I also bought an ice cream maker, but before that I decided to make ice cream without it. I interfered every half an hour getting it from the freezer. killed half a day. None of the family liked the result, including me. All the same crystals and tasted like powder, all in grains, everything was whipped with a mixer. I cannot understand what is the reason, except that I sin on the quality of milk and cream. Now, like a broken trough, I bought an ice cream maker, but the ice cream didn't work.
Maybe someone has met with such a problem, tell me the way out.
1. Eat ice cream from an ice cream maker immediately. Snowiness during freezing is ensured. That is, it will not work to interfere with something in the freezer. Kneads, saturates the mixture with air, namely the ice cream maker. The process itself. Mixers and in general the whipping process is absolutely unnecessary and it does not make any difference in the preparation of normal ice cream.
2. A stabilizer must be present in the ice cream mix. Not a thickener, but a stabilizer. These are two different things.
Choose stabilizers according to your taste. I have tried both gelatin and agar. Oddly enough, but I liked gelatin more. And it's easier to work with him.
We take cream 20% (undesirable), preferably 33% ml, so 250-300, or ... even 400, I'll correct myself, even 500 is possible. What do you like fat content There are 70-80 grams, and maybe 100 sugar, 150g. condensed milk. It's a matter of taste. Try while stirring. The mixture should be intensely sweet, closer to sugary. Cold, it will not be so sweet. See how big your ice cream maker is and add milk to bring this mixture to a volume, for example, like my 900ml. I have divisions in the pan. Gelatin 1 rounded teaspoon. This is 900ml. If there is less ice cream, then reduce the gelatin a little. Well, or calculate approximately how many products were laid by volume and add to the desired milk. It is better to donate volume than to pour milk.
I do everything in a water bath, which is what I advise you. Many people do without it, but if you want to get ice cream of very good quality and without any problems with washing dishes afterwards. Place the saucepan with the mixture in a water bath. Business then.
Soak gelatin in a small amount of water, milk, as you like. Warm up your mixture slowly. Stir often. As the mixture heats up more or less, add gelatin and then stir constantly until the mixture heats up to 85 degrees. Overheating is undesirable, even very undesirable. I have a thermometer, but you can navigate by a couple. Soaring should already be decent, but it is still far from boiling. I'm sorry, but I can't explain it better. I can stick my finger in the mixture and understand, but I also cannot explain my feelings to you.
You can navigate by gelatin, it must completely dissolve. Better not to overheat than overheat.
Next, we cool the mixture and put it in the refrigerator for ripening. In fact, this is jellied meat. As we know, forcing the freezing of jellied meat with frost, etc., means ruining it. The same goes for ice cream. If you do not have time for a day (or 12 hours) to wait, it is better not to make butter at all. Quickly bungle the sherbet.
Then we look at the mixture. Here is the most important thing. At this stage, we will understand whether it will turn out normal or not.We tilt the pan and look at the mixture, how it behaves. If everything shakes and slips, breaks and it is impossible to cut pieces out of it, then everything is super. That is, it is neither liquid nor solid. Formless. Like sour milk when kept warm for several hours. It's gelatinous. If you can cut it, then the stabilizer has been swollen. Digest. If it is liquid, it pours without problems in a trickle, also digest, add a stabilizer.
And so, the mixture is perfect, now we take the mixer, oddly enough, and begin to twist it with a whisk. Not for whipping, you can not make the speed great, but in order to warm it up a little with air, so that the infection becomes a little softer and you can pour it out with at least some trickle. By tilting the pan, you can see how it begins to become thinner and you can already pour it somewhere. Now we turn on the ice cream maker and let's go. You cannot heat the mixture in a water bath or on a stove. You will miss the moment when it begins to somehow flow.
Why all this forgive hemorrhoids with the definition of the mixture and so on? Here's why. If you do not have a real freezer, with a refrigerator, then just such a mixture, the amount of stabilizer and the temperature of the mixture will be optimal for a bowl that gives off cold and cannot get it anymore. And it will freeze normally, there will be enough cold and there will be no ice crystals. I have tried freezing leftovers that I didn't eat. Well, not that already.
Yes, the last one, you can add a pinch of salt, you can not add. You will not feel the salt, but what it will give. And God knows her. Either it will somehow affect the crystals of ice, or not. I dont know. I've tried this and that. Unclear.
And more. Why ice cream tastes better straight from the ice cream maker. It is full of air and at the optimum temperature. Up to -8 - -10. Seasoned ice cream is problematic to eat. What is shoved and how it is tempered in industry, I'm afraid we won't reproduce it at home. And the chemistry and equipment we have are not the same.
I have written at a very long time, but I want you to understand the process itself and the principle. In fact, cooking the mixture takes me about 15 minutes. Further cooling. And then twist with a mixer for 2-3 minutes and into an ice cream maker. A lot of scribbling, but everything is done easily and simply.
Well, the very last thing about cream. I bought cream 33% pure and thickened. That is, with the same stabilizer, or rather carrageenan. These are the ones for whipping. Try it with different cream without reducing gelatin and understand what to do with the consistency. How to regulate it. Because carrageenan already slightly gelates the mixture. Slightly deviate from the norms of the bookmark and choose the taste for yourself. Sugar, etc. Super way to pour in 80ml of strong natural coffee. That is 2 cups (40 ml each) of espresso. Reducing milk naturally.
Experiment with sugar, cream, condensed milk, fillers. Tailor the mixture to your liking. The main thing in it is the consistency before the ice cream maker.
And the last thing. I beg you very much. Never put eggs in ice cream. They were never there, not in any guests. Never! Better experiment with agar, gelatin, well, maybe starch. I haven't tried it with it. hands did not reach. That is, I advise you to bypass recipes with eggs. No offense to those who posted them.