Today im writing about ice cream. I decided this when I sat down to write, with a bowl next to me. Its delicious and chocolaty and everything it should be. It's also slowly melting.
I've been asking people a lot lately about ice cream, I feel like there is something weird about it, and because I usually have it in the hosue, and because there was an Atlantic article, and because its getting hot out.
When I mention it to scientists they say things like its an emulsion and a foam at the same time, isn't that weird. No, well, I don't know, but its weird thats your first response to "do you like ice cream". I bring it up to normal people at work, and they ask have you tried to make your own? I don't know if its my friend group but a lot of people are making their own ice cream, or pretending to.
I used to, or I should say my parents used to. When I lived back at home, and maybe even when I was younger. My Dad had an ice cream maker inherited from his dad, and they would make it a lot. It's pretty much just a cold tub, that you can rotate, and you pour cream into it. On hot days I remember having to get ice.
What I find strange lately, and more scientifically, is that ice cream has a weirdly low glycemic index. Which is a measure of how much a certain food effects your blood sugar. I know this depends on a lot of factors, but ice cream is weirdly low. You can ask people about this, and they brush it off, say yeah but it has a lot of fat in it. But if you compare this to a croissant, whose glycemic index is very high it doesn't make sense, because they too have a lot of fat.
There has to be something more to ice cream, chemically. Maybe the sugar is inaccesible? Its hard to say. The easy answer is its colder, but I don't think that matters. Or maybe it does, regardless there is something so nice about it. Eating it still now, can transport you to another place. Like in a garage on a hot summer day cranking a red metal drum in circles.
I've been asking people a lot lately about ice cream, I feel like there is something weird about it, and because I usually have it in the hosue, and because there was an Atlantic article, and because its getting hot out.
When I mention it to scientists they say things like its an emulsion and a foam at the same time, isn't that weird. No, well, I don't know, but its weird thats your first response to "do you like ice cream". I bring it up to normal people at work, and they ask have you tried to make your own? I don't know if its my friend group but a lot of people are making their own ice cream, or pretending to.
I used to, or I should say my parents used to. When I lived back at home, and maybe even when I was younger. My Dad had an ice cream maker inherited from his dad, and they would make it a lot. It's pretty much just a cold tub, that you can rotate, and you pour cream into it. On hot days I remember having to get ice.
What I find strange lately, and more scientifically, is that ice cream has a weirdly low glycemic index. Which is a measure of how much a certain food effects your blood sugar. I know this depends on a lot of factors, but ice cream is weirdly low. You can ask people about this, and they brush it off, say yeah but it has a lot of fat in it. But if you compare this to a croissant, whose glycemic index is very high it doesn't make sense, because they too have a lot of fat.
There has to be something more to ice cream, chemically. Maybe the sugar is inaccesible? Its hard to say. The easy answer is its colder, but I don't think that matters. Or maybe it does, regardless there is something so nice about it. Eating it still now, can transport you to another place. Like in a garage on a hot summer day cranking a red metal drum in circles.
