Make your own ice cream for cheap!
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This is an alternate technology from Panasonic @ $9.99 & is obviously a blow out...but it is cheap and also has excellent reviews like the one Psyber found.
(Ask yourself; do you really need home-made ice cream to avoid all of the crap they put into the store-bought stuff.)
Answer: Read the label on your ice cream that is in the freezer and then throw it in the garbage...that is where it belongs.
?? Do you know what carrageenan is?
Some people do not experience gastric discomfort caused by the Vaseline-like food additive, carrageenan. Others do!
carrageenan=bleck-yuck
(Ask yourself; do you really need home-made ice cream to avoid all of the crap they put into the store-bought stuff.)
Answer: Read the label on your ice cream that is in the freezer and then throw it in the garbage...that is where it belongs.
?? Do you know what carrageenan is?
Some people do not experience gastric discomfort caused by the Vaseline-like food additive, carrageenan. Others do!
carrageenan=bleck-yuck
Why be so negative? http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/drugs/pdfdrug_nt.asp?int_id=0400
The wonders of nature! I wonder if it comes in a warming gel.
Soy milk is one of the nastiest things made from soy (besides whole fermented soybeans). Bleh.
Carrageenan is negative without any help from me.
Let me have four tablespoons of vaseline with that - I love the improved viscosity.
Also, I never mentioned Gar Gum (a bulk laxative and appetite suppressant) or Carnuba Wax (car polish) which are also found in most store-bought ice creams.
Crap is cheaper than cream.
Let me have four tablespoons of vaseline with that - I love the improved viscosity.
Also, I never mentioned Gar Gum (a bulk laxative and appetite suppressant) or Carnuba Wax (car polish) which are also found in most store-bought ice creams.
Crap is cheaper than cream.
I won't deny that making ice cream is fun, but it's certainly not cost effective. Not counting the ice cream maker itself, you can easily spend DOUBLE or TRIPLE on ingredients for a premium recipe compared to a really good store brand like Edy's. Have you priced whole vanilla beans lately? How about an 8oz carton of heavy cream? Nearly every recipe calls for one or both of these. I know you can use cheaper alternatives, but still.
It's definately a once in a while thing for us, and we eat ice cream almost every night in the summer. I've also found that homemade ice cream tends to wreak havic with my digestive system in a way that store bought doesn't. Must be the high milkfat content of the cream.
It's definately a once in a while thing for us, and we eat ice cream almost every night in the summer. I've also found that homemade ice cream tends to wreak havic with my digestive system in a way that store bought doesn't. Must be the high milkfat content of the cream.
Is this thing battery powered like that Panasonic one? Batteries seem retarded...why not include an AC cable? Who is going to make ice cream on the run?
Same here, I have yet to meet anyone who uses these things consistently. It is simply too expensive - I have made homemade blueberry ice cream that was incredible...but c'mon, I spent twice the price of Godiva to do it. It is tough to rationalize the money spent for the product unless you make some obscure flavor that Ben & Jerry or Breyers or Godiva or Edy's doesn't make.
You can get the real vanilla at Sam's or Costco by the quart and save a fortune.
As for the cream, I hope you're on a first-name basis with a cow.
As for the cream, I hope you're on a first-name basis with a cow.
Not to mention you have to wash the things... machine bowl, mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. It is alot of work.
I like Breyer's - some flavors have none of that crap. However, they have followed suit on the incredibly annoying shrinking package deal and now only sell 1.75 quart containers instead of half gallons.
But... the average nutritionally stupid American (make that people around the globe - have you traveled lately? People are expanding everywhere) could not care less about eating wax, cigarette butts, and vaginal lubricant.
You're just completely wacky. Peace, love and soy, man!Originally posted by: RideFree
Carrageenan is negative without any help from me.
Let me have four tablespoons of vaseline with that - I love the improved viscosity.
Also, I never mentioned Gar Gum (a bulk laxative and appetite suppressant) or Carnuba Wax (car polish) which are also found in most store-bought ice creams.
Crap is cheaper than cream.
Too bad you didn't catch the hyperbole on that notmilk site. You completely misinterpreted the "vasoline" statement.
Carageenan is the primary ingredient in many foods, including many "gummy" candies. It's really a pretty natural chemical; anyone who was given a "make your own gummy candy!" kit when they were a kid knows that carrageenan can be produced by putting a bit of seaweed in some water, and heating it in the microwave for a minute or two. It's about as unnatural as collard greens.
