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Ice cream trivia

Whittier-
24-07-2004, 10:00
What is the proper scientific name for an ice cream machine?


2. how many gallons of ice cream do americans consume each year?

3. What is the dollar amount of that figure?

4. What nation consumes more ice cream than any other?

5. How much air is there in ice cream?

6. How long does it take a home machine to make ice cream?

7. How long does it take a factory machine to make ice cream?

8. how much of the water actually gets frozen in the process?

Let's see if you can get those.
Whittier-
24-07-2004, 20:40
What is the proper scientific name for an ice cream machine?


2. how many gallons of ice cream do americans consume each year?

3. What is the dollar amount of that figure?

4. What nation consumes more ice cream than any other?

5. How much air is there in ice cream?

6. How long does it take a home machine to make ice cream?

7. How long does it take a factory machine to make ice cream?

8. how much of the water actually gets frozen in the process?

Let's see if you can get those.


1. Scraped surface heat exchanger

2. 1.5 billion gallons per year

3. $20 billion

4. New Zealand

5. between 20 and 50%

6. 1/2 hour

7. 30 seconds

8. 50% the rest evaporates
Whittier-
24-07-2004, 20:42
Purpose of fat in ice cream?
Provides stability to the mixture, so its put in there on purpose.
Otherwise the ice cream you eat would be crappy.

New method makes it so cold that the air provides enough stability that the fat is no longer needed.

Examples of the new method:
Dryers grand light.
Whittier-
25-07-2004, 00:22
ha no comments.
Cause you all know I am right.