Good ice cream maker advice, please!

Michtaylor09

gravitytolls wrote: »

What about the cost of ingredients? Is it dead expensive?

It's a damn site cheaper than buying ready made ice cream of such quality.

£1 for the strawberries, 69p for the cream, 4 oz icing sugar.

Today I've made lemon curd and honey (not eaten it yet though).

250ml greek style honey yogurt, 250ml creme fresh, 250g lemon curd (which I make myself for pennies) 1 tbsp icing sugar.

I'm going to try the banana tomorrow!

paulwf

gravitytolls wrote: »

What about the cost of ingredients? Is it dead expensive?

It will probably work out more expensive than something generic like Walls but cheaper than Ben & Jerrys or Haagen Dazs.

Basically with a base of 1 litre of milk and some arrowroot you will make the equivalent of 2 tubs of the premium ice creams. You could make peanut butter ice cream for under a pound a tub although personally if I'm going to make my own I'd rather use decent ingredients so if I use an organic milk and organic peanut butter it will come in at around £1.50 a tub. Compare that to the standard price of £3.99 for Haagen Dazs and you are doing well by making your own.

You could probably make bourbon biscuit ice cream for around 70p a tub. Although it's money saving that's not really the idea of it though - that's just a nice add on - it's just nice to try new ideas out with really strong flavours and no additives.