In his book, Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen, Alton Brown says of old-fashioned ice cream makers, “Everyone loves ice cream, and the average American consumes more than 23 pints a year. Maybe that explains why people have put up with those hand-crank machines for the last 150 years, and why they remain popular despite the invention of electricity in the development of the electric ice cream machine.”  So today, I’m playing the side of the defense, and will be making the case for these old-timey devices. Here we’ll look a little into the history, some advantages and disadvantages, as well as how to get the most from your machine.

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