Ice Cream, Liquid Nitrogen Style

Ice cream is delicious, and it's best when you make it yourself.  Sadly, whipping up a batch of ice cream can be hard work when you do it the old fashion way.  However it's positively easy when you do it with SCIENCE!

As I mentioned last time, you should wear the appropriate safety equipment, such as goggles and gloves, and work with this stuff outside or with the windows open.  Also, avoid

Ingredients:
1 cp milk
1 cp heavy cream
~1 cp Liquid Nitrogen
2~3 spoonfuls of sugar
Fruits
1 shot raspberry schnapps
1 shot peach schnapps


Directions:
1. Mix all the ingredients (except for the liquid nitrogen) in a bowl
2. Slowly stir in the liquid nitrogen.

When the ice cream is done, feel free to dig in!

Possible Alterations:
The only real things that need to stay constant is the milk, cream, and liquid nitrogen.  Sugar is also probably pretty good to keep in there, but you may want to add to it.  Changing what you're using to add flavours is where all the action is going to happen.  Feel free to cut up some of your favourite fruits or candies and mix them in.  If you find anything particularly delicious, let me know in the comments!

Happy Gaming!

TED Talk: Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before

I was on Reddit when I stumbled across this.  I figured I should share.  I hope you find this as interesting as I do!

Also, I've done the math and I appear to be a few posts behind my goal of 52 posts this year.  This means you can all expect some extra posts from me this week so I can get back on track!

Flash Frozen Bacon!

A few weeks ago, some friends and I got to play with some liquid nitrogen.  Flash freezing bacon seemed like a good idea at the time, which is mostly because it is!  We also flash froze some tomatoes, which was also a pretty good idea.

Make sure that if you ever work with liquid nitrogen to be very careful.  Make sure to wear safety goggles, gloves, and shoes while handling liquid nitrogen. Liquid Nitrogen is VERY cold, and can do nasty, horrible things to you if you aren't careful.

Also, work outside or with the windows open. While nitrogen is in the air, as it boils off can displace the oxygen in a room. The oxygen that is important for your body to breath in. So, windows open or outside!

This is the first in a series of videos, where we mix science with noms!

Happy gaming!