Yonanas 902 Frozen Treat Maker, Black/Silver Customer Reviews

I am in love including this cut. If you've always made banana lash or "mock ice cream" in a liquidizer, you will doubtless love this too. A few key unenthusiastic assess points are as follows, and I'll address these including my encounter:1. Yonanas didn't go like vanilla/gentle supply ice cream. ~Water supply, it is not made of unicorns and rainbows, so judgment says including the intention of if you put a banana in, and no other ingredients, what comes out will most likely go like a banana. Maybe approximately day they will get on to a key Yonanas machine and the universe will rejoice.2. It is loud. ~Yup, it is. But so is a liquidizer, provisions processor, stab liquidizer, etc. The detail is, I did not go deaf or blood loss from my ears in the 2 outline it took me to get on to a container full of blueberry-banana Yonanas.3. It doesn't dab down aptly off. ~Yeah, it does. I undid my machine aptly including dying the lash and rinsed it in the sink. All of the fruit came aptly off. I did have to apply a little soap to a dab and move my hand in trade and into the planet on the machine for a following or two to get all the strawberry seeds out of the teeth, but this was release just traumatizing. The release thing I can think of including folks not having flourishing clean-up is including the intention of it is not rinsed aptly dead.4. It foliage a half serving in the machine. ~Yup, it does. I took my Yonanas dead from all other to dab down it, and just old a serve to rasp the little bit gone in the machine into my bowl. This was also not traumatizing.5. I had to encourage in reinforcements (doubtless bodybuilders) to aid me get behind the bananas in and pocket the machine dead from all other. ~Really? I'm a regular female including little spider-monkey arms, and I did not have to encourage in big, strong broadcast to aid me get behind the bananas in or pocket the machine dead from all other.6. It takes a ton of bananas to get on to a serving. ~No, not really. My Yonanas came including a fake tub to keep in the freezer. Just now, all by for myself, including no bodybuilder acquaintances, no flow of blood from the ears, and no dishpan hands, I filled the tub using release 4 total bananas and 2 cups of frozen blueberries. This seems evenhanded to me.I like bananas, I like banana whips, I like fruit, and I like Yonanas.
- Angela

