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.

Whynter SNO Ice Cream MakerSo, 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.