DailyDirt: We All Scream For Ice Cream
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Frozen desserts aren’t usually enjoyed as much around this time of year (unless you’re reading this from Australia, then they most certainly are). But if you like ice cream and other cold treats, here are just a few recipes and projects that might interest you.
- A machine for making ice cream with liquid nitrogen makes frozen treats on demand. Is it still fresh if it’s frozen really really fast? [url]
- Make your own ice cream with liquid nitrogen with this recipe. A gallon of ice cream will use about five gallons of liquid nitrogen (and beware of frostbite while handling the liquid nitrogen). [url]
- HowStuffWorks covers the history of ice cream and notes that about 8% of all milk produced in the US ends up as a frozen dessert. Not all frozen desserts are ice cream, but all ice creams are frozen desserts. [url]
- If you live near Mountain View, you might see some healthier popsicles in your neighborhood. The Little Bee Pop project has been fully funded on Kickstarter, so locally sourced fruits and honey are going to be frozen and sold in the Silicon Valley area. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what’s floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: frozen desserts, ice cream, liquid nitrogen, milk, popsicles
Companies: kickstarter, little bee pop
Comments on “DailyDirt: We All Scream For Ice Cream”
At my former company we made ice cream with liquid nitrogen. Someone would bring in a very powerful (610in-lbs) cordless drill and someone else the ice cream mixture. They’d start mixing while someone else adds, a little at a time, the liquid nitrogen.
By freezing the mixture with nitrogen you bypass the usual slow process with your home freezer. The slow process allows moisture to form ice crystals and your ice cream becomes… non-homogeneous, or “low quality” or not-so-smooth, if you will.
Freezing with liquid nitrogen virtually instantly freezes the cream/sugar mixture and damn that ice cream is so smooth, very consistent, very good!
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Dry ice is a bit easier to obtain than liquid nitrogen, but I don’t know if people think it produces ice cream that is as smooth….
So all I gotta do is go to my local Wal-Mart and pick up some cream, sugar, eggs, salt, and liquid nitrogen. Awesome!
What about that astronaut ice cream stuff? It’s a non-frozen ice cream dessert.
HowStuffWorks covers the history of ice cream and notes that about 8% of all milk produced in the US ends up as a frozen dessert. Not all frozen desserts are ice cream, but all ice creams are frozen desserts. [url]
I lave these claims of “fact”,
“all ice creams are frozen desserts” !!!! really, what you cannot think of anything that uses ice cream that is not in a dessert ?
what about in a beverage ? is a beverage a desert ?
So it is always a dessert, unless it is a beverage or a confectionery !! or something else.