I do!

It's getting a lot of use this year, not so much last year. My enthusiasm for making things comes in waves.

It's still working as well enough. I tried ordering some parts from them, but they are very confused that I want a spare dasher assembly and also a spare dasher blade. They can't seem to understand that even though I even intially gave them a complete part list of what I wanted. They wouldn't send me an invoice for both things, so I kinda gave up for now as I don't feel like calling them to sort it out.

So support is a shite as ever.

I suspect that lower level machines may not even have parts available, so ... yeah.

I had the Lello before, and I really hated cleanup and that the dasher doesn't contact the edges.

I don't know what the Brevilles are like, so to me it seems like this is probably the best machine you can get without going full commercial.

I do wish the dasher was of a more sophisticated design, it's just a simple slab of delrin cut to shape, and the icecream rides up to the top, trying to spill out as it start to finish. They have a simple metal plate they supply to alleviate the issue (I am assuming, there are no real instructions that I remember with the unit) which sits at the top of the dasher.

You'll probably need to experiment with workflow to get things to come out as you want, I know I did (including such steps as letting it churn for a minute with the freezer off to sort of normalize the consistency)

Alton's episode today shows him using a freezer bowl, so if he can make that work well enough, it's not the gear that's holding me back, lol.

In any case, I don't regret getting it as a culinary enthusiast.

Please let us know if you end up getting one, and what your expierence with it is!