Just incase you were in any doubt - I am a geek. A huge geek. I even wear glasses and work in a science related field. However, I've fully embraced my geekiness and accept it as part of what makes me who I am.
Also, geeks get to do REALLY fun stuff.... like make ice-cream using liquid nitrogen.
The recipe is from the book "Cooking for Geeks" by Jeff Potter and is really pretty easy.
Ingredients:
milk
heavy whipping cream
flavoring
we added a little sugar
And some liquid nitrogen that I'm sure all of you have sitting around at home.
Combine and blend.
We made chocolate (with Hershey's syrup); Oreo (tasted like cookies and cream); coffee; and pomegranate (using jelly). All of the flavors were good, but the pomegranate was my favorite...although the Oreo was a very close second.
You combine the liquid nitrogen with the other ingredients or use it on the out side?
ReplyDeleteIt's added to the other ingredients. Commercial ice-cream is mixed with air to give ice-cream that light and fluffy feeling. As the nitrogen boils it simultaneously freezes the milk/cream mixture and creates little air bubbles that are mixed into the finished product.
ReplyDeleteScience is fun!!
Oh, Beka...you are too much. A scientist and a chef, what a deadly combo!
ReplyDelete