Slightly OT, but I bought a Ninja Creami a couple years ago, excited about all the crazy ice cream recipes and experiments I would find online. Little did I know that 99% of content creators with a Ninja Creami only make disgusting looking protein powder ice cream over and over and over. What’s the recipe for chocolate ice cream? Chocolate protein powder. And for vanilla ice cream? Vanilla protein powder. And for strawberry ice cream? Strawberry protein powder, of course. And so on.
I have nothing against adding protein to your diet/recipes but this is just ridiculous at this point.
If you want healthy without it being high protein, look up the chocolate red bean recipe.
Tastes better than almost any full-calorie chocolate ice cream from the store while being much healthier for you. Seriously - it almost could be a meal replacement ice cream.
That’s not true though, and I don’t regret buying it. You can make shaved ice, milkshakes, froyo, sorbets, and (basically) actual ice cream or gelato with a fraction of the work compared to an ice cream maker.
The only issue I have isn’t with the machine itself but the way people online are promoting it as only what you’re describing. You can absolutely use traditional ice cream or gelato recipes, which I did to pretty awesome results after I realized I wouldn’t find that sort of content on YouTube. As long as you have the proportions down for fats, thickeners and sugars, the consistency is almost indistinguishable from the traditional counterpart. You can also find a ton of cool or even gourmet recipes for Pacojet and adjust them for the Creami.
It’s a pretty fun machine that actually opens up a lot of options for desserts and culinary experimentation. My point was that the actual waste of 170$ is buying it only to make frozen versions of protein shakes (which will at best always end up as “fancy shaved ice” like you said because those recipes lack the ingredient ratios of actual ice cream).
Even the recipes from the book that came with it that aren’t protein based are just base ingredient (milk or oat milk or whatever), thickener, flavoring. Like, at that point, don’t print a ‘one hundred pages of recipes’ book, just have one page and be done with it.
If it’s the same amount of cream & sugar it sounds like it would be better if it were just the list of flavors and the amount to use for a “standard batch” of Ice cream.
The book does have that. It recommends you use some of their recipes as bases for your own.
The recipe book also isn’t that large - it has maybe twenty recipes, about half of them being ice cream (and lite ice cream) and the rest being sorbets, smoothies, milkshakes, gelatos, etc.
Slightly OT, but I bought a Ninja Creami a couple years ago, excited about all the crazy ice cream recipes and experiments I would find online. Little did I know that 99% of content creators with a Ninja Creami only make disgusting looking protein powder ice cream over and over and over. What’s the recipe for chocolate ice cream? Chocolate protein powder. And for vanilla ice cream? Vanilla protein powder. And for strawberry ice cream? Strawberry protein powder, of course. And so on.
I have nothing against adding protein to your diet/recipes but this is just ridiculous at this point.
If you want healthy without it being high protein, look up the chocolate red bean recipe.
Tastes better than almost any full-calorie chocolate ice cream from the store while being much healthier for you. Seriously - it almost could be a meal replacement ice cream.
That is the entire point of the Creami though. To make “atypical ice cream” aka fancy shaved ice.
You could’ve saved yourself $170 and bought a $30 ice cream maker.
That’s not true though, and I don’t regret buying it. You can make shaved ice, milkshakes, froyo, sorbets, and (basically) actual ice cream or gelato with a fraction of the work compared to an ice cream maker.
The only issue I have isn’t with the machine itself but the way people online are promoting it as only what you’re describing. You can absolutely use traditional ice cream or gelato recipes, which I did to pretty awesome results after I realized I wouldn’t find that sort of content on YouTube. As long as you have the proportions down for fats, thickeners and sugars, the consistency is almost indistinguishable from the traditional counterpart. You can also find a ton of cool or even gourmet recipes for Pacojet and adjust them for the Creami.
It’s a pretty fun machine that actually opens up a lot of options for desserts and culinary experimentation. My point was that the actual waste of 170$ is buying it only to make frozen versions of protein shakes (which will at best always end up as “fancy shaved ice” like you said because those recipes lack the ingredient ratios of actual ice cream).
Even the recipes from the book that came with it that aren’t protein based are just base ingredient (milk or oat milk or whatever), thickener, flavoring. Like, at that point, don’t print a ‘one hundred pages of recipes’ book, just have one page and be done with it.
What else is the recipe going to be? That’s the recipe for Ice Cream.
Cream, sugar, flavoring
If it’s the same amount of cream & sugar it sounds like it would be better if it were just the list of flavors and the amount to use for a “standard batch” of Ice cream.
The book does have that. It recommends you use some of their recipes as bases for your own.
The recipe book also isn’t that large - it has maybe twenty recipes, about half of them being ice cream (and lite ice cream) and the rest being sorbets, smoothies, milkshakes, gelatos, etc.