Okay today I'm going to be seeing if I can actually make powdered ice cream so this isn't
Dehydrated ice cream that type of powdered ice cream, but I'm talking about actually cold liquid ice cream
So I got this idea when I went to an ice cream shop called Sub Zero
And the way they make ice cream is like this. So what they do is they get some cream and
They have and they have some warm water underneath it and I'm in a metal bowl and then they pour some liquid nitrogen on it
And
It freezes it so quickly then it makes tiny little ice
Crystals as it freezes and the tinier the ice crystals the more smooth the texture of the ice creams gonna be at the end
And the reason they have the water on the bottom is just so it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan
But in the end you're left with something like this
And
It's different than normal ice cream because it's very smooth and it doesn't have a lot of air mixed into it
And so the reason this mixture is so creamy and smooth in your mouth has to do with the rate at which it freezes
So normally when ice cream freezes it forms relatively large ice crystals in it
And because it's usually made with a paddle turning a lot of air gets mixed into it
But when you use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream, it freezes it almost instantly and so it makes tiny little ice crystals
It's not one big ice crystal that has to grow but it's tiny little ones that form everywhere. There's a nucleation site
And so what that results in is a very smooth texture so you don't feel these big chunks of ice
But you feel a very smooth texture of tiny little ice crystals. But today we're gonna take that one step further
Instead of just making liquid nitrogen ice cream like this. We're going to actually powderize the ice cream
So one of the workers of Sub Zero said have you ever tried powderizing ice cream in a blender?
And I didn't know what she meant. She told me how to do it
she said basically all you do is freeze the cream with liquid nitrogen until it's rock-hard and then you put it in a blender and
Because it's so cold the heat from the blender won't heat it up enough to melt the ice cream
So it just turns it into a powder
And so today I'm going to actually try this method to powderize ice cream and then eat it after and see how it tastes
Okay. So the first thing we need to do is
Get our ice cream
To liquid nitrogen temperatures. I'm using Pacific Northwest apple cider ice cream
Here we go
So compared to the liquid nitrogen the ice cream is actually really hot
So I have to keep pouring it on as it boils the liquid nitrogen away
Okay, that is some cold ice cream
Make sure we get on the inside of it
It's like cereal
Okay, I think we're ready to blend it now, okay, here we go
Okay, I think I did it powdered ice cream
Look at that
So it's so cold now that it can't even stick together, even though there's tiny little bits of it
So it just acts like a total solid powder now
Okay, so here's my powdered ice cream
Looks cold. Should I take a bite?
Nervous
Okay, let me do better than that kinda missed my mouth okay
That's cold let's try it again
It's kind of like dragon's breath if you've ever had it the popcorn that they put in liquid nitrogen
That's pretty good
hmm
Try it again just
a little bit burn to the tongue, but
If you do happen to have liquid nitrogen around and a blender I would say don't try this at home, I'm a professional
And so it's not warm enough to melt yet, but it's not cold enough to burn your tongue anymore and so it basically
Right at the beginning feels like you're eating a powder, but then it kind of melts in your mouth really cool
This food just stuff having my lip so once this is warmed up a bit, this is really good
It's like eating a cloud
Okay, the world's first snowball ice cream ice cream snowball. Oh
That was really cold
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