I have been making homemade ice cream for years. And this is the ONLY drawback.
I was once told by a neighbor that there was a simple ingredient you could add to the mixture to keep the ice cream’s consistency the same, even after freezing, but I can’t remember what it was.

I’ve recently bought an ice cream maker, and i’ve noticed most of the recipes (in various different books and places online) it says to heat all the ingredients before cooling and putting into the ice cream maker.

Why does the mixture need to be heated? Will the recipe not work if I just put all the ingredients in a bowl cold and mixed together?

Thanks!

We have our ice cream maker. I follow all the directions carefully. I put the canester for a whole week so it will be totally frozen! But whenever i place the mixture in the canester, after 20 minutes it reamins the same! i don’t know what is the problem. can anyone help me? thanks!

If I just freeze the bowl, chill the mixture, and do everything else that the instructions of my ice cream maker tell me to do and churn the ice cream, can I just eat it when it’s done churning instead of freezing it for eight hours first? Won’t it be just like soft serve ice cream?

using a mixture of heavy cream and condensed milk to make a vanilla ice cream

I have made two batches so far (one custard based and one non-cooked base). Both have tasted fine but are not creamy. They have the rough consistency of frozen milk. In one recipe I used two cups of whole milk and two cups heavy cream; the second recipe one cup whole milk and two cups heavy cream. So, I don’t think I am lacking in butterfat contetn. After running the machine the prescribed time – about 25 minutes I freeze the soft ice cream.

Any suggestions?

Could the mixture be freezing too quickly? Should I let the mixture go longer in the machine and freeze less in the freezer?

If I just freeze the bowl, chill the mixture, and do everything else that the instructions of my ice cream maker tell me to do and churn the ice cream, can I just eat it when it’s done churning instead of freezing it for eight hours first? Won’t it be just like soft serve ice cream?

If I just freeze the bowl, chill the mixture, and do everything else that the instructions of my ice cream maker tell me to do and churn the ice cream, can I just eat it when it’s done churning instead of freezing it for eight hours first? Won’t it be just like soft serve ice cream?

If I just freeze the bowl, chill the mixture, and do everything else that the instructions of my ice cream maker tell me to do and churn the ice cream, can I just eat it when it’s done churning instead of freezing it for eight hours first? Won’t it be just like soft serve ice cream?

If I just freeze the bowl, chill the mixture, and do everything else that the instructions of my ice cream maker tell me to do and churn the ice cream, can I just eat it when it’s done churning instead of freezing it for eight hours first? Won’t it be just like soft serve ice cream?