Ben Van Leeuwen: Simple-ingredient ice cream naturally preserves without artificial additives
“You put it in the freezer, and it stays good for months or years. So we're like, whoa, you can make the best ice cream ever, and it's completely preservable. You don't need to add any weird stuff.”
Hochschuler: Gelato has lower butterfat and higher solids than ice cream
“It also has much, much lower fat. It could be half the amount of butter fat. And then it has really high solids, so you, you're avoiding water, and that lends itself to texture and flavor.”
Klane: Replacing fat and sugar with protein makes frozen desserts icy
“What makes ice cream so smooth and have this great mouthfeel when you eat it is fat and sugar. And we wanted to remove or reduce those items and add in protein. And so we were taking out a lot of the key components that does make ice cream so delicious. And th…”
Harrington: Ice cream alternatives require indulgence like cookie dough or chocolate chips
“Something that we believe wholeheartedly now and we didn't know when we launched is that to be an ice cream You have to have some indulgence. You have to have some chocolate chips or cookie dough. And once we unlocked that, we unlocked tremendous flavor.”
Jeni's Ice Creams avoids stabilizers, emulsifiers, corn syrup, and egg yolks
“We don't use stabilizers, emulsifiers, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, and a whole bunch of other ingredients that are sort of very typical in ice cream, or even egg yolks.”
Britton Bauer: Butterfat's low melting point makes ice cream ideal for scent
“Butterfat melted below body temperature because I was working with other fats that perfumers often use fats that are solid at room temperature but melt immediately on contact with your skin. And so I knew that butterfat was that kind of a fat, and that ice cre…”
Britton Bauer prefers making ice cream over selling out to corporate acquirers
“I mean, I like making ice cream, and I want to make ice cream, and that's what I do, and how I, it's actually how I think. You know, I'm 44 years old, I started making ice cream when I was 21, 22, so more than half my entire life, most of what I remember, has …”
Schorr: The ice cream category is supposed to be about indulgence
“This category is supposed to be about indulgence.”