Camping Ice Cream Maker

[Camping Coxes]

Wow.  This is a neat looking product for making ice cream when you're camping.  You can do the same with two coffee cans, but this would probably make the kids like rolling it around more.  
 
Kind of reminds me of a hamster ball -- don't want to think about what you find in the hamster ball after he's been rolling around a while in the same thought as making ice cream in it!  
 
RedEnvelope - ice cream ball

[NCSunshine]

That is neat but $30?  We did it in college with two ziplock bags and coffee cans.  The ziplock bags was fastest.  I thought about taking my ice cream maker when we went to MB back in June.

[Cheryl]

Coffee cans are soooo much cheaper and you are recycling too.
My daughter and neice came up with the neatest (and cleanest) way to roll the can ice cream around. They used a beach towel and with each of them holding an end up in the air, they rolled the can back and forth. It worked sooooo quick and made the smoothest ice cream and the can was squeaky clean!
Cheryl

[cobbs1]

Okay, are you guys going to leave me hanging like that???
How do you make ice cream with a coffee can or a ziplock bag?  Sounds like something to keep my 3 year old busy for a while!!  I just didn't want to spend the money on one of those ice cream balls because I thought kids might get bored with it in 5 minutes.

[AustinBoston]

Okay, are you guys going to leave me hanging like that???
How do you make ice cream with a coffee can or a ziplock bag?  Sounds like something to keep my 3 year old busy for a while!!  I just didn't want to spend the money on one of those ice cream balls because I thought kids might get bored with it in 5 minutes.

I don't know how the coffee can thing works, but the ziplock bag thing is simple and allows everyone to have their own flavor.

Make up your base ahead of time and pre-chill (or use a no-cook recipie).  Each person gets a pint-sized (two cup?) ziplock bag with the base, and adds their own flavorings/add-ins.  Chocolate chips, peanuts ('cept I can't have peanuts any more), and mini-marshmallows work good.  make sure this bag is sealed properly!  Put the small zip-lock, sufficient ice, and rock salt into a gallon-sized ziplock bag.  Mush it up until sufficiently frozen.  Eat directly from the smaller zip-lock bag.  Re-use the gallon bag.

Austin