Slushee Maker
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Toys and Games Reviews of Slushee Maker
Customer Review: One of the worst things I've ever bought
Summary: 1 Stars
We bought this as a birthday present to my six year old. Thought it looked like great summer fun. It really wasn't hard to put together but we couldn't get the silly thing to work. It started out fine until the bottom froze so that we couldn't crank anymore and ended up with a tiny bit of frozen icee and mostly cold drink. We followed the directions exactly and this happened both times we tried it out. Back to the store it goes!Customer Review: Solution for the problems
Summary: 3 Stars
After trying to make this work for a while I came across all these posts and thought there must be a way. I had tried turning for a long time and never got it to freeze at all. So I tried using rock salt instead of table salt. I just covered the bottom of the container with rock salt and filled it up with crushed ice. Just a little bit of water. Then it worked perfect. The liquid turned slushy in 2 minutes. Customer Review: This product will waste your money and deplete your spirit
Summary: 1 Stars
Not to mention a possibly irritated rotator cuff injury from the endless cranking......JUST to end up with, well, cold juice. The other reviews that attested to this were found to be correct. Excuse me while I go ice my shoulder...Customer Review: The UNslushee!
Summary: 1 Stars
My friend's daughter got this for her 5th birthday and we decided to christen it together with my two 5 year olds. First of all, it was pretty complicated to put together (you know, reading and re-reading the directions until you get it right?). Then when we finally got to the point of cranking, we cranked, and cranked, and cranked, and cranked, and cranked ... We all cranked (all 5 of us) only to end up with nothing but 3 "cranky" kids - what a disappointment. I'm curious as to how the positive reviewers actually got it to work. In the end, we let the kids drink their UNslushees and, to add insult to injury, they didn't even like that very much. It was kind of like cold, sugar syrup. Yuk! Unless you want to spend an inordinate amount of time cranking this thing, with NO guarantee of ever getting an ICEE, pass on this waste of $$ and time.Customer Review: Spend the extra $10 and buy a manual ice cream maker
Summary: 2 Stars
This is just a small version of an 1800s ice cream maker including dangerously cold metal parts. Modern manual ice cream makers sell for around $30 and they do not have this problem. All of the complaints of this product do not exist with a regular ice cream maker. Furthermore, you can actually make ice cream with an ice cream maker, as well as slushies. I brought this for myself (pregnant woman with food allergies), but after reading the instructions I do not even feel comfortable using this "toy". As for the education value of salt water, you can accomplish that with a glass of ice water and salt.