[penguicon-general] Liquid Nitrogen IceCream

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 8:16 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 1:07 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> [snip]
> > With a little experience you can get it down to about 15 minutes per batch
> > (and with a lot of experience, 10 if it's served out quickly).  
> 
> I've yet to see a batch that *lasted* more than 10 minutes--the stuff is so 
> popular!

Yeah, but getting it out of the bowl quick is still useful, rather than having 
10% of the batch remaining in the bottom for five minutes because everyone's 
too polite to take it.  Get it _out_ and then send a minion to go wash the 
bowl while the other person gets the ingredients ready for the next batch.

We all know you have to work in pairs because one person pours while the other 
stirs...

> > We did 
> > about 10 batches in 2 1/2 hours when we took over other convention's con
> > suite to save the cost of a hotel room for our room party.  The bowl,
> > spoon, measuring cup, and whisk only need to be rinsed (not scrubbed or
> > soaped) between batches, and don't forget to grab some of those "39 gallon
> > trash bags" and put one on the floor under the bowl.
> 
> I second that.  The floor got amazingly sticky at Linucon 2.  

That was actually mostly cake.  (Year 2 I ran the con suite.  I worked out 
that baking your own cakes comes to a little over a dollar per cake, so I 
made a dozen.  They got a bit... crumbly, towards the end.)

> > We should definitely schedule a panel "how to make liquid nitrogen ice
> > cream" with both hands-on experience (signup sheet required, I expect),
> > recipes, and information about where to get LN2.
> 
> That is a great idea!  It would need to be limited attendance and, probably, 
> over-18s only.

Why?  Just get a parent's note if you aren't.  Liquid nitrogen isn't any more 
dangerous than boiling water.  (Not that boiling water is _safe_, but we 
don't run in terror at the sight of it either.)

> 
> -- 
> Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>
> 
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