No joke, it’s a kickball ice cream maker!

With all the ice cream makers on the market, it’s clear you don’t need a fancy machine to make your favorite flavor. But Hammacher Schlemmer, the mail-order catalog company, has found a way to combine ice-cream-making with kickball.

The new kickball ice cream machine is blue and shaped like a kickball. It has two sides including a food-safe sealed compartment for the ice cream ingredients, and another for ice and rock salt.

To use, fill the food-safe side with cream, sugar, vanilla and all the ingredients you’ll need to make your ice cream. Fill the other compartment with ice and rock salt.

Once the compartments are filled and sealed, the website suggests kicking, spinning or rolling the ball around for 20 minutes to make the ice cream. The company claims the ball’s soft, rubber exterior is able to withstand repeated kicks and rolls.

When the ice cream is ready, you can open the compartment and either eat, or scoop the ice cream straight out of the ball. The ball makes about one pint of ice cream and weighs about four pounds.

The ice cream maker is for sale on the Hammacher Schlemmer website or in the catalog for $34.95.

Well, that’s one way to promote exercise.

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