Cold Sweat ice cream

[Alex]

"Along with milk, sugar and the other usual ingredients, the ice cream is made with...a blend of Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce and Blair's Megadeath Hot Sauce, along with a secret ingredient. Chile peppers, habaneros and Thai chiles are then stirred in."

Click if you dare.

[Jason Perlow]

I'm pretty much opposed to the idea of ridiculously spicy ice cream and frozen desserts. The whole point of having a frozen dessert after a spicy meal is to cool down the palate, in my opinion.

I think that certain types of ice cream can benefit from slight spicing, such as a really dark chocolate with cinnamon, or a rich vanilla, perhaps with a little bit of habanero or cayenne dust to add that "Mexican" flavor, but totally over the top spicing like a Dave's Insanity flavor just seems disgusting and pointless.

[Ktepi]

I've made really good habanero ice cream, but the spiciness was incidental -- last year's peppers just had such great fruity smoky flavor that I was trying to find something sweet to do with them that would dim the heat as much as possible without losing the flavor. Ice cream and panna cotta came closest -- the heat hit you after the fact, so at least you got the flavor first.

I don't see that working out here, though -- I'd rather have the butter pecan.

[jsolomon]

Sounds like a perfect end to a 21st birthday bar crawl.

[Andrew Fenton]

  Jason Perlow said:

I think that certain types of ice cream can benefit from slight spicing, such as a really dark chocolate with cinnamon, or a rich vanilla, perhaps with a little bit of habanero or cayenne dust to add that "Mexican" flavor, but totally over the top spicing like a Dave's Insanity flavor just seems disgusting and pointless.

Agreed that spicy ice cream for its own sake is stupid. It's interesting how hot peppers and pepper sauces have the tendency to bring out the stupid in people. That whole heat/masochism axis just reeks of displaced testosterone...

[Lilija]

I agree with the above comments, and I have to add this. Those hot sauces mentioned, they're already blended with other flavoring agents, such as vinegar, salt, etc. Adding stuff like that to ice cream? Yuck...

[jmsaul]

That ice cream sounds nasty. But I've had a wasabi ice cream that was spicy and very good, and I like chocolate with a bit of cayenne. Moderation is the key here.

[Bunny Man]

It sounds like a fun ride to me. But then I do love my spicy chocolate berry mole icecream. Icy hot!

[Kouign Aman]

That particular recipe sounds like a game-show stunt, but the idea of spicy-picante ice cream sounds worthwhile.

Perhaps a person would prefer it for a starter rather than dessert?

I'd like to serve a picante icecream atop to-die-for fudgie brownies. How far away is July 4th?

Or a cayenne & turmeric (plus supporting flavors) icecream on ripe fresh melon.

The "hot" icecream thing (methylcellulose thread) however, doesnt appeal.

[Mr. Delicious]

I just got my cuisinart ice cream maker yesterday, today was learning (vanilla bean and peanut butter brownie with some caramel,) tomorrow strawberry green peppercorn (Canned and brined) the best sweet and spicy combo in my opinion.