Posted on 06/30/2021 6:08:14 PM PDT by algore
A US inventor has created a machine that turns beers, cocktails and other drinks into soft scoop ice cream.
Of course, ice creams based on the flavours of our favourite beverages already exist but it usually means sacrificing the alcohol content because the freezing point of alcohol is so low compared to the rest of the ingredients.
However, the Below Zero’ machine can take any beverage, and crystallise it in under 30 minutes, keeping the ABV exactly the same, meaning you can get drunk on these treats.
Thanks to the technique developed with WDS Dessert Stations in Hinkley, Illinois, USA, the drink is first de-gassed to remove the carbon dioxide, mixed with a gel, put in the machine and out comes the ice cream.
Inventor and owner of Below Zero, Will Rogers, said: ‘The way it truly works we like to say the gel bear hugs the alcohol itself and turns it into ice cream.
‘With alcohol, the freezing point is what we’ve created, there’s never been a freezing point because it’s never been able to be consumed at that freezing point.
‘In the beginning days we used liquid nitrogen to make Below Zero but now with the new machines you put it out in a cone and it’s ready to eat.’
Adding the unique Nitrogen Ingredient Additive gel allows the alcohol to freeze to a near solid inside the machine as well as adding sugars.
It is FDA-approved (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and pasteurised, though since the drink contains no dairy products, it’s not technically ice cream.
My new Frozen Margarita Station!
I want one
I am so in : )
Ew.
I had a chocolate martini on my last cruise so I could definitely see trying chocolate martini ice cream.
I don’t want to “eat” my beer in any way, shape or form. Call me old-fashioned, but drinking it works just fine for me.
Just pour a little Kahlua or Bailey’s on some vanilla ice cream...
I mainline my beer.
That is a sacrilege. That is like putting pineapple on pizza
We use to call this skunking the beer by leaving it out in a snow pile. It ruined the taste.
Whiskey for my men, beer cream for my horses.
Boozecream!
Drink beer then eat ice cream
Here we have Hardscoop alcoholic ice cream. I’ve only tried the chocolate but it’s the creamiest smoothest ice cream ever. It’s made by a local distillery.
Save money make vodka ice cubes add juice.
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