Essential Question: How do you make ice cream?
Before we started making the ice cream, we had to plan out who was bringing what ingredients. The ingredients we used to make the chocolate ice cream were 2 cups(473.1 mL) of heavy cream, 1 cup(236.5 mL) of whole milk, 2/3 cups(473.2 g) of sugar, 1 teaspoon(4.9 mL) of vanilla extract, and 1/2 cups(236.6 g) of cocoa powder. We heated everything on a hot plate and in a saucepan, until the sugar dissolved. After the sugar dissolved, we turned off the hot plate and prepared the ice cream maker by getting the ice cream bowl out of the freezer and setting the other pieces on top of the bowl. After we assembled the ice cream maker, we poured in the ice cream mix in the bowl. Then we turned the ice cream maker on and watched as the liquid change into a soft solid. I felt that this experiment turned out really well because the ice cream tasted really good.
I think that most of the work to form the ice cream in the ice cream machine was the frozen bowl that held the liquid and the wheel that turned in the middle of the frozen bowl. I believe that the wheel was turning and scraping the ice cream mix off the frozen bowl on the edges non stop. When it scrapes the ice cream mix off the bowl, the mix goes back into the middle. Since the mix that was scraped off the bowl was cold from touching the bowl, using the wheel continuously would make the cold temperature throughout the whole bowl. The cool temperature being redistributed eventually gets cold enough to turn the liquid into a solid. So the cool temperature freezes the molecules in the liquid to become a solid.
I think that the results we got was okay because when we were eating the ice cream, there were still some undissolved pieces of cocoa powder in the mix that everyone got. I think we could have avoided this by cooking and stirring the mixture better or mashing it with the spatula. But the making of the ice cream results (liquid to solid) turned out really great, it took a while to get to a solid but it still worked and worth the wait.
For this project, I worked with Carmina, Ivy and Liam. I felt that we worked well with each other because we communicated well by assigning people what to bring so this lab can actually work and we also created a group chat to remind each other to bring the ingredients we need. An issue we had during the lab was that we planned to buy the heavy cream and whole milk at lunch but we totally forgot about it so we ended up having to buy them during class. I also felt that we collaborated well because there were no fights about who is doing what or times that we weren't focused on our lab.
If I could do this again, I would like to research a little more on assembling the ice cream maker because my group had an issue closing the ice cream maker since we put the mixer on upside down. We eventually solved this problem by asking another classmate who have used the ice cream maker before. I would definitely be happy and able to work with all of my group members again because we were an effective team to get the lab done.
Before we started making the ice cream, we had to plan out who was bringing what ingredients. The ingredients we used to make the chocolate ice cream were 2 cups(473.1 mL) of heavy cream, 1 cup(236.5 mL) of whole milk, 2/3 cups(473.2 g) of sugar, 1 teaspoon(4.9 mL) of vanilla extract, and 1/2 cups(236.6 g) of cocoa powder. We heated everything on a hot plate and in a saucepan, until the sugar dissolved. After the sugar dissolved, we turned off the hot plate and prepared the ice cream maker by getting the ice cream bowl out of the freezer and setting the other pieces on top of the bowl. After we assembled the ice cream maker, we poured in the ice cream mix in the bowl. Then we turned the ice cream maker on and watched as the liquid change into a soft solid. I felt that this experiment turned out really well because the ice cream tasted really good.
I think that most of the work to form the ice cream in the ice cream machine was the frozen bowl that held the liquid and the wheel that turned in the middle of the frozen bowl. I believe that the wheel was turning and scraping the ice cream mix off the frozen bowl on the edges non stop. When it scrapes the ice cream mix off the bowl, the mix goes back into the middle. Since the mix that was scraped off the bowl was cold from touching the bowl, using the wheel continuously would make the cold temperature throughout the whole bowl. The cool temperature being redistributed eventually gets cold enough to turn the liquid into a solid. So the cool temperature freezes the molecules in the liquid to become a solid.
I think that the results we got was okay because when we were eating the ice cream, there were still some undissolved pieces of cocoa powder in the mix that everyone got. I think we could have avoided this by cooking and stirring the mixture better or mashing it with the spatula. But the making of the ice cream results (liquid to solid) turned out really great, it took a while to get to a solid but it still worked and worth the wait.
For this project, I worked with Carmina, Ivy and Liam. I felt that we worked well with each other because we communicated well by assigning people what to bring so this lab can actually work and we also created a group chat to remind each other to bring the ingredients we need. An issue we had during the lab was that we planned to buy the heavy cream and whole milk at lunch but we totally forgot about it so we ended up having to buy them during class. I also felt that we collaborated well because there were no fights about who is doing what or times that we weren't focused on our lab.
If I could do this again, I would like to research a little more on assembling the ice cream maker because my group had an issue closing the ice cream maker since we put the mixer on upside down. We eventually solved this problem by asking another classmate who have used the ice cream maker before. I would definitely be happy and able to work with all of my group members again because we were an effective team to get the lab done.