On 1/25/2025 at 9:02 PM, JoNorvelleWalker said:My first batch in the new KitchenAid ice cream attachment. I chilled the bowl to -39C, the best my blast freezer could do.
Your KA could handle a batch with the bowl chilled this low?
My freezer has a kind of blast mode (for rapidly freezing warm things). I tried it out, and it got the KA freezer bowl to maybe -25C. The ice cream froze so hard so quickly that the dasher stalled ... it has a clutch that's designed to slip if the torque gets too high, probably to keep the mixer from ripping the plastic dasher to bits.
I ended up finishing the batch by taking the bowl off the mixer and turning the dasher with my hand. It was brutal!
I'm not doing this again.
What happened with your batch?
Edited to add: can you talk more about your lab hot plate? I've been looking at these for a while now. What's its capacity?
