Ninja CREAMi, Ice Cream Maker, Ice Cream, Gelato, Sorbet,Milkshakes, Mix-ins, Smoothie Bowls & More, 7-in-1, Ice Cream Pints, Pint lid, Healthy Ice Cream, Compact, Perfect for Kids, Black, NC299AMZ

I'm really impressed with the Ninja Creami...! I have another ice cream maker, but it's the kind where you have to freeze the bowl-- and to be honest it just never worked that well for me (constantly had to scrape the sides) plus it took up a lot of space in my freezer. So I saw the Ninja Creami on YouTube and was convinced enough to order one. I just made my first frozen yogurt pints and wow! they all came out GREAT. I'm a seasoned cook, so I'm inventing my own recipes for gelato, ice cream, custard, and frozen yogurt. The Creami is easy to operate and a breeze to clean the paddle and lid (these are the only things that need to be washed after using the unit-- and of course the pint jar when you're done eating your frozen treat). It is NOT a "messy" machine at all, just the opposite. I read that some reviewers have said the machine is too loud. I have not found this the case at all-- it just sounds like a blender. I was bracing for earplugs when I first turned it on, but was pleasantly surprised that it was no louder than a typical kitchen blender. While the paddle is rotating down, the machine is very stable with no vibrations-- rock solid. So far I've made chocolate frozen yogurt, pineapple frozen yogurt, coconut ice cream, and maple vanilla cinnamon custard ice cream. These have all been my own recipes and they have all come out super delicious and creamy. A tip: buy yourself more of the pint containers-- spend an hour making different mixes and then freeze in bulk to always have a frozen container ready to pop in the machine. I can already tell that this is going to be a frequently used appliance in my kitchen! A-plus, highly recommend! UPDATE: The more I use this machine the more I love it. Everyone who tastes my frozen creations says it's the best thing they've ever had. I'm having an absolute blast coming up with new and unusual flavors...Orange Creamsicle, Cafe au lait frozen yogurt, Basil-infused Lemon sherbet, Black licorice gelato, Mocha Tofutti, Mint & Dark Chocolate Chip frozen yogurt, Honey Blueberry "tofutti" gelato, Balsamic Mixed Berry frozen yogurt, Pumpkin Spice custard, Lemon Cheesecake gelato, Strawberry Shortcake frozen yogurt, Black Cherry Pie gelato, and Lavendar-infused Honey Strawberry gelato are some of the many flavors I've come up with so far. There is one review on here stating that you can only use two fruits for sorbet with the Creami: bananas and oranges... this is FALSE!! You can use any fruit you want, just keep in mind that you need to blend whatever fruit you are using in with your base. The Cream cannot break up large chucks of solid frozen fruit. The fruit you use in the base can either be used fresh or you can reduce it on the stove with some sweetener of choice if you like. Either way, you WILL need to blend it in with your base before freezing the pint container. I've had a few potential buyers ask the same question-- "Do you need to put cream cheese in every recipe?" No, you do not!!! You can take, say, a regular sorbet fruit base and add a small amount of milk, plant based milk, silken tofu, half & half, yogurt, or cream cheese to make a creamy based sherbert/ice cream/gelato/tofutti/frozen yogurt. Silken tofu comes out especially creamy and I sneak a good chunk or two into most of my recipes. You can also add a tablespoon or two of instant pudding mix... regular or sugar-free. I mix my recipes up in my Nutribullet blender... I've used a sharpie to determine where a pint is on the large blending cup and I just add my ingredients until I come to that line, then I screw on the blade and blend it, then pour into a Creami's pint containers. This works great for me because I just eyeball my ingredients to taste. I really try to control sugar in my cooking so I just put enough in to slightly sweeten. You can use honey, agave syrup, brown rice syrup, maple syrup, sweetened condensed milk, and brown sugar as white sugar substitutes. The flavor combinations are limitless. Seriously, this machine turns out some of the best gelato, ice cream, and frozen yogurt that I've ever had!!

