Make your own ice cream flavor

I just heard about this site where you make your own flavors:

So you’ll scream for Perfect Flavor, a new online ice cream shop that lets you create your own pints.
Begin by choosing a base: mousse, sweet cream, cheesecake (which is actually yogurt), French custard, sorbet, or gelato. Follow by selecting a flavor for the chosen medium: chocolate, vanilla, coffee, or caramel.
Now comes the fun where you get to pick from a plethora of artisanal mix-ins. (Note: Choose wisely as you are committed to four pints of the concoction.) Options range from sweet (shortbread, cookie dough) to savory (ginger, rosemary) to herbal (lavender, cayenne pepper) to fruity (cherry, raspberry) to nutty (poppy seeds, malt).
Finish by naming your genius invention.
For which you could become famous.

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Seems pretty cool, but very pricey at $119.99 for 4 pints or $149.99 for 8 pints.

Did you browse the flavors? As an actor you will have to admire this guy’s commitment to his character:

“Heckuva job, Brownie!” -GW Bush, 9/2/05 - mixed by sean
Created about 1 year ago (03/31/2008).
Base: French Custard
Base flavor: Vanilla
Mixins:
• Peppermint
• Brownie

At that price, I’d rather make my own; and pick my flavor.

Making ice cream is not that hard, and I can make a lot of mistakes at those prices. [shock.gif]

this place has a live show where they create a new flavor every week, if you’re ever in the area (Arroyo Grande, CA…its also a wine region)

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FYI for all you creative geniuses. “Man butter” is ALREADY copyrighted.

I certainly hope you don’t use that as a fining agent. [beee.gif]

Yeah, I was thinking I want my flavor to smell like mature Chave Hermitage and taste like a certain part of the female anatomy…mmm, mmm good!

$119.99??? That’s crazy talk. Go buy an ice cream maker for $75, find a good base recipe and make your own anytime you want.

I like the idea, it’s a shame it’s too expensive.

Too much work for most people…they want to order it and have it show up…no reason to make it themselves when they can pay somebody to do it for them (granted for way more $ than it would cost them to do it themselves)

Yeah those are outrageous prices. Plus 99% of the fun is making it yourself!

If you happen to have an ice cream maker, you know how easy it is to make ice cream. The hardest part is finding rock salt. (With those new ones where you freeze the “chiller bowl/container” you don’t even need rock salt and the whole rig.)

With all the ripe fresh fruit you can make sorbet especialy if you have backyard fruit trees. It’s just fruit, sugar, a little water to dissolve the sugar and lemon juice. Lots of recipe’s if you google.

My favorites are with ripe nectarines or ripe aromatic strawberries when you can find the kind, you know what I’m talking about. Here in California on the coast the killer strawberries are in the roadside stands near the fields, the ones in the supermarket usually are lacking ripeness.

(With the nectarines we don’t even add any sugar, though have to fight the birds to get them to that sweet ripeness.)

If you can find the rock salt, all you need is two coffee cans - one smaller than the other - and a good recipe. Find a couple of little kids who are willing to ‘play’ and roll it back and forth. It may take a little longer than the new fangled machines you can buy in the store, but it proved doe be a lot of fun when I was a kid. And produced some really good ice cream.