The role of salt in making ice cream?

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There is an easy science experiment to make homemade ice-cream with your kids. In which one make icecream in 10min by puting a bag with ice-cream ingredients into a bag of ice and salt.

**Simply put what is the salt doing? Is it really necessary?**

p.s. I feel that this just a case of freezing point depression and that the resulting saline solution offers a greater surface area than ice and is colder than normal water, thus helps freezing the ice cream more quickly. However, the other side argues that the melting chemical reaction causes the saline solution to get colder.

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You’re right, it’s just that the freezing point is lower, so the saline solution chills the bag more effectively because of the greater surface area.

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