What went wrong?

[shroomgirl]

This morning in camp I walked the kids through chocolate ice cream...no recipe but we logically decided what and how to make it...it made sense but did not jell or freeze if you will.......
yesterday we made key lime ice cream....sweetened cond milk, 3/4 c key lime juice, 1 1/2 cup 40% cream.....mix sw cond with lime juice then add cream and freeze turned out great.....
Ok so today we started with a dbl boiler....
sweetened condensed
3 egg yolks
1 cup semi sweet choc chips
1/2 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

mix and cook for 5 minutes about....
add 1 cup 40% mix
chill over ice bath....did only for 5 minutes at most cus of timing....think this may be the prob.
then put in the ice cream freezer 18 minutes later we had pudding consistency....

Totally made up recipe, the goo tasted good, BUT it was not custard ice cream...got any ideas?

[Chef Wil]

I would have used about 1/2 SCM and 1/2 whole milk.

[Moxiefan]

I agree with your ice bath conclusion. Most ice cream makers I'm familiar with require that you cool your custard to nearly freezing before churning... I think 40 degrees was a max temperture. Churns can't drop the temperature quickly enough on their own, especially if there's cream in the mix... which is were those little buttery bits come from in poorly made ice cream. If time is an issue, I'd make a philidelphia style ice cream, starting with cold ingredients. Of course you couldn't encorporate chocolate homogeneously... unless instead of chips you used syrup or thinned-down gnache.

[shroomgirl]

After 4 tries we reached a good batch...
1 cup milk
1 cup semi sweet choc chips
2 cups cream
vanilla/salt

heat, mix, chill over night and then process....was pretty good. What was even more important was that we were thinking through and altering the ice creams that did not meet our expectations. I told the parents today that experimenting is key, recipes are an outline and that there will be some rejects and that's ok....actually if you don't have mistakes your not growing.

[lifer]

there is no such thing as a mistake just a happy accident
or a learning experience

[starrleicht]

there is no such thing as a mistake just a happy accident

Ditto's on that note! Just consider it a learning experience and move on - I'm sure we could all tell a few stories like this! Sounds to me like you're very good at what you do - don't let one little trip up get you down!