Choosing The Best Ice Cream Maker

Choosing The Best Ice Cream Maker

You can make delicious ice cream at home, as good as any premium store brand,

if you choose a good ice cream maker and follow a few tips. Ice cream makers can range in price from under $100 to over $500. The more expensive models contain built in freezing compressors.

The less expensive models are perfectly suited for use in the home and come in two basic types. There is the type that uses rock salt and ice to cool the ice cream mixture and the type that has a canister that is placed in the freezer.

Each of these is equipped with an electric crank or a manual crank. Your particular needs will determine which is right for you.

If you want to make a large quantity of ice cream, you will need to purchase a model that uses rock salt and ice. The canister models will only make up to 1.5 quarts at a time.

If you would like to turn ice cream making into a family activity, you can choose the hand-crank model, which will also use rock salt and ice.

The crank must be turned manually for a fairly long period of time, thus allowing each family member a turn. An electric crank is quite a bit easier than the manual crank models.

You will also get more consistent results due to the bowl turning at a constant speed. Most electric crank ice cream makers will have an automatic cut off feature that will stop the motor when the ice cream reaches the desired consistency.

The consistency is judged by the amount of resistance while the bowl is turning.

After you choose which type of ice cream maker is right for you, you will need to find the perfect ice cream recipe.

Remember that the faster the ice cream freezes, the better it will taste and the smoother the texture will be. It will be best to pre-mix all your ingredients and let them chill for several hours before placing them in the ice cream maker.

When your ice cream is done, it will resemble soft-serve ice cream. You can place the canister in the freezer for a few hours and you will be much happier with the results.

If your canister is plastic, consider removing the ice cream as soon as it is done, and placing it in a metal bowl covered with foil. The metal will allow the ice cream to freeze faster and become firmer more quickly than in a plastic container.

You can purchase a mix that is quite easy to make into ice cream very quickly. While the mixes are convenient, the best homemade ice cream is made from fresh ingredients.

Milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and cocoa if you desire will give you the best results. You can find numerous ice cream recipes, some which require cooking some which require no cooking.

The ice cream recipes that do not require cooking are generally just as good as the cooked type, and require a lot less time.

The best ice cream recipes usually contain eggs, however there are many recipes that do not use eggs if you or someone in your family is allergic to eggs.

The Ice Cream Maker

There is no doubt that ice cream is one of the nicest things you can have, in the summer it is possible to eat the ice cream at any time and any place, the beach at home or in an ice cream stand, even more then once a day…

While ice cream is always fun to have outside, there is a very nice possibly of making the ice cream at home and enjoy an ice cream flavor you choose or even invent.

The making of the ice cream may seem like a hard and difficult task and that it requires a lot of time and preparation, the self ice cream process is

not that complicated and does not require that you spend all day making it, it is in fact a great way of entertaining your kids and having some family fun.

Today there are so many different kinds of ice cream makers on the market that you can find yourself a very advanced ice cream maker and

use it to invent all kind of flavors and tastes and experiment with your ice cream maker, its lot of fun and on the latest models there is really not much to do.

The great thing about the whole thing is that you can find these machine for much less than before and there are some models that are especially cheap for those of us that are not yet sure that this is something they want to do.

You will have to take a good look at the features of the model because in some cases the cheaper models are noisy and take a long time to produce ice cream,

not saying the some of the more expensive models are without problems but in general the pre freezing is not necessary any more,

and on some new models you can make a batch after batch of ice cream, making it possible for you to make 5 different batches in less than 5 hours.

I use to prepare my ice cream on Saturday or any free day, after most of the activates are over, around late noon I gather my kids and open the recipe book to find some ideas to how we are going to use our ice cream maker that day,

if we cant find anything we want a short research on the internet shows us the way and we are off to the shop to get everything we need,

when we are back everyone picks out a task and the ice cream making starts, we make about 3 batches and place them in the freezer, once we all agree on the timing we sit down to enjoy a family ice cream, our own ice cream, it is a great joy.

So if you are considering an ice cream maker start thinking of what are the features that you want, and how much you think you will use your ice cream maker, then take a look at some of the recipes and go out to the shops to find your ice cream maker,

make sure it has a some kind of warranty and that it is easy to maintain and clean. It’s a lot of fun making your ice cream, and I am sure you will have fun using it, happy eating!