Carnuba wax is used to polish gumballs, and is found in cheap chocolate and "white chocolate" candy bars in large amounts. It's derived from palm leaves: it's one of the things that make them shiny. Although it makes a marvellous car polish, one must also consider that bottled water is hard to beat for washing motorcycles.
Milk is stuff which comes from another animals. Unlike plants, animals recieve hormones and anti-bacterials which can do wacky things to your physiology. (For example, girls in Argentina, a country from which we get a LOT of cow products, are reaching puberty as young as 7, and that's not an uncommon age, either.) Even organic cows can pass on all sorts of nasty stuff which might cause us problems. Milk is generally pretty safe, but boiled seaweed is generally less likely to screw you up in the long run.
Carnuba wax is used to polish gumballs, and is found in cheap chocolate and "white chocolate" candy bars in large amounts. It's derived from palm leaves: it's one of the things that make them shiny. Although it makes a marvellous car polish, one must also consider that bottled water is hard to beat for washing motorcycles.
Milk is stuff which comes from another animals. Unlike plants, animals recieve hormones and anti-bacterials which can do wacky things to your physiology. (For example, girls in Argentina, a country from which we get a LOT of cow products, are reaching puberty as young as 7, and that's not an uncommon age, either.) Even organic cows can pass on all sorts of nasty stuff which might cause us problems. Milk is generally pretty safe, but boiled seaweed is generally less likely to screw you up in the long run.
I miss my grandfather's ice cream store - I was the taste tester and it was all so simple..milk, cream, sugar, and presto! we had ice cream. 'Course we'd add other things to give different flavours, like peppermint, rum raisin, grapenut..... *sigh*....Nowadays, about the only ice cream I can find that keeps to such a simple formula is Breyers. Most others that I look at (Edy's, Friendly's, Turkey Hill, Brigham's, etc...) have lot's of other "stuff" in them.
*sigh*........
Cargeenan and Vaseline are hardly comparable. I mean, a naturally occurring chemical versus petroleum jelly? If you prefer eating the latter, then more power to you. I hear chicken fries nicely in it if you're looking for another use...
Anyway, cost really shouldn't be the only deciding factor in purchasing ice cream IMO. The quality of ingredients and quality of final product are most important to me but YMMV.
Anyway, cost really shouldn't be the only deciding factor in purchasing ice cream IMO. The quality of ingredients and quality of final product are most important to me but YMMV.
Grandpas can be really cool dudes.Originally posted by: kwo
Nowadays, about the only ice cream I can find that keeps to such a simple formula is Breyers. Most others that I look at (Edy's, Friendly's, Turkey Hill, Brigham's, etc...) have lot's of other "stuff" in them.
*sigh*........
I was raised on a dairy farm in MN by my grandparrents and we had an unlimited supply of cream so thick that you had to spoon it out of the container because it wouldn't pour. Steroids? Antibiotics? No one even knew what they were.
I think it was '52 when we got electricity and subsequently, running water. I carried a lot of water from the well - about 100 yds. from the front door.
It was not 3 miles uphill both ways to school. It was flat and we rode the bus.
Edit: I was 11 & it was '52, not '62 (my typo).
Did you hear the one about the guy that couldn't tell the difference between vaseline and putty?
(His window panes fell out.)
As far as the cost of vanilla beans goes, use pure vanilla extract. It's made up of the stuff you want from the bean, is easier to use, and more cost-effective. Higher quality ice cream makers use extract.
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Just remember that using egg in the mix requires at least two extra steps, one of which can be vital.
If using egg, the mixture must be cooked (pasteurized) and aged after cooking.
If you do not use egg, simply keep a supply of cream in the reefer so that it can age properly.
Never use fresh cream in the ice cream mix.
(It's just like whipping cream. If fresh, you'll never turn it into whipped cream or ice cream.)
Never use a liquid coffee whitener (or flavored Coffee-Mate) in any ice cream recipe regardless of how attractive the savings sound.
That liquid (Coffee-Mate) type stuff is actually hydrogenated oil. Hydrogenated=Crapola.
If using egg, the mixture must be cooked (pasteurized) and aged after cooking.
If you do not use egg, simply keep a supply of cream in the reefer so that it can age properly.
Never use fresh cream in the ice cream mix.
(It's just like whipping cream. If fresh, you'll never turn it into whipped cream or ice cream.)
Never use a liquid coffee whitener (or flavored Coffee-Mate) in any ice cream recipe regardless of how attractive the savings sound.
That liquid (Coffee-Mate) type stuff is actually hydrogenated oil. Hydrogenated=Crapola.
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