Today’s recipe was inspired by a trip. Sharing this recipe in the Open Lab is Gabriele Manzi, a curious gelato maker and tireless experimenter, who, during a family trip to New Zealand and the Cook Islands, came across an ingredient he’ll never forget: vanilla grown...
If you have been making ice cream for a while, you are probably familiar with AFP (Anti-Freezing Power) and Total Solids. Balancing these parameters is the critical first step in making good ice cream. Yet, sometimes classical math is not enough. Have you ever had to...
BilanciaLi 3.0 is the new version of my homemade ice cream balancer in Excel. It is not just a graphic update and not just a name change of the old versions. With the 3.0 series I have reorganized the entire range, improved existing functions, and added new tools for...
After his mouthwatering Apple Pie for the Gelato Project’s Author Recipes, Pierpaolo Portogallo is back, with a completely different flavor, this time for the Gelato Project Open Lab! No comfort food, but we go for something more subtle, less immediate, but...
We met with Yui Kanokwan in a somewhat atypical way, as is often the case in the Gelato Project: she had written to me before even downloading BilanciaLi, then a few exchanges during the course at ALMA with Stefano Guizzetti, and finally we met in person at Sherbeth....
Anyone who works in the restaurant business or is a fan of desserts on the plate knows this: a perfect quenelle is the signature of a great dessert. That elegant, smooth, three-sided shape turns a simple scoop of ice cream into a work of art. But making a perfect...
