My local grocery store has started stocking a “limited edition” apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don’t want to be shilling). It’s one of my favorites – not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.
I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn’t make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it’s perfectly possible. So why isn’t it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?
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damn good question
Pure speculation on my part, but it’s probably a safe guess to assume some market studies and/or trial runs they did on the flavor showed it wouldn’t make enough profit. It’s always about the money. I’m sure many people would buy it and enjoy it, but we are talking about corporations run by people with expensive college degrees in min-maxing everything for profit.
Jesus. So you expect companies to produce products that lose money?!
Or, do you expect them to remove more profitable products, which by definition are widely loved, from the limited shelf space and replace them with less profitable products, which by definition, fewer people enjoy? You’d fail running a lemonade stand.
Profits are fine. Have you not been paying attention to skimplflation, CEO bonuses, etc? That’s the min-max mindset I’m talking about here.
As I have lost the only vegan cheese dip in existence (in my country at least) do to that, I can totally believe it.
I’m still sad about the cheese, it was perfect for tacos and all things melted cheese.
That’s a bummer. I have noticed products like that will often vanish. Or drop dramatically in quality when they swap out quality ingredients for cheaper ones.
Maybe, but you definitely see more niche flavors like pistachio, coffee, mango, pineapple-coconut, rum raisin, etc. Hard to believe apple would be less popular, unless it’s more expensive to make for some reason.
Maybe it’s less popular because so many people buy ice cream to eat with actual apple pie, or some other kind of pie which might taste weird with apple pie flavors.
Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.
I came in thinking this was a dad joke sub…lol… and was like wait … this a not a punch line… now we need to find a dad joke for this question…
The ice cream joint neat my house makes a honey apple gelato that’s pretty incredible, not sure why we don’t see it around more
Little boutique place near us has an “Apple Cheddar Pie” ice cream in the fall. It’s never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they’ve changed it.
(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)
I’ve recently had a similar discussion on why orange ice cream isn’t that popular, but exists in form of water ice
Our conclusion was that acidic flavors, like orange and apple just aren’t good combined with cream, instead being better served as a sorbet
Ok. Why is apple or grape sorbet uncommon?
Yup. Sorbet is often made with orange or lemon flavours.
I make ice cream as a hobby and found orange ice cream is too rich to eat even a scoop in one sitting. It’s completely possible but it’s hard to eat.
I had this delightful tangerine sorbet. a golfball scoop is all we needed
Orange creamcicle flavored ice cream is pretty easy to find. But I think it’s usually vanilla ice cream with layers of orange sherbet. Strawberries are acidic and strawberry ice cream is a popular flavor.
In my experience, apples just don’t taste very good when frozen. Maybe that’s why they don’t sell frozen apples at most supermarkets?
What about orange creamsicles?
That sort of goes along with his point. The orange part is separate from the cream part.
Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.
Even better, bananas foster flavor
A major reason I got an ice cream machine was to make banana ice cream!
Artificial apple flavor is awful and that is what most companies would use.
Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.
But you raised a very good question…
I feel like dehydrated apples might work.
The cream would rehydrate them.
This is why you dry the ice cream first.
TIL
It’s probably not as common because other flavors are significantly more popular. Chocolate, vanilla, and berry flavors are staple flavors. There’s only so much milk, production capacity, and retail shelf space to go around.
I’ve noticed, though, local ice cream shops are usually more willing to take a risk worth novelty flavors.
you’d end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn’t play well with milk.
What, you don’t like cold soured apple curd tart cream? It has nutmeg in it!
I’d love if it was more popular!
Mighy try and make at home. Parfait ice cream is reasonably uncomplicated. Wonder if I should make it from dried apples.
I really wish I had one of those fancy ice cream makers like they have on cooking shows like Iron Chef because I would definitely see what happens if you tried to make apple ice cream. I don’t know if I can get fancier than just basic ingredients with mine… Maybe if I made an apple compote? 🤔
I think it just works better making apple pie ala mode ice cream Cold Stone style with some vanilla ice cream, pie filling, graham cracker crust and caramel.
Do you have a
KitchenAidstand mixer or anything like that? Best thing I ever learned is making ice cream with dry ice. I just put the base in the mixer, start it with the paddle, and start putting in crushed up dry ice, one spoonful at a time. I managed to get dry ice in the little cubes or pellets, put it in a cloth sack, and then use a hammer or blunt object to break it up into small pieces.lol I was just thinking this would work while I was walking my dogs because I realized I don’t even have a regular ice cream machine anymore.
It was the best custard ice cream I ever created. Made the base with a sous vide. Chef Steps has(?) the recipe, but I did some experiments with blueberries that was next level the best shit I ever made that I will unlikely ever be able to duplicate again.
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Corporate studies show that the most popular ice cream flavors are the flavors we’ve always made and new flavors are risky because we don’t know how popular they will be and so we only do the same flavors so we’re always right.
Same reason why you only get reboots and remakes, it’s a safer bet for investment.
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Is that what we are?
Lemmiers and not lemmies? Or even better lemmings.
I say lemmiers because we are partaking in the act of lemmying
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