How to make an Ice Cream

How to make an Ice Cream?• Next time you want ice cream, consider making it yourself

instead of buying it. Making ice cream is easy, and it's a great project to try with kids. This article contains various different ways to make ice cream, one of which is bound to work well for your kitchen and available tools.

Time Needed• Prep time: 10 minutes• Cook time: 5 hours, 50 minutes (active cook time: 15

minutes)• Total time: 6 hours

Making Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Maker

• Make a custard base with your favorite mix-ins. If you don't have an ice cream maker, you can freeze your ice cream in your freezer. Starting with a custard-based ice cream will help your finished ice cream freeze with a creamy, smooth texture. If you use a cream base instead, your ice cream is more likely to freeze solid - it'll be more icy than creamy.

Freezing ice cream in the freezer• Freeze the ice cream in the freezer.

Just pour it into a deep, freezer-safe container and put it in the freezer. Every 45 minutes, open the freezer and stir the ice cream vigorously. This will help it freeze slowly and take on a soft, creamy texture instead of freezing into a solid block of ice. Keep stirring the ice cream every 45 minutes until it has frozen completely. This method takes 4-5 hours.

Freezing ice cream in the freezer• If you like softer ice cream, you can eat the ice cream as

soon as it has attained the texture you like.• For more traditional-style ice cream, let the ice cream

freeze overnight after your last stirring. The next day, it will have a texture similar to that of store-bought ice cream.

Pour the custard base into a quart-size bag

Fill a larger bag with ice and salt. Take roughly two quarts of ice, crushed if possible, and place it into a gallon-sized bag with rock salt (also known as coarse salt). Ideally, the gallon bag will be roughly half full with the ice and salt mixture.

Making Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Maker

• Make sure the bags stay sealed. Do not allow the contents to mix at any time. If the bags don't seal sufficiently, seal the top of both bags to ensure they don't open during shaking.If you want, you can use two cans instead of two freezer bags to try this method. Get coffee cans of different sizes and fill the smaller one with the ice cream base. Fill the larger can with ice and salt and set the smaller can inside. Make sure both cans have tight-fitting lids.

Shake it up• Gently agitate, massage, and shake

the bags for about fifteen to twenty minutes. In this amount of time the contents of the quart bag should start to turn into solid ice cream. It is important that you are mixing the contents of the inner bag, but you don’t want to be so aggressive that you burst the inner bag or cut it on the ice. Double-bagging should prevent this.

Shake it up• If your hands get uncomfortably cold, use a towel or an

old t-shirt to hold the bags as you massage them; the bags will be quite cold and might become slippery with accumulated condensation.

• Consider using gloves or massaging while holding onto the top seal if a towel or similar cloth is not available.

Remove the finished ice cream from the sandwich bag and serve.

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