"I had to find out." (read what happened next)
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
"What Happens When You Bake Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream?"
"It was a surprisingly sober night when, halfway through a pint of delicious Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, the thought struck me: sure, this was tasty and all, but what would a Ben & Jerry’s cookie actually taste like? Would the dough even bake into a cookie? Or had B & J created some sort of ice cream-exclusive cookie wonderfood, like Flubber with sugar, that thrives in cold and heat without changing form?"
"I had to find out." (read what happened next)
"I had to find out." (read what happened next)
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not much to look at. on reflection. upon further review.
Cute.
I endorse all experimentation.
That is the answer to the charge of waste. His official education, any little corner of it, was a lot more expensive than that.
A LOT more expensive. The text alone, boom, right there.
Plus it never was a matter of having one or the other, do the experiment or eat the ice cream, because because he could be munching cookie dough ice cream all through the experiments.
The question is if it real (commercial) cookie dough in there, and the answer is yes, about one cookie per pint.
From my pov, unless the experiment was for duplicating at home purposes, asking the question so he can make his own ice cream, then on the surface the experiment asks the wrong question and looks in the wrong direction, by extracting from an industrialized product (ice cream) an element (cookie dough) that is also an industrialized product used for something (chocolate chip cookies) that is a direct product of basic ingredients. It's absurd.
That's not how to get back to the ga-a-ar-den.
The point never was to produce chocolate chip cookies, it was to prove it is real dough, or not.
And now Andy Kryza can make his own, by making his own cookie dough from basic ingredients and ice cream from basic ingredients.
But a simple web search would have told him Ben & Jerry's did this first locally by cajoling another cookie dough manufacturer, Rhino Foods, to concoct a formula for commercial cookie dough that holds its dough characteristics at frozen temperature. And the immediate success of that was copied by others, everything devolved from the non-freezing-like-a-rock dough.
I never wanted raw cookie dough.
It's not a thing. I don't know how that became famous. It befuddles me.
How did he keep the dough from freezing hard? I do not know. I'd look at the label. They use corn syrup to control crystal size. Salt, I suppose. I'd look in ingredients for some antifreeze-like chemical.
Klicken sie auf die "ingredients & nutrition facts"
CREAM, SKIM MILK, LIQUID SUGAR (SUGAR, WATER), WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), WHOLE EGGS, EXPELLER PRESSED SOYBEAN OIL, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCONUT OIL, VANILLA EXTRACT, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), MOLASSES, COCOA, SALT, GUAR GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN, CARRAGEENAN.
Why, that looks positively healthy.
Some combination of that guar gum, molasses, salt, and lecithin, they will all freeze of course, but not like rocks. Maybe. Perhaps. Possibly. Perchance.
Story under the lid:
Our Burlington Scoop Shop had a flavor suggestion board and this flavor was suggested anonymously. From the minute it was introduced it was a huge hit. Because the Burlington Scoop Shop made most of their own flavors, it was only available there. Folks would come from all over just to get CCCD. One of our employees remembers seeing a group of sorority girls from the University of Vermont trek down the hill only to find that the Scoop Shop was out of CCCD. They ended up going to the grocery store across the street and purchasing a roll of slice-and-bake cookie dough. They brought it back, ordered vanilla ice cream, cut up the roll and stirred it in.
Fun Fact
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is the best selling Ben & Jerry's flavor in the world.
It's a girl thing. Chocolate chip with fudge brownies makes more sense.
I could make chocolate chips cookies like that *snap*
I do not keep chips around all that much, but Man, do I ever have a lot of good chocolate coverture.
What's the difference?
Chocolate chips, like chocolate kisses, are spit from a machine with a an array of spouts that extrude melted chocolate onto a moving belt, like this:
spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit, spit.
And so does the machine that produces the coverture chocolate buttons, but whereas the buttons spread flat, the kisses are spit out with a peak because the kisses have more chocolate solids in their mix, more cocoa powder, relative to the curvature that has more cocoa butter by ratio so it spreads out.
You can get your chocolate chips or kisses to behave as coverture by adding cocoa butter, regular butter, vegetable oil, something gooey.
You can get your coverture to behave as chocolate chips and kisses by adding cocoa powder.
I don't know that they've ever shown Sheldon Cooper eating ice cream as if he were an exaggeration of a little kid but it's pretty easy to imagine.
I think Family Guy once mocked Ben & Jerry's as the ice cream of choice for regressed, self-indulgent, lonely, morbidly obese women.
And dumb, too, because of the I'm-not-a-loser-because-I-have-a-date-with-two-men cliche. Self-amusement. Thinking it clever.
There's a lot of mean in Family Guy humor.
A guy once told me you'll be left with about one inch of a brown plastic-like substance if you leave a McDonald's chocolate shake sitting out on the counter overnight.
I just assumed that was true.
Another guy once told me I'll never drink another coke for as long as I live if I take a steak and pour a coke over it.
I assumed that was false.
I wonder if they still make those little silver ball bearings my mom used to put on top of cupcakes.
They didn't seem like a wise thing to ingest.
Not even to a little kid.
I'll bet they probably still sell those dried fruit roll sheets that resemble shoe leather.
The first lady might well have some sort of position on that.
My wife worked for a while in a day care center.
Said the kids all pretty much exist on Go-Gurt.
Go-Gurt. Except for the only black kid at the day care center.
Wife said the only food the kid ever brought was the same single-serve Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs. Every. Single. Day.
The day care workers would feel sorry for the kid and feed her.
She was dropped off most mornings having soiled herself.
Her mother drove a BMW. A divorce ensued.
Guar gum is an unsung hero.
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