The Unold provides for people who otherwise have it all, a good alternative. Active cooling is really useful, and you can quickly and spontaneously fire up ice. Witzig is also the possibility of using the ice maker for fast cooling bottles (not tried). The cleaning is very easy.
However, there are a couple of weaknesses that had not favorable Philips. Let's start with the stirrer: The Philips of the stirrer is provided externally with a scraper, who has direct contact with the container. Thus firmly frozen ice cream is stirred in to the wall. That has not Unold. In addition, the stirrer is used loosely. There is always a certain amount of fumbling to place the stirrer to get put the lid before the agitator tip over, and finally to set the motor correctly to the stirrer.
The ice bucket is very narrow and deep and the engine block on top thick. It is therefore difficult, in between to inspect the condition of the ice cream in order to decide whether now is enough stirred. Also the removal of the ice is more difficult than in the Philips.
The filling opening is tiny, practically hardly suitable to fill in between without opening the unit slightly.
The accompanying recipes are generally described rather poor; without my experience of the other ice machine I probably would have put down a few unsuccessful attempts.
Overall, the machine is not bad, that should not be misunderstood. After all, I forgive four star! Nevertheless, it's a bit annoying that so avoidable design problems tarnish the pleasure. , Perhaps to try love people of Unold next time only himself ;-)
Post edited: I agree with the commenter and set the rating to three stars down. The agitator is absolutely a vulnerability, which still leads also that the temperature gauge is completely illusory. Outside beinhart on -28 down frozen ice cream, soft serve ice cream inside more.
