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Southeast Colorado | Any ice cream maker is better than no ice cream maker!
Surprised to see you mixing inside. We kid of make a mess and the salt water needs to run out the top as the ice melts. Perhaps you were just getting prepared in your picture?
We freeze water in empty 1 gallon milk jugs and then I break it up with a big hammer in a cardboard box. That keeps us from needing to spend money buying ice since it uses quite a bit. Usually takes 2 to 3 gallons of ice depending on the weather outside when we're mixing. Also we just buy the cattle loose salt in 50 lb bags. Use a lot of salt...........makes the freezing process much faster.
The best ice cream maker we ever had was a farm auction find. I bought a whole pile of stuff for $5. Included was kind of this cheesy looking styrofoam ice cream maker. It had a big brass motor on top and a 4 qt. steel liquid container. The paddle for stirring had wooden spring loaded slats that scraped the side of the container really good. That machine made really hard ice cream. The brass motor would never stall. You just finally would get used to the sound of it groaning and unplug it. My newer machine quits when the ice cream gets a little hard. That old styrofoam one was a little too small for our family.............but we kept using it until the styrofoam itself started kind of falling apart. I've still got it and think it would probably still work if patched up. Not sure what brand it was because there's no name on it. Anyway............bet it's pretty old.............and I'm sure folks at the time thought it was a real junker compared to the wooden ones. I did too until using it. Got a good 10 years out of it until moving to something bigger.
Have fun with your new hobby! And thanks for posting back on your original thread. Seems as though most like to post new threads when they have a follow up and I don't ever see them.
Edited by tmrand 12/21/2020 06:50
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