Hi all,
I'm a huge fan of frozen yogurt and have tried making it at home in various tools - food processor, Vitamix, immersion blender etc - and none of them get quite the texture I'm familiar with from commercial frozen yogurt machines.
I've recently stumbled across a cheap, plastic as-seen-on-TV product called Swirlio, which claims to be a machine for making frozen yogurt, but is also obviously a cheap plasticky as-seen-on-TV product that will likely break sooner rather than later.
However, when I looked at a video review of it, I noticed that it seems to operate on a principle similar to a meat grinder - it has an impeller that squeezes the fruit into a small vent, and they are crushed/squeezed rather than chopped.
Link to the specific disassembly part of the video - https://youtu.be/JnnYYdBLG98?t=241
I don't have a meat grinder, but this could be a good excuse for me to get a meat grinding attachment for my stand mixer :)
Has anyone ever tried making frozen yogurt in a meat grinder? Does it really work better than a blender?