Make ice cream at home with ice cream maker

Ice cream makers have been around at least since 1843. The technology used for making ice cream has evolved since those days. There are, today, various ice cream makers available on the market for homemade ice cream. All those machines however boil down to 3 basic types.

Manual Ice cream maker

Traditionally, ice cream has been made using these types of machines. They consist of two large bowls one inside the other. In the outer bowl, you need to put in ice and salt and ice cream is made in the inner bowl. They require no electricity but you need to manually stir a bowl in which the ice cream is present.

Donvier Manual Ice Cream Maker

Freezer Bowls

In this one, you need to put in a special bowl in the freezer for some time. The bowl has two walls and in-between the walls there is a liquid. This liquid has to freeze inside the freezer first. Once frozen, you can put all the required ingredients into the bowl and put it back into the ice cream maker. The latter contains an arm that stirs the ingredients until it becomes ice cream.

Cuisinart Freezer Bowl Ice Cream Maker

Built-in freezing system / Compressor Ice Cream Maker

This one is a fully automatic ice cream maker that contains its own cooling system. You just need to put in all the ingredients and turn it on, it does the entire job. It generally takes less than 30 minutes to produce ice cream making it ideal if you do not want to go through all the hassle of the two previous ones. The quality of ice cream made is also very good.

Cuisinart Compressor Ice Cream Maker

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The 5 benefits of eating ice-cream

Let's face it, we all love ice cream. As surprising as that might seem to you, ice cream is very beneficial to your body. Wondering how? Find  below the 5 benefits of eating ice-cream.

Ice Cream is beneficial
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1. Strengthen your bones
Ice cream is made largely from milk. Milk contains a lot of calcium whose function is to strengthen our bones. Calcium is a very important mineral for the body.

2. Loose weight with ice cream
Yes, you read it right! When you eat an ice cream, it causes your body temperature to drop and to fight that drop in temperature, your body has to burn calories. Pretty nice huh!

3. Heal your body
Ice cream has the benefit of containing protein which is an important ingredient for healing and building muscle mass.

4. De-stress
Ice-cream stimulates the production of thrombotonin (the happiness hormone) in the body which makes us happy and helps to remove stress.

5. Low fat levels

Many of people are afraid to eat ice creams when they think of the fat that it might contain. However, it is important to note that the fat comes the milk that is used. It is therefore wrong to think that ice cream contain excessively high levels of fat.

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