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Hi,
Thanks for the chart. I think you've got a copy/paste error on the low-fat ice cream. It looks the same as the premium ice cream, and you forgot to change MSNF to "other milk solids."
BTW, I would love to see an ice cream formula analyzer as a feature here!
Thanks,
Perrin
Ice cream calculator is in the works but could be months or longer away.
one item missing is Turkish ice-cream. I'd love to know how that chewy goodness is made!
French style Ice Cream has less fat than American Ice Cream? Are we talking about ice cream from France or ice cream in the frozen food aisles of an American grocery store labeled "French Style"?
7% stabilizer in gelato? is that right?
Whenever i make icecream it has the perfect texture at the beggining, but after staying more than one day in the freezer it turns hard, not as hard as ice but hard enough like to pour it with a spoon, I always make Sorbet and sometimes replace a little amount of water with milk or cream. What can I add so it keeps Ice Cream-like texture?
I'm planning on experimenting with these formulas using various yogurts as the main source of milkfat and probably supplementing the solids with nonfat milk powder or something because why not. Since yogurt is thick on its own, would that affect the amount of stabilizers needed?
Has anyone had any luck with Coconut milk, and a fructose/sugar free sweetener, like stevia?
Just to be clear, these are percentages out of a total of 100, as opposed to baker's percentage... I'd love an ice cream calculater as different fruits have different amounts of pectin and chocolate can change the fat content of your ice cream to an almost completely different desired result.
Thanks Grant!
@Mayra I'd suggest trying to play around with the sugar content of your dessert. lower sugar content will lead to your dessert freezing more solid. Increasing your sugar content will lead to the freezing point being lowered, leaving a softer texture, even with increased time in the freezer. You could also play around with stabilizers, thickeners, gums, etc. which are added to several commercially produced ice creams for that purpose.
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/ice-cream-geekery
The addition of alcohol may also assist with this. Good luck!
does anybody know what is stabilizer mean? is it the egg yolks?
I would really like the pdf but for some reason I can't get it and I can't print the chart (I only get the header line). Any ideas? Thanks - and Happy New Year!
In the video of custard he refers to the nonfat dry milk as the stabilizer. You could also make or buy your own stabilizer (in the custard ice cream recipe someone added a link on how to make your own stabilizer).
Where did you find that Gelato balance? Doesn't look like right
Sooooo... How's it going on that calculator? (I Tried to make one myself, but realised that it was waaay to many variables making it universal and easy to use, so I gave up after a few hours )
@Giulio Romano What doesn't look right about it?
7% stabilizer, for start...?
I would like to make a sugar free high fat (premium?) ice cream. I understand that sugar also plays an important role in lowering the freezing temperature but have read that salt or perhaps alcohol can do this instead. Anyone have some tips or experience with this?
I'm an engineer and we love making stuff like that. If you have food science data for me I'd love to have a crack at making a calculator for you guys.
Would love the calculator!
Pat: Hopefully you've already figured this out, but using WIndows, do a right-click and you'll be given the option of opening the link in a new tab. Do that. Go to that tab in your browser, and you'll have just the graphic. Do a ctrl-P and select .pdf for your printer. You can also copy the graphic and paste it into a Word file and then print from that.
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use coconut cream. You will still need to replace the fructose/sugar with solids. Try allulose or erythritol or xylitol. You can still round out the sweetness with a little stevia
