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Q. I just bought an ice cream machine,I have been making it with heavy cream and milk and it turns out like soft serve.
It will be fine for a while,but once it sits in the freezer over night it is insanely hard. How do I keep it from doing this?
It will be fine for a while,but once it sits in the freezer over night it is insanely hard. How do I keep it from doing this?
Answer
Unfortunately this is not possible.
Have you ever seen the big machines at Dairy Queen that make soft-serve ice cream? They operate very similarly to your countertop ice cream machine: they have a very cold surface which quickly freezes the cream and have scrapers which continually scrape the frozen crystals off the cold surface.
If you want soft-serve ice cream from a home machine, you need to scoop the ice cream directly out of the machine and serve it immediately. Putting the resulting ice cream into the freezer overnight will produce ice cream with a consistency similar to the "premium" varieties available in the store (haagen dazs, ben and jerry's, etc.).
If you have freezer hard ice cream, leaving it on the counter for 15 minutes prior to serving will help. Putting it in the microwave for a short blast also works. Either way, you won't get a true soft-serve consistency, however. That's just the nature of the beast, unfortunately.
Unfortunately this is not possible.
Have you ever seen the big machines at Dairy Queen that make soft-serve ice cream? They operate very similarly to your countertop ice cream machine: they have a very cold surface which quickly freezes the cream and have scrapers which continually scrape the frozen crystals off the cold surface.
If you want soft-serve ice cream from a home machine, you need to scoop the ice cream directly out of the machine and serve it immediately. Putting the resulting ice cream into the freezer overnight will produce ice cream with a consistency similar to the "premium" varieties available in the store (haagen dazs, ben and jerry's, etc.).
If you have freezer hard ice cream, leaving it on the counter for 15 minutes prior to serving will help. Putting it in the microwave for a short blast also works. Either way, you won't get a true soft-serve consistency, however. That's just the nature of the beast, unfortunately.
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