How Is the CREAMi Different Than a Traditional Ice Cream Maker? Besides the fact that it has seven functions, the CREAMi uses its own "creamify" technology. The CREAMi's blades break down a solid block of frozen ingredients to give the ice cream a smooth and creamy consistency.

In our experience, as long as your base is frozen all the way through, you're good to go. Freezing bases for 24 hours guarantees that they will be frozen enough to process, but you can experiment with different times to find what works for your specific freezer. Can you refreeze Ninja Creami bases?

The Ninja® CREAMi Breeze™ transforms frozen solid bases into ice cream, sorbets, milkshakes, and more at the touch of a button. Ninja's Creamify™ technology enables the CREAMi Breeze™ to break down a uniformly frozen base into an incredibly smooth, creamy texture in minutes.

I will warn that it is loud but worth it. The other issue was likely user error in which the first mix in attempt resulted in only half the pint having the mix in. It was amazing but we had to mix by hand the rest of it. It does have a little recipe book that comes with it and has resulted in great ice cream!

The Deluxe version can make the aforementioned six treats, plus frozen yogurt, Italian ice, “Slushis,” “Creamiccinos” and frozen drinks. A Creami is not a blender (there are plenty of top-notch Ninja blenders if that's what you're after), and the user manual makes that very clear.

But it takes a lot of force to repeatedly drill a blade through material that's frozen solid, and we could tell that the machine was working hard - maybe too hard. As we tested the Creami, it shook and smelled of burning plastic more than once. One taster even detected a burnt-plastic flavor in the ice cream.

Ninja recommends freezing Creami bases for 24 hours, but we've had success with 8 to 12 hour freezing times, too. In our experience, freezing bases for 24 hours or longer usually meant they'd be very chalky on the first run through the Creami and require multiple respins.

The creami is great for making low sugar, proteïne ice cream, dairy free or any type of sorbet ice cream. The texture you can accomplish with low-fat ingredients is honestly amazing.

The Deluxe version can make the aforementioned six treats, plus frozen yogurt, Italian ice, “Slushis,” “Creamiccinos” and frozen drinks. A Creami is not a blender (there are plenty of top-notch Ninja blenders if that's what you're after), and the user manual makes that very clear.

The creami is great for making low sugar, proteïne ice cream, dairy free or any type of sorbet ice cream. The texture you can accomplish with low-fat ingredients is honestly amazing.

A Creami is not a blender (there are plenty of top-notch Ninja blenders if that's what you're after), and the user manual makes that very clear. You don't use this machine for crushing ice or blending loose ingredients.

The Creami is not quite an ice cream maker, because it has no cooling mechanism (frozen ice block or mechanical). It's also not quite a blender; there are no variable speed settings and you're certainly not making soup in this thing.