What happens if you use regular table salt to make homemade ice cream instead of rock salt?

It will be a little more expensive. Table salt has less impurities than the rock salt. There is NO difference in it's action. Salt is salt. The chemical formula is exactly the same.What happens if you use regular table salt to make homemade ice cream instead of rock salt?
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What happens if you use regular table salt to make homemade ice cream instead of rock salt?
It just keeps going around and around and never freezes! I tried it a couple of weeks ago. Finally my neighbor brought over some rock salt and VIOLA! Ice Cream!
I don't think the ice cream will form properly. I don't think that you are supposed to mix it in with the actual ingredients, I think that it is supposed to go in with the ice to help make the cream form.
Salt is salt, more specifically, NaCl is NaCl. You can make ice cream with table salt, but since the grains are smaller, they dissolve much faster than rock salt. It takes a much higher volume of table salt and since table salt is more refined, it is more expensive.
it doesn't melt the ice the same way so makes it take longer to freeze the ice cream