How to use science to make ice cream – with farmer Charles

By Thisfarmlife
3rd July 2020
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Farmer Charles is back in the kitchen, this time to show you how you can make homemade ice cream. Charles demonstrates how a simple kitchen science experiment with some freezer bags, ice and salt, can turn milk into delicious ice cream.

About Charles and his farm

Charles is a mixed dairy, beef, and arable farmer, working in partnership with his father and two brothers in Warwickshire. They milk 350 Holstein cows, using both conventional and robotic systems. They grow wheat, barley, oilseed rape, oats, potatoes, and maize over 1300 acres, as well as having diversified into industrial units.

Charles is married to Linda, a primary school teacher, and they have two children, Chloe and Henry. He has a real passion for education and helping people gain a better understanding of the food they eat and how it is produced.

Watch more of Charles’ farm videos. 

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About Just Farmers

Charles was trained in media and video-production by Just Farmers – a project run by BBC Broadcaster and Journalist Anna Jones, and TV self-shooting producer/director, Alex Price.

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Thumbnail Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.