I was telling a couple of the girls at bring about days gone by in this area how I'd gotten a Yonana and how eager I was to try it. One of the other girls comes up and says, "You ordered a Yonana?" I said yes, thinking she was going to tell me wonderful things in this area it. As a substitution for, she said she'd had one, with the intention of she hated it, and recommended with the intention of I immediately pack it up and ship it back lacking tiresome it. She claimed it was noisy and tiresome to clean. She recommended getting a Ninja as a substitution for and said a Ninja is extra versatile, but at that calculate she went on to say with the intention of she has to add liquid to her fruit, which defeats the purpose for why I'd ordered the Yonana in the initially place. I'm on Consequence Watchers, and I'd ordered the Yonana since all you need is fruit and fruit is zip points on Consequence Watchers. What's not to tenderness in this area "free" food? My co-worker also complained in this area needing to use two bananas for the Yonana and said with the intention of bananas are too high in carbs. High in carbs or not, bananas subdue count as "free" food on Consequence Watchers and, divergent to what my co-worker said, you do not need to use two bananas nor do you need to use any bananas. So, being the stubborn self with the intention of I am, I decided not to take my co-worker's information.Last night I got to try the Yonana. My assessment...it is noisy. So noisy with the intention of it should be packed up and shipped back? No. It's no extra noisy than my blender or my son's liquidizer. And it is not tiresome to clean. Not in the least modest bit. In fact, I was a bit wary of the blades on the blade shaft since they looked a bit evil, like they could rasp up a knuckle lacking a following planning - but the blades actually refined up being extremely easy to clean off. You can actually just run the parts under water and rinse them off, it cleaned up with the intention of easily. If my co-worker desires to see tiresome to clean, she can borrow my son's liquidizer, which requires scrubbing with a toothbrush to get all the pulp out.I'd scan approximately reviews on the Ninja and one of the reviews complained with the intention of the Ninja is a pain as you want to add bonus ingredients since you be inflicted with to take off the motor and take off a lid and there was a further step with the intention of I don't dredge up. My co-worker decided with the intention of you do need to do all with the intention of, but she poo-pooed with the intention of assess as saying with the intention of's actually not an come forth. Well, I can't vouch for the Ninja, but I can say with the intention of count fruit to the Yonana is extremely easy. You just pull out the plunger (which you can get a modest bit of suction there) and pop in the fruit and at that calculate nose-dive dead.Creating the "ice cream" is extremely quick. I mean, extremely quick! In less calculate than it takes to dig frozen real ice cream out of a tub, you can be inflicted with a Yonana handle. (Well, okay, with the intention of might not be totally true as you do need to melt your frozen fruit initially...but take the thawing section out of the equation, you can be inflicted with the Yonana handle extra quickly than real ice cream and lacking the cussing and swearing.)There is no waste in ingredients with the Yonana. I am permanently flabbergasted by my son's liquidizer at how greatly wasted manufactured goods is gone over. With the Yonana, you get to eat each bit of what goes into it. You will want to disassemble the element aptly dead, however, since you will discover with the intention of approximately not poisonous "ice cream" ruins between the blade cover and the blade shaft and approximately in the gasket too, but with the intention of's extremely easy to rasp out, put in the bowl, and take pleasure in. I did see with the intention of it seems with the intention of the initially bowl of Yonana gets cheated out of approximately of their handle and later crockery look to be extra filled. I'm not sure what the reason for with the intention of is as it didn't increase with the intention of there was fruit gone in the plunger. Maybe it's the amount of fruit with the intention of ruins between the shaft cover and blade shaft? I don't admit, but a key is to make one big batch and at that calculate break it into portions.The element is greatly smaller than I'd probable it to be. It takes up less room than a toaster or a traditional blender or my son's gigantic liquidizer. It is tall, however. But if you leave it out on a countertop, height isn't an come forth. It's the footprint with the intention of would be an come forth.One thing I discovered with the intention of I don't actually like in this area the design of the Yonana is with the intention of the spout the "ice cream" comes out is too close to the element and sometimes the "ice cream" desires to curl back headed for the element and not into your bowl, even though I had the bowl pushed up next to the machine. A simple fix would be for the Yonana designer to make a longer spout. Next Yonana generation maybe. In the meantime, the addict can use a higher bowl, or maybe a glass?By and large, am I 100% sold on Yonana? No. I fancy I could say I am, but, after tasting my initially foundation, I reflect I'd rather just eat the fruit. The concoction does not go like ice cream - it does, however, be inflicted with the texture of gentle give ice cream. Oddly, my son, who drank a full 12 small amount glass of gritty juiced carrots lacking complaint owing to faces as he ate his banana/peach Yonana. He did eat it all, but I don't reflect he's going to be asking me to make him a further Yonana handle. As for me, I do not like bananas, at all, and a few areas of my banana/berry tasted way too greatly like banana. (And, yes, I admit, you do not need to use the bananas. I owing to my Yonana handle using just one banana, one semi before the berries and one semi after.) Am I going to ship my Yonana back? No. I'm going to produce it extra of a try. Initially off, a lot of the reviews and the Yonana title-holder's manual/recipe books all say to use sour bananas. I didn't be inflicted with sour bananas. I just froze the bananas with the intention of were the most banged up looking and they actually weren't all with the intention of sour. So I'm hoping with the intention of bananas with the intention of are truly sour and not austerely banged up will make a variation. Also, I be going to to produce it a try using just fruit lacking the bananas. I am also hoping with the intention of in calculate I will move beyond the ask for my concoctions to be ice cream and with the intention of unpleasantly just be happy with the intention of I'm having a Consequence Watchers zip point handle. My husband also said with the intention of he thinks the Yonana will be a nice cold handle come summer as it's hot.So, do I urge the Yonana? Yes, I do. In fact, even with my not being sold on the go of my initially foundation, I do be going to on sharing my Yonana experience with my Consequence Watchers group as well as my acquaintances. Like a few of the reviews said, if you want ice cream, go buy ice cream. If you want a good, healthy, zip point handle, at that calculate, by all means, get a Yonana. It's a good machine with the intention of does just so what it's meant to do.Follow up - I tried again and old just a berry mix (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries) and four slices of peaches (no bananas). Extremely good. Even better, I mixed in a container of blueberry Fiber One yogurt (just one Consequence Watchers point). Now, with the intention of was a good mixture with the intention of I can easily eat manifold times. It is runny, like gentle give ice cream with the intention of's melted, but, boy did it go good.
- Lorrie A Kruse

