Rather than freezing your liquid ice cream base directly in the machine itself, you'll prefreeze your base for 24 hours in the included deluxe pint containers. Once your base is completely frozen ...

After placing the frozen pint into the outer bowl that has a handle, I added the lid with the Creamerizer paddle and locked it into place. Then I slid the bowl under the right side of the machine ...

The one thing about ice cream that just irks me, though? Having to wrestle the concoction from a frozen-solid pint, a task which my spoons and scoops are simply unable to execute. My spoons emerge ...