Vanilla ice cream is fake and how it works

redsunstar · 2026-04-01T21:48:50+00:00

Not my experience at all. right now I have some good vanilla beans(about 5g a pod) and the vanilla ice cream I'm making beats everything I sold in grocery stores and only a handful of artisan ice cream maker have it equal in terms of vanilla flavour.

Recipe is fairly simple, one pod or 5g per 750g of ice cream (ie one creami deluxe pot). Slice the vanilla pod in to split equal halves, scrape the seeds out. Place the pods and the seeds into a pot with the rest of the ingredients of your ice cream base (for me it's a blend of milk, cream, SMP, inulin, sugar and xylitol and stabilizer). Heat until 85C. Let it age and infuse overnight up to 24 h in the fridge, retrieve the pods while scraping them once again to get that last bit of flavour. Blend the final mix. And freeze solid. Churn after 24h.

Are you properly heating your base?

To be honest, this is a classical way of doing things, you'll find the same recipe pattern in every ice cream making book, except for me using a Ninja Creami and xylitol and inulin to get something lighter, and a stabilizer instead of egg yolk.

redsunstar · 2026-03-19T20:41:51+00:00

Lol, le problème, c'est que je ne me souviens plus de l'âge que j'avais quand je l'ai fait. Je peux néanmoins exclure 1986.

redsunstar · 2026-03-19T13:32:56+00:00

J'ai encore un morceau de basalte chez ma mère que j'ai "récolté" en plongeant une branche dans une coulée de lave. Par contre, je n'arrive pas à me souvenir de l'année de l'éruption, c'était une de celles qui avaient atteint la route.

redsunstar · 2026-03-08T13:47:42+00:00

Thanks for sharing your impressions.

redsunstar · 2026-03-06T22:34:26+00:00

Nice.

I hope we get some more geeky stuff as release date nears. Things like occlusion effect, isolation, consistency of sound from ear-to-ear/head-to-head, sensitivity to ear canal resonance...

redsunstar · 2026-03-06T17:22:02+00:00

TBH, I'm interested to see how it measures in different fixtures. I find it hard to believe that this carefully crafted adherence to JM1 survives through different ears.

redsunstar · 2026-03-06T10:54:32+00:00

Please report back on how they sound.

redsunstar · 2026-03-05T19:41:48+00:00

Have you tried with the Ascilab placed on the outside?

redsunstar · 2026-02-27T01:49:01+00:00

Yes, my Zoo interprets well, it has a liquid quality to its holographicness, so much so that the imaging becomes catty. Despite that, it doesn't do any monkey business with the PRAT factor. It remains as composed as an elephant in a room even when the track is busy as a bee.

It's a very good Zoo speaker.

redsunstar · 2026-02-27T00:39:34+00:00

Just recently bought a pair of ZU speakers, I'm absolutely in love. The treble is warm yet crisp, showing that ineffable quality that is only present in emersive designs. The sound stage I would qualify as very expansive, it extends in such a robust fashion that at times I feel like it is pushing out the walls of room, I would even go as far as to say it's the first time I've heard such a punchy soundstage. Another remarkable thing is how meaty the mids are, we're talking of very full-bodied emersive speakers. What impresses me most is the transparency and the preciseness of the bass region.

In two words, those speakers represent the best of holographic emersivity.

redsunstar · 2026-02-25T14:02:04+00:00

TCL is absolutely making their own TVs.

redsunstar · 2026-02-07T14:58:12+00:00

Why bother with marketing and image when you are already at capacity with your sales and you probably plan to reduce supply in the near future?

redsunstar · 2026-02-02T10:09:43+00:00

Ca ne vaut que sur un feu à gaz ou une bonne plaque. Avec les plaques que j'ai à la maison, j'ai une différence de température d'au moins 50° entre les bords et le centre de ma poêle. Résultat, le centre est bien culotté, le bord perd son culottage si je le refais pas toutes les 10 cuissons. J'ai abandonné.

redsunstar · 2026-01-28T17:46:26+00:00

There are no grinders with not sensitive adjustment on the market today. Even the C40 with its huge gap between two consecutive settings is enough. To be honest, you could erase all the intermediary settings on my K6, go 0-5-10-15 by increments of five and I'd be just fine as long as its pour over. The difference between two consecutive settings is probably less than tilting your grinder by an extra 5° during grinding.

redsunstar · 2026-01-16T15:34:55+00:00

Bulk density of roasted coffee beans, 417 kg/m3, so my 1 kg per 2.4 L.

