i have been wanting an ice cream maker for a long time. Not just any ice cream maker, but the electric type that doesn't require ice or rock salt. i have almost purchased several, but i keep putting it off in the hopes i find one at a thrift store.
My friend Devin and i went to an awesome thrift store near her a few weeks ago, and imagine my delight when i found an ice cream maker! For like $6, plus the store had a 25% off sale. So for just a little over $4, i happily went home with my new old ice cream maker.
After washing it, i went online to find directions for use, because of course there was no manual. i froze the container just like it said, put in the ingredients, and plugged it in. Something seemed wrong. Turns out, there was no mixing paddle. You kinda need that. i hunted and scoured the interwebs for a replacement part, and it is nowhere to be found. i contacted the manufacturer and the part is no longer available. Of course.
i do this all the time. i bought a blender at a garage sale for $1 that had no rubber stopper on the bottom, so it leaked all over. Because it was the best blender i've ever used, i ended up paying $6 online for a small rubber disk.
Last year, i bought a food processor at Target, a display model, "As is". i was excited because it was only $25 instead of $50. i noticed there was no blade, but i figured i'd just buy one on ebay. Nope. None on ebay. i had to order one from the manufacturer, which was $14.99 plus $9.99 shipping. It was missing a food pusher thing that comes in the box, but i didn't order that, because it was $10 more. So for the same amount of money a new one would have cost, i got less food processor goodness.
So anyway, if you buy opened small appliances, make sure all the pieces are in there. It has cost me quite a bit of time and money to learn that lesson! i'm not sure if i'm never going to buy opened appliances again, but i'm not going to get so excited about a great deal that i will forget about functionality.
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3 comments:
ha ha ( i know, totally not funny) what a bummer...really, a bummer!
Heck! That really hurts! But keep thrifting (and checking for all the parts) b/c you will find those things you want. I was lucky enough to find one of the ice cream freezers (new, with the manual!) for $2, and a new Cuisinart for $8. Garage sales rule! But believe me, I've also bought my share of things with missing pieces. (Computer stuff needs software installed to make it work???)
That is frustrating, isn't it?
I used to like the Donvier hand-crank ice cream makers with the canister that goes in the freezer first.
I can't tell you how many I bought without the right lid/paddle. But I did save the freezable inner container, so that when I found one that had all the pieces, I had 2 different cylinders to keep in rotation.
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