The Random Blogger

I wasn’t going to write another post so soon after the last one, but something unbelievable happened that I have to tell you about!

I published my post about the Whynter SNO Ice Cream Maker at 00:02 (i.e. two minutes past midnight) on 4 March 2010.

Three minutes later, at 00:05, I ran a search on Google looking to see if the post had been indexed yet - not that I was expecting it to have been that quickly, but I was setting it up so I could refresh the page occasionally to see how long it took (I was hoping for around 30 minutes).

And I have to say that I was absolutely amazed!

The post was showing as having been indexed two minutes previously, which means that Google picked up that post in just one single minute!

Wow!

I only wish I could claim that this was due to my superlative SEO skills! (I’m more than well-versed in this area, but I couldn’t honestly say that it was because of this that my post was indexed so quickly - not with a straight face, at any rate!)

We tend to get through quite a bit of ice cream, even though there’s just the two of us (not forgetting our seven dogs, of course), and as we never drive anywhere, it all has to be delivered.

Now, the good news is that we have a frozen food home delivery service that calls round every fortnight; the bad news is that there are very few flavours that my wife is able to eat.

So, after doing a lot of research, we decided to splash out and buy our own soft serve ice cream maker - a Whynter SNO Ice Cream Maker to be precise - so that we could make whatever flavours work best for us.

Originally, we were going to go for the Lello 4090 Gelato Pro, but after reading some of the reviews on Amazon.com, we decided not to bother. To be fair, there are plenty of people who have found it to be a great machine, but there are also enough saying that they have had significant problems.

The machine arrived a couple of days ago, although owing to various diversions, we’ve not even unpacked the box yet.

However, we are looking forward to trying it out (having also bought several recipe books and other accessories / ingredients), and I’ll report back once we’ve tasted the results.