Love home ade ice cream and it started out as a kid when I would use those old style crank types. What made it more delicious was the fact I did by hand. Now that they have the ones that you plug in the process is too easy and the only thing that matters is the right recipe and the one I use is about 50 years old and always satisfies. I bought two of the Cuisinart machines that make the process so easy it's almost foolproof and I make ice cream at least twice a week and have 2 of those machines going. I do like one store bought ice cream...Blue Bell...but that's the only one that actually tastes close to homeade but at the end of the day I can make a gallon of my own for half of what it costs to buy.