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Would anyone have a recipe for butterscotch ripple ice cream they would share? I have fond memories of it from my childhood and would like to make it. I am looking for a custard based ice-cream where the caramel is slowly poured into the base as the churning nears completion to make the butterscotch layers. I have checked my ice cream books and searched the internet but have come up empty-handed.

My Breville sits under a counter and I've never had a problem either with the cupboard above or the granite it sits on. The CSO sits on a cart away from cupboards and so there is nothing above it.

This quote stood out for me: "But as the industry increasingly bred for the appearance of perfection, the flesh of the apple beneath became more mushy and mealy." It's not just the apple. I was ecstatic when I found someone in the middle of the city selling his own tomatoes. They taste like tomatoes should. Unless you are buying heirloom tomatoes, even the tomatoes at the farmer's markets taste of not much. Yesterday I stopped in at a store to buy some strawberries. The nice juicy ones have given way to these huge flavorless bombs, tasting of nothing. These berries were from Quebec, not imports. I used to eat a lot of apples growing up, but not anymore. I look forward to trying these. Thanks for the article. Something to look forward to.

It would be interesting to know how many of us have had their unit replaced within the warranty period. Mine was replaced after 11 months. A person I know who owns a retail kitchen store told me the return rate on CSOs was 20%. Didn't stop me from buying a back-up, mind you. By the way, if your CSO is replaced within the warranty period, the original warranty applies. In my case, the warranty on the second unit is 3 years less the 11 months I used the original one.

The refurbished carry a 90 day guarantee. The new ones gave a 3 year guarantee. Just something to keep in mind.

You sure as heck wouldn't want to pre-heat a regular oven forgetting the CSO is stashed inside.

I use it in cooked spinach also. I see you have/had omas as have I. Maybe it is a Dutch thing? At least, that's my background.

I'm the only person I know who puts freshly grated nutmeg on green beans. It's wonderful. And, apple anything must, as a minimum, have cinnamon in it.

I don't know how I missed the North Bay reference when I first read your post. How much by weight of the dried strawberries would you use in a batch of ice cream? Here in Canada the only freeze dried fruit I've seen has been very expensive but ordering some from North Bay might be an option.

Zeus checking out his new house.

Brazilian cheese bread (Pão de Queijo) as per America's Test Kitchen

@Alex Thanks for that link, I didn't know that place existed. I'm going to order some cards from there.

Mine turned out really well, although a bit harder than I might have liked. In the end, I realized I had forgotten to add the liquor, which would have helped. Our local strawberries are really good right now and I pureed them and added the puree to the custard. So, there were no frozen bits of strawberries. And since the pure was not cooked, it the freshness of the berries came through. Since the recipe was a hybrid of two others, I have written it up to include the stabilizer so I don't forget next time.

I see it comes with a square baking pan and a 9" loaf pan. I wonder if it is a new model?

I bought this one. Thanks as always for pointing out these deals. I think.

You brought with you some caramalized sugar. Have you used it for anything and if you did, what did you think of it?

You did post these before. Just thought I would ease your mind!

I wonder how they will deal with warranty issues. When I had a problem with mine, I returned it to them in person and they gave me a new one on the way out.

Bacon, tomato, chicken (real chicken, none of that processed deli stuff), lettuce, mayo on toasted white. That's for my husband. For me, hold the mayo. Both are real BLTs in this household.

They are all gone. There is a waitlist.

Can you steer me towards a recipe for the salad? I did some googling but the results were all over the place.

Amazon. They'll probably sell out by the time eGulleteers have finished ordering their quadruple back-ups. (I'm looking at you, @Shelby !)

That's because I never got a definitive answer. Sure do love that little oven.

Just ordered a back-up.

On the Canadian site, the CSO is still listed although at a reduced price. I was told by someone in the business that the oven had a 20% return rate, and that would include mine. A bit off-topic but what is no longer listed on .ca is the ice cream maker, model ICE 100. I went into a kitchen store on the weekend to ask about it and they said it had been discontinued but it still shows up on the Cuisinart.com site. I was told that it too had a very high return rate.