{"id":653,"date":"2008-06-03T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=653"},"modified":"2008-06-03T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:54:00","slug":"ice-cream-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/ice-cream-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-cream makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/icecream-700927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" width=\"33%\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/icecream-700927.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Years ago, I had one of those ice-cream makers where you had to freeze part of the bowl, and it would then stir it.  Unfortunately, my freezer cannot have been cold enough, because I normally ended up with something the consistency of slush ice. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>So for a long time, I thought the only good alternative was to buy one of the expensive machines that includes a freezer (upwards of \u00a3200).<\/p>\n<p>However, I just realised that in the US, you can still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acehardwareoutlet.com\/(u2xiwg45pqutrn45qnj5gi55)\/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=83300\">buy the old-fashioned models<\/a> that freeze the ice-cream by immersing it in a mixture of salt and ice.  My dad has described how they used these for picnics in his youth.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re really nostalgic, you can get them with a handle, or you can pay a bit more and get them with an electric motor.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they don&#8217;t publish shipping costs for Europe, and I haven&#8217;t found a distributor here, so I don&#8217;t know how much it&#8217;d cost me to get hold of one.<\/p>\n<p>Update: I just got an email from the shop in the US.  They&#8217;re unwilling to sell the electrical model, and the shipping for the manual model (which costs $139.99) is $69.14, so it would end up costing \u00a3106 (DKK1000).  Perhaps too much for something the kids would no doubt regard as a torture instrument&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I had one of those ice-cream makers where you had to freeze part of the bowl, and it would then stir it. Unfortunately, my freezer cannot have been cold enough, because I normally ended up with something the consistency of slush ice. \ud83d\ude41 So for a long time, I thought the only good alternative was to buy one of the expensive machines that includes a freezer (upwards of \u00a3200). However, I just realised that in the US, you can still buy the old-fashioned models that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fooddrink","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}