🇮🇹 How to Make Gelato

Craving Gelato? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Gelato at home, in about 5 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups whole milk + 1 cup cream
• ¾ cup sugar, split in half
• 4 egg yolks
• 2 tsp vanilla (or 100g melted dark chocolate)
• a pinch of salt

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Warm the milk, cream and half the sugar until it steams. No boiling — just hot.
2. Whisk the yolks with the other half of the sugar until pale. Pour the hot milk in slowly, whisking the whole time.
3. Back on low heat, stir until it thickens enough to coat a spoon, about 5 min. If you can draw a line on the spoon with your finger, it's ready.
4. Stir in vanilla (or chocolate) and salt, then chill it completely — 2 hours. Cold base = creamy gelato, warm base = ice crystals.
5. Churn in a machine 20 min. No machine? Freeze in a tray and beat with a fork every 30 min, 4 times. Works honestly fine.
6. Freeze 1 hour more, then take it out 10 min before scooping. That's the silky window. You made real gelato.