Questions about ice cream, soft or hard frozen dairy with sweetener & flavorings
Questions tagged [ice-cream]
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Why does my ice cream have ice crystals?
I put icecream mixture in freezer but after taking it out of freezer, I found ice crystals in it. What should be done to avoid ice crystals in icecream?

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Using an ice cream maker with its own compressor
I'm used to using the ice cream makers where you have to freeze the bowl first, but have now got a used Andrew James model 3368 ice cream makers with its own compressor - but no manual.
I've read about putting a saline solution between the machine…

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Gritty Chocolate Ice Cream Texture
I made this recipe for dark chocolate ice cream. I did a double recipe, using 3 egg yolks + 1/2 cup cream instead of 12 egg yolks, and I left the cocoa nibs in until right before churning to try to extract as much flavor as possible.
The taste was…
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Ideal temperature and stabilizer for chewy ice cream?
I've been a huge fan of homemade ice cream ever since I went to Herrell's ice cream in Northampton Massachusetts: http://www.herrells.com
The owner, Steve Herrell, is known as the godfather of chewy ice cream in America, and I've been trying to come…

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Making ice cream at home without a machine
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How to make ice cream made without a machine?
I need an method for making ice cream at home, without access to an ice cream machine.

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Is vanilla a flavour or just absence of flavour?
My question is specific about ice-creams but more details are welcome.

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Is it safe to eat old ice-cream?
I have an non-opened I ice-cream in the freezer that is older that one year.is it save to eat it?

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How do you prevent ice crystals from developing in your ice cream?
So I heat and whisk some cream with egg yolks, sugar, and lemon juice in a water bath until thick, whip the rest of the cream, mix the two together and put it into a freezer. After five or so hours I take it out of the freezer and it's done. It's…

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No frost refrigerator
Can I put popsicle in no frost freezer? I bought popsicle and put in my -24c "No frost" freezer and all of my popsicle melt. Is it normal or my "No frost" freezer need service? just bought less than 3 months.
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Scraper for Ugolini & C miniGel L4
I have recently inherited a "Ugolini & C miniGel L4" gelato or ice cream maker that my mother bought in the early 1980s (Williams and Sonoma began importing this model in 1979 but stopped sometime in the 1900s). This machine includes a plastic (or…

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Donvier ice cream maker - inserting the bucket
Recently I bought a Donvier 1 pint ice cream maker on Ebay. When I figured out how to put the rim on the chill recepticle it didn't seem that hard. When the ice cream didn't freeze I did some research. The instructions didn't tell you enough and…
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How to properly fill the ice and salt into an oldfashioned ice cream machine?
I am making ice cream with an inexpensive electric machine that uses a dasher. For a test I put 2 quarts of water in the inner pot. Then I added 8 trays of ice to the space between the inner and outer pots. I am figuring 5 part ice to 1 part rock…

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Ice-cream-on-a-stick in refrigerator temperature
In the summer, I used to make ice-cream-on-a-stick in various flavors. Some examples:
Chocolate flavor: melted cocoa + honey + coconut oil + almond butter.
Banana flavor: bananas + peanut butter + cinnamon + soy milk.
I just mixed them, put in a…

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Getting cream from evaporated milk
Separating cream from raw milk does not have high yield. This should be easier when the milk is concentrated, as we want to separate the watery part of milk, which is already disappeared in evaporated milk. I have not seen any guide for getting…

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Thickening cream in a blender to increase fat content?
I've established that it's not possible(or a compromise at best) to mix other things in single cream to increase its fat content.
I have 25% and 30%(rarer) cream available where I'm at, and I'd like to have whippable cream with a fat content of 35%…

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