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Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen
JasonMaggini writes "Popular Science has an article on how to whip up a batch of ice cream in 30 seconds or so by using liquid nitrogen. Just the thing for those hot summer days. The article is by Theodore Gray, creator of the ultra-spiffy Periodic Table Table."
and to think i just spent 30 minutes going to the store to get rock salt...
Am I the only one who is worried about shrinkage?
Liquid Nitrogen should be used for cooling heavily overclocked CPU's, and that is it!
None of this ICE CREAM MAKING... makes it look like its for wussies.
SuPz.orG
what's the daily recommended intake for liquid nitrogen?
i like setting off thermite reactions.
playing with liquid nitrogen kind of evens things out.
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If you substitute liquid oxygen for the liquid nitrogen you could be having baked alaska in 30 seconds.
Peter
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My older folks used to tell me about how poor people in Eastern Europe were after the WWII under Soviet occupation. Since some of them could not afford glasses or mugs, they would often put a teabag in their mouth and they would drink water warmed up in the sun.
So now, I guess they can also enjoy ice cream by putting all the ingredients in their mouths and then pouring the liquid...... uhmm.... never mind...
Time for some Terminator Ice Cream!
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Do not try this at home. You might get fat.
I doubt it. A buddy told me about the stuff they used to do at CalTech...
DISCLAIMER: My buddy may have been shitting me...
He said they used to freeze frogs in liquid N2 and throw them against the wall to shatter. Then they'd put it in the wastebasket, and get a kick out of the reaction the stink got from the next sucker to enter the room.
One day, he said, a guy didn't have any N2, so he used LOX instead. It reacted with the volatiles in the frog and blew out the wall when they threw it.
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I can't wait till they publish the instructions on roasting a turkey using a fusion reactor.
My dad works as a scientist in a lab, and has easy access to liquid nitrogen. :)
Some time ago we had a family of mice decide to take up residence behind our bookcases. My dad decided to take the easy way out (vs. moving the bookcase) and bring some nitrogen to flush them out.
After pouring 1/2 a thermos behind the bookcase, there was lots of smoke and commotion from behind the bookcase, but the next day the mice returned!
I guess they didn't mind it too much -- it must have dissolved too quickly to do them any real damage
Yeah, reminds me of a story which happened in our cryoelectronics lab, back in Moscow State University (Russia). OK, some guys bought frozen dumplings ("pelmeni", for those who know... ;-) ), and were not sure if they will not thaw by the time they get home, so they just poured a liter or two of LN over. Well, the next thing we've heard about those was half a week (!) later when the dumplings finally thawed enought to be separated and cooked... (pre-microwave oven days ;-) )
Paul B.
Get this guy, and that college professor that can cook a ham in 1.15 seconds and we are down!
The obvious question that I have, immediately after reading this story, is how exactly an average Joe-sixpack goes about obtaining a sufficient quantity of liquid nitrogen?
This whole thing sounds very interesting, but I don't think I can go into your average supermarket store and ask for some liquid nitrogen:
"Hello, I'd like a loaf of bread, Cheerios, and a gallon of your best liquid nitrogen. And, uh, a few grams of plutonium. I need it for my flux capacitor."
Which is grammatically correct. You do read English I assume?
Phrased another way: "It would be just so cool if everyone could write like that Theodore dude."
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
used liquid nitrogen to keep the server from melting when this got posted...
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Add that to the Liquid Oxygen Grill and you've got yourself one cool party. Main course, desert, and pyrotechnic entertainment all in one.
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You missed a couple steps:
1. Get cream
2. Add liquid nitrogen, which freezes the cream then evaporates
3. You've got ice cream.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
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1) Take cooler of LNO2
2) Suspend an ice cube tray full of vodka in it.
3) Add resulting alcohol cubes to a glass of OJ
4) Profit!! (or something...)
The alcohol won't freeze at temperatures designed to make normal ice, but the liquid nitrogen is cold enough to make the liquor freeze. No more worrying about the ice dilluting your drink, as it melts the drink becomes stronger.
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Show me the guy making liquid nitrogen from ice cream, and then we'll talk.
Liquid nitrogen to make the ice cream, and liquid oxygen to start the barbeque :-)
> she poured in the LN2 which filled the bowl with dense fog that poured out, over the counter, and down around our ankles, spreading out across the floor...
Easy there, its starting to sound like an erotic story....
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You missed a couple steps:
1. Get cream
2. Add liquid nitrogen, which freezes the cream then evaporates
3. You've got ice cream.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
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7. PROFIT!
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9. PROFIT!
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11. PROFIT!
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Sorry, I had to...
That Dippin' Dots site wanted to set a cookie.
This is getting me hungry.
and i thought i was cool when i dropped a V8 engine into my Snoopy Sno Cone Maker! back to the drawing board ...
LOX is a good substitute, and you can do a lot more cool things with it.
Contrary to popular belief, although you should treat it with respect, LOX does not instantly cause everything to become explosive. Someone at one of our LOX ice cream events once held a blowtorch on some ice cream; it just singed the outside a bit.
I don't know about you, but I like lOX best on bAGELS...
Aren't stories like this supposed to start: "Dear Penthouse Forum. I never thought this would happent to me but..." ...and end up a little spicier?
Just dont eat it in 30 seconds too, thatd be bad news.
Get in a car wreck, heh... "Hey officer, I saw the whole thing, the car crashed, that stuff in the back spilled on him, and now he's over there...And there...And there..."
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> Frog bomb!
Frogdor the Burninator!
yeah, I really want to read a link of things to do with liquid nitrogen posted by a guy called "HornyBastard77"
yes liquid nitrogen is great for freezing things, bananas, rose petals. warts, small furry animals(THIS IS A JOKE!) as an undergrad i was an assistant in the chemistry lab and was able to do a vast amount of "experimenting" with liquid nitrogen and sometimes with liquid He(you can freeze soap bulbes with it!) although it is somewhat expensive. of course sometimes the chemistry professor would ask about our monthly liquid nitrogen expenses and would explain at 77K it evaporates very quickly(;>>).
after spending about nine years in college(better than working for a living) i paid a visit to my old chem professor and he mentioned to his then lab assistant that i was one of his best students but not to let me anywhere near his liquid nitrogen. i guess i was not a very good liar or a thief.
flowerbear
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That sounds like the beginning of some sort of superhero origins story.
Didn't work for me though... Or if it did, I must have been pretty dumb and weak before !
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