HOMEMADE ice cream tends to mean one of two things: a cheap gadget that disappoints, or a Ninja Creami that costs the best part of £200.
Lakeland has added a third option. Its 1.5L Ice Cream Maker is down to £19.99 in the summer sale, reduced from £39.99 — a £20 saving, and £180 less than the Ninja Creami’s £199.99 RRP.
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Lakeland Ice Cream Maker 1.5L: £19.99 (was £39.99)
It’s £19.99 at Lakeland, down from £39.99, with the brand’s standard three-year guarantee.
You add your ingredients, press one button, and watch the mix churn through a clear lid.
An aluminium cooling bowl and a motor that moves the paddle left and right build up the texture as it goes, and there’s a hole in the lid for dropping in chocolate chips, fruit or nuts mid-churn.
It makes up to 1.5 L, broadly in line with the Creami’s 1.4 L.
The Creami is the better-known machine, with seven preset programmes and a sizeable following.
It also rarely sells at its £199.99 RRP, and most retailers currently have it for £144-£170.
The Lakeland may do less — it churns yet doesn’t run programmes — but for £19.99, it covers the job most people actually want: vanilla, sorbet, the odd batch for a barbecue, without the outlay.
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The machine has a single review on Lakeland’s site, rated four stars, from a shopper who has used it three times and described the results as “lovely.”
That same reviewer flagged a quirk worth knowing. The instructions say to pre-freeze the bowl, but she found that this froze her fridge-cold mix on contact, jamming the plastic paddle.
Her fix was to skip the pre-freeze, churn first, then freeze the finished batch, and the ice cream still came out, in her words, “perfect.”
The deal is live now at Lakeland. Sale prices and stock can change, so it’s worth checking before you commit.
