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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: pumpkin pie on February 19, 2011, 09:37:39 am
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IHave fallen in love with the taste of homemade icecream (as has DH) in the TMX am now wondering whether it is worth spending the money to also buy a good icecream maker. Anyone out there have one and use it reg comp to using the TMX way?
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I much prefer my icecream maker - I just have one of the ones you put the bowl in the freezer - but love love love it. Much easier than the tmx method - though I use the tmx for making the mixture for any special or choc icecreams. And the icecream is much softer and can be spooned out without any defrosting.
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I think an ice-cream maker is a good addition to the TMX - you can prepare the mixture in the TMX and then use the machine to freeze it without having to keep stirring it yourself as it freezes
There was quite a long discussion on ice-cream makers a while ago:
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4856.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4856.0)
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I bought my icecream maker before my TM (as was told couldn't do icecream in TM!!). I use both - TM to mix the goodies and icecream maker to freeze and churn. I have a Cuisinart and would recommend ! It's awesome and only about $150. It's a 2 litre one and is stainless steel.
It's so easy the kids regularly make their own icecream!!
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I have the same one as Sonan, and I love it too!
Great also to make slushies from softdrink.......and frozen cocktails ;)
(http://www.cocktailking.com.au/img/products/flavours_01.jpg)
Yum-yum :P
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I still often make the egg free icecream from here and put it in my icecream maker and it comes up really well.
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Thanks to your all, I am now convinced an Ice Cream maker is on the must have list.
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Why not? It's fun.
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I also have a Cusinart soft serve machine, i mix up in my thermomix, and then use the ice cream machine.
Robyn
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I have the Cuisineart machine, too and use the TM to make the mix and the machine to freeze it.
I bought one with 2 separate bowls so that I can make 2 flavours at the same time!
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Hi with the Cuisineart machine when the ice cream comes out of the freezer can you scoop it out easily? The TM ice cream you cannot.
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I've had a couple of ice-cream makers and find that the ice-cream needs to soften a bit before serving. This is because of the temperature of the freezer and the contents of the ice-cream, rather than the ice-cream machine itself. When the ice-cream machine has finished doing its stuff, the mix is still softish but it hardens after being in the freezer for a while. Indeed bought ice-cream is too hard to serve easily straight from the freezer
As someone has already mentioned, the salted maple pecan ice-cream iis soft enough to serve straight away but that is because it's got salt in it.
What the ice-cream maker does well is to mix the ice-cream as it is freezing and this gives you a lovely smooth consistency, much better than if you mixed it by hand.
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I have had an ice cream maker for years. Love it. The Tmx and ice cream maker do different things. My ice cream maker has a built on freezer. Both set hard in the freezer.
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Thanks girls
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I was walking past one of those Home Art stores (the old CopperArt, if you remember back), and they had a ice cream maker in the window, with compressor for $129. It is in the catalogue on the website if anyone is interested.
I have an old philips ice cream maker I got off ebay for $20, which is ok for me, as it has a freezer disc rather than the bowl, and takes up less room in the freezer (we have 2 fridge/freezers no deep freeze). It makes soft serve consistency ice cream really, but freezes up well in the freezer.
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I have the Cuisineart machine, too and use the TM to make the mix and the machine to freeze it.
I bought one with 2 separate bowls so that I can make 2 flavours at the same time!
I too have the Cuisineart machine with the 2 bowls. I also make the mixture in the TM and then freeze it in the Cuisineart. I often use alcohol in my mixtures as this makes a nice scoopable texture. for example mulled wine sorbet is quite popular with my family!
I have a TM21 but if the TM31 does not churn and freeze at the same time then an ice cream maker is needed because it churns in the air to prevent crystals forming.
Take heed Thermomix, we need a freeze function added to the TM41 so we can all throw away our ice cream machines.
DD
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I too have a Cusinart ice cream maker and love it. I make the custard in the TMX and then cool in the fridge/freezer and pour into ice cream maker. As much as I love the TMX sorbet for its convenience - I do prefer it in the ice cream maker as it is not as icy. For a gorgeous, traditional lime sorbet I make the sugar syrup in the TMX, cool, then add to the ice cream maker with the lime juice. Sensational ......
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Hmm, a freeze function - interesting thought. 8)
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Hmm, a freeze function - interesting thought. 8)
apparently (according to someone that would know when I was discussing TMX with them) it wouldn't be too hard to do
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MonPo76, Could you please post your recipe for the lime sorbet, like how much sugar syrup and lime juice you use for your recipe. Thanks Sandy
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Hmm, a freeze function - interesting thought. 8)
apparently (according to someone that would know when I was discussing TMX with them) it wouldn't be too hard to do
Put the button near the varoma one.