How long do you microwave your bowl of ice cream for?

[Wolfiedog]

6 or 7 seconds.

 

[Outdated]

??!

I live in a country where you start eating it immediately straight out of the freezer and no matter how quickly you eat it's going to be melting before you finish. I haven't had icecream in decades, that much sugar is really bad in a hot climate, it makes you hot and tired and miserable.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

We eat it straight out of the freezer here too!

 

[Jumpinbare]

I thought I was the ONLY one who did that. I hate trying to scoop it when it is hard as a rock. I have bent way too many spoons, and even some actual ice cream scoops. So I routinely put the box in the microwave for about 5 seconds, then scoop it into a bowl. Scoops SO much easier that way.

 

[Princess Viola]

wh-why would you microwave ice cream

like just take it out first and then by the time you've gone and got yourself your bowl, the ice cream scoop, and your spoon, it'll have melted slightly and be easier to scoop out

 

[Jumpinbare]

wh-why would you microwave ice cream

like just take it out first and then by the time you've gone and got yourself your bowl, the ice cream scoop, and your spoon, it'll have melted slightly and be easier to scoop out

Clearly your freezer isn't as nuclear-powered as mine.

 

[kriss72]

It never crossed my mind to microwave it, but will definitely try it next time I'm stuck trying to chop any out of the container...

 

[Judge]

My refrigerator has specific controls for that sort of thing. I like to think that I have both the freezer and refrigerator sections "just right" without having to resort to melting ice cream or anything else.

 

[velociraptor]

6 or 7 seconds.

Doing this has never occurred to me.

 

[Kisa the tea]

I have never heard of such a concept before. Im in awe quite frankly

 

[Dagan]

I want my teeth to hurt because it is that akin to ice.

 

[Judge]

Then again the difference between ice cream and a milkshake is just a matter of degrees.

Sometimes it puzzles me that Wendy's fast food restaurants created the "frosty", which is simply ice cream at a slightly higher temperature. I suppose it comes down to being a preference in texture for some.

Oddly enough I thought this was something long ago that ice cream dispensers did to make it easier to fill ice cream cones. In that respect more pliable ice cream probably does appeal to more folks.

Then came frozen yogurt...

 

[Dagan]

If you get a chance, find the episode of the show, "The Food That Built America" that talks about the first ever soft-serve machines / food chains. It explains Tom Carvel and the Dairy Queen vs. Baskin-Robbins competition since the beginning. Good show.

 

[AprilR]

I never microwave it as well. I just wait for it to melt on its own.

 

[Rodafina]

If you put the whole container of ice cream in the microwave, scoop some out, and then put it back, does the texture of the container ice cream change?

 

[Jumpinbare]

If you put the whole container of ice cream in the microwave, scoop some out, and then put it back, does the texture of the container ice cream change?

Not after 5 seconds. Longer, I can't say

 

[Metalhead]

I would rather go for a Snickers Ice Cream Bar.

And that's why I'm overweight.

 

[Dagan]

I was in the grocery store and saw that these now exist....

Eggo Waffle, Blueberry Ice Cream Sandwiches.

 

[MildredHubble]

I thought that soft scoop/serve icecream had fixed the problem with icecream being too solid out of the freezer? Unless you have the oldskool ice cream they had at, well, school? That stuff was like granite and twice as boring. If you went to school in the UK up until the end of the 80s you know what I mean! Jelly and ice cream for pudding after lunch. The jelly was there simply because that would be the only form of food you could consume after the icecream had ruined your teeth!