I remember the first ice cream maker I bought was a dinky Panasonic BH-941P. It ran on two lithium batteries and made about 2 cups of ice cream per batch. It was slow and you had to freeze the whole machine in the freezer as it turned the mixture. I did not have much success with it, so when my friend bought me a Cuisinart ice cream maker for my birthday this year, I envision myself making bathtubs of ice cream. That was not the case. I had failures, after failures, after failures. One probable cause (well, maybe the biggest one) was that I was making ice cream in the middle of the night, like at 12am or 1am. Those are dangerous culinary hours for my brain. I’m either half asleep or insanely awake and filled with “brilliant” ideas. [Continue Reading]