I dive into my cereal and milk. I've been chewing my way through a box of Corn Flakes. A cereal that strangely enough I've recently become addicted to. It's an unhealthy relationship at this point. Moving on from my clearly unhealthy eating habits, I notice that even though my milk just came out of the refrigerator, it really doesn't feel very cold to me. All that chewing gets my brain wheels turning. I pull out two bottles of milk from the fridge, whole milk, and low fat. Yes! The low fat definitely feels colder than the whole milk even though they've both been sitting in the fridge. I start thinking about full fat soft serve ice cream, how sometimes I'll be eating ice cream that doesn't even feel like it's been frozen, how strange! Then comes the heavy cream sitting in the back of my fridge, I pour some in a cup and dunk my fingers inside (don't worry they were basically clean) and Aha! It hardly feels cold at all!
I remember making espresso pops a few weeks ago, it basically consists of black coffee with a dollop of whipped cream on top which you then pop into your freezer. While the heavy cream at the top DID freeze, it didn't have the same chilling coldness that the coffee part had. So does this strange phenomenon have anything to do with water content? Who knows, maybe the higher the water content is, the colder it can become.
Last night a few friends and I went out for some frozen yogurt (don't judge me!) and one friend was complaining how her frozen yogurt literally turned into soup because she didn't eat it fast enough. Maybe frozen yogurt has a higher water content which is why it barely stays solid whereas regular soft ice cream is so full of fat (yum) that even basically melted it's still pretty thick and creamy. Or maybe I'm just spewing stupidity about ice cream, because I like to talk about food. Either way, I've now given you something to think about besides 'WHY WON'T HE LOVE ME?!' the next time you indulge in a pint of ice cream. You're welcome. But enough out of me, now I must go eat the ice cream that I have unintentionally put myself in the mood for.
MOO.
I remember making espresso pops a few weeks ago, it basically consists of black coffee with a dollop of whipped cream on top which you then pop into your freezer. While the heavy cream at the top DID freeze, it didn't have the same chilling coldness that the coffee part had. So does this strange phenomenon have anything to do with water content? Who knows, maybe the higher the water content is, the colder it can become.
Last night a few friends and I went out for some frozen yogurt (don't judge me!) and one friend was complaining how her frozen yogurt literally turned into soup because she didn't eat it fast enough. Maybe frozen yogurt has a higher water content which is why it barely stays solid whereas regular soft ice cream is so full of fat (yum) that even basically melted it's still pretty thick and creamy. Or maybe I'm just spewing stupidity about ice cream, because I like to talk about food. Either way, I've now given you something to think about besides 'WHY WON'T HE LOVE ME?!' the next time you indulge in a pint of ice cream. You're welcome. But enough out of me, now I must go eat the ice cream that I have unintentionally put myself in the mood for.
MOO.
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