We have been watching the new season of MasterChef and the other night two contestants used nitrogen to make ice cream for their dishes. It looked amazing with "mist" rolling out of the mixing bowl. Stunning stuff. We were lucky enough to see it done in real life today. We have a local shop - Nitrogen Ice Cream - which does just that. They have ten flavours or so - all starting from an Anglais base and then they add the different flavours to make the ice cream - and then the different components eg crumb on the Cheesecake for the different "flavours" as they "plate up". The ones we had were delicious: dinner and a show. It was interesting speaking to the owner as well; she was saying that if you have ice cream at a fine dining restaurant, this is how it would be prepared - except they would mix it by hand rather than use a beater/mixer.
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