Ice Cream Salt - Fine Texture | For Old Fashioned Homemade Ice Cream

Ice Cream Salt - Fine Texture | For Old Fashioned Homemade Ice Cream Features Each pack contains 3 pounds of Fine Texture Salt each pack contains approx. 4 cups, enough for one batch of 6 qt. ice cream Perfect to make a fast acting salt brine, like making homemade ice cream Useful to supper cool your drinks / cans when mixed with ice and water Fine texture cools faster than salt crystals, and will dissolve faster Cons: Fine salt will not last as long as salt crystals and has a tendency to settle to the bottom of the tub when making ice cream. Are you trying to find economical salt for making homemade ice cream? Ice by itself will only get as low as 32° F. When combined with salt, ice will get as low as 8° F. How does this happen? Without getting too scientific, salt removes heat. So when combined with ice, salt will cause a chemical reaction, removing the "heat" from the ice and lowering the temperature. Historically, salt was used to cool steel during manufacturing hot rolled steel.