The Sweet Revolution in Your Tub: How Sugar Changes the Game in Gelato Production
Think sucrose is the only way to achieve perfect sweetness? This article proves you wrong! See how consciously juggling different types of sugar—from glucose syrup to fructose—revolutionizes gelato plasticity and lowers its freezing point. This is the essence of how to get that perfectly creamy, scoopable texture that will delight your customers.
In the world of artisan gelato, one king reigns supreme: sucrose. For years, it has defined the sweetness of gelato and formed the foundation of countless recipes. But is it truly an absolute and irreplaceable ruler? This article takes us behind the scenes of the gelato lab to show that the real magic begins where the monopoly of white sugar ends.
The authors asked a simple yet brilliant question: what happens if we replace part of the sucrose with other sweet players, like glucose syrup, fructose, or even stevia? They took classic vanilla gelato and conducted an experiment that should make every gelato maker think. They examined not only how the sensory properties of gelato change, but more importantly, how this affects its physics—specifically, its freezing point.
The results are fascinating! It turns out that adding glucose syrup or fructose significantly lowers the freezing point of the mix. What does this mean in practice? The gelato becomes more plastic at low temperatures, which translates to better scoopability and a velvety texture straight from the display case. No more rock-hard blocks that staff struggle with! The combination of 50% sucrose and 50% glucose syrup performed particularly well, maintaining excellent flavour while improving the gelato's texture. Fructose and stevia, on the other hand, proved more fickle, introducing undesirable off-flavours.
Of course, such recipe changes are like walking on thin ice. Manually calculating how an ingredient substitution will affect the final product is a tedious and risky process. How can you accurately predict the change in sweetness? How do you control the gelato's plasticity without overdoing it?
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