What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsjleyank13d ago2 comments

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"Better living through Chemistry." Err, no. But will people pay more at Walmart to avoid it?

I don't know anything about Walmart customers, but I know what I did in response to the destruction of ice cream. I just started making my own instead of buying it at the store. It's easy, much less expensive, and produces a very high quality ice cream.

mekdoonggi12d ago

I live in an area that gets quite cold. On very cold days this winter, I experimented making ice cream outside.

Just make a base, pour it on to some baking sheets, then swirl and scrape it off. When set up, transfer back into a bowl and allow to freeze.

It has to be pretty cold for this to work, and the ice cream isn't perfectly smooth like with a churner, but it's pretty damn good.

JohnFen12d ago

Yes!

I'm sometimes surprised at how many people don't know that you don't have to have an ice cream maker to make ice cream. Like with a toaster, the specialty machine is purely a convenience item and not actually necessary. When I was a kid, we did it in jars sitting in bowls of salted ice, shaking the jars instead of using a churner. The smoothness is determined by how much the base mixture is agitated while freezing, so you get to choose how much effort is needed to make you happy with the result.

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