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Food Favorite Ice Cream

Discussion in 'Tilted Food' started by snowy, Jul 30, 2014.

  1. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    What's your favorite ice cream, both flavor and maker?

    Generally, my favorite flavor of ice cream is mint chocolate chip. However, I recently discovered this ice cream: Mukilteo Mudd | Snoqualmie Ice Cream

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    It's seriously amazing chocolate ice cream made with Callebaut Belgian chocolate. It's so incredibly rich that after a few bites, I'm done. I'm fine that it comes in pints. I only need 1 a week at the rate I eat it. Snoqualmie also makes some other flavors, like lavender and ginger, but I'm so in love with this ice cream that I can't imagine buying another ice cream.
     
  2. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    I have one of these De'Longhi Gelato Maker. I'm not big on weird kitchen gadgets; but the best ice cream I've ever had is what I've made myself. I haven't gone very exotic, yet. Tart Cherry or Triple Strength Vanilla Bean are amazing.
     
  3. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    There's a creamery up the road from our summer place that makes their own ice cream.
    Usually you can pick from 3 or 4 flavors but my favorite, and one they almost always have is maple walnut. It's rich vanilla ice cream, large walnut pieces with a hint of real maple sweetness.
    Commercial stuff, I like Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia and there's a Starbucks coffee with chocolate in it (can't remember the exact name, been a few years since I had it) that I really liked too.
     
  4. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Java Chip. It's one of my favorite coffee ice creams. I love maple walnut ice cream but it can be hard to find. There's only one ice cream maker here that has it as a flavor.
     
  5. LinaT14

    LinaT14 Vertical

    Location:
    Texas
    I miss Texas! Blue Bell makes some really awesome flavors but this was my fave when we left. Yummy!
    Groom's Cake ice cream is chocolate ice cream with bits of chocolate cake, chocolate covered strawberry hearts, with swirls of strawberry sauce and chocolate icing.

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  6. Levite

    Levite Levitical Yet Funky

    Location:
    The Windy City
    My go-to standbys for grocery store-bought are Talenti Sicilian Pistachio gelato, Talenti Black Cherry gelato, and Talenti Belgian Milk Chocolate gelato.

    Otherwise, there is a place near where I live, in Wilmette, called Homer's, that has ungodly amazing ice cream. They make a Summer Peach ice cream that is absolutely to die for. And in Milwaukee, where my in-laws live, there's a frozen custard place called Kopp's which is crazy good: they have rotating flavors, so I'm not sure I could pick. And also in Milwaukee, there's a place called Babe's which is unreal. Their Birthday Cake ice cream is one of the most delicious things I've ever had.

    In LA, there's a place called Milk. Superb. They make one of the best fresh strawberry ice creams I have ever had.

    But far and away, absolutely, positively, the most incredible ice cream experience I have ever encountered was a little gelateria in Rome, in the Via della Panneteria, right by the Trevi fountain. I can't remember the name, or even if there really was one. But it was a tiny little hole in the wall, not even really any room to sit down inside, run by a family, and they make whatever the fuck they feel like making. So they had amazing flavors like black anise, honeycomb and bergamot, cardamom, limmonata, and so forth. The texture, the creaminess, the brightness of the flavors, the lightness and simplicity of the gelato, was just unparalleled. It was un-fucking-believable! I still have dreams about it.
     
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  7. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North
    Gil and Berts in Cranbury NJ made it all from scratch but their best was Chocolate Extreme.
     
  8. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!


    Well if you are ever in upstate NY stop by and we can hook you up with some mighty fine maple walnut.

    And that java chip is really good, I just can't eat it after dinner because it has a ton of caffeine and makes me jittery and unable to sleep.
     
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  9. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Java Chip was a favorite of mine in college. My BFF and I would get a thing of it and split it on our girls' nights, after we went shopping for porn and stopped at Taco Bell.
     
  10. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    I prefer to buy Tillamook ice cream. Not due to state loyalty or anything like that, more because they rank very high out of what I have tried. I buy nothing but Tillamook butter and most of the time Tillamook cheese for the same reason. Some things you need to spend a bit extra on and get quality product over poor choices like the "great quality" brand.
     
