Hand making ice cream, no rock salt avalible, substutions?!

Question:

Hand making ice cream, no rock salt avalible, substutions?

ice cream does not set- electric maker

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I use table salt sometimes. Salt is salt, it causes the same chemical reaction The reason you must use salt is that it melts the ice. When the salt melts the ice, it takes energy out of the air, causing it to become colder than the ice which freezes the ice cream.

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Table salt. You'll just use more of it than rock salt.

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