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This yogurt maker comes with the cultures needed to start making yogurt. It also comes with a thermometer and a yogurt cheese strainer for a limited time.

This one lets you do two quarts at a time, but unfortunately, it appears to allow only two flavors at once. This is a serious downside compared with other machines.

This yogurt maker does a quart of yogurt at a time, but unfortunately, only one flavor at a time. While this is a detraction for me, perhaps it will work for your family. After all, if you do fruit flavors, that can be mixed in individually later.

This device is a yogurt cheese maker. It lets you make a type of cheese out of your homemade yogurt. The cheese is a lowfat alternative to cream cheese, mayonnaise, or sour cream. It's an interesting product, and a good idea if you're looking for a yogurt cheese maker.

This yogurt maker lets you do up to 8 different flavors at the same time. If you've got a large family and everyone likes a different flavor, this is perfect for you. It makes up to 1.5 quarts at one time, which is quite a bit. But if you do different flavors, each of the 8 cups is 6 ozs, which is a good serving size.

This is one of the most interesting yogurt makers ever. It lets you make yogurt by adding fruit (and I assume the starter) directly into a milk carton. Many types of milk can be used, which makes it very useful. To be honest, I'm not sure how handy it is, but it's still pretty damn cool.

This coffeemaker has a built in grinder. Now, I can promise you, the freshest coffee is going to start out with good beans, and you will need to grind it yourself. When it's ground at the store, you lose a lot of the flavor and scent blast right there, as opposed to being able to enjoy it at home. So, this coffeemaker takes care of everything right there in one device. I like it!

This coffeemaker is one of the standard "spacemaker" type. It hangs under your cabinet to give you more room on your cabinet. I've got to be honest here... A) The coffeemaker is one of two appliances that fits under my "spacemaker" microwave, so I'm not really anxious to replace it. B) When I hang an appliance up, it doesn't really make any room for me. Instead, it just means that the space underneath the appliance is now unusable, rather than the space above.

This coffeemaker is similar to the last one, but instead of doing a travel mug, it does a cup. For my purposes, I am fine with either the travel mug or the cup at home, but I imagine that their travel mug version is probably a better seller.

This coffeemaker does a single travel size cup of coffee. The whole point is to make a coffeemaker for people who are on the go. Now, this would be perfect for me. I have to get up, take the kids to school, and then have my cup of coffee while I do some work. But I like my coffee rather cool, so it takes a good part of the morning to cool it down. I'd rather have it with me on the road so it can cool down, and then right about the time I get home, it's ready to drink.

This coffeemaker doesn't have the coolest features. It's a normal, 12 cup, programmable coffeemaker. But I LOVE the color. It's just so cool compared to my boring, white coffeemaker that I normally use.

This ice cream maker is an attachment that works with your KitchenAid mixer. Man, those mixers can do anything (well, not mine personally. It's broken). I think this is a neat idea. It's one of the more expensive ice cream making options, and it's going to take up just as much room as almost any other ice cream maker, but it's cool, right?? lol

This ice cream maker does not only ice cream, but also yogurt and sorbet. Furthermore, it doesn't require salt or ice. It's probably a lot like mine, which means that you freeze the container. I love this, although I will admit that it takes up a lot of room in the freezer (which tends to remain rather full).

I figure that if you're going to buy an ice cream maker, you might as well get a machine that can also handle frozen yogurt and sorbet. More capabilities is always a good thing.

I first saw this device a few months ago. The way it works is that you're supposed to add cream, sugar, ice, rock salt, etc. into the ball in a certain way (obviously, you don't want your rock salt mixed into your ice cream). Then, you throw the ball around for 30 minutes and your ice cream is done. Great for family picnics, and it gives you something fun to do while you're waiting on your ice cream. Right?? Well, I don't know what kind of ancient Mayan picnics your family has, but at mine, we don't lob balls loaded down with 8 lbs of rock salt and cream at each other's heads!! This product is a lawsuit waiting to happen (despite whatever warnings they put on it to the contrary). In fact, just sitting in a circle rolling the ball to each other is going to get exhausting after a while. Sorry, but it's not the best product idea.

Now, what they need to do is fill up the outside of a Zorb with ice cream ingredients, and let someone climb into the inside. THAT would be fun to roll around in for 30 minutes (although you couldn't see where you were going). But then again, how would you get the ice cream out??? ;)

This soft serve ice cream machine is one of my favorites. Not only does it mix your favorite soft serve ice creams, but it also holds cones and toppings for the ice cream. On the bottom, there is a round hole. Through that hole, the base of your ice cream cones sit. On the side, there are three areas to put toppings. It's so cool!