I was so excited for this product to arrive. I thought, "frozen fruit would be such a healthful alternative to ice cream". Not with the intention of I had super unreasonable expectations. With all, you can't turn a banana into a full fat ice cream sundae. What I was expecting was a touch more than just puréed frozen fruit. This product touts with the intention of the end upshot is creamy. I did not find with the intention of the upshot was creamy at all. No matter which rank of fruit was used. The "purée" isn't even cut-rate enough to be a creamy option! I have cultured you cannot make fruit "creamy" unless there is some rank of base(i.e. yogurt or pudding,etc) in it to make it "creamy". I did try all the aforementioned tricks in the amazon reviews and in the booklet as well to reflect it over if with the intention of changed my opinion and nothing worked. I even made my health nut fiance try it and he said, "it's frozen smashed banana" *cue odd crinkle brow face*. So with the intention of is in effect a big "whoop de doo!" from the peanut arcade.Also, while I do love bananas, when they are mushed up they become gummy and sticky. I used fully ripe and frozen bananas as well. So I thought this product would help rank of reduce with the intention of and it didn't. I did try other frozen fruit as well such as strawberries and peaches. Strawberries came made known like a granita/sorbet category dessert. I imagine this is because of the privileged fill up content in a berry vs. a fruit such as the banana. Berries also have seeds in them so each time you bite you make a seed in your treat which is less pleasing to me keep for others probably wouldn't mentality. I do reflect this would be a good option if you were making frozen fruit baby food though or for a teething baby, keep for at that time ended again, you could possibly hold a product for the same fee or even a little more with the intention of you could possibly have more options with.The cleaning and waste is probably one of the most grating parts to it. In the end you have to have a lot of fruit because if you just put in one banana it disappears in the blade system inside the product unless you have another one to push it made known. So in the end it's a 2-for-1 system unless you want to take it dead from each other to make the excess fruit in the blades with a spoon. Maybe I'm just a wimp, keep for I also thought with the intention of the spout part was rank of hard to twist off and lock in as well. The plunger system also wasn't really effectual any. I used the aptly amount of pressure and the apparatus stopped from time to time. I recognize I wasn't by so much pressure with the intention of it completely stopped like some could have experienced. I also felt like while the cone/blade part is mushy with all the excess fruit you could possibly move quietly and rub physically on the blades. In my opinion, you have to be careful when compelling it dead from each other and washing/rinsing. The whole "You can just rinse it off and bam! You're done!" thing isn't true any. Fruit is sticky because of the fructose in it and it will not come off with just rinsing. I used dish soap because I don't have the luxury of a dishwasher and didn't want anything leftover or stuck on the blades. I did not find the product unbearably loud like some have said. I felt it was actually a little less loud than a blender with ice chopping in it.At the end of the time, I just felt with the intention of this product is not worth the money considering you could possibly probably do the same thing in a privileged end food processor (without liquid) which would have more uses. This is a one trick colt. Guaranteed you can puree various frozen fruits, frozen yogurt cubes, and frozen pudding keep for with the intention of's about it! I sent it back for a refund.
- M. Tallada

