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Play Ball!
By Pamela Robin Brandt
June 25, 2006
Play ball! And at your July 4th picnic, what could be more patriotic than playing America's favorite sport with the fave dessert of America's founding father: ice cream?
In the summer of 1790, George Washington reportedly spent $200 on ice cream -- the equivalent of $4,250 today. With the do-it-yourself Play & Freeze, an unspeakably cute plastic globe (in varying jewel-like, translucent colors) that produces a pint of your favorite soft-serve flavor after 20-30 minutes of agitation, the tab's more like $2-3 per batch.
And the self-powered process is literally child's play. Load one side of the ball with cream, half & half, or even milk, plus sweetener and flavorings of choice. Load the rest with ice and rock (or kosher) salt. Play! Eat.
Baseball's actually a bad choice of sport for the more basketball-sized sphere, and beach volleyball could shatter the Lexan shell -- or heads. Our recommendation: rolling rules. Based on extensive, inebriated in-house trials (the machine makes frozen margaritas, too), lawn bowling produces a non-dangerous, and delectable, dessert.
[Available at LLBean.com for $29 ($39 for new, larger quart size)]
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