Popsicles

[JoNorvelleWalker]

41 minutes ago, pastrygirl said:

 

Oooh, that looks like fun.  Do you know how cold the drum gets?  Is the coldness adjustable? 

 

The pictures show it with flavored mixes that I'd assume have sugar.  Sugar content will still affect texture so I'd suggest trying about 10% sugar solutions to start.

 

The temperature of the drum is not adjustable, only its rotation speed.  I could have gotten one of the units with a more powerful compressor, but I could not have lifted it.  Also according to the manual, the bigger units are not air cooled.  They require a dedicated water line to cool the compressor.

 

@Ddanno Is the base for granita any different from the base for popsicles?

 

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Why would popsicle recipes not be a good place to start?

I think it would be but you’d run the risk of it coming out like a sorbet and you were clear that you didn’t want anything like that. 

[Ddanno]

4 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

 

@Ddanno Is the base for granita any different from the base for popsicles?

 

 

Not really, they're all just fruit, sugar and a bit of water. The difference is in how you freeze and then treat the ice. 

 

Granita is a lovely thing, worth trying  even if it's not quite what you're looking for here

 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/strawberry-mint-granita

[TicTac]

@JoNorvelleWalker Make your flavoured concoction, and add a bit of booze - put in the freezer, before it freezes completely, take a fork and break it all up, do this a few times as it starts to harden.  It should be close to what you are looking for.....perhaps!?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I remembered I had a long lost bottle of Knudsen organic concord grape juice that I thought would be a good place to start with my experiments.  Once I found it I froze 500ml in the machine...

 

 

 

As may be seen the texture is light and airy, not like a sorbet and not like a granita.  More like frozen flakes of popsicle.  But at 13.9 Brix the taste wasn't sweet enough for me.

 

If the color looks brown, that is because it was.  As one might expect from grape juice that is old enough to drive.   Clean up of the device was easy:  just run water through it.