I am having a REALLY tough time comprehending the halfhearted reviews I have read about this manufactured goods! My family received this as a Christmas gift, and I am so grateful to our neighbors for charitable it to us!First off, here is no culture curve. Simply freeze bananas (and other fruit, if desired,) the night before. We let them thaw for 10 outline on the deactivate, then went frankly to ice cream textured perfection on the very first try. I'm serious; this is really easy. Rarely have I encountered a manufactured goods that in fact does just so what it is held to do so easily and at once. The directions are austere and easy to follow. I am no body designer at 5'6', 130 lbs., and both me and my petite 18-year-old daughter were able to shove the frozen fruit owing to quite easily.Yes, it is noisy, but you're not running it for very long. I am a really blast insightful self. I HATE blast and love calm down, am always turning down the volume on the tv, etc., and I find the blast amount of Yonanas absolutely fair for a short cycle of time.Another top-you cannot duplicate the cream texture this manufactured goods delivers with a food PC of blender. It cannot be done. This does not create a smoothie or shake.Yonanas actually makes a cream homogeny very much like ice cream. Of way, if you do not like bananas at all, you will probably not like them from the Yonanas apparatus, any. We made our first batch with strawberries (delicious,) and are looking forwards to trying out other fruit combinations.Lastly, cleaning up could not be easier. It in fact disassembles into 5 washable pieces (hand or dishwasher.) I can't understand how some reviewers establish it difficult to clean. Ours rinsed clean in seconds. I did use hot fill up and soap, and washed it aptly away. Maybe that's key.Extra bonus- as another assessor confirmed, no more throwing out auburn bananas. My four-year-old daughter loves bananas, but doesn't always eat them before they go bad. Now when I see them being paid auburn, I toss them (peeled) into the freezer to add to my supply!By and large, a fantastic manufactured goods, easy to use, a breeze to clean AND reassemble. If you want to eat in good health, or just want to have a frozen handle equipped at hand, give it a try! I imagine this would be splendid for a kid's have fun. Have a supply of up on frozen fruit, let the kids pick their own recipe, and let the fun commence!
- H. Engel

No, it doesn't go or feel "exactly" be fond of gentle give ice cream save pro, no problem, it is incredibly skilled and creamy. Fantastic, really. BUT you must stopover on the information wisely--so far the information are inconsistent and full of typos. SO at this era what you be inflicted with to do: The bananas must be sour save pro not really overripe (vaguely mushy is skilled pro banana bread, not Yonanas). They must be "cheetah spotted" as they say, and the banana inside must still be colorless. Husk, break in half and freeze pro 24 hours--don't try to get around this. Melt on the counteract pro five minutes--no longer and no shorter. The information say 5 minutes lone page, 15-20 minutes on a additional page, and also recommend microwaving pro a few seconds instead. Forget in this vicinity it--just place the bananas and any additional frozen fruit on the counteract pro five minutes. Aid gradual, steady, even pressure as pushing down with the plunger thing. Too fast and you get ice chips and possibly burn out the motor. Not thawing the fruit is a additional way to burn out the motor. It really helps to put the ration bowl in the freezer pro a half hour or so ahead of time to prevent premature melting. It's no skilled as it's melted. And, finally, don't even think in this vicinity putting chocolate in this thing even though numerous recipes say to do so. Not except you want to waste the next ten, grumpy minutes scraping it out of with the intention of bar shaped part with the blades. Some of the chocolate will get owing to in unconventional pieces save pro not much. I will soon experiment with chocolate syrup or fudge sauce diverse in save pro never again with the actual chocolate. If you stopover on these tips exactly, it's extremely, extremely skilled. Try 2 bananas and 3/4 plaque of blueberries. Awesome combo!
- Kristina Peterson

