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Do you feel like the ice cream you make is better than what you can buy? What I hear from is that you don’t get better ice cream, just more control over the precise flavor (which seems like it could mean better depending on your tastes?)
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It's much better than what I can buy from an ice cream shop, but not as good as ice cream from serious pastry lines at high-end restaurants. Relative to typical ice cream, mine's: - way less sweet - higher fat - better flavorings: I'll use $$ ingredients; a $10 retail pint can't
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No, but because I'm making my own base I can adjust fat, egg, and sugar content appropriately for each flavor, and I can use the heating process to infuse ingredients like coffee. Premade bases are hard to infuse well (can't reheat too hot), and they have fixed component ratios.
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