The excitement around homemade ice cream owes a lot to engineering breakthroughs that have replaced the old ice-and-salt freezers with fuss-free models. Many home cooks happily switched years ago to a ...

Homemade ice cream. Yum. The food of dreams, the base of sundaes, the delight of old and young. And a hassle. Especially when using a manual, hand-cranked machine. But the labor makes more than the ...