jefmcg
Guru
yes. Ice cream needs to be smooth and aerated. You can make a frozen desert with a home freezer, shallow tray and a fork (set the alarm and break the ice crystals every hour or so with the fork) but it will still contain large enough ice crystals too be gritty and crunchy and it won't have the airy quality of a well churned ice cream.Do you actually need a specific device for it though?
Granitas and sorbets can be made quite successfully without an ice cream maker, but to make a good ice cream, it needs to be continually churned while freezing.
Neapolitan ? You know the strawberry,choc and vanilla.Exotic when I was a kid
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHZTQe1PV4
(it's in italian I think, but you get the picture)
um - no ... unless by crap you mean less of these ingredientsthey're just the same ice cream loaded down with more crap and extra sugar for a false sense of luxury.
and more of theseReconstituted Whey Protein Concentrate (from Milk), Partially Reconstituted Whey Powder, Sugar, Palm Oil, Dextrose, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Sodium Alginate), Flavouring, Colour (Beta-Carotenes)
Ingredients:
Whole Milk, Double Cream (Milk) (34%), Demerara Sugar, Dried Skimmed Milk, Pasteurised Free Range Egg, Sugar, Madagascan Vanilla (0.8%) (Vanilla Extract, Ground Vanilla Pods)
(Tesco's finest, chosen at random)
They are completely different. I'm not sure what else could be done to make something "luxury" than this. The very best vanilla ice creams are made with a rich custard made with cream, chilled and then churned below freezing. The above list of ingredients suggests this is what they have done.
You will like Australia/New Zealand's law. You can't call a product ice cream, unless it is at least 10% dairy fat, i.e. 10% cream. The above product where the fat comes palm trees would have to call itself "Frozen dairy desert" or "Creamy vanilla" or some other weasel words. I can't find an actual example, as all the products in the online oz supermarkets do not use palm oil, and the only products that aren't labelled ice cream are frozen yoghurts and sorbets.When I'm in charge of everything, fake ice cream will have to have very big labels and be dyed bright blue.