If you don’t have a commercial soft serve machine, the texture at home would not be as smooth and firm that you would get in a frozen yogurt shop. If you are a home user and do not have a business, the best place to get frozen yogurt mix is on eBay.
Choosing the Right Sweetener: Fructose vs Stevia
Fructose sweetened and Stevia sweetened frozen yogurt products are popular and are preferred over sugar sweetened. Stevia sweetened mixes work best in home machines because they freeze at a higher temperature.
Fructose Frozen Yogurt Mix and Commercial Frozen Yogurt Machines
When using fruit-based sugars like fructose in frozen yogurt mixes, the temperature is critical for proper freezing and crystal formation. Typically, in frozen yogurt shops, they use large frozen yogurt machines that continuously cool the frozen yogurt mix to around 17° F (-8° C). The frozen yogurt mix is constantly churned at these temperatures inside the machine using refrigerant. Commercial frozen yogurt ice cream machines use precise scraper blades that scrape the inside of the machine and allow for thorough mixing of the frozen yogurt mix, producing a smoother texture. In contrast, homemade ice cream makers tend to produce final products that are more granular.
Stevia Frozen Yogurt Mix and Homemade Ice Cream Makers
Most ice cream makers made for the consumer market use a thick metal drum that you first chill in the freezer at home. For example, many machines are made by Cuisinart or Hamilton. To mix your homemade ice cream or frozen yogurt, you remove the metal drum from the freezer while you churn the frozen yogurt mix. As you churn the mix, the temperature rises because it is not held at a constant. Achieving a constant 17° F (-8° C) isn’t possible with these methods. However, you can get much closer to the 25° F (-4° C) needed in order to successfully mix frozen yogurt that uses Stevia as a sweetener.
Nanci’s makes frozen yogurt mix with Stevia in 2 base flavors (no sugar added): Chocolate and Vanilla. If you are looking to purchase only single bags, our frozenyogurtparts eBay store is a great place to find them.
If you are looking for a great way to reproduce the classic star pattern of ice cream or frozen yogurt extrusion, you could use our star caps in the end of a ziploc bag with the corner cut off.
Flavoring Frozen Yogurt
When it comes to choice, Nanci’s has 100+ flavors to choose from. You can also check out our recipes page to find mixing instructions for the proper ratios. You can check our Ebay store flavor listing to order any individual flavors we make.
Bonus Tip
Pre-chilling your frozen yogurt to around 32° F (0° C) before mixing will lower the temperature differential between the mix and the homemade ice cream maker metal drum. In turn, this will allow the drum to stay at colder temperatures longer, resulting in better results no matter what type of frozen yogurt mix you use.
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