How is ice cream made?
The Cold Stir
How is ice cream made?
Ice cream starts as three simple ingredients sitting on a kitchen counter: cream, sugar, and whatever flavor you're dreaming of. That's it. The magic isn't in rare ingredients or secret formulas — it's in what happens when you make them very, very cold while stirring them like you're conducting an orchestra.
First, you mix the cream and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. The cream is full of tiny fat droplets floating in liquid — imagine a calm lake dotted with thousands of small oil drops. Right now, everything flows. The mixture is smooth, pourable, completely liquid.
