I LOVE our White Mountain electric ice cream maker! I've used it a few times. I've made the mixes and homemade ice creams. I've learned what recipes I like and don't care for. I'll still experiment with other recipes as time goes along and with the various milks & creams. I like having a variety of recipes that has certain ingredients in them. Then if I want to make ice cream but don't have an ingredient or two, I can use a different recipe. I'm also keeping mixes on hand too. I made my ice cream ahead of time and froze it. I put the ice cream in the Glad & Ziploc plastic containers.
The White Mountain ice cream maker has a slender canister but the bucket is quite wide. There's so much room to add plenty of ice around the canister. The ice doesn't have to be crushed into smaller pieces 'cause it can use bigger pieces, unlike the Rival ice cream maker that had to have small ice pieces. So far, the canister has never gotten stuck due to ice. The instructions does say to prime the bucket with 4 - 5 in. of water before using every time or almoste every time. I don't mind doing that. I don't mind messing with the ice & salt. While the ice cream maker sets during the winter months, the rock salt won't be setting around. I won't keep it all winter long. I'll use it on the ice on our sidewalks & driveway during the winter. I'll buy fresh rock salt in the spring. The neat thing about this ice cream maker is that if I want, I don't have to use the motor attachment all the time. If I want, I can order the handle attachment to use instead. It's something we might buy one of these days.
I currently have our ice cream maker packed away in its original box & packing stuff. The box comes in handy since I can stack it somewhere. I will probably get out our ice cream maker sometime next week though. It's just setting in our downstairs to be used whenever we want. Our ice cream maker is another one of those appliances we bought and have to find room for. LOL I'll set it in our upstairs this winter.
Thanks for the White Mountain ice cream maker advice, Uncle Bob! We really didn't want to spend a lot of money on an electric ice cream maker but we're quite happy we did buy this one. I love ice cream but my body doesn't need it. LOL
Darlene