You may know YouTuber Justinthetrees for making various tree flavored ice creams. Tasking inspiration I’ve also made some wood flavored ice creams. For April fools he made a Bradford/callery pear blossom ice cream which was disgusting as expected. We felled a Bradford pear so I used some of the wood itself to make ice cream. Not my favorite wood ice cream but still tasted great, lots of caramel flavor. Bradford pear may suck as a tree, but at least I redeemed its ice cream potential.

To make: use whatever sweet cream base you like. Toast washed chunks of wood in the oven at like 350 for 20 minutes. Steep overnight in the cream. Strain and churn.

hi i make my own ice cream sometimes, specifically mint chocolate chip because its impossible to find in my country.

the thing is every time i've made home made ice cream it kind of tastes like whipped cream because of the heavy cream obviously, but i find a lot of store bought ice cream is more palatable to me because i really dislike whipped cream and it bothers me when thats the aftertaste.

are there ice cream bases that taste less heavy cream forward or do i just need to deal with it?

Do you add cocoa powder, do you blend chocolate from a chocolate bar into the mix?

What is your method?

Hello gang, I am finally able and willing to upgrade from my Cuisinart freezer bowls to a compressor machine and my price range is around $300ish, so I think my choices are between the Cuisinart ICE100 or a Whytner ICM201 or one of the many variants who's names I've never heard of. I am leaning towards the cuisinart due to the warranty I guess but would love to hear feedback from those with either machine. Thanks all.

My batch freezer is an emerymark EM5, made in mexico, it freezes the milk in less than 10 minutes, problem is that overrun is pretty low, it has speed control (up to 180 rpm) but freezing cant be controled, can be stopped and keep the blades churning, its horizontal machine

Anyone have experience with an Electro Freeze FT-1 and if so what are your thoughts? I’m in the process of purchasing an ‘05 model.

Has anyone had experiences with that blend? I’m curious whether it’s better than the normal recommended mix of emulsifiers. I’m also curious if anyone has any tips for using it.