Want to Show Off This Summer? Get an Ice Cream Maker |
Someone raised the question in the office of why, with so many incredible ice creams readily available in grocery store freezer sections now, anybody would bother to own an ice cream maker. It's true—I'm personally a big fan of McConnell's salted caramel chip, which I can even get out here on the east coast—but I would submit the joy of my mesmerized son as he watched my ice cream spin and churn a few weeks ago on a pint he helped make as exhibit A of the proposition that homemade ice cream offers some things that store bought never will. Making your own ice cream is easy and once you settle on a preferred base for your dessert (I'm partial to the base the mad ice cream scientists from Salt and Straw put out in their cookbook several years ago), the flavor combinations are as vast as your imagination will let them be. Not only is homemade ice cream easy if you have an ice cream maker, it is also unfailingly impressive to anyone who does not. Almost nothing I serve generates the kind of incredulous responses as ice cream because so many people assume that getting the kind of texture found in ice cream shops requires some sort industrial equipment. In our ice cream maker testing though we found excellent results from appliances big and small and at all kinds of price points. Check out what we recommend below (along with an insulated pint quart container, which is a must for keeping your ice cream from getting freezer burn). And click on through to find out more about why we like these ice cream makers so much in our full review. —Noah Kaufman |
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