it makes icecream in 45 min great machine only cost 50 bucks. on sale.