Question: could we make hot ice cream?

Sofia Franco answered on 13 Nov 2013:

Hi Suzie 🙂 well I guess hot ice cream is a bit of a paradox! You see, to have ice cream you need to do creamy mixture with whatever you like and then cool if of in the freezer to below zero degrees celsius (0°C)! This is because water will freeze when cooled below 0°C creating your ice cream 🙂 the reason water freezes is because as the temperature gets lower and under zero the water molecules (that when liquid will move quite fast) start to lose energy due to the cold environment and slow down…getting stuck to each other and creating permanent bonds…making the water solid: or ice, as we call it! If you start warming this ice back again, you add heat energy and the molecules will start vibrating again and will lose the bonds between them, becoming liquid again! So you can make hot ice cream….it will just stop being ice cream and become a kind of very tasty liquid cream!