Next time you want ice cream, consider making it yourself instead of buying it. Making ice cream is easy, and it's a great project to try with kids. This article contains various different ways to make ice cream, one of which is bound to work well for your kitchen and available tools.

2. How to make an Ice Cream?
• Next time you want ice cream, consider making it yourself instead of buying
it. Making ice cream is easy, and it's a great project to try with kids. This
article contains various different ways to make ice cream, one of which is
bound to work well for your kitchen and available tools.

3. Time Needed
• Prep time: 10 minutes
• Cook time: 5 hours, 50 minutes (active cook time: 15 minutes)
• Total time: 6 hours

4. Making Ice Cream Without an
Ice Cream Maker
• Make a custard base with your
favorite mix-ins. If you don't have an
ice cream maker, you can freeze your
ice cream in your freezer. Starting with
a custard-based ice cream will help
your finished ice cream freeze with a
creamy, smooth texture. If you use a
cream base instead, your ice cream is
more likely to freeze solid - it'll be
more icy than creamy.

5. Freezing ice cream in the
freezer
• Freeze the ice cream in the freezer. Just
pour it into a deep, freezer-safe
container and put it in the freezer.
Every 45 minutes, open the freezer
and stir the ice cream vigorously. This
will help it freeze slowly and take on a
soft, creamy texture instead of freezing
into a solid block of ice. Keep stirring
the ice cream every 45 minutes until it
has frozen completely. This method
takes 4-5 hours.

6. Freezing ice cream in the
freezer
• If you like softer ice cream, you can eat the ice cream as soon as it has
attained the texture you like.
• For more traditional-style ice cream, let the ice cream freeze overnight after
your last stirring. The next day, it will have a texture similar to that of store-
bought ice cream.

7. Pour the custard base into a
quart-size bag
Fill a larger bag with ice and salt. Take
roughly two quarts of ice, crushed if
possible, and place it into a gallon-
sized bag with rock salt (also known
as coarse salt). Ideally, the gallon bag
will be roughly half full with the ice
and salt mixture.

8. Making Ice Cream Without an
Ice Cream Maker
• Make sure the bags stay sealed. Do not
allow the contents to mix at any time. If
the bags don't seal sufficiently, seal the
top of both bags to ensure they don't
open during shaking.If you want, you
can use two cans instead of two freezer
bags to try this method. Get coffee cans
of different sizes and fill the smaller one
with the ice cream base. Fill the larger
can with ice and salt and set the smaller
can inside. Make sure both cans have
tight-fitting lids.

9. Shake it up
• Gently agitate, massage, and shake the
bags for about fifteen to twenty
minutes. In this amount of time the
contents of the quart bag should start
to turn into solid ice cream. It is
important that you are mixing the
contents of the inner bag, but you
don’t want to be so aggressive that you
burst the inner bag or cut it on the ice.
Double-bagging should prevent this.

10. Shake it up
• If your hands get uncomfortably cold, use a towel or an old t-shirt to hold
the bags as you massage them; the bags will be quite cold and might become
slippery with accumulated condensation.
• Consider using gloves or massaging while holding onto the top seal if a towel
or similar cloth is not available.

11. Remove the finished ice cream from the
sandwich bag and serve.

12. Thanks
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