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# Odd Consumer News
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2187/
- Published: 2005-08-28T21:12:18.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-28T21:12:18.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

Carbonated ice cream. Like the stuff wasn't hard enough to resist already.

> Like many great scientific discoveries, Teresa Baker's breakthrough in MIT's grimy Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory last October was punctuated by a memorable exclamation of victory. She raced upstairs from the first-floor lab and announced to her fellow graduate students: ''I made ice cream, come down and eat it!"

> Baker's work involves liquid carbon dioxide, bulky stainless steel cylinders, heat exchangers, and vanilla ice cream mix, and it may change the way ice cream is made in the $20 billion-a-year industry. For consumers, the novel device could popularize a new type of frozen dessert that combines the chill of ice cream with the explosive fizz of soda pop.

> ''It's not ice cream in the usual sense," said John G. Brisson, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ''It has a carbonated bite, and it just kind of goes 'whoof' on your tongue."

> Already, Brisson and professor Joseph L. Smith Jr., who both collaborated with Baker, have met with officials from several large ice cream companies -- they won't say which ones -- to demonstrate their technique. They hope to commercialize the apparatus, possibly with a partner. Their product does not yet have a name.

[Link](http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2005/08/28/mit%5Fcrew%5Fchurns%5Fout%5Fice%5Fcream%5Fwith%5Fsizzle/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).