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[just_al]

I'm doing all the preprep for the ice cream I'm making this weekend. I just made caramel, from scratch for the caramel ice cream. What a pain, but it's gonna be worth it, and for the first time ever I made caramel and didn't burn myself (big plus

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[gian212]

I've wanted an ice cream maker for a while now. Any particular brand you recommend?

[just_al]

We have a cuisinart ice cream maker. It has a bowl that is filled (I'm guessing) with the blue stuff they put in ice packs. So you keep the bowl in the freezer so you are ready to go whenever.

It's electric and doesn't require rock salt. My Gradfather used to have a hand crankable ice cream maker where you had to have the rock salt and everything. I was 11 at the time but I couldn't even manage to turn the crank once. He lived to be about 85which is actually dying young on my father's side of the family, my great grandfather lived to be something insane like 107 but I seem to have gone off on a tangent here...

Anyway when we first got it I made strawberry ice cream which ran over the top and fux0r3d the motor. Cuisinart had me send them back the motor (and just the motor) for warranty repair and they sent me back a new and complete maker so we have 2 freezer bowls.

So yeah, cuisnart, the makers makes good ice cream and the company did very right by us when I broke the maker.

[gian212]

Oh good to know! I have a Bed Bath and Beyond credit, so I think I'm going there to get one shortly.

Thanks : )