“If that McFlurry machine is broken, I’m coming through that drive-thru window,” wrote one person under a post on X about the new treat. “Given the number of broken ice cream machines, I have a better ...

Want to know why the ice cream machine always seems to be broken at McDonald's? NPR's Kelsey Snell talks with Andy Greenberg, of Wired, who has investigated this long-standing and vexing issue. DAME ...

An alleged store manager has shown the lengthy process involved in setting up a McDonald's ice cream machine after cleaning, which he described as the main reason they're so often not working.

David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from ...

McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. On Oct. 25, the United States Copyright Office ...

Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines. For years Kytch had sold a small device that hacks those ...

The soft-serve machines at McDonald's restaurants are so often out of order that their reliable unreliability have long been the butt of jokes, memes — and now even a rallying cry in this year’s ...

Looking for more ways to cool off? Check out CNN Underscored’s Guide to Beating the Heat for the products that help us cope with high summer temperatures. Like most culinary gadgets, ice cream makers ...

2025 is set to be a huge year for ice cream makers. We've already been introduced to the new Ninja Creami Swirl soft serve ice cream maker, as well as ColdSnap, a soft serve competitor that caused a ...

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream tastes good, but as patrons of the fast food chain know, the cold sweet treat is not available almost most of the time because the machines that make them are always ...