A pair of Australian ice cream makers has conducted psychedelic dairy sorcery and created a frozen dessert that glows in the dark.
Using food-safe, UV-reactive liquid colouring, Steve Felice and Glenn Storey, the duo behind ice cream pop-up 196 Below in Melbourne, have created fluorescent neon ice creams that harken the 1980s by glowing in the dark, reported The Daily Mail Australia.
The gourmet pop-up is known for churning out ice creams that have been flash frozen using liquid nitrogen.
Created to be served at the all-night, arts and culture festival White Night in Melbourne over the weekend, the ice cream comes in three fluoro-flavors: Redskin, pine-lime and mango passionfruit.
While gourmet ice cream makers have long been creating surprising and imaginative flavors to up the ante, another band of innovators are elevating eggs, cream and sugar into wild novelty treats.
Briton Charlie Francis of Lick Me I’m Delicious, often referred to as the original ice cream wizard, is credited for having created the first glow-in-the-dark ice cream using synthesized jellyfish proteins back in 2013.
Inspired by that story, a physicist turned chef in Spain likewise created a Tutti frutti-flavored ice cream last year that changes colors with every lick, thanks to a special formula that caused a chemical reaction upon contact with saliva and acidity.
The novelty flavor, appropriately called Xamaleon (Spanish for chameleon), drew snaking lines outside the ice cream shop IceXperiencein the town of Blanes, Girona, north of Barcelona.
Likewise, ice creams produced using liquid nitrogen are gaining worldwide popularity as the shortened freezing process is said to lead to a smoother, denser product.
In addition to 196 Below in Australia, chains like Chill-N, Nitrogen Ice Cream Factory and SubZero Ice Cream and Yogurt in the US; Nitrogenie in Thailand; and iCream Cafe in the Middle East all use liquid nitrogen.
Source: Relaxnews