Save $50: As of Aug. 11, Amazon has the Ninja Swirl available for $299.99 instead of its typical $399.99. Though the 14% discount isn’t huge, it is rare, bringing this soft serve and ice cream maker down to the lowest price we’ve ever seen.
I do hold the personal belief that soft serve is the platonic ideal of any form of ice cream — and cold desserts in general — but I promise I’m not too biased to call out this Ninja Swirl deal.
For one, though cheaper ice cream maker alternatives do exist, they can’t help you if you’re wanting to make a cone of soft serve. Second, unlike ice cream, soft serve isn’t something you can buy a tub of at the grocery store — if a craving strikes, most likely you’ll have to brave the heat and summer crowds to grab a cone. It’s a price worth paying, but if you’d rather invest in at-home option, Amazon has the Ninja Swirl available for a rare sale price of $299.99, knocking $50 off its original $349.99.
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When I say rare, I mean it. This soft serve maker didn’t go on sale for any of the four days of Prime Day and Mashable’s team has never seen it drop down to this price before — so I’m surprised to see it on sale during peak soft serve season. If you like soft serve but aren’t married to having it as your sole dessert (can’t relate, but I get it), the Swirl does also make the same options as the Ninja Creami, including ice cream, sorbet, gelato, frozen yogurt, and milkshakes.
Mashable’s Sam Mangino deemed the Swirl a Mashable Choice Award winner in her review, calling it “the better investment as an ice cream maker” over the original Creami. In addition to the ability to make soft serve, she specifically called out that the Swirl requires less re-spins than the Creami, producing an overall creamier result. Other points in the pro column are the Swirl’s dishwasher-safe components and ease of use.
Though she does point out that it is loud, like the Creami, and takes up even more counter space, she writes the performance and added versatility of the Swirl makes it the better value machine overall over the $229.99 Creami. At the sale price of $299.99, just $70 more than the Creami, that becomes even more true.
