Vanilla Bean Gelato

It's another chillin day for the team! Or rather preparation work already started last night, and today the mixture goes into the machine to churn.

Taking reference from the recipe book which came with the Cuisinart Ice-100, and with some tweaking of the sugar proportion we gave the vanilla bean gelato another try. And today we will feature our step-by-step process of making 1 quart gelato, starting with our ingredients:

After that's done, we kept the mixture in the fridge overnight. The books usually recommend chilling for at least 4 hours, but overnight for best results before churning in the machine. What we did as a last step was to remove the vanilla pod, add the vanilla extract and stir well into the mixture. Set the machine at 40 minutes, we check it at 30 minutes mark to make sure it's solidifying well. From the past few batches experience, usually it can be scooped out before 45 minutes as any longer you will find some mixture hardening up on the sides and that'll be hard to scrap out.

2 hours after our vanilla bean gelato sat in the freezer, it turned out to be slightly icy. Guess the chillin team will have to hit more research to improve our formula. Hopefully our persistence will soon find us the perfect vanilla gelato recipe!