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Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Are you hungry for homemade ice cream? Are you in a hurry? You can whip up a batch of liquid nitrogen ice cream in just a few minutes. Just add a little half and half, candy and of course a little liquid nitrogen…

The Crushery Creates Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Concoctions

Do you like your ice cream cold? Do you like your ice cream really, really cold at maybe around -321 °F? Visit The Crushery at 1579 Pearl Street in Denver and you will experience ice cream in a whole new way.

The Crushery makes ice cream treats using liquid nitrogen. They have about 10,000 ingredients to choose from and create that unique made-to-order ice cream favor. They also have vegan, frozen yogurt and sugar free ice cream.

The process freezes the ice cream and ingredients quickly – within about 5 minutes. The ice crystals inside the ice cream are very small compared to typical ice cream, allowing The Crushery’s ice cream mix masters to add almost any ingredient including popcorn. The popcorn stays crunchy instead of soggy.

When in Denver, make sure you visit The Crushery or make your own homemade ice cream using this rock and roll ice

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Freezing Kids with Liquid Nitrogen?

Ooops… that should have read… Freezing an Unforgettable Science Experience in the Minds of Young Children (but the first one is so much more catchy…)

I spend a lot of time training early childhood teachers in ways to make science more fun and meaningful in their classrooms. Gone are the days of collecting leaves in a plastic baggie and calling it science. Today, the best early childhood professionals are pulling out the stops and do everything possible to expose their children to real science. Of course, with real science comes real fun. Nan Papiernik and Beth Dovenspike from Colorado College Children’s Center are both amazing early childhood science teachers who are reaching out to the community and finding real science experience for their children. Nan and Beth called upon Professor Kristina Lang from Colorado College to introduce children to the concept of changing temperature to make things freeze. What could be better than using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream?

The genius part of this strategy is…