Do you have the balls? Ice Cream, silly!

No? Let me tell you how to get them.

First you call LL Bean. I realize LL Bean does not seem the obvious choice for a place to get your balls. But it's the place. It turns out you can get them at the cooperatively owned REI as well! (Thank you Samatakah!)

Then you come home to a really big box. If you want, it can help you make up for your small car or your small shoes. It's a nice thing to have waiting for you on your doorstep when you come home. I promise.

And when you open the boxes within the box (you're balls are delicate so they each need to be packaged separately!) you are greeted with two lovely specimens. I picked orange & blue, of course, because that is the theme of eggbeater.

Lucky for you your balls come with well written prose about how to use them. Just in case you secretly need that sort of help. The boxes are brown, unmarked, so as not to embarrass you in your neatly-mowed lawn neighborhood. Or your door-person, as they carry it to your apartment door. Or your FedEx hunk.

When you finally break your balls free of their boxy, instructional bondage, you feel and hear an overwhelmingly satisfied sigh come out from deep within your soul. You feel complete. Like you could accomplish anything!

Making ice cream could barely be a less expensive endeavor! I can put my word behind these silly ice cream makers. They work! I'm glad I let the very ballsy Sherry Yard remind me about them. As soon as she mentioned ice cream balls, I remembered that I had seen them in Food & Wine or some such magazine promoting cool new kitchen gadgets.

I even used them the other day in my Ice Cream & Sorbet class! One held mango sorbet, the other hid Lemon Sherbet deep within it's chilly orifice.

Want to know what other kitchen things, magazines, novels, books of notable non-fiction status and cookbooks I own and read? Click on this delightful new link of mine to find these favorites at my recently constructed Amazon Store! Thank you Elise! {If you buy something through this link, you are supporting the endeavors of Eggbeater.}

Or taking notes for my upcoming birthday in 2008.
The big four-o.

Comments

[Samatakah]

They sell these at REI too, for people who must have ice cream when they're camping. (-:

[robert]

but i wanna see you USING your balls.

[Aaron]

Well I've seen Shuna use her balls. Let's just say...she knows what she's doing...ok!

[Kung Foodie Kat]

better yet...some of us even got to play with her balls last weekend. it was quite an experience. ;-D

[shuna fish lydon]

I am SCREAMING I am laughing so loud!!!

Y'all are killing me! And I THANK YOU for it!!!!!!!

Robert-- although I won't meet you at the nyc knife skills class it sounds like we might have some fun meeting up or, better yet, going out and cruising!

[Garrett]

I did one of these when I was a student teacher for a 8th grade classroom! We played a rough version of soccer with four of them and then had strawberry ice cream. SO MUCH FUN!

[Elise]

Hey Shuna,
You can also get these cool balls at the Eggbeater Amazon store. Coolio!

[devon]

Okay - I laughed *every* time I read that word. I am so juvenile sometimes I could just die, buuuuut, I love it. things are just funnier sometimes that way, you know?

On another note, my brother got a blue ball for christmas last year, which he says now gets booted around the living room during drunken beer pong parties. I can only imagine how cool and refreshing a bowl of fresh strawberry ice cream must be to a sweaty beer pong player....

Good times. =)

[robert]

cruising!? what kind of a man do you take me for? ok you're right.

[Lori S.]

Yes, I want one of these, too!

[Sara]

I have coveted these for a long time, but could never decide what color to choose. It never occurred to me to buy a pair of balls, though. What a great idea.

Now that my task of choosing has, uh, shrunk, I won't have to envy yours for too much longer. Still...which two?

[Jeanne]

You fail to tell us whether, during your test, icicles formed in your balls?

:o)

LOL - fab post!

[shuna fish lydon]

Jeanne,

Icicles did form, but inside my balls. The trick? To keep them rolling...

[jennifer]

Hey, Shuna! Thanks! At your recommendation, I bought one of these and had it shipped to my dad for his birthday. We tried it out this weekend, and even my father, the homemade ice cream snob, thought it was AWESOME. Admittedly, we worked up a bit of an appetite tossing it around the backyard, but it was worth it! I think I'm going to buy one for my house too. (And I'd say you should go for the quart ball--the pint would not have been nearly enough ice cream!)

Thanks!
Jennifer

[shuna fish lydon]

Jennifer!

I am so so glad and honored that you came back to eggbeater to tell us your news and experience. thank you so much.

Yes, when I looked at the pint size I thought-- all that work for that little ice cream? No thanks.

Glad they're making an impression-- it might be one of the most inexpensive ice cream "machines" out there!

[Steamy Kitchen]

OMG - we have the EXACT SAME PAIR OF BALLS!!! I too have a red and blue one. Now we can have an ice cream orgy!!!

heehee!!! :-)