You can also do it the really old fashioned way -- the same method that has long been used to make sorbet. Just pour the mixture into a baking dish, and set that into your freezer. Also, you will need a heavy glass or metal bowl, an electric hand mixer, and a bowl of ice big enough for the first bowl to sit in. Put the heavy glass or metal bowl and the beater attachments for the hand mixer into the freezer at the same time as the ice cream mix to chill them. When its almost but not quite fully frozen, use a fork to break it up into small lumps about the size of a nickle or a little less. Then put it back into the freezer about 10 minutes to set up a bit again. Now, working as quickly as possible, take the pre-chilled heavy bowl out of the freezer,and set it in a bath of ice cubes in the 2nd larger bowl. Quickly transfer the ice cream mixture into the chilled bowl, and beat it as much as possible with the electric mixer ONLY until the lumps are broken up, and it begins to whip up a bit. Then, back into the freezer for another 15 to 30 minutes, until its not at all "melty" but still a little soft. Repeat the beating/whipping process several times -- the idea is to whip as much air into it to make it creamy and fluffy as possible, without melting it too much at each whipping. The chilled bowl, the ice bath, and the chilled beaters help, but beware that the very act of beating it creates friction between the bowl and beaters, which makes heat, so this process is a balancing act between beating in air and melting the ice cream. Done right, which isn't at all hard to do with just a little practice, this method does work, albeit it will never be quite as fluffy as commercial ice creams you are used to, which not only incorporate a large volume of air into the mix using specialized equipment, but which also generally use gums and stabilizers which prevents the product from melting and turning liquid as fast as a pure, cream and milk only product will. Good luck.

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Your alternator will probably run a clothes dryer if it GAS fueled. The electric load consists of the motor driving the tumbling drum and blower plus the timing drum, and after the initial motor inrush, these are light loads. It'll be a big load for an all electric dryer. Check the nameplate om the appliance to find wattage requirement. Also, you alternator must supply 120/240 V. The heating elements on most all-electric dryers run on 240 V power. If the outside temperature permits, clothes pins seems a good alternative. An aside: You live near the New Madrid site of the largest earthquake that ever struck the USA. It was 3 strong quakes, one in Dec 1811, one in Jan 1812, and the third in Feb 1812, with many after shocks. Just across the river is Reelfoot Lake in TN. This lake was formed during the New Madrid Earthquake. It is a slum zone that filled with water. The town of New Madrid was abandoned and rebuilt in a new location, its present site of today. The residents were fearful to rebuild on the old site. It was happenstance that steam boat, based on Fulton's design, was making its maiden voyage downriver. On board were investors and dignitaries. Up to this time, all steam boats had ended in failure, mostly by exploding the boiler, or machinery failure. These were considered to be too hazardous and unreliable for invertors to support. THis boat was upriver of New Madrid when the quake hit. A major seich rolled upstream on the Mississippi River. It so distrubed the river flow that for a moment it seems that the river had reversed its flow. (It was really a big wave similar to a tsunami.) This wave struck the boat and rolled over it. It pushed the superstructure back, knocked the top of the flue stack, and wrecked the paddle wheel. The crew managed to patch the paddle wheel with on-board boat paddles and other flotsam. With this lashed up wheel, the boat managed to make the landing at New Madrid only to find the dcoks were gone. It anchored at the landing. Because this boat made through this disaster, did not blow up, and the engine continued to work, it was hailed an instant sucess. Investors poured out of the woodwork and within 10 years, there were boat builders along the Ohio river constructing low draft, river steamers. The age of river boat gamblers, banjo pickers, and dance parties had arrived on the river.

It gives me the tropical look...on a 72f September day.