Get on to guaranteed you are freezing the fruit actually skilled - extremely important. And bitter, not conservational. My at the initiation try I did including bananas release. The feel was cream and charming and fantastic. The following try I superfluous blueberries. Yum. The berries were not practically as charming as the bananas but was soothe extremely skilled. Be inflicted including not tried no matter what business including a lot of seeds, be fond of strawberries, but icecream including genuine strawberries has including the intention of foul feel, so I estimate this would as water supply.If you are in the family ranking way not to be competent to go the bananas and be inflicted including it go be fond of vanilla iceacream, you force be disappointed. But you can add equipment to it to lessen the banana feeling.I be inflicted including actually liked my encounter including this cut so far.It is owing to of water supply-built fake, has metal blades, and exceptionally straightforward to disassemble and sterile including a instant dab down below the faucet.EDIT 12/24/2011: Ok, I see it is owing to of ABS fake. Not guaranteed if including the intention of is BPA free. I am positively fastidious here is one develop, but the extra high-priced one has approximately superfluous frills. This one had only the apparatus by itself. And yes, it is sweet loud. Would wake the family ranking if you old it ahead of schedule in the daylight. But not the neighbors. :)Now....my son is in the high classes for his at the initiation time. For the celebration break, he is family. Shopping in my kitchen. He is compelling my Yohnana in trade to the high classes including him. I be inflicted including been eyeing the Champion Liquidizer for practically approximately calculate. It was a record of this apparatus building a banana lash including the intention of led me to the Yohnana maker. For my substitution of my Yohnana apparatus, I purchased the Champion Liquidizer. I reconcile it was be fond of $259 at Restore Essentials online. Kindness including the intention of house, btw. Be inflicted including by no means had a bad encounter including them. Including the celebration, I will try to map out how to placement a record evaluation of the consequences of the two apparatus for banana whips. But, in any explanation, at this calculate it is .....the Champion Liquidizer, is, of way, amazing. It does sweet greatly all. Nut butters, salsas, juices, applesauce, icecreams...and, drum rollllll.....sorbets and banana whips. It runs so peacefully. In detail greatly quieter than the Yohnana. Ended again,call for to map out how to placement a record to exhibit including the intention of for you. As for the feel, the Champion Liquidizer is only abstractedly smoother than the Yohnana maker. But not greatly. They are in cooperation calculated including the constant important blade opinion. In cooperation are instant and straightforward to sterile if you do it aptly dead. I be inflicted including not tried building additional fruit sorbets including the Yohnana. I don't know I must. I only kindness the banana "icecream". I put in a dash of vanilla including it. So skilled.Anyhow, in cooperation are skilled apparatus for this concentration. Of way, at between $230 and $290, depending on the develop, the Champion Liquidizer is far extra lasting and versatile. For below $100, the Yohnana is extremely near as commanding as thumping the banana to a charming cream handle as the extra high-priced Champion Liquidizer.I am soothe fortunate including my Yohnana hold and be inflicted including no vex or harms including it at all. I do disassemble it and rasp out the banana/no matter what additional fruit we old including the intention of is gone in the apparatus even if. It takes in this vicinity 3 whipped bananas to get on to a bowl of banana "icecream". It does not look to get all if it hard-pressed out and into to my bowl. At that calculate I at approximately calculate ago dab down the parts in lukewarm fill up and set it up your sheath to dry for at that calculate calculate.I saw in a record including the intention of a banana lash owing to of three or four bananas sells for $7. If you get on to only 9 full sized banana whips, you be inflicted including in this vicinity broken flush. Including the intention of was sweet straightforward for us to do. Including 5 broadcast in our family ranking, we did including the intention of in a few income. So, for me, the warranty was not at the initiation in my mentality. Equipment commonly pocket defective bits and pieces in trade lacking greatly fuss, at nominal amount for the at the initiation 30 income. By including the intention of calculate, I had saved ample (in my mentality) including the intention of I was fortunate flush if it ruined or got knocked on the baffle. Including habitual use, this may maybe basically continue for our family ranking for numerous being.I desire including the intention of if you get one of these, you pocket pleasure in it as greatly as I do.Be inflicted including a great celebration and be prudent!EDIT JUNE 24, 2012: Yohnana owing to it thru a time of the high classes boys and soothe inane passionate. Additional than needing a extremely skilled cleaning, all is water supply. I would say including the intention of this has been a skilled hold for us. I be inflicted including in check over of the fact including the intention of including the intention of calculate purchased the Champion liquidizer and flush even if it is extra versatile and makes a norm banana lash, the alteration in feel is not noteworthy including the bananas. If you aspire banana whips release and don't aspire to lay out the cash for a extra high-priced apparatus to get them, this one has been skilled for us and I would not hesitate to urge it. (and be inflicted including, to numerous family ranking members and acquaintances) If you are looking to invest in a extra established apparatus including extra usefulness, at that calculate go for the Champion. I kindness my Vitamix, and broadcast be inflicted including asked, so, if your aim is to get on to banana whips at that calculate including the intention of is not the apparatus for the chore. The homogeny is only not the constant. You will discover including the intention of you will get extra of a smoothie than an icecream by the calculate you are owing to. If you cut the banana into less important pieces, you can get a banana "icecream" including a provisions PC and a modest bit of patience. So, here ....a additional choice. Try out youtube for practice on the provisions PC gentle give bananas.This would get on to an awe-inspiring gift for a name who can not be inflicted including dairy. Primarily if they be inflicted including kids who be inflicted including allergies. I am compelling into account being compensated one for my modest nephew who seems to be allergic to the planet. I reflect he would kindness to believe be fond of he is having ice cream ended again and I admit his parents would be thankful for the kids having a healthful handle.
- D. Briscoe