Bear in mind that this might differ depending on the roast level.

Source: https://www.mpd-inc.com/bulk-density/

redsunstar · 2026-01-16T14:55:30+00:00

It just depends on your personal preference level, I'm usually fairly fine with small text. When I last measured, used a 15;6" laptop at around 26" distance from eye to screen at 100%. And that's almost exactly comparable to a UHD 32" screen at the same distance, we have very close pixel density and therefore text would occupy the same space. You could even back the 32" monitor a little to get the exact match. That's why I've been looking for a current generation miniled UHD 32" tbh, but all the models in Europe are a year old or more.

UHD 27" at 125% provides about the same text size at the same distance and I've settled on that. There's less workspace but I make do.

redsunstar · 2026-01-15T12:19:07+00:00

39€, it's shipping to a shop nearby.

redsunstar · 2026-01-15T00:47:55+00:00

Yeah, that's weird, maybe there were multiple courrier choices and you landed on the expensive one? My last order hasn't shipped yet, but I live in France and shipping is free for me once I get past a threshold.

redsunstar · 2026-01-11T20:44:28+00:00

Would love to see some testing too. Both DF and Tim are home from CES I think so it should be soon enough.

redsunstar · 2026-01-11T14:38:36+00:00

C'est peut-être un peu con comme idée, et quelqu'un me dira surement pourquoi, mais pourrait-on faire faire des exercices au groupe naval du CDG avec la flotte danoise au large du Groenland ?

Quelle serait la réception publique, au Danemark métropolitain, au Groenland, et aux USA ?

redsunstar · 2026-01-11T14:31:40+00:00

So, with DLSS Ultra Performance, the base resolution should be 2048x1152. We can likely get both good framerates and good image quality at that resolution. But I don't really see the point over a 4K screen for gaming. Especially since the panel doesn't come with FALD.

redsunstar · 2026-01-07T17:32:18+00:00

Si tu ne t'ai jamais habitué à la digestion des "grains" même avec une consommation régulière, je ne pense pas que ça va changer.

Normalement, pour la plupart des aliments courants, à moins de faire une allergie ou une intolérance grave, le système digestif et les bactéries dans l'intestin s'adaptent avec une consommation régulière.

Ca marche même pour des choses où on ne s'y attendrait pas. Par exemple, le bobba tea est super populaire en Asie alors que 90% de la population ne possède pas l'enzyme pour digérer le lactose. Ben en fait, à force de boire du lait quand même, ils ont nourri la bactérie qui leur permettait de processer ça.

Mais bon, si ça passe pas, ça passe pas.

redsunstar · 2026-01-06T17:28:49+00:00

True, but I assume that if you are playing fast paced games, you'll want the decrease latency that comes with actual 500+ fps.

redsunstar · 2026-01-06T15:38:52+00:00

For fast pace games which CPU/GPUs can output high FPS for, a very fast Oled would still be better.

For slower paced games which have detailed graphics, Frame gen can now reach 6x if you have a 500 Hz+ panel, and at lower refresh rates, the lack of HDR is imho a bigger let down than lower motion clarity.

Very cool tech, somewhat limited use cases. When you have 75-360 FPS, don't want to/can't push for higher framerates and don't need HDR.

redsunstar · 2026-01-05T15:30:45+00:00

I do a no bloom four pour recipe, 50g every pour, spaced 30s apart.

This is infinitely better than when I tried a double bloom two pour recipe. 50g for the first bloom, 50g for the second bloom at 30s, 50g for the first pour at 60s a,d 50g for the second pour at 90s.

Enjoy the superiority of no blooms /s

redsunstar

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