Its Alive! Its Alive!!! ITS ALIVE!!!!
Last thursday after work I finally had the time and motivation to make my first real attempt at the alcoholic icecream. I decided to go for a low (5-10%) alcohol content Kahlua and vanilla icecream. It took a little bit longer than necessary due to an issue with the binder material not solidifying solidly enough, but as soon as that minor issue was worked out everything came together spendidly! My biggest worry was that, like the last attempt, it would come out tasting horrible or that it would come out like the first attempt and have a bad texture. I was quite happy to find that the resulting alcoholic icecream I made was -DELICIOUS-!! It had a good amount of alcohol in it, certainly enough to both smell it in the icecream and also it left a nice aftertaste for quite a while. The texture was also great. I was really thinking that the alcoholic bits would be large enough and solid enough that you could feel them individually on your tongue, but I was happy to find that I made them small enough and not-too-hard so that as soon as they were in your mouth the temperature change makes them unstable and they basically melt instantly. The melted alcohol can then mix with the icecream in your mouth and that ensures that you still get that distinctive creamy texture that ice cream has.
I made a bunch of it and brought it to work and to happy hour afterwards and everyone loved it. They thought the look of it was a little weird (I didn't mix it up very well because it was hard and I didnt want it to melt while stirring it) but it basically looked like Cookies & Cream icecream without the big chunks of cookie. Nobody thought the taste was bad or that the alcohol was overpowering, so thats good. Particularly the girls really liked it.
So now that I've gotten it working and tasting good and proved the concept, I'm going to be writing up some patent information and seeing if I can get a patent on it. It sucks that they are kind of expensive... its like $150 to file, then if its accepted I have to pay another $650. Once I've got the patent I guess then I'm a millionaire, woot. :)
I made a bunch of it and brought it to work and to happy hour afterwards and everyone loved it. They thought the look of it was a little weird (I didn't mix it up very well because it was hard and I didnt want it to melt while stirring it) but it basically looked like Cookies & Cream icecream without the big chunks of cookie. Nobody thought the taste was bad or that the alcohol was overpowering, so thats good. Particularly the girls really liked it.
So now that I've gotten it working and tasting good and proved the concept, I'm going to be writing up some patent information and seeing if I can get a patent on it. It sucks that they are kind of expensive... its like $150 to file, then if its accepted I have to pay another $650. Once I've got the patent I guess then I'm a millionaire, woot. :)