Guest Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I have one of the machines where you freeze the bowl in the freezer. it does not work very well (my kitchen is very hot because of the Rayburn so I think the bowl probbaly unfreezes rather too quickly). It is becoming a bit frustrating as sometimes I get good ice cream and other times I have just slush! Does any one out there use one of the (expensive) machines with its own freezer unit and would it work in my kitchen, do you think, or just explode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I've got one of the ones where you freeze the bowl and don't have any problems. I don't have a rayburn though but couldn't you put the machine in another room? The big tapdancing machines are SO expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 At the moment I am using it in the conservatory (but only after the sun goes down as it's hot in there as well until then!) but it's still not very satisfactory. I was thinking of a combined Christmas and Birthday present...well you have to plan ahead don't you? I made Jamie Oliver's lemon sherbet a couple of days a go and after the effort of doing it all it was disappointing it didn't freeze properly and had to resort to the traditional method pf putting it in the freezer and taking it out again to fork up-it was gone midnight by the time I got to bed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 My dad has a super duper one. His ice cream is FABULOUS and his gin and tonic sorbet (not sure there is much tonic ) is to die for. He has a normal kitchen (no aga / rayburn) I will speak to him this weekend and let you know which one he has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I'd really appreciate that! Mine definitly does not freeze if there is any alcohol in it-which defeats the point quite often! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spuddy Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 I use one quite a lot (a Kenwood) and have always had good results. The important things are not to put too much alcohol in and make sure the bowl is frozen properly; a freezer box is not good enough it's got to be a deep freezer and the temperature should be -18C or it won't work. The other thing is to make sure that the ice cream mixture is absolutely cold before it goes in the bowl as if it's at room temperature then the bowl will need to chill it before it can freeze it. If you can refrigerate the mix down to say 4C then the bowl has only got to drop the temperature a short way before the mix starts to freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
