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Spitzmaus said:Mike Van Pelt sez:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:My question's more basic: What's "dot" ice cream??
Ice cream that is made by dripping ice cream mix into liquid
nitrogen. The drops freeze into hard little pellets of ice
cream. It is kept very cold (dry ice temperature) so it can
be scooped out of the tub like little hard candies.So where would I find these "dots"?
It's generally in little stands at tourist-trap sorts of places.
Sometimes in malls. For a while, the McDonalds in the Great Mall
in Milpitas, CA, had them, but I don't know if they still do.
The liquid nitrogen method of making ice cream makes, IMHO,
*really good* ice cream. It freezes so fast the ice crystals
are very small. Dippin' Dots, once they've warmed up enough
that you can taste the ice cream, are pretty good. When you
first put them in your mouth, though, they have all the flavor
of ice-cold plastic beads.
I prefer the "Mad Scientist Act" method -- bowl of your best
ice cream mix, chilled, stir furiously while Igor pours an
equal volume of liquid nitrogen into the mix. When the fog
clears, you've got a bowl of great ice cream.
(Protective clothing for the stirrer is mandatory unless you
think of frostbite as a Good Time.)
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