I scream! You scream! We all scream for ice cream!

To kids of all ages, ice cream is pure, sweet joy on a sultry summer day. You can go to the corner store or run to meet the ice cream truck, and you can choose from all sorts of frozen novelties and concoctions, but nothing beats the delicious flavor of homemade ice cream.

Ice cream makers take simple ingredients like cream, milk, sugar and flavorings, and magically create delicious ice cream at the touch of a button. These marvelous machines can also deliver frozen beverages, sorbets, yogurt and fruit juice slush. If you or your kids are looking for a frozen tasty treat on a hot summer day, your ice cream maker can whip one up.

It's incredible to think that a machine that brings such sweet joy can really be so simple:

1. Pour your blended ingredients into the storage container. This is found inside the ice cream maker.

2. The mixture is drawn into a freezing chamber that's been edged with refrigerant liners.

3. Next, electric motors attached to agitator blades of the mixer fluff up the ingredients to make them creamier.

4. As the ice cream begins to firm up, and sets in the refrigerated chamber

5. At serving time, just raise the handle on the dispenser unit, and the ice cream falls into your bowl.

Ice cream-making used to be a real chore involving entire families. Fresh ingredients were placed into a metal container that was kept cool with ice and salt. Everyone in the family would take turns stirring the mixture with a wooden paddle, or turning a crank connected to paddles. It was a lot of work, but the results were so sweet. Ice cream makers evolved over the years, with such advancements as motorized paddle agitators. Now, making fresh, delicious ice cream really is as simple as gathering the ingredients and pushing a button.

Any one who has children, grandchildren, or a sweet tooth can create delicious treats any time with a home made ice cream machine.

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