What is freezing the ice cream if you are not using ice
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The bowl that the mixture is poured into. It must be kept in the freezer for several hours before you make the ice cream. There is a liquid in the sides of the bowl that gets frozen. You also mix the recipe for your ice cream and chill it for a couple of hours too. Then it will give you ice cream inn 20 minutes. When done mixing, wash the bowl and put back in freezer for next time.
1969934
The bowl you put the mixture in is frozen so along with the machine turning it makes ice cream.
1969935
The machine's main compartment is like a freezer pack... you put it in the freezer and it freezes. You put the ice cream mixture in, it churns and chills and becomes "icy" as it churns over about 20 minutes. Then you place it in the freezer (in it's final container not the machine) and you have ice cream. Timing all depends on your recipe and how dense you like your ice cream. I tend to let mine sit over night because I like a very solid dense ice cream. This machine is fantastic and one of the higher quality ones for the nice price! I am friends with the righter of an ice cream cook book and even she swears by it. There is NO easy "home owner" does it all in one ice cream maker. They all require several steps and freezing. Hope this helps
233156
Yes. It is not a holding freezer. You need to empty the basket into your ice chest when full. You can turn it off and the ice will melt into the water tank below the holding basket. Any other questions let me know. C.B.
209723
No frozen layer when done, just remove the paddle and empty ice cream container into a storage container with scraper provided.
1202892
Yes it can be frozen the taste is the best I have ever used, even the professional ones I bought years ago for a Christmas Church event. This is even better and easier to use.
2015308
Yes, that would definately work.You should always leave your bowl int eh freezer for 24 hours and your ice cream mix in the fridge overnight or so. This will make everything coldest.Ice cream makers are there to aerate and create a dessert with tiny ice crystals rather than a granita or popsicles. The firming needs to be done after the freezing process. This is true of all ice cream makers - It should be about the consistency of soft serve when you put it in the freezer.
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I agree with the other replies. It depends on the recipe and timing as to how fluffy the ice cream is. I would say my efforts have been more dense than fluffy. I usually stop the machine just past soft serve so I can scoop into individual containers and put in the freezer to finish. We love this machine! One of my favorites over the holidays was getting a quart of eggnog and just pouring it into the machine. Easy ice cream with little fuss.
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It's not the motor that needs to cool down - it's the bowl itself. The freezing process comes as the cold material between the inner and out walls of the bowl takes away heat from the ice cream mixture. For best results, keep the bowl in your deep freeze rather than the freezer portion of your refrigerator. Dedicated freezers are colder. It takes about six hours to "recharge" the mixing bowl after you run a batch. I purchased a second mixing bowl so that I would have the option of a second mix without waiting overnight.......
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No you need no salt or bagged ice. But you have to keep the bowl to the icecream maker in the freezer over night before you add your ingredents to it for freezing.
2241487
You got a cold fridge! Not to me. But be careful not to fill your container to the brim, the ice cream can work its way into the lid. Don't try and take the lid apart: you will render it useless. Leaving you with a glorified bucket.
1281108
In the owners manual that comes with your machine it suggest that you chill the metal cylinder, and the beverage that your going use. I've put the metal cylinder in the freezer and have not waited or very long for whatever I'm going to have to slush up.
817846
There is a tool that comes with it that you use to take the lid off. Although, it says not to use the tool to tighten it, only tighten with your hands. It gets tighter as the ice cream is being made.
41882
My ice cream mixture is cold but not frozen or slushy. I turn it a couple of times every few minutes for about 15 minutes then it is ready. I have not had that problem. I turn it in both directions even though the directions say one direction.
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We've had this for a month or two - and so far with our experience it seems to depend on the recipe of ice cream you use. The "cook" recipes where you prepare something on the stove top the day before then refrigerate it and mix the following day in the maker seems to be very hard like store-bought ice cream after it's in the freezer for a night. But the ice cream we've made that does not require any cooking has stayed relatively soft in the freezer even after several days. We've only made maybe 3 or 4 different recipes though so it may just be the recipes we're using.
1977710
Just ice from your freezer works great. Helps to have all your ingredients in the fridge so they dont melt the ice. If not thick enough add a bit more ice.
2015311
The texture doesn't seem to get harder than softserve from the machine (unfortunately) You can freeze it in a tupperware in the freezer if you like the hand-dipped style texture.I find overchurning the mixture lets the ice cream turn back into "soup" as the bowl gives up all its chill, so maybe stop it at 20 or 25 minutes rather than waiting 30.
294082
No, it doesnt. It just needs ice around the canister while youre making the ice cream. No pre - freezing the canister required.
1806395
There is one bowl that comes with the housing. You need to put that bowl in your freezer for 12 hours to be cold enough to freeze the ice cream. 24 hours works best but 12 will do.