Ok folks, on that Amazon early black Friday or whatever it was, they got me, and I bought a thing that I didnāt even know why.
I got this thing called a ninja Creami, from the blender people. I got it on sale for around $100.
Itās an ice cream maker, but with a lot of advantages over every other Iāve cream maker Iāve seen, because it makes stuff differently.
For anyone who has use an ice cream maker, most of them are kind of a pain. Either they are really big, really expensive systems with a self contained freezing component, it more commonly, they have a big tub thing that you need to put in your freezer and freezeā¦ That tends to be a pain because itās usually big enough that itās kind of hard to find the room in your freezer.
Anyway, this thing did it differently. It just comes with a plastic pint container. Basically heavy gage Tupperware.
You put all the ingredients in there, and freeze it for 24 hours. Then you put that thing into the machine, and it turns it into ice cream/sorbet/gelato in about 2 minutes.
It does this by spinning this sharp paddle attachment at high speed, and then lowering it through the frozen stuffā¦ It essentially is shaving the surface of the frozen stuff real fine. And the results are good! Honestly, I was skeptical, but Iāve used it twice now, once for sorbet, once for ice cream, and both turned out really well.
The sorbet was stupid easy. I literally just dumped a can of mangos into the container and froze it. The end result was really good mango sorbet. Only around 200 calories for the entire pint, and probably not as sweet as what you would buy at the store, but honestly for me I like that better as Iām not usually into super sweet things.
Along the same line, I just now tried actual ice cream. The recipes tend to involve adding heavy cream and sugar and stuff, but I wanted to see what would happen with pretty much just milk. So, I basically took a pint of 2% milk, added a tbsp of agave nectar, and a tbsp of instant cappuccinoā¦ Thatās it. And it turned out really good again! Itās good coffee ice creamā¦ Again, not real sweet because I didnāt add much sugar. Also, it kind of had that āicyā texture that you sometimes get from cheap ice cream? Iām certain this is because I didnāt add any fat, and the sugar content was so low, both which help make ice cream sister.
But still, I can recommend this thingā¦ At least at the price I got it. The sorbet from a can of fruit alone is a pretty slick trick.
Hereās a video of some random dude on the Internet thatās demonstrating it, for those interested.
