All About Ice Cream
published by evcalangian on Jun 3, 2012
Ice cream is a wonderful treat. But there is more to that…
We all scream for ice cream. My son used to do that. I wondered then how to make a home made ice cream. He almost tasted all flavors- chocolate, choco hazel nut, vanilla, cookies and cream, mango, strawberry, water melon, cheese, rocky road, and many more flavors. Yummy!
Ice cream is sweet, cold, soft, creamy, and colorful too. They are indeed delicious and pleasing in our eyes. But did you know that ice cream can be a key to understand some scientific principles? You can learn about physical science, heat energy, form and phase of matter, and thermodynamics by studying ice cream.
To make a home made ice cream, mix all the ingredients- milk, cream,sugar, water and its flavoring. Blend them together, and they will form a syrupy liquid. Put it in a freezer to transform it in a solid dessert. This explains the form, or phase of matter can be changed by adding or taking away the heat energy- by freezing it. However, the heat energy does not simply vanish. It goes somewhere. Scientists call this principle the first law of thermodynamics. In a home ice cream maker, the heat energy is transferred from the ice cream mix, which has more heat energy to the mixture of ice and rock salt, which has less heat energy. Scientists call this principle the second law of thermodynamics.
Furthermore, when you turn the crank on the home ice cream maker, it stirs tiny bubbles of air about 0.1mm into the mix. This makes the ice cream soft. That is the reason why melted ice cream when restored is hard and unappetizing- more like ice than ice cream because it does not go to the process of ice cream maker and it lacks air. The air makes the ice cream soft. If tiny bubbles of air were not added to ice cream, it would be like eating a sweetened ice cubed. Air is indeed one of the most important ingredients of a delicious ice cream.
# 1 by h20ho
June 3rd, 2012 at 9:18 am #
Cool, I knew ice cream was for scientific types
# 2 by KatMeow
June 3rd, 2012 at 9:35 am #
Now, I’m craving for ice cream! Good one!
# 3 by jennifer eiffel01
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:08 am #
Great post. I enjoyed reading it very much
# 4 by sabanawaz
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:39 am #
Great share Thanks for info
# 5 by youwho
June 3rd, 2012 at 11:53 am #
Wow. Great post. That is new and interesting information about ice cream.
# 6 by lauralu
June 3rd, 2012 at 2:09 pm #
love ice cream ^_^
# 7 by Lorna Z
June 3rd, 2012 at 6:16 pm #
I love ice cream much, now I’m craving for it.
# 8 by smokychristine
June 3rd, 2012 at 7:34 pm #
Hey, who knew? Most of us just think of how great it tastes. Thanks for the science lesson.
# 9 by Kharla Jolly
June 3rd, 2012 at 9:07 pm #
Very interesting material and about a pretty nice subject, also. Thanks, for sharing.
# 10 by Lady Sunshine
June 4th, 2012 at 3:16 am #
Airy ice cream. Yum!
# 11 by stephenls
June 4th, 2012 at 8:49 pm #
I love homemade ice cream. I’ll somehow think about it in new ways, thanks to your interesting and well written article.
# 12 by Val Mills
June 8th, 2012 at 2:47 pm #
You’ve reminded me of the days when I too made homemade icecream!
# 13 by Safa
June 9th, 2012 at 5:13 am #
Very cool post…I love ice cream.
# 14 by LittleLunette
June 11th, 2012 at 9:21 pm #
Wow, the things that you can learn from the kitchen. XD So if I made ice cream…I can be a scientist? That’s awesome!
# 15 by fslshuvo001
June 16th, 2012 at 11:11 pm #
Nice share. i would like to read another one.
Thanks