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Review
Disclaimer: Atomic Creamery sent me a free box of six pints to review. This is, in part, to promote their monthly ice cream subscription box. While the free pints provide us the opportunity for this review, Atomic Creamery has no control over the opinions contained in this review.
How the Atomic Creamery Subscription Box Works: Subscribers choose four pints each month—two pints from a menu of rotating, limited edition pints available only to subscribers that month, and two pints from Atomic Creamery’s regular menu. Strawberry is a flavor from Atomic Creamery’s regular menu, included on their website as “Seasonal Fruit.” Subscribe to the Atomic Creamery Subscription box here.
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Overall: Atomic Creamery’s Strawberry is an old-school take on a classic flavor, with bright pink coloring, a large inviting strawberry slice on top, and plenty of strawberry chunks swirled throughout the pint.
It’s a premium Atomic Creamery base—rich, dense, and smooth.
It’s made with liquid nitrogen, so a good 15-20 minute temper is necessary before the ice cream is soft enough to scoop.
The strawberry flavor is mild, but pleasant.
In general, fruit contains a lot of water—and that water can leak out into the ice cream and form crunchy ice crystals. However, I didn’t detect any ice crystals in this base.
But the strawberries themselves, on the other hand, are frozen, icy pieces of fruit. And it takes considerably longer for the frozen strawberries to melt—longer even than the ice cream takes to temper.
The strawberries are pops of flavor as they melt from ice to soft fruit on the tongue.
But let’s face it—this is not the right way to handle fruit in ice cream. There should be no icy strawberry pieces in strawberry ice cream. Fresh strawberry slices and chunks work as a topping in the ice cream shop because they are soft and edible. But they don’t work in a pint of ice cream that must sit in the freezer. After being in the freezer, strawberry chunks won’t thaw enough to be edible even with a 15 minute temper. The brand needs to think from the perspective of the home consumer, not the in-store consumer.
A strawberry jam swirl might be a better mix-in than frozen raw berries. The sugar in the jam would help prevent the strawberries from turning to ice. And cooking the strawberries to make the jam helps reduce the water content in the berries—again reducing the formation of ice. The jam would also help concentrate and enhance the overall strawberry flavor of the pint.
For example, Atomic Creamery also offers a Cherry Jubilee flavor that has Luxardo cherries as a mix-in—and those candied cherries remain soft and flavorful when frozen, the perfect fruit mix-in. Something similar in the form of a strawberry would solve the ice problem here. 6/10.
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Front Blurb
Atomic Creamery
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Back Blurb
Only the best. Made to order. Flash frozen. 100% food grade nitrogen. Made with Strauss Family Creamery. 100% organic. AtomicCreamery.com
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Books
Need to know how Atomic Creamery makes their ice cream? I can you tell you this much: their milk is organic and comes from Strauss Family Creamery; and Atomic Creamery uses liquid nitrogen to flash freeze their ice cream. But their secret ice cream base recipe? Who knows!? Atomic Creamery hasn’t put out a recipe book yet! Come on, Atomic! What’s the deal? We love you and want to get to know you better—to know all your little ice cream quirks and secrets. Publish that ice cream recipe book already!
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Psst! You can make ice cream like Ben & Jerry’s, Jeni’s, and Haagen-Dazs at home. Here’s their secret ice cream base recipes!
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Last Updated on September 3, 2022 by Ice Cream Admin
