Cool Custard for Pumpkin Ice Cream

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious sweet and refreshing pumpkin ice cream. Now, you want to take your larger of the 2 bowls that I talked about earlier, and you're going to fill it up with ice water. You want to have that sitting and waiting for you. As soon as you're finished straining the custard base into the smaller bowl, you can stick it into that ice water bath. This is going to cool it off a lot more quickly than if you just let it sit. While it's cooling down, you want to stir it. You want to stir to make sure that it doesn't get any weird lumps in it particularly after we just strained it. Stirring it also helps it cool faster because you're exposing more surface area. You're letting some of that steam come off it a little bit faster. You don't have to stir it continuously while it's cooling. You just want to stir it at least every minute or so. You want to make sure that it has even contact with the cooler ice bath on the outside of the bowl. You're going to let this sit until it cools to room temperature. You don't need to let it get hot. You just have to at least get it to room temperature before the next step."