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On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:44:59 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

>I got a 1-quart Donvier (non-electric) for $5 at a yard sale (last year?), made chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream with it recently, and it worked beautifully.
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>But I have to wonder - why DOES anyone with a freezer need to use an ice cream machine to make it? Does it have to do with the texture? If so, what?
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>Seems to me one could just take a plastic container, put in the cooked mixture, stick it in the freezer and take it out to stir for a few seconds every hour. Yes, that WOULD mean hanging around the house for about four hours or so, but other than that, I don't know what the problem is.


I thought that would work too... in practice it doesn't work very well
IME. The one electric ice cream maker I borrowed for a time did a much
better job, it had it's own ice pack and the paddle kept the ice cream
airy.