Ice cream churns the ice cream mixture while cooled inside a household freezer. Some more expensive models have an inbuilt freezing element. A newer method is to add liquid nitrogen to the mixture while stirring it using a spoon or spatula for a few seconds; a similar technique, advocated by Heston Blumenthal as ideal for home cooks, is to add dry ice to the mixture while stirring for a few minutes. Some ice cream recipes call for making a custard, folding in whipped cream, and immediately freezing the mixture. Another method is to use a pre-frozen solution of salt and water, which
Bacon ice cream sweet food, eaten as a dessert, even though there is evidence of savoury ice creams eaten in Victorian times. Bacon ice cream originated as a joke, a flavour that no one would willingly eat, in the 1973 "Ice Cream Parlour Sketch" by "The Two Ronnies", where a customer requests cheese and onion flavoured ice cream followed by smokey bacon. Bacon-and-egg ice cream was eventually created as an April Fools' Day experiment at Aldrich's Beef and Ice Cream Parlor in Fredonia, New York. In 1982, co-owner Scott Aldrich was challenged by a gravy salesman to make gravy ice cream, which he