Delicious Egg-Free Ice Cream Is Coming For You!

Gelato isn't ice cream, though. Like, ice cream, normal ice cream, does not have eggs in it. This woman talks like she invented some amazing new recipe.

It doesn't seem like something called ice cream would have egg yolks in it, but most every single brand of commercially available ice cream is made with yolks. Almost all Häagen-Dazs varieties are made with egg yolks (see here for ingredient breakdown on each flavor). Same thing with Ben and Jerry's. Here's a old page from that company, including this quote from a 10-K Annual Report:

"The mix used to produce all the Company's ice creams follows the original formula developed by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. It consists of cream, cane or beet sugar, non-fat milk solids, egg yolks, and natural stabilizers."

My emphasis on "egg yolks" there.

Ben & Jerry's break down all ingredients by flavor here. Egg yolks aplenty.

You'd also be hard pressed to find a pastry chef in the country that doesn't use egg yolks as part of their ice cream base recipe. Anyone can freeze cream and make ice cream without egg yolks, sure, that's that's called Philadelphia-style ice cream. But not too many people make yolk-free ice cream commercially. Weird, right?

Ice cream made with eggs is often called frozen custard or french-style ice cream. Ice cream made without eggs typically uses extra heavy cream. This is often referred to as philadelphia-style ice cream. Nowhere does Britton claim to have invented a new type of ice cream -that claim comes from your overactive imagination.

She's an idiot. Apparently makes tasty ice cream, but still an idiot.

Geez, you guys are being so mean (and redundant) you'd think the lady was a politician or made fur coats out of puppies.

Do you guys work at a rival ice cream parlor or something? Why would anyone be mean to an ice cream maker!?

Being an ice-cream maker doesn't excuse ignorance and stupidity.

Since when does ice cream have eggs in it?

Since gelato was invented. French vanilla also has eggs (or is supposed to.. I dunno what the crap they put in the mass-produced versions).

Most ice creams here have egg yolks in them. It's pretty unusual to see yolkless ice cream except sometimes in traditional gelaterias and even some of those will use egg yolks. There are also egg flavored gelatos, which have eggs in them obviously. The only ice cream style that almost never has egg yolks in it is sherbert.

Yolks, because of their high fat content, and flavor, definitely affect the flavor of the cream, which only really matters if it's super high quality, and also affect the mouthfeel of the ice cream. That sort of thing matters as much to industrial companies producing mass stuff, like say Breyer's, as it does to smaller companies like these. And everyone makes it differently.

Basically, yolkess, high quality cream-based ice cream, is, if you're the sort of person who gets excited about ice cream, something to get excited about (not insult). And anyone making that sort of ice cream, is clearly smarter and more productive than any of us.

Can you buy it by the scoop too, or just by the pint?

She hates to cover up the taste of cream with anything. Unless it's cocoa, bourbon, blackcurrants, caramel, pistachio, etc.

What a moron.

That had better be awfully freaking good ice cream for $10/pint.

In BraSil the Hagan D Ice cream is $20.00 . I almost had a stroke.

This is a dream come true! Please add the lime cardamom. I haven't had it in four years, but I can't get it out of head.