What do I need to make my own ice cream?

Question

I am interested in making ice cream at home. What will I need? What equipment and ingredients? Is it difficult?

Answer 1

Well there are multiple ways to make it. First go online and get a recipie for your favorite flavor. then you have three choices:
1. Put the mixture in a small jar, place that jar in a larger jar filled with layers of ice and salt. Then get to kids to roll it back and forth for a while, replacing the ice & salt every once and a while
2. Buy a ice cream maker. it will do basically all of the rolling for you adn will come with instructions on how to do it properly
3. Liquid Nitrogen. I am so serious. If you have access this is the fastest and by far most fun way to make ice cream. When I was little my dad had access to it throught his work and he would bring home a tank. Just but the liquid mixture of icecream in a METAL bowl and slowly add the liquid nitrogen while stirring. Avoid wearing clothes that the nitrogen can get caugt in, and contrary to poular belief, If it just splashes on you or even if you stick your whole finger in it, it will not burn you b/c it boils away so fast that it creates a protective blanket of gas between you and the cold. If you can you should give this one a try!

Here's a place to go check out recipes!
http://www.ice-cream-recipes.com/

Answer 2

You'll need an ice cream freezer. You can buy electric ones which will most likely come with a recipe booklet inside or google for ice cream recipes to find one you'd like.

Or you could do it the old fashioned way and get a hand crank ice cream freezer, a large block of ice and salt to put around the center tank where you'll turn a crank for hours until the ice cream mixture freezes up.

Answer 3

French vanilla ice cream
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 cups whole milk (separated into 1 cup and 1/2 cup)
2 vanilla beans, halved lengthwise
8 large egg yolks
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon

1.In a medium bowl, beat together the yolks and half of the sugar. You can beat by hand using a whisk or using a hand mixer or egg beater. Beat until thoroughly smooth and creamy. (A couple of minutes by hand.)
2 Put cream, 1 cup of the milk, the remaining half of the sugar, and the salt into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Scrape vanilla seeds from beans with the tip of a small knife into pan; add beans. Heat the mixture until just before it starts to simmer (do not let simmer). Remove mixture from heat and let stand 10 minutes.

3 While the mixture is standing, prepare an ice water bath in a bowl large enough to set another bowl easily inside of it. Set aside.

4 Whisk in 1 cup of the cream mixture in a slow stream into the yolk mixture to temper it. Add another cup of the cream mixture; continue to whisk. Transfer the egg yolk mixture back to the saucepan with the remaining cream, milk and vanilla. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon and an instant-read thermometer registers 180°, 5 to 7 minutes. (You can run your finger in a line over the back of the coated spoon. If the mixture doesn't run, but stays in place on the spoon, it should be thick enough.) Remove from heat and mix in the remaining 1/2 cup of milk to stop the mixture from overcooking.
5 Pour custard through a medium-mesh sieve into a stainless steel bowl set in the ice-water bath. Let cool completely, stirring until completely chilled.

6 Freeze custard in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. (Take care not to over churn the ice cream or it will get a grainy texture.) If you serve the ice cream immediately, it will probably be pretty soft. Freeze it for at least an hour in an airtight plastic container to have a firmer texture. If it has been frozen for more than a day, you may need to let it sit at room temperature for a few minutes to soften before serving it.
Makes 1 1/2 quarts.

Answer 4

VERY LATE

my favorite homemade ice cream is very simple, it turns in to ice cream cake texture, amazing. Here,

Whipped Cream

Chocolate powder, vanilla extract, blueberries, anything. I use chocolate syrup

Mix whipped cream and flavoring in a mug, glass, or cup, freeze for an hour and a half. Then eat your ice cream cake in a glass!

Answer 5

i use to do this take ice the crystel type put in vanila abstact=vanila or coco =chocolate take a large coffie containe put in two cups of ice some coco or vanila about4 tablespoons .also put in some wipt cream roll it on the floor or shake it i guess a bkender could work then wait for your ice cream to be creamy and delicus

Answer 6

Udders.....

an Ice cream maker..either a crank kind..or an automatic kind..the former is cheaper...

then..some cream...sugar..vanilla..and whatever fruit you like..

and rock salt...youll need a lot of it...there are recipies online for it..

Answer 7

go to allrecipes.com!