Recommendation for an ice cream maker please

[senua]

I'm a novice so I'm not sure what I am looking for. From a quick trawl (of the little there is) on MN, I gather that I need one that can have additional bowls so I can always have one ready in the freezer. Is that right? - why won't just the one bowl do.

It's yet another gadget to squeeze in the cupboards so I don't want too big a footprint.
DD is buying it for me for a Christmas present so it needs to be student-priced, please.

Any recommendation? (for or against)
TIA

I've only used one (can't remember if it was cuisinart or magimix) but it was brilliant. We had two bowls because they take a really long time to freeze up and don't actually make all that much ice cream - so if you have two bowls, you can have one freezing while the other is churning and so on and make a lot more ice cream that way. Otherwise, you make a double batch of mix but there is a gap of hours while the bowl re-freezes.

The best recipe book around IMO is the Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz.

Ah! I think that I understand now. If you only have one bowl then you can only make one litre at a time so it is a lot of faff for not much output. It is more efficient to 'batch bake'.

Indeed. And a litre of ice cream is really not that much - we usually eat the first batch while the second is churning

I just poked around on the internet and the author of that ice cream recipe book uses a cuisinart ice cream maker. If you have a kenwood there's an attachment you can buy I think.