Re: Ice cream report & cleaning

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Sorry - what is tsp?Rena

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Terry Pogue <tpogue@...> wrote:

 

I made the cherry ice cream last night. The flavor was good. A problem I had considered before I made it was a pit issue. I use the frozen cherries for an occasional pie and more often than not one of us will come across a pit. We don't think much of it, sort of like getting the toy in a King Cake. Well, I'm here to tell you it is not a good thing in ice cream. The Vitamix is so powerful, as you all know, that it breaks the pit into a lot if pieces but not small enough to be incorporated into the ice cream. So by the time the ice cream is just right, in the occasional spoonful I came across a piece of pit, about the size of largish grain of sand. If I had let the machine run long enough to pulverize them the ice cream would have melted. The pieces were not visible in the ice cream but when I spit it out it was visible on my napkin. SO, for cherry ice cream ill need to thaw the fruit a bit, check for pits and then re-freeze.

I know some have talked about their containers getting cloudy. Since I've been doing ice creams i found the Xanthan gum is a tad sticky in the container when I clean it. So to make sure it gets really clean around the blade i use a little bit of tsp. I normally put a slurp of dishwashing detergent and a light sprinkle of tsp in the container and fill with hot water. I leave it for awhile maybe 15 minutes and rinse it out. Then do the usual dish detergent/hot water - turn the machine for a through cleaning. I did have some cloudiness but now the container looks like new. Thought I'd pass that on to the folks without allergy issues.

Terry <on to a salsa verde espuma to go with some roasted chicken breast tonight. I'll let you know his it turns out>

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Trisodium phosphate. I started using it when they took the phosphate out of the dishwashing detergent a year ago. Now they have improved the new Phosphate free detergent so it works a little better so I don't always have to use it. I still use it for hard to clean items. Just a little bit, not much.Sent from my iPadHDOn Mar 28, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Rena Glubay <jp17aday@...> wrote:

Sorry - what is tsp?Rena

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Terry Pogue <tpogue@...> wrote:

I made the cherry ice cream last night. The flavor was good. A problem I had considered before I made it was a pit issue. I use the frozen cherries for an occasional pie and more often than not one of us will come across a pit. We don't think much of it, sort of like getting the toy in a King Cake. Well, I'm here to tell you it is not a good thing in ice cream. The Vitamix is so powerful, as you all know, that it breaks the pit into a lot if pieces but not small enough to be incorporated into the ice cream. So by the time the ice cream is just right, in the occasional spoonful I came across a piece of pit, about the size of largish grain of sand. If I had let the machine run long enough to pulverize them the ice cream would have melted. The pieces were not visible in the ice cream but when I spit it out it was visible on my napkin. SO, for cherry ice cream ill need to thaw the fruit a bit, check for pits and then re-freeze.

I know some have talked about their containers getting cloudy. Since I've been doing ice creams i found the Xanthan gum is a tad sticky in the container when I clean it. So to make sure it gets really clean around the blade i use a little bit of tsp. I normally put a slurp of dishwashing detergent and a light sprinkle of tsp in the container and fill with hot water. I leave it for awhile maybe 15 minutes and rinse it out. Then do the usual dish detergent/hot water - turn the machine for a through cleaning. I did have some cloudiness but now the container looks like new. Thought I'd pass that on to the folks without allergy issues.

Terry <on to a salsa verde espuma to go with some roasted chicken breast tonight. I'll let you know his it turns out>

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TSP is trisodium phosphate...a cleaning agent. I use baking soda and grapefruit

seed extract (GSE) as a cleaner instead of TSP.

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> > I made the cherry ice cream last night. The flavor was good. A problem I

> > had considered before I made it was a pit issue. I use the frozen cherries

> > for an occasional pie and more often than not one of us will come across a

> > pit. We don't think much of it, sort of like getting the toy in a King

> > Cake. Well, I'm here to tell you it is not a good thing in ice cream. The

> > Vitamix is so powerful, as you all know, that it breaks the pit into a lot

> > if pieces but not small enough to be incorporated into the ice cream. So by

> > the time the ice cream is just right, in the occasional spoonful I came

> > across a piece of pit, about the size of largish grain of sand. If I had

> > let the machine run long enough to pulverize them the ice cream would have

> > melted. The pieces were not visible in the ice cream but when I spit it out

> > it was visible on my napkin. SO, for cherry ice cream ill need to thaw the

> > fruit a bit, check for pits and then re-freeze.

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> > I know some have talked about their containers getting cloudy. Since I've

> > been doing ice creams i found the Xanthan gum is a tad sticky in the

> > container when I clean it. So to make sure it gets really clean around the

> > blade i use a little bit of tsp. I normally put a slurp of dishwashing

> > detergent and a light sprinkle of tsp in the container and fill with hot

> > water. I leave it for awhile maybe 15 minutes and rinse it out. Then do the

> > usual dish detergent/hot water - turn the machine for a through cleaning. I

> > did have some cloudiness but now the container looks like new. Thought I'd

> > pass that on to the folks without allergy issues.

> >

> > Terry <on to a salsa verde espuma to go with some roasted chicken breast

> > tonight. I'll let you know his it turns out>

> >

> > Sent from my iPadHD

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