I got the Ninja CREAMi as a gift for my significant other and it has been absolutely amazing. It’s perfect for movie nights, family time, and just treating yourself at home. The ice cream it makes is honestly the best ice cream I’ve ever had—super creamy, smooth, and better than store-bought. What really makes this machine stand out is how many modes it has. Ice cream, gelato, sorbet, milkshakes, smoothie bowls, mix-ins—you name it. It’s also great for kids and lets you make healthier options whenever you want. The size is compact, easy to use, and cleanup is simple. Once you have it, you’ll wonder how you lived without it. Highly recommend—this is a total game changer! 🍦

Love the ninja! We have only tried it on ice cream mode with mix- ins. It was quick and made a nice creamy ice cream. It was not silent, but not very loud either. Sleek design doesn’t take up too much room on the counter. Mine came with 4 extra pint containers which is handy since you have to make it up ahead of time and freeze. Looks to be a good durable product that is easy to clean. Looking forward to trying the other settings.

I was hemming and hawing for years about whether to get this or a compressor ice cream machine. I wanted very dense ice cream, but I found conflicting information about whether this would be denser than a paddle machine even though it seemed like it would have to be. I was also concerned by reviews that said they would get plastic in their ice cream. Of course, you can churn compressor ice cream immediately whereas with the Creami you must always wait overnight for the base to freeze, but I don’t mind the wait personally. Well, this went on sale as an early Prime Day deal, when it’s already cheaper than a compressor machine to begin with. I figured even if I didn’t like the normal ice cream I would still use it for things like protein ice creams, so I went ahead and got it. WHEEEELP: No plastic in the ice cream, AMAZING dense texture just using the vanilla gelato recipe in the book it came with. The search is over, haha. I would guess people who are getting plastic in their ice cream either have a defective machine, or they aren’t making sure the pint slides into place securely. If you do it properly and there’s nothing awry with the machine, you’ll actually get a millimeter-thick shell/sleeve of unshredded ice cream base around the perimeter, which is enough peace of mind about the clearance of the blade without having a significant impact on the ice cream texture. I’m looking forward to trying some sorbets! In a paddle machine those get very icy. EDIT: WOW, protein ice cream in this is incredible! The texture reminds me of liquid nitrogen ice creams! I converted my usual moka pot latte recipe to a breve with extra cream, added 50g whey, 20g collagen, 6g glycine, 35g honey, and 4 raw egg yolks. Absolutely insane, one of the best ice creams I’ve EVER had and I’m a snob who doesn’t like anything that’s not super premium. It doesn’t have a crumbly texture like I’d expected given the proteins and water from the coffee, it doesn’t have a weird gel-ish texture from the collagen. It’s like the creamiest, densest thing ever; I suspect the egg yolks, plus honey as the only sweetener, make a big difference to the texture being perfect. And I do mean perfect, I can’t imagine a better texture. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of *normal* ice cream when I got this machine, but it’s better than normal! Now I’m rethinking all my other ice cream recipes to add proteins, only use honey, etc. Ice cream is so cold it easily masks the flavor of the whey, too; shakes/smoothies are too melty and I always taste it. In fact, the melted bit by the time I got to the bottom of the pint tasted like a whey shake or smoothie to me, which just emphasizes what an easy way this could be to get extra protein with tons of textural benefits and no drawbacks to taste. This is so nuts to me!

FANTASTIC! Well made, durable, easy to clean.

