Making Ice Cream is Hard

Hi everyone,

Making ice cream is hard. I tried to make ice cream over the three day weekend, and although the instructions seem easy, it’s not really. Let me explain.

There are six ingredients to making ice cream: Milk (or half-n-half/heavy cream), sugar, vanilla extract, crushed ice, rock salt, and the patience of a monk trying to run a daycare without screaming.

First, you have to crush the ice (or if you’re lucky enough, you have a crushed ice setting on your fridge) and sprinkle rock salt over it. But hey, you better put a butt-load of ice because that sucker is gonna melt in three seconds flat while you’re trying to conjure this mixture into ice cream.

Then, you gotta mix a cup of milk, a tablespoon of sugar, and 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract into a plastic bag. Seems simple, right? Well, this recipe (or at least the one I was following) doesn’t make a lot of ice cream. So you gotta get a small bag to minimize waste. But the bags that I have don’t really fit into a cup so I have to juggle the bag and the big cup measurement while trying not to spill the whole thing (which by the way, I did, so I had to waste a whole container of ice-salt mixture).

After that, you double baggie the mixture and plop that into the container of ice, cover the ice container, and mix for 20 minutes. And while you’re waiting, feel free to research some frostbite treatments while you’re mixing this thing and getting sticky water all over everything.

And after a lot of waiting and probably putting the mixture into the fridge because you’re fed up with the noise of ice shaking, you got a lot distinctly-flavored vanilla ice.

Congrats, you’ve created a sticky mess and you have to clean that all up now. Have fun!

Recipe:

1 cup of milk/half-n-half/heavy cream

1 tablespoon of icing or granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Crushed ice

Rock salt

  1. Pour crushed ice into a container and pour rock salt over it.
  2. Combine the milk, sugar, and extract into a quart-sized plastic bag.
  3. Seal the bag and put it into another bag.
  4. Put the bag into the container, seal it, and shake for 5-20 minutes.
  5. Place in freezer for 5 minutes if it’s not solid enough.

I hope you enjoyed this silly little post. Goodbye!

Credit: bakingdom.com

 

 

 

 

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