Sorbet contain ice crystals
I bought the ICE-30BC ice cream machine from cuisinart after reading hundreds of reviews on amazon and youtube They all said that it will make a smooth and creamy ice cream.
I tried the red fruits sorbet: Raspberry Strawberry With sugar syrup
When I churned the mix and taste the mix it was smooth and delicious but when I kept it in the fridge for the next day it was hard and I felt the ice crystals when I ate a portion.
The reason is the machine ? The fridge or a missing ingredient ?
Best Answer
A few possibilities, hard to say given the amount of detail:
- you didn't blend the mixture smooth enough, so you have ice crystals from the water in small pieces of fruit that were left
- you didn't churn it long enough, so when it finished freezing in the freezer, it developed larger ice crystals, while if it'd been churned longer they'd have been smaller
- your recipe has too little sugar (too much fruit/water, including what was in the syrup), so it was never going to work out
See also What determines whether a sherbet will set or not? and Is there a magic ingredient that keeps ice-cream soft?, among many other past questions on soft sorbet/sherbet/ice cream.
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Too much sugar will not only make for a sickeningly sweet dessert, it also reduces the freezing point so that firstly, your sorbet will take ages to freeze, and secondly, it will crystallize as it freezes. Too little sugar and you end up with loads of crunchy ice crystals.How do you prevent ice crystals in sorbet?
Blend fresh or frozen fruit together with simple syrup using a food processor (add a bit of citrus or extract if desired). Spread the sorbet base in a freezer-safe glass loaf pan. Lay a piece of parchment paper on the sorbet to prevent ice crystals from forming, and put into the back of the freezer.Why does my ice cream have crystals?
Freezer burn occurs as ice begins to evaporate over time in the freezer. As moisture leaves the ice cream and mixes with the air, it refreezes on the surface, creating those unappetizing crunchy crystals on top, according to Ben & Jerry's.Why did my sorbet freeze solid?
If there is too little sugar, the water will freeze completely; if there's too much sugar, the sorbet will be loose and soupy. If you follow a recipe precisely, you should not have a problem.Does ice cream have ice crystals?
Liquid nitrogen freezes the ice cream so quickly that the water molecules have very little time to form their crystalline structures, and thus form small crystals, which as you now know, makes for smooth ice cream.Recipe • Aerated Green Apple Sorbet • ChefSteps
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