Tips: Ice Cream Science

Ice Cream Recipe Books

I have read dozens of ice cream recipe books cover to cover, and spent many, many hours online researching recipes and ice cream techniques and suggestions. I have enjoyed all of them, gotten lots of ideas for recipes to try, and learned from all of them. The following are a couple of ice cream recipe […]

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Ice cream additives

Many commercial ice creams include a number of additives–those hard-to-pronounce mystery ingredients on the ingredients list. There’s all sort of uses: there are stabilizers to keep water from migrating and ice crystals from growing, thickeners to adjust the texture and make the ice cream more scoopable, additives to keep air bubbles from collapsing and to

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ice Cream Base Mixes

Ice Cream Base Mixes: An ice cream base mix is a pre-mixed combination of milk, cream, sugar, and other ingredients that is common to all ice cream recipes.  Commercial ice cream manufacturers each have their own ice cream base mix that they use to make all of their flavors of ice cream.  They pour in

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Ice cream basics

Ice cream is a frozen foam made of milk fat, air, sugar, and flavoring.  Let’s look at how those components combine to make ice cream smooth and creamy. Normally when liquids freeze, they become solid, hard, and unappetizing like an ice cube.  To prevent that from happening, we want to keep the ice cream as

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