Ice Cream BallDribble then drool!
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| Everyone loves ice cream. Here at Firebox, the whole office lets out a collective 'Woo-hoo' the second the ice cream truck pulls up outside playing its song. But wouldn't it be great if you could make delicious homemade ice cream quickly, easily and without an electricity socket in sight? And wouldn't it be even better if you could play ball while doing it? Well guess what, strange as it sounds, now you can! The ingenious Ice Cream Ball is the fun and easy way to make yummy homemade ice cream. Why? Because the ice cream is formed by rolling the ball around. Simply throw your ice cream ingredients in one end, cram ice and rock salt in the other, and then play with the ball. 
After about 20 minutes you'll have a pint of delicious homemade ice cream. No truck required! (Having said that, you're welcome to hum the Ice cream truck jingle as you shake, pass and roll the durable polycarbonate Ice Cream Ball around). Your ice cream's consistency will vary based on the ingredients, ice/salt mix, outside temperature and shaking frequency. If it's not quite right, simply put the lid back on and roll the ball around for a few more minutes.How to make perfect ice cream!:
If you're thinking "Yuck, rock salt in my ice cream?!", don't worry - the salt itself never actually comes into contact with your ice cream - but it's vital to the thermodynamic reaction that super-cools the ingredients (see "How does it Work?" below). We'd love to say you can boot the Ice Cream Ball around Beckham-style, but you can't. Besides, who needs a busted metatarsal covered in ice cream? What you can do is roll it, pass it, shake it or even set up a slalom course using a few (ice cream?) cones. Then you can mix as you dribble. How cool is that! 
Your ice cream mix can be as simple as good old vanilla, but you can experiment with any flavor you want. Just add your fave flave before loading the mix into the Ice Cream Ball's metal mixing chamber. Perfect at picnics, parties and camping trips, the Ice Cream Ball allows you to slurp on lip-smackingly good ice cream without electricity, batteries or long waits by the ice cream truck. So get ordering - you'll have a ball! Altogether now, ‘Pop! Goes the weasel...'
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Time for a quick lesson in the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the differences between systems in contact with each other tend to even out: ie. the (cold) ice surrounding the (warmer) cream mixture will begin to melt. For ice to melt, heat has to be drawn from somewhere and in this case the melting ice absorbs heat from your ingredients and gradually lowers the temperature of the mix until it starts to freeze. Now, without any salt added to the ice the cooling effect would be slower and the ice/ingredients would gradually reach an equilibrium slightly above the freezing point of water. This isn't cold enough to turn your ingredients into ice cream, for which you need temperatures below 26 degrees Fahrenheit. By adding rock salt to the ice it makes a substance with a freezing point lower than water. This means that the ice and salt mixture must take even MORE heat from its surroundings in order to melt: the whole process accelerates and the temperature quickly drops to around 14 degrees which rapidly cools and turns your ingredients into a tasty serving of ice cream! |
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"...we tried vanilla extract, Extra Creamy Lindt (melted into the cream) and Baileys...Life doesn't get any tastier." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I love it. I placed my order Thursday afternoon, and it was delivered at 12 noon Friday!! It takes a lot of ice but it is so much fun. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I bought this item for my partner for his birthday, and he loved it!! Have also found on other websites some flavorings - fountain flavors - and definately think Firebox should add them to the inventory!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just received it this aternoon, very excited, prompt delivery, but when it came to using it, I found I needed 5 ice cube trays of ice to make it work in 30mins. I think for £25 I should have bought an electric one. Also if you have the capacity to store ice on a beach/camping, wouldn't you normally just take some ice-cream? you dont save much money by making you're own plus it makes one hell of a racket! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When I was growing up we used to make ice cream in coffee cans the same way- the ingredients were in a smaller can which was inside a larger one full of ice and rock salt! I can attest to the fact that this is a great way of making ice cream and probably my favourite! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is an excellent gift for parties, birthdays etc. The Kids will love this. It gives them a chance to choose a variety of fruits to mix and make Ice-Cream. With this item kids will no more longer fight over flavours... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ingenious Idea! Everyone should have one!!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is the most amazing thing you'll ever find. It's really impressive - at first you might not think it's gonna work, but I was proved wrong. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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