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NY Times Guide to Ice Cream

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Darienne

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Interesting, but no mention of making the base with cornstarch, our got-to recipe.

 

Skimmed through the ice cream maker section.  Yes, we are on a low budget for such things and just amateur homemakers so I looked up the ICE-100 maker which is what we have used for a long time now.  It's $49.00 in the States...$89.00 in Canada.  Yup.  That's how it is.  Always.

 

And as for the heat problem...I use two small bungee cords and place two plastic coated ice paks around the machine and it does a fine job.   True, I can't make back to back portions of ice cream...but I can easily do one a day and sometimes even two a day.  

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22 minutes ago, Darienne said:

Interesting, but no mention of making the base with cornstarch, our got-to recipe.

 

Skimmed through the ice cream maker section.  Yes, we are on a low budget for such things and just amateur homemakers so I looked up the ICE-100 maker which is what we have used for a long time now.  It's $49.00 in the States...$89.00 in Canada.  Yup.  That's how it is.  Always.

 

And as for the heat problem...I use two small bungee cords and place two plastic coated ice paks around the machine and it does a fine job.   True, I can't make back to back portions of ice cream...but I can easily do one a day and sometimes even two a day.  

 

 

It sounds like yours is a freezer-bowl model. However, the current ICE-100 is a compressor model, according to my Amazon search. I'm guessing Cuisinart re-assigned the old model number, and that yours is more like this model. I haven't looked, but I suspect used bowls crop up on eBay from time to time. We used this Cuisinart, with two bowls, for a long time. It's since been supplanted by a DeLonghi compressor model, but we still keep the bowls in the big freezer, just in case.

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paulraphael

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It's good for a rank beginner, but it doesn't address the things you have to do to make really good ice cream, and repeats a lot old misinformation. Nicely laid out though.

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