Dulce de Leche courtesy of Bron

[bron]

JulieO- am very proud of you! what amazing photos, can just taste the caramel oooooooh!
Mamabel- what a bugger! how about next time not putting in so much, try 700g milk at first and then after 15 mins add the rest. And place THX on a tray in the middle of the kitchen table! I have never had a problem, but I use long life milk here to make this.

[mama_bel]

Argggggggggggggggggggh!  It happened again.  *sob*

This time I caught it as it just spilled over, and I had sat TMX on a tea towel after measuring everything in...

I bought supermarket milk, I had a new batch of raw sugar, a scant amount of bi-carb.  I set it at 100 instead of Varoma.  I had it on 4 instead of 5 - gently, gently...  Basket on top of course, to avoid splatter and allow airflow.

Argh!  After 10 mins it was a foaming mess.

This experimentation is getting sticky and expensive.  Is there anything else I've missed?  I'm thinking of buying that super-icky supermarket caramel I'm so turned off by 3 failures.  It's really weird as our first batches were perfectly divine!

Nothing else I make in the TMX is failing, so pretty sure the machine's in good health!

[bron]

How strange, what a pain! I would start with only 700g and after 20 mins add the rest! Try it with less quantity!
I made this 2 days ago, without the cream (my diet) and went out shopping, leaving my eldest DD supervising, who forgot to supervise and then she rang me in a panic, when I got home, it was ready for the bin! overcooked lumpy disgusting in fact, and just as I was about to put it in the bin, I thought hey, when custard separates, add more milk and blitz! Oh JD! You would have been proud of me! It worked, I added about half a MC of cold milk, blitzed for a few seconds and then reprogrammed for a further 10 mins, it worked !!! woohoo! I almost binned it too! thankgod I didnt! It WAS perfect!

[judydawn]

Bron, you've done it again.  Who would have thought that such a small amount of milk could do the job. Not only that, to reprogram for 10 minutes - I would have thought that was far too long but well, you are a genius. Well done   

[Thermomixer]

Think I'll have to try it and see.    Just worry that going at 4 instead of 5 may allow the foam to form

[mama_bel]

Well done, Bron!

So 4 might allow foam to form Mr T?  I figured I had altered other things, but not speed, so I'd try that.  There are so many variables when you think of it...  DH even asked me what season I did the other batch in and thought about the boiling point of milk and atmospheric pressure and so on...  Or maybe he was pulling my leg!?

Sigh, I wish it'd work 'cos when I did this recipe the first 2 times it was perfect.

[Thermomixer]

Ok - THE ANSWER - it is the SPEED !!!!!!

I started making as per the instructions and after 20 minutes it is all going brilliantly.

Then I decided to experiment.  If I turn the speed down to 3 then foam started swelling up inside like a volcano and if you turn the speed back up to 5 then it won't overflow !!   

So, tried againa few times and I AM CONVINCED - if it goes at greater then 4.5 it is OK - but slower and you are likely to have a mess.

It is fun turning it down and then stopping the overflow by speeding it up.

Hope you give it a go Bel - even try just with a small amount of milk without the rest to begin - set it to Varoma and speed 3 and watch - as it starts to foam turn it up to 5.

[Thermomixer]

OK - tried to get some evidence on video:




You can hear the motor speeding up and then slows downa as it bubbles up and then when speeding up it settles down.

 

[cookie1]

Very well worked out TMXer.  More gold stars.

[judydawn]

I love it when someone works out the solution to someone else's problem - well done Thermomixer. Enjoy your dulce de leche, what did you do with it?

[mama_bel]

I think he is sending it to me so I can overcome my dulce de leche phobia! :p

Thank you, thank you Mr T for scientifically testing the speed theory.  So I can use Lucy's creamy milk and not the icky shop stuff as long as I have that machine whirring on 5 (or 6 perhaps)?

Woot!

[bron]

Well done Mr T! Saved the day! Yet Again!

[Ceejay]

Super Thermomixer does it again! 

What would we do without you? 

[Thermomixer]

Thank you, thank you Mr T for scientifically testing the speed theory.  So I can use Lucy's creamy milk and not the icky shop stuff as long as I have that machine whirring on 5 (or 6 perhaps)?

5 is fast enough - probably anywhere past 4.5 - really goes so much faster.  6 may be a little fast.

[cookie1]

Super Thermomixer does it again! 

What would we do without you? 

I guess we'd have to battle on like the rest of the world. (except Mrs T of course)