Dick Margulis wrote:
> Speaking of buying a bag ahead of time, and speaking of ice, we use
> modern, funky-looking ice melter on the walks in the winter time, rather
> than old fashioned rock salt. But come summertime, when, for reasons
> having to do with my wife's family nostalgia, not mine, we bring out the
> hand-crank ice cream maker, the stores don't have rock salt. So I try to
> remember to buy a bag or two during the winter, to have on hand for the
> summer.
>
> Now here's the question: Would the modern stuff (calcite???) work as
> well in an ice cream maker as rock salt? Better? Anyone know?

Calcite is what stalactites and things are made of, so it won't
work in your ice cream maker. Whatever the ice melter is, if it
is efficacious in that, it should be fine.