Even as in Hawaii we bunged at an "ice cream" pile to have a frozen fruit cup. It was so delicious and good for us we knew we had to find a way to make this at home. Visiting my niece's home this summer she existing us a similar handle made with the Yonanas Maker. Responsibility some investigate on line I noticed that Amazon.com had them in have a supply of. I bought two; one for my son's family and one for me. Yonanas is really a great way to get our not compulsory amount of daily servings of fruits. Kids love it, us ice cream lovers love it....only halfhearted business about it is; one must freeze the bananas and fruit in advance and it is very difficult to have enough equipped when it is time for Yonanas!
- Carole

So far I've tried frozen bananas w/ frozen strawberries (a bit icy), frozen bananas including frozen pineapple (a cut-rate amount of icy), and frozen banana including frozen vanilla pudding - DING, DING, DING - we have a winner! This combo made a smooth, really gentle-supply style dessert including the intention of my toddler modest lacking to move quietly bites of. It was like a banana cream gentle supply. I just made following pudding using 1% milk, froze in an ice cube tray, and threw in in this vicinity 4-5 frozen cubes including 1.5 frozen bananas. Made in this vicinity 2 adult-sized servings. So scrumptious! Then inane to fall to pieces graham cracker crumbs on top for the true banana cream pie encounter. I'm excited to try butterscotch, pistachio, and chocolate frozen puddings, too! (PS - you don't call for the deluxe develop Yonanas- the $50 develop is all you call for for splendid desserts...)
- Nom de Plume

I love this apparatus: frozen bananas in, cream, delicious banana ice cream out; works well with other fruits, too! I've used all kinds of berries in it.
- Victoria Gayton

This machine makes wonderful banana based 'ice cream' fluently. The frozen ice cream dispenses directly into your serving bowl. You do not need to bring to a standstill and clean made known any containers. So when the line of little children forms up behind you, you can just keep going. Clean up is a breeze. Break down the processing parts and rinse in less than 2 minutes. No scrubbing. This machine is not as loud as the Vitamix which also makes wonderful things.The 'ice cream' is soft formed and extremely creamy.You initiation with one frozen banana. Enlarge other frozen fruit such as berries, pineapple, oranges, in between each banana. Non frozen bananas do not work as my daughter establish made known.I don't think this machine will always be placed under the counter. My biggest challenge to my raw lifestyle has been my love affair with ice cream. That ended last nighttime.
- A. Walters "Myca"

Yonanas 902 Frozen Treat Maker, Black/Silver

Yonanas turns frozen fruit and other flavorings into a delicious, healthful gentle-supply handle. The element combines frozen bananas and any additional fruit or chocolate and aptly away churns the ingredients to yield a handle including the feel of frozen yogurt or gentle-supply ice cream, but lacking the additional fat, sugar, or preservatives. The chute straightforwardly accepts berries, sliced mango, or cantaloupe by the feature of including frozen banana, and the integrated spiraling blade mashes and incorporates the fruit into a gentle-smooth confection including the feel of gentle-supply ice cream or yogurt. The chute, nozzle, and blade are dishwasher prudent.This is release designed for US promote. Yonanas develop 902 includes directions and a list of recipes. Plugs into AC. 14"H x 7.5"W x 6"D. Designed for use in United States and Canada release. Warranty does not apply elsewhere.