Fair point. I do think there's a little bit more difficulty in the ice cream machine that doesn't exist with oil. I went and watched some videos on fry machin

Fair point. I do think there's a little bit more difficulty in the ice cream machine that doesn't exist with oil. I went and watched some videos on fry machine maintenance (lol) and one thing that doesn't translate to the ice cream machine is how easy it is to empty the oil, throw in polish, refill, empty, refill. You can't really have an automated process which drains out the ice-cream and then sterilizes it. > To my knowledge, none of these systems have weird DMCA-protected firmware to prevent unauthorised maintenance. Absolutely agree. The point of my post was more why a fry machine might have easier (and hence cheaper) maintenance than an ice cream machine.