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How To Make Ice Cream

7 easy steps to the quintessential cool treat

Randy Mayor
, Text: Julianna Grimes

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2. Salt

While tabletop models rely strictly on a freezer bowl filled with a coolant, traditional bucket-style freezers require rock salt and ice. Salt lowers temperature to freeze ice cream below 22 degrees (soft-serve consistency), so ice cream is firm, even straight from the churn.