ice cream maker?
 

Anyone got an ice cream making machine that's reasonably priced and works well?

And do you have any recommended recipes?

We have my grandmother's recipe. Almost no one follows it, because it is heavy on the cream and plain vanilla looks like has yellow food coloring in it from all the fat of the cream. Everyone raved about her ice cream. Then got the recipe, and used skim milk and half and half and less sugar, and said it never tasted the same.

We have an OLD White Mountain ice cream maker. We got it as a wedding present 30 years ago. It has the wooden tub, and works great.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-ice-cream-makers


I have one of the old school ice cream makers...

Where's your granny's recipe. I missed it in your post. ;) :D

I will have to get with my wife to see if she has it handy. She may have purged it. One family story, funny but true, she wrote the ice cream recipe on the back of a recipe to cure calf scour. Depression era farmers living in Ames, OK did not run to Tractor Supply for the treatment.

NinjaCreami

I have the Cuisinart one that has the bowl that you freeze. It works great, but it's about 12 years old. The new ones look way better.

Damn. You made me buy a new ice cream machine. I'll post pics when it gets here.

And as far as recipies, all I can say is I won't be buying any vanilla from Penzi's Spices.

We have the Cuisinart ICE 100 compressor machine that they list in this article. It works pretty well. The article does a good job summing up it's strengths and weaknesses.
If you are carful about cooling the ice cream base and freezing a bowl ahead of time for transfering the ice cream out of the maker, it gives good results.

We have had the best luck with recipes that used a cooked base including eggs (basically a creme anglaise, i suppose). Recipes based on uncooked milk and cream are generally very icy. I recently bought some guar gum to experiment with, but have not tried it yet.

Some notes:
Take care not to overfill, as the ice cream expands, and can get pushed out of the lid. Then it thaws, gets messy, and gives you uneven freezing.
It's easy to get delicious ice cream, but the real challenge is getting a good consistency with no ice crystals.

We've only tried a couple of recipe books, but so far this one is our favorite:
https://www.amazon.com/Coolhaus-Ice-Cream-Book-Custom-Built/dp/0544120043/

Thanks, everyone.

No machine needed, just get a big tank of liquid nitrogen and spray your ingredients in a bowl while you mix them together.

Seriously, there was a kiosk in the mall where they did this and dang, it was the smoothest ice cream I’ve ever ate. I think the quick freeze eliminates the ice crystals.

Mine is an Aroma, wooden bucket, it was a gift. 1gallon. I used to make ice cream a lot, not so much anymore. I'm trying to dig from memory my recipe for vanilla, and I know it's a 6-4. Heavy-Half. I only use Adams extract vanilla. Old man Adams used to be a neighbor believe it or not, but I was using his stuff prior to that.

If you own a Kitchen Aid Mixer you can buy a bowl that goes in the freezer to make ice cream.

I have the Cuisinart ICE-100 (second one on the serious eats link from Tim). After having this one, I will never go back to a version where the bowl has to be frozen. Two years in and it works like a charm. We eat a lot of ice cream.

My favorite cookbook is Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream. Instead of a traditional custard base, she uses cream cheese. Her chocolate recipe is amazing.

plus think of all of the fun that can be had with a big tank of liquid nitrogen!

Cool.

The missus wanted one in years past, but at the time when we were living in a 1br apt, we didn't have the space for it, so we don't have one.
I LOVE ice cream, but I don't need ice cream. This will be an occasional thing, probably mostly only when the grandkids are visiting.

Simac il Gelato 1600...$100

Just buy this and be done. It's excellent.

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I want to see if I can make "frozen custard". I seem to remember that being a thing in the Midwest. Or screw it, make my own "It's It".