The alternative to an ice cream maker is a combination of one of your existing, thick walled stainless steel pans and a cheap hand held electric beater. Freeze the pan for and hour and after making the ice cream mix, put it in the pan and whack it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Then remove it, scrape the sides and bottom, mix again and put it back into the freezer. You may need to perform this exercise every 30 minutes for about 3 hours. The scraping and mixing exercise takes only a minute.It works well.
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