Crank it up

Look at this photo …

This is not my Donvier one-quart ice cream maker. Mine is black. I picked it up at a yard sale for a song. I would have taken a photo of my machine, but the inner liner is currently in the freezer, chilling, so that I can make ice cream with it whenever I get home from work tomorrow night. This is a photo of pretty much the same machine, in white, at Amazon. Amazon is charging a lot more for theirs than I paid for mine, but it’s probably still worth it.

Many, many years ago, I had a one-pint Donvier, and loved it. Then, at some point, I got a weird one-quart machine, from some other manufacturer, with a two-piece freezer insert. It was a strange design, I didn’t see the purpose of it, and I didn’t like it. Then, I happened across the one-quart Donvier machine a few years ago when the T-G hosted a community yard sale to benefit Relay For Life. I was thrilled, and I really ought to use it more often than I do.

Most people, by now, are familiar with these countertop ice cream makers, but just in case you’re not, they do not require ice or salt. The inner canister is made out of metal, but filled with some sort of ice-pack fluid that you can hear sloshing around inside. You put the canister into your kitchen freezer a day or so before you want to make ice cream (or just leave it there full-time, if you like). For best results, your freezer should be set…