Salt Ice Cream

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Salt with Ice Cream?! “Cream of Ice” as it was referred to back in the 17th century, was a similar dessert that was introduced to France in 1553 by Catherine de Medici. Ice cream was not available to the universal public till 1660. “A kind of ice-cream was invented in China about 200 BC, when a milk and rice mixture was frozen by packing it into snow.” (CBBC Newsround) Different types of ice cream can take different amounts of times to freeze, so the purpose of this experiment is to find out if different amounts of salt affect ice creams freezing time. This would help many ice cream businesses if they would need to add more salt or decrease the salt in their ice cream recipes. Its ironic that salt used to help make religious Egyptian offerings …show more content…

Salt will lower the melting points for snow and ice to keep them solid. Ice cream freezes lower than the water freezing temperature 32°’s. When water freezes at 32°’s and you add salt to the water, it will lower the freezing point, relying on how much the salt you use varies on decreases or increases. If salt wasn’t added to the ice cream mixture it would get warm and melt before the ice cream was finished. Salt allows the ice to get much cooler than it could on its …show more content…

For the most part ice cream is a dessert that most people would think that salt with would be a bizarre thing to put with it. But most of the ice cream makers or sellers know it helps with bringing down the temperature of the freezing point. “Since the ice cream isn’t just water, it needs to be a little below 32°F to freeze. When using a crank ice cream machine, you frequently have to add more salt and ice, so you can watch the process of melting ice more than once.” (Physics Buzz) The community wouldn’t know how to make ice cream if it weren't for experiments like

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