Alternative To Rock Salt For Ice Cream. For residential use generally you can either purchase a rock salt such as Diamond Crystal Winter Melt OR ice melt such as Road Runner. And check every 10 minutes Stir and serve.
Plus bonus no need to use all of your ice cubes and run to the nearest store for rock salt. While it has more prominent grains than iodized salt variants it may still contain smaller grains affecting the ices hardness. Rock salt is sold in bags by the pound and table salt often doesnt come in bulk.
Recipe using Rock Salts.
You can either add rock salt to a cooler full of ice or you can actually make ice by freezing salt water. By Editor - Dec 22 2016. To fix this pack alternate layers of rock salt and ice to the brim of the canister. Seal the bag well pressig out as much air as you can.