soft serve
Sign in to saveAlso known as soft serve ice cream, Mr. Whippy, soft ice cream
type of ice cream that is softer than regular ice creams as a result of air being introduced during freezing
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- ice cream
- Part of
- Italian cuisine
- Country of origin
- United States
- Material used
- drinking water
- Image
- Black sesame soft ice cream.jpg
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- Commons category
- Soft serve
- Unicode character
- 🍦
- time period
- 1930s
- inception
- 1930-00-00
- native label
- soft serve
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Encyclopedic overview
Soft serve in an ice cream cone Soft serve, also known as soft ice cream, is a frozen dessert and variety of ice cream, similar to conventional ice cream, but softer and less dense due to more air being introduced during freezing. Soft serve has been sold commercially since the late 1930s in the United States.
In the United States, soft serve is not typically sold prepackaged in supermarkets but is common at fairs, carnivals, amusement parks, restaurants (especially fast food and buffet), and specialty shops. All ice cream must be frozen quickly to avoid crystal growth. With soft serve, this is accomplished by a special machine that holds pre-mixed product at a very low, but not frozen, temperature at the point of sale.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “soft serve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.