With summer timebeing over, you might be tempted to put your ice cream machine into deep storage but you should wait. And if you haven’t picked up one yet, you can often find some good deals when stores have their clearance sales. Now a little about how electric ice cream machines work.
Take any electric ice cream machines, and regardless of what type of ice cream makers it is, they all pretty much make ice cream using the same principal. A an ice cream mixture is slowly churned until just about frozen. All the while, the churning whips air into the mix.
Although home ice cream machines vary in size and operation, there are basically only three kinds. The first kind is probably what you remember Grandma using on Sunday socials. They use rock salt and ice to get the ice cream mixture to a low enough temp.
Besides the traditional ice cream maker, there is a more modern style. The advantage is less mess making ice cream, thanks to a freezable bowl, that replaces rock salt and ice. These canister style ice cream freezers are generally easier to clean up as well.
The last kind of ice cream maker could be considered the luxury model of ice cream makers. No freezable bowl, no ice, no rock salt, these units have a built in freezer. On the plus side, they are ready at a moments notice for whipping up a batch of homemade ice cream.
Fresh ice cream anytime–what’s the catch? Well for starters, a compressor-style machine is really expensive. Then there are some models that don’t have a removable mixing bowl and that can make it difficult when it comes time to clean up.
There you have it, the three basic kinds of ice cream makers along with how they work. Like I mentioned before, summer is gone but that doesn’t mean your ice cream machine isn’t as useful. Pumpkins and sweet potatoes are in season and are great in ice cream. You can also use regular vanilla to top pumpkin pie.
Wally Clydesdale’s knowledge in ice cream go back to childhood. He is now a writer of Ice Cream Maker Basics.com where he writes about electric ice cream makers