| If you love ice cream and have never made it at | | | | 3. The ingredients are then fluffed to creamy |
| home, you're in for a real treat. | | | | perfection by agitator blades attached to electric |
| Few things can touch the pure, sweet joy that ice | | | | motors. |
| cream brings to little kids (and big kids) on a hot | | | | 4. As the ice cream begins to firm up, and sets in the |
| summer afternoon. There are countless ice cream | | | | refrigerated chamber |
| novelties and frozen concoctions available to buy, but | | | | 5. When it's time to serve, raise the handle on the |
| nothing beats the flavor of real homemade ice cream. | | | | dispenser unit. Your fresh ice cream will fall out of the |
| Ice cream makers take simple ingredients like cream, | | | | machine and right into your bowl. |
| milk, sugar and flavorings, and magically create | | | | Ice cream-making used to be a real chore involving |
| delicious ice cream at the touch of a button. These | | | | entire families. Fresh ingredients were placed into a |
| marvelous machines can also deliver frozen | | | | metal container that was kept cool with ice and salt. |
| beverages, sorbets, yogurt and fruit juice slush. If you | | | | Everyone in the family would take turns stirring the |
| or your kids are looking for a frozen tasty treat on a | | | | mixture with a wooden paddle, or turning a crank |
| hot summer day, your ice cream maker can whip one | | | | connected to paddles. It was a lot of work, but the |
| up. | | | | results were so sweet. Ice cream makers evolved |
| This machine that brings so much sweet pleasure is | | | | over the years, with such advancements as motorized |
| actually a very simple concept: | | | | paddle agitators. Now, making fresh, delicious ice |
| 1. Inside the ice cream maker, seated in its belly, are | | | | cream really is as simple as gathering the ingredients |
| storage containers. You will pour your blended | | | | and pushing a button. |
| ingredients into this storage container. | | | | If you love ice cream on a hot, sunny day, just wait |
| 2. The mixture is drawn into a freezing chamber that's | | | | until you try your first taste of home made ice cream. |
| been edged with refrigerant liners. | | | | There's really nothing quite like it. |