The ice cream flavour suggestion thread

Glaucus · 20 Aug 2013 at 14:00

Have you made any frozen yoghurt?
If so can did you have to add anything to get the right texture or can you literally just use plain yoghurt with whatever flavour you want?

Also have you found a supplier of little cardboard tubs?

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2013 at 14:20

You mean frozen Yogurt?

koolpc · 20 Aug 2013 at 14:22

My fav icecream is coffee flavour.

Glaucus · 20 Aug 2013 at 14:25

Raymond Lin said:
You mean frozen Yogurt?

Yeah.

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2013 at 14:33

I've made it a couple of times. The second time when I just poured it into the machine it came out rather hard, the first time was like ice cream but it was so long ago I frogot what I did right…..It was cherry flavoured though and I do remember for certain fruits you need to add sugar, you actually had to "cook" the fruit so it mixes well with the sugar. Some fruits require less sugar, Banana for example, some fruits requires more – berries.

My Ben and Jerry ice cream book has a chapter on it actually.

Quinnaay · 23 Aug 2013 at 13:30

damnit, i new i should have looked in this thread now im considering buying
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-James-Sorbet-Yoghurt-Machine/dp/B003UFNJ1Y/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

what someone pointed out earlier, and im trying to diet.. cant see ice cream helping! looks very tempting though for the price.

Glaucus · 23 Aug 2013 at 13:42

No idea what their ice cream maker is like, but Andrew James vacuume packer is usless.

Made some frozen sheep yoghurt with just a bit of stevia and vanilla, absolutely lovely. If I have individual portions it tharws nicely, to hard straight from the freezer. Been reading up many ways to soften it, think I will try gelatine next time.

I want a compressor maker now. £170 though.

Raymond Lin · 23 Aug 2013 at 13:51

If you are going to get a compressor maker, go that little bit more and get the Gaggia

Actually, you can tell summer is here coz its almost at its rrp of £300 ! It was £220 a few months ago.

randomshenans · 29 Aug 2013 at 08:44

We have an ice cream maker on our wedding list, if we actually end up seeing the thing. I'm not sure it'll be much cop as it's not a few hundred!

Raymond Lin · 1 Sep 2013 at 18:34

New batch of green tea ice cream!

Glaucus · 26 Jun 2014 at 18:11

Mad custard and rhubarb, it was great apart from the stupid ice cream maker.

The frozen bowl is to cold. It freezes on there to fast for the blade to churn. Then you loses 1/3 if it as it's frozen solid to the bowl. While the top half isn't frozen at all, so crystallises in the freezer.

I need a compressor one.

Raymond Lin · 26 Jun 2014 at 18:21

Glaucus said:
Mad custard and rhubarb, it was great apart from the stupid ice cream maker.

The frozen bowl is to cold. It freezes on there to fast for the blade to churn. Then you loses 1/3 if it as it's frozen solid to the bowl. While the top half isn't frozen at all, so crystallises in the freezer.

I need a compressor one.

Ah, I can see that happening. You can put the mix into the compressor before it's too cold although I normally wait 10 mins first to give the compressor a little head start.

koolpc said:
My fav icecream is coffee flavour.

I can confirm I finally got round making that, real espressos, it was utterly amazing.