One factor about me: I love ice cream. One factor about my lactose-intolerant husband: So does he, which doesn’t precisely bode nicely for me and our shared residing area, if you happen to catch my drift.
Due to his, ahem, aromatic refusal to acknowledge that he’s, actually, lactose-intolerant, I’m at all times looking out for recipes that may fulfill his candy tooth with out upsetting his abdomen. I don’t favor store-bought dairy-free desserts, as a result of I discover that they usually both include questionable components or don’t ship that quintessential creaminess of conventional ice cream.
So once I began seeing viral movies of the Ninja CREAMi ($229) whipping up non-dairy ice cream that folks swore tasted simply nearly as good as the true factor (and seemed fairly dang scrumptious, too), my curiosity was piqued—and higher but, it’s on sale for $180 on QVC for a restricted time.
My husband was (clearly) on board once I informed him we had been going to conduct an ice cream experiment: evaluating the flavour, texture, and “negative effects” of store-bought dairy ice cream with each a dairy and non-dairy home made recipe utilizing the Ninja CREAMi. Consuming ice cream within the title of science? Mainly our dream job.
Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1 Frozen Deal with Maker with Additional Pints — $180.00
Initially $220, now $180
- Can be utilized to make ice cream, sorbet, milkshakes, slushies, and extra
- Very simple to make use of, even on first try
- Can simply substitute components to make customary recipes dairy-free, lower-sugar, and so on.
- Comes with 4 extra-large pints so you possibly can at all times have frozen treats within the freezer
- BPA-free and dishwasher-safe components
- Mixtures have to be frozen for twenty-four hours earlier than they’re able to mix into ice cream, however you may make a number of pints prematurely for on-demand snacking
- Dear when not on sale
To begin our experiment, we selected one in all over 30 recipes from the booklet that got here with the CREAMi: Double Cookie Chocolate utilizing complete milk, cream cheese, and heavy whipping cream (so, heavy on the dairy). Mixing collectively the six components took lower than 5 minutes, after which into the freezer it went. The next night, we devoted a complete of six minutes to processing the pint on “ice cream mode” (I needed to do it twice to get the feel proper), including our cookie items, and processing as soon as extra on “mix-in” mode.
The outcome? Significantly decadent, chocolatey ice cream that gave our favourite pint a run for its cash on taste. The feel was lighter than your common scoopable ice cream, however denser than mushy serve—the candy spot if you happen to’re like me and you favor your ice cream to soften only a contact earlier than digging in.
The next evening, we sampled our dairy-free try with Strawberry. From the usual recipe, we subbed heavy cream for unsweetened coconut cream and agave nectar for corn syrup. We’re not massive followers of coconut, so I used to be somewhat skeptical that the style can be masked by the strawberries. However to my shock, there was no hint of coconut taste within the completed product, and the feel was almost an identical to the chocolate ice cream we made the evening earlier than.
One of the best half? If I hadn’t informed my husband the strawberry ice cream was dairy-free, he by no means would have guessed, apart from the truth that his digestive system was (blessedly) not rumbling in grievance all the subsequent day. Name {that a} win for me, for science, and for lactose-intolerant ice cream lovers all over the place. Plus, if you are going to buy it at QVC, you possibly can rating it for somewhat over 20 p.c off its authentic value of $229.