Bought it during Prime Days in the summer, about 1/2 the price it is today. Let's first address the noise level. It's a non-issue since most food processors that work this hard to chop, grind, process etc., need to have powerful, durable motors. As it ramps up for speed and then slows down when it's finishing up, it is NOT that loud. What's "loud" anyways? I've got other Ninja units and have ground up meats with them, ice etc. Our electric 2-beater hand mixer IS also "loud." Most kitchen appliances.....THEY'RE LOUD, SO WHAT! I'd be more worried about quality if they were quiet and just made hissing sounds when trying to creamify frozen ingredients. The tips now: the blade must be snug in the top cover. Look in the hole, make sure it is. Your concoction: whole milk will freeze like icecubes. Chocolate milk, not much different. 38%m.f. whipping cream..ugh, too thick and it was gross, the "icecream" was the texture of silicone caulking (LOL) but creamified easily enough. Congealing gravy was what I'd describe as the end result for the choice of using liquid whipping cream. Start off easy and cheap with an experiment. 1.5 cups of milk, tbsp. of jello instant pudding mix, 1/4 tsp of guar gum or xanthan gum, little dash of vanilla extract if you like. Freeze for 24 hours. Remove from freezer, leave at room temp. for 20 minutes or place in a bowl of hot water for 10 mins. or so. Jab a normal stainless steel dinner knife in the concoction. No serrated or pointy knives, please. Poke around in the mix and once you can chop it up somewhat, you're ready to place into machine. I've done this numerous times because I want to make sure I'm not abusing the motor and some ingredients which are not common (like whole, white milk-that's for the commercial/industrial units to tackle) and may cause issues and the Ninja will stall. But first, make sure you're under the line on the container itself. You can remove some of the stuff if it's too high. Remember, the contents have to be completely level. If you're going to re-spin later and are adding some chopped up candy etc., you'll definitely need to be under the line. So, you plug in the unit and the error of "Install" is flashing? You've already installed the containers with said blade and top, correct? Unlock the container, remove it, re-install it and hit the power button. I found that even after a proper spin for a concoction, cleaned the unit and put it away, the next time I used it, the install flashing icon did come on. It's touchy and you have to make sure you hear the solid CLICK which means the container IS mounted correctly. Just before you set that container down onto the base of the Ninja, look closely at the blade and the top of the lid. Look at the hole where the unit's shaft is going to enter. The blade should NOT have any gap between it and the lid. When you first install the blade and the lid is upside down, place your thumb in the center of the blade unit and make sure it's pushed in and balanced. For all of the above, I noticed that the unit is only touchy when I didn't make sure everything was properly fitted or lined up. Whatever the contents are when frozen for 24 hours, they cannot be totally solid or you'll ruin this Ninja Creami. For one attempt I mistakenly had a somewhat unbalanced glop in the container and the Nnja got to level 2 and then malfunction. I unplugged it since I couldn't remove the container, waited a few minutes, plugged it back in and the motor had settled own enough to allow me to remove the container, re-position the contents, clean the blade and lid, re-install it properly and voila, worked to completion. Try the dinner knife advice, whatever's in there for ingredients, has to have some movement or play. It's a small blade, it ain't gonna grind up ice! P.S. My cheapout try of choc. milk (something like .8%m.f.- yes, POINT 8), a tbsp. of Jello choc. pudding mix etc., came out icy but it still took care of the craving. Half and half or cereal cream apparently works best. Other concoctions of some whipping cream, some white and some choc. milk will work as well. Trust me though, making your own icecream isn't a great bargain nor are you saving much $$ but at least you know what you're putting in the concoction. Previously, I always thought about buying one of those icecream churn types of units, the kind you use rock salt and ice etc. but thought it was too much work and I preferred buying actual icecream from a store. This Ninja will have to run through a lot of recipes to even get close to paying for itself but now I have an aversion to even paying $$ at a store for what these days doesn't seem to be real icecream anymore ---ICED milk....hmmmm..... My unit has extra coverage for a few years since I thought it was only wise to get that coverage. So far, it has not made me think I made a bad decision for buying it at such a good price. P.S: IF you've /scratched/scraped the sides of the container and you've found shards of plastic or strands like hair, YOUR CONCOCTION WAS TOO ICY, YOUR LEVEL WAS WAY TOO CLOSE TO THE LINE "or" you had a lopsided mess of ingredients and it caused the blades to spin in a lopsided way. trust me, I've watched our unit doing its thing and if all is good and you've prepare it well, the blade will descend properly and remain plumb, and will rise accordingingly. The only way you end up gouging your containers is if you used a heavy "icy" mix OR chunks of the ingredients were hammering the sides. Do that too often and your Ninja's motor will be dead in no time. It ain't a jackhammer, it's a blender/light chopper! While creamifying, if you hear what sounds like small stones hitting the sides, it's too icy and you're grinding away at the plastic (friction in case you didn't know?).

Love this for making light desserts lower in fat and sugar.

The CREAMi produces good quality sorbet, ice cream, and the likes but we find it to be very loud when operating and wishes it came with an extra ice cream container instead of 1. The machine was easy to assemble and use

Was tired of feeding my daughter high sugar store bough ice creams.... this works great to give her a healthy alternative. I use high protein yogurt, a bit of cream cheese, cottage cheese, hand full of the fruit of my choice, a couple of figs or dates, blend it all together, pour into its jars and freeze them for 10-12 hours. Take it out of freezer, thaw it out and put it to spin. I usually spin it twice for a creamier texture as on the first go, it looks a bit powdery. I hide all kinds of vegetables in her ice cream and she eats as many scoops as I'm willing to give her!