Homemade Ice Cream - Anybody here do it?

[Overmind One]

I had a wonderful experience at a friend's house yesterday. I had the most awesome LOW CARB strawberry ice cream I had ever tasted while there, and I asked what brand it was. She told me she made it herself. I was like, WHAAAAT?? I had to see her secret. It turned out to be this thing:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KYSLMW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It has a metal freezer bowl which you put in the freezer before using. With it, you do not need ice or rock salt. You mix up your ice cream ingredients, then dump it in the freezer bowl inside the machine and less than an hour later you have ice cream. She and I made some basic chocolate ice cream using heavy cream, milk, unsweetened chocolate and splenda. A taste test is necessary at this point to get the flavor just right. Then, you put the mixture in the frozen freezer container and put it inside the machine. The machine has paddles and it churns the mixture until it becomes like a soft serve consistency. Then, you scoop it out and put it in an ice cream container and put that in the freezer. In about two hours, you have firm ice cream like you would buy in the store, except you made it yourself!

I just ordered mine from Amazon.

 

[shavedape]

I used to sell those types of ice cream makers years ago. The metal canister is a neat idea. It makes the whole process so much easier. You can just keep the metal canister in your freezer and that way it will be ready to go whenever you want to make ice cream.

 

[Rac80]

We've had one for several years- LOVE IT! can control the ingredients - make low fat ice cream or even gelato if you desire! but then I tend to have a lot of kitchen gadgets!

 

[Overmind One]

We've had one for several years- LOVE IT! can control the ingredients - make low fat ice cream or even gelato if you desire! but then I tend to have a lot of kitchen gadgets!

I scream for ice cream. Thing is, since low carbing I have had to restrict my indulgences to Breyers Low Carb (4carbs per scoop which is great), and expensive sugar free ice cream bars. With this, you can control everything in it. You can make sorbet, frozen yogurt, ice cream, gelato. I cant wait to get it!

 

[Overmind One]

I scream for ice cream. Thing is, since low carbing I have had to restrict my indulgences to Breyers Low Carb (4carbs per scoop which is great), and expensive sugar free ice cream bars. With this, you can control everything in it. You can make sorbet, frozen yogurt, ice cream, gelato. I cant wait to get it!

After finally receiving this (backorder and then re-ordered), I sent it back. It is just too much trouble to make ice cream at home unless you stick with the simple ones like vanilla. Unless you get the mix right when you first start, the finished ice cream might suck after all that work. I tried chocolate. It was just not what I wanted. Since I eat ice cream infrequently, it seems cheaper and makes more sense to just buy it when I want to have it. I may have dodged a huge weight gain!