Ice cream report & cleaning

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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.

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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