  11. Shadowex3

    Shadowex3 Very Tilted

    Historically my favorite commercial flavor was a Breyers flavor from back before they changed their recipes, it was a vanilla base filled with paper-thin layers of that hard ice-cream chocolate. Since then I haven't really had one stand out addictive favorite. We have a local italian ice place that makes a chocolate italian ice that pairs amazingly well with creamy vanilla icecream, and Publix's store brand icecream is some of the best I've ever had commercially.

    If we're including esoteric stuff though when I was a kid in Virginia Beach the farmer's market (a real one, in the middle of actual farms) had a mennonite dairy that sold chocolate milk you could eat with a fork and other dairy products. You knew it was fresh because they could tell you which cow it came from.
     
  12. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Would that be the brown cows? They keep the red cows that eat the strawberries in the barn to keep people from panicking.

    Going to an actual farmer's market sounds like a wonderful way spend a morning.
     
  13. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    They're pretty good. I'd put them and Umpqua toe-to-toe. For me, it depends on who's on sale. The Private Selection store brand carried by Kroger is good for a store brand--I would say it's better than Dreyers or Breyers by a long shot.

    One of the things that's been happening with larger ice cream manufacturers in the last few years is that many of them are replacing eggs in their ice cream with carrageenan. It started out first with the low-fat ice creams, which Dreyers markets as "slow churned." Yeah, it's a funny-sounding food additive, but if you like beer, you've coincidentally been ingesting it for as long as you've been drinking beer, as carrageenan is derived from Irish moss and Irish moss and its derivatives are industry favorites for clarifying (isinglass, also used, is not vegetarian and derived from fish swim bladders). Carrageenan is often use alongside other stabilizers in ice cream (guar gum, locust bean gum, and their ilk).

    Tillamook has replaced eggs in their ice cream with carrageenan, as has Umpqua, but I still think their products are better than the national brands. I think it's the milk. ;)
     
  14. Japchae

    Japchae Very Tilted

    Lactose intolerance to the level of almost allergy has several impacted my ice cream love. However, I'm completely addicted to So Delicious Mint Chocolate Chip and Silk's chocolate almond milk ice cream. Silk also makes a couple of other almond milk ones that I have enjoyed in the past, but can't get here. I used to love tin roof sundae, butter pecan, and dark chocolate cherry chip. People aren't too creative with the coconut milk and almond milk ice cream flavors. :/
    But, my all time favorite flavor is pistachio.
     
  15. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    I have a craving for Gifford's of Maine Toasted Coconut (sweet coconut ice cream w/chocolate dusted coconut shreds).

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  16. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    in a pinch, french vanilla or rocky road/heavenly hash

    Dairy Queen's chocolate dip with vanilla ...or a Mr. Misty Freeze (old-school mix of a Mr. Misty ice drink & ice cream...got to order it "off-menu" now)

    BR's Chocolate Chip Vanilla...on a sugar cone. Or Chocolate Chip Mint with marshmellow topping in a cup.

    And I've been on a kick lately of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough vanilla (found a great deal of a good sized container for $5 at CostCo)

    And an oldie for me...Ashley's gourmet ice cream with M&M's on it...in a waffle cone.
     
  17. jerseyboy Vertical

    Dolcezza gelato in the DC area makes Lemon Ricotta Cardamom. Its my favorite flavor ever. Just divine.
     
  18. AlterMoose

    AlterMoose Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Pangaea
    Talenti sea salt caramel gelato is a pint of Shamballa.
    There's an ice cream shop on Main St that I think dishes up Blue Bell. Coffee and butter crunch (that being crushed Butterfinger) are my two go-to flavors.
    Mrs Moose recently got me a pint of Ciao Bella blood orange sorbetto. It is nothing short of transcendent.
     
  19. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    I have recently gained an appreciation for vanilla with a swirl of hot fudge. Mmmm.

    My traditional favorite is strawberry. There is an incredible little place called Jeni's in Columbus...
     
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  20. Levite

    Levite Levitical Yet Funky

    Location:
    The Windy City
    That's awesome, awesome stuff. It's actually great blended into mixed drinks, too. And good served the old-fashioned way with a scoop of high-quality vanilla next to it.

    I have a friend who's a rabbi in Columbus, and she raves about Jeni's. Sounds almost good enough to make me want to go to Columbus.