Homeade Ice Cream Maker

[Chris DiCiaccio]

With all the bowls being made lately, seems that I need to look into a Homeade Ice Cream maker. Looking for an electric model that will not be a disappointment. Any comments, Brand preferences, etc. welcome.

[Rob Bourgeois]

My wife uses the one with the bowl you put in the freezer. We recieved an extra bowl as a rebate. No ice...no salt.... no crank....NO work for me.

Plug in, dump ice cream mixture of your choice and eat soon. The biggest thing is the mixture you use. The one we got had some recipes and my wife used a few from the "Death by Chocolate" cookbook. We paid about $75 for ours..Cuise-art I think.

[Robert Mickley]

Well short of going commercial,
White Mountain. I can just about bet it will be the last one you ever buy. I have worn out upwards of 3 or 4 a summer of the cheap ones till I bought this one. At around $175 it isn't cheap but its worth it. Sounds like a jet taking off. Cast beaters, industiral motor and wooden tub.

Made 8 gallons yesterday at the family 4th picnic.

My only complaint, the scapers don't always scrape the sides right. I cured this problem by removing them and cutting a bevel on the back side then adding a small spring between the scraper and the agitator. I also sharpened the leading edges a bit on the belt sander. Works like a champ now.

Granted at $199(price is up I just looked) it should have worked right first time every time but it was such a minor issue it was easier to mod it myself.

Of course just putting a sharper edge on the beech scrapers may have done it.

Google white mountain ice cream

[Joe Pelonio]

For large batches we have an old one with the fake wood bucket and motor that goes on top. For smaller batches we have the attachment
for the Kitchen Aid Mixer, you just place the bowl in the freezer overnight. Cranking is just too much work. Home made still beats anything you can buy.

[Andy Hoyt]

White Mountain - hand crank. Burn the calories off before you put 'em back on!

[Michael Stafford]

Andy has it mostly right but get the electric crank models. Hand cranking burns more calories than you can take in eating the rewards of your work....:p :D

I will offer one easy recipe: 1-2 liter Orange Crush, 2 cans Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, and 1-20 ounce can of crushed pineapple. Combine the ingredients in the freezing tub and put it in the refrigerator/freezer for a while to pre-chill the ingredients. Then put the tub in the ice cream freezer and churn until the motor surrenders. It makes a terrific sherbet-like mixture. Just wonderful in the hot summer time.....Enjoy!

[Don Baer]

we've got an old electric one that my wife's parents had. It makes 4 quarts and works great. Staless steel tum cast alum and wood beaters. just load it up ad Ice and salt and when the motors can barely turn any more it ready..:D

[Mark Pruitt]

This reminds me of when I was a kid and we used to make ice cream. Dad was a "purist" about using a hand-crank, not electric, saying that the hand-crank model could make the ice cream "better" whatever that meant. Guess who got to sit there and turn the crank? And all the while I could hear that electric ice cream maker next door just whirring away....
But it sure was goooood stuff. Think I'll give 'em a call today!

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

When they stop making BlueBunny, I may have to look into doing it myself. :D

[Carl Crout]

Don't you mean BlueBell? The best ice cream in the world, made in Texas.

Homemade vanilla
Dutch chocolate
Strawberry
tin roof

Yum, yum...........

Who wants to make it, if their's tastes so good...:)

[Russ Filtz]

I like BLueBunny too, plus they make good Splenda sweetened versions so you don't feel too guilty!

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

Don't you mean BlueBell? The best ice cream in the world, made in Texas.

Homemade vanilla
Dutch chocolate
Strawberry
tin roof

Yum, yum...........

Who wants to make it, if their's tastes so good...:)

A BlueBunny man will throw rocks at Blue Bell. There's no comparison. :)

I had some 'Godiva' brand last night that is very close to BlueBunny for excessive sweetness and creamy delight....

[Robert Mickley]

A BlueBunny man will throw rocks at Blue Bell. There's no comparison. :)

That would be like me throwing rocks at the blue bunny man :D :D :D

After making my own store bought just does not compare

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

LN2

Just mix the ingredients add LN2 and stir.

when (in about 10 seconds) the vapor is gone you have ice cream.

[Frank Chaffee]

While I remember the advent of sliced bread to have been a definite step backwards (nothing compared to Mom’s loaves fresh out of the oven), I was never so happy as when we replaced our old hand-crank ice cream maker with an electric one!


Just mix the ingredients add LN2 and stir.

Never thot of that! Reminds me of times I did firewalking!

Frank

[Ed Breen]

I can remember my father telling me that in his youth he worked at Louis Sherry, a new york ice cream maker. They could eat all they wanted. He never ate ice cream after that! What an awful thing to do to someone!!
Alas and alack
Ed:( :(

[Russ Filtz]

Whats the diff between an ice cream maker and an ice cream freezer? Both amazon and White Mountain list both, but the specifications take you to the same page. I assume they are the same, but the "maker" was cheaper at Amazon.

[Don Baer]

Some years ago I did some automation work for Dryers Ice cream. After the job was done I was escorted into employees lounge and they took me over to a chest freeser. They loaded me up with gallons and gallons of Ice cream incliding Rockey Road (my favorite and Dryers signature flavor). The problem was I had no cooler and it was a 50 mile drive home..in August..I drove fast...:D :D :D and put the air conditioner on full.

[Andy Hoyt]

Don ... Don ... Don

That's what Rest Areas are for.

Ya get it home and there's a 50 50 chance you'll have to share it.

Have you learned nothing?:D:D:D:D:D:D:D