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" Without a doubt, making your own ice cream requires plenty of prep work. Whether it&amp;#039;s layering rock salt and ice or just monitoring one with a frozen chamber to make sure the ice cream is perfectly churned, you can certainly expect to put in more effort than just grabbing a pint from the freezer. Hopefully for all the extra effort you&amp;#039;ll be rewarded with a rich and flavorful frozen treat. And making your own dessert takes some pre-planning. Many of the machines in our test require that you freeze the canister several hours to a full day in advance. We love the creamy texture of just-churned treats but if you want the solid consistency of the store-bought kind, you&amp;#039;ll need to keep ice creams and sorbets in the freezer for a couple hours after churning. An Inside Look at Ice Cream Maker Testing  We had the tough task of testing each ice cream maker to see if it produced deliciously sweet treats. Utilizing Good Housekeeping recipes for vanilla ice cream and peach sorbet, we tasted the output of every machine, and rated it for initial smoothness and thickness, as well as rich consistency after freezing overnight.  We rated the manuals for thoroughness and took a look at the recipes included.  We took note of how easy each machine was to prep and assemble, as well as how easy it was to activate the controls and monitor the churning progress.  We checked out how easy it was to clean each ice cream maker. Most weren&amp;#039;t too difficult (some even had parts that could go in the dishwasher!), but a few had crevices that were hard to reach with a sponge.  Odds are, you&amp;#039;ll be running your ice cream maker for at least a half an hour, so you don&amp;#039;t want one that will be too disruptive. The machines varied in noise levels, but only the one that was hand cranked could be called quiet.  To see what happens if you run into a problem, we called each ice cream maker manufacturer and asked for help getting the ice cream to freeze. Most companies were able to provide problem-solving advice.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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