Kalmia wrote:

> For what they cost, I figure I can buy a LOT of ice cream from the store.
> Plus, one less thing to tire of and store and eventually try to unload in
> a yard sale or donate.
>
> I borrowed one of the manual types ( insert in freezer ) used a few times
> and returned it. I found I was making ice cream just to use the darn
> thing and taking up a lot of freezer space. There are too many other
> desserts I like.
>
> Cross it off as just another kitchen fad.

I bought my current ice-cream maker around 1984. It's still going strong. I
use it fairly often in the summer, and occasionally in the winter. Besides
the French vanilla ice cream I use as an accompaniment to other desserts,
here are some of the unusual ice cream flavors I've made in the last several
years:

buttered popcorn
sweet corn
banana
Mexican chocolate
Grand Marnier
cheddar
avocado with dark chocolate
eggplant-cinnamon
ginger
Thai iced tea
strawberry ice cream with candied habaneros
strawberry ice cream with candied olives
Portuguese egg custard ice cream


I've also used the ice cream maker to make sorbets and sherbets:

watermelon sherbet
lime sorbet
strawberrry sorbet

It will be a sad day when the ice cream freezer finally dies.

Bob