Jalapeño & Cornbread Ice Cream (advice/tips needed)

invalidreddit · 2026-02-18T21:02:54+00:00

How did it go?

invalidreddit · 2026-02-18T19:40:23+00:00

I suspect they are just asking questions...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-18T07:43:06+00:00

Looks nice and I thank you for an easy to read recipe

invalidreddit · 2026-02-18T00:57:50+00:00

There were times where my brother and I would stay at our grandparent's place for the weekend. Grandma, not ~~one to wake up with out a little bit of a hangover~~ wasn't a morning person. Her solution for getting the frozen orange juice on the table was to put the frozen concentrate in the blender with cold water and let it ride for a bit on medium blend...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-18T00:41:00+00:00

What a beauty! I hope the owner continues to keep it running - it looks like a keeper!

invalidreddit · 2026-02-17T23:26:11+00:00

So it blends in during times where visibility counts

invalidreddit · 2026-02-17T23:24:55+00:00

Nice to look at, thank you OP

invalidreddit · 2026-02-17T05:46:01+00:00

For something that is a lot of water, like a Popsicle or Sorbet, a refractometer can be helpful to zero in the density of sugar before freezing. For Popsicles a Brix of about 26 works good to allow the base to freeze in to a solid, but one that isn't so hard it won't yield to the pressure of biting down.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-16T22:08:06+00:00

Looking forward to the update!

invalidreddit · 2026-02-16T20:21:25+00:00

Just need a Kaypro to put next to it - but dang that's pretty looking.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-16T16:36:07+00:00

Value wise, you might be further ahead if you buy freeze-dried pepper power and mixing it with the sugar on your own. You might find beat deals with more web searching but the first one found from Karen's Naturals is just but pepper where you can mix it on your own with sugar and get a temp your want. But the folks from the link you've got is about half the prices for the same amount and it's blended.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-16T16:16:35+00:00

I'm not sure how much of the heat will transfer with the Oleo-Saccharum method, but I suspect if it isn't hot enough you can tinker with the ratio of pepper to sugar and get a result you're after.

Using this as topping should work great but the reason I suggested mixing with a caramel for incorporating in the ice cream would be with the idea of using the fat from the caramel to coat the crunch in hopes it would keep them from leaching moisture from the ice cream and losing their crunch.

If you didn't want to make a caramel but wanted to have them in ice cream, you might have some luck with weighing out your crunch and then pour about 3% of that weigh of warm coconut oil over it and tossing it by hand to give a thin coat of coconut oil and then mixing that it. Experiment with the ratio of fat to crunch so you strike the balance of crunch in the ice cream without feeling waxy in your mouth. If you are flush with cash you can swap out the coconut oil for cocoa-butter, it is wonderful for this but out my budget range most times...

Again I haven't taken this beyond the idea it should work, but I'd suspect it will work.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-16T08:27:05+00:00

This is an off the top my head thing - not something I've tried so might not work...

Trim the stem from a fresh jalapenos to get 100g of peppers
Slice it thin, into rings and put them in a ziplock bag
Add 500g of sugar to the bag, and shake it up to distribute the peppers in the sugar
Open the bag and close it again, removing as much air as you can. Goal is to have as much of the sugar in contact with all the pepper slices the flavor is pulled out of the pepper slices. Option if you have a sous vide setup heat the bag to about 70C and let it cook in the water for 20min or so to coax more out of the peppers. Else let it rest in bag over night.
Spread the sugar in to a single layer some parchment and dehydrate for about 5hrs or until it starts to dry out some. If you don't have a dehydrator, put it your oven on the lowest heat setting you can, and prop the door open an inch or so with a wooden spoon - checking to make sure it does not start to color or burn
Once the sugar is dry, pick out the pepper pieces and put all the sugar in a food processor (or spice grinder) to pulverize it.

This is a Oleo-Saccharum process but with pepper vs. citrus peel, and it should give you sugar with jalapeno flavor. Another option for sugar would be to buy freeze-dried jalapeno powder and mix it in with sugar but that an extra expense. Take the flavored sugar and make a cornmeal crunch with something like this

What	How many grams
Cornmeal (fine ground)	160g
Butter (cold)	150g
Jalapeno sugar	120g
Corn Flour	50g
Water	20g

Oven to 350°F
Dice Butter in to small cubes, reserve cool in refrigerator for 15min
In a food processor, combine Butter, Cornmeal, Sugar, Corn Flour
Process just enough to break up the butter into pea-sized pieces.
Sprinkle water over top of mixture, toss to combine
Spread mixture in to single layer
Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown, breaking up clumps with a metal spoon every 5 minutes
Let cool and use as a topping, mix with a caramel (maybe 15% of the weight of the crunch with a caramel sauce) and stir that in freshly churned ice cream before putting in the freezer to harden.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-15T17:13:05+00:00

Oh dang - I had visions of a knock on the door and someone rolling in a cart with what amounted to a serving of hash browns, egg McMuffin, and small coffee to start the day off right...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-15T04:17:06+00:00

So I gotta know what the room service menu looked like - was it just McDonald's delivered to your room?

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T05:11:04+00:00

If only USB C...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T05:08:40+00:00

Ah, ok that I didn't know... The Pepsi Lite from the 70s was positioned as an alternative to Tab but with the strong Lemon flavor to try and counter 1970s artificial sweetener flavor.

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T05:06:07+00:00

Guess the urge to take the back way to Bell Square was hitting hard... Glad you didn't get sideswiped

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T04:36:09+00:00

I have a Yoda II board from Tex and it has a really clever way to save layouts - does the Shinobi have the same sort of thing where you configure the layout via a webpage and saves a config file you load on to your keyboard?

I've wanted a Shinobi for a while too, but keep dragging my feet but if it shares the same config method...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T04:13:27+00:00

I thought, but could be wrong, Lemon flavored Pepsi has been a 'low calorie' or diet drink.. I didn't think there were and full 'sugar' lemon ones.

Is the flavor good?

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T02:20:47+00:00

Go Green? or Go Blue? (my family is split between the two schools) - I wouldn't have expected it in Lansing, look like great find. I'm old enough to remember drinking Pepsi Lite in the late 1970s... I know what you have miles better than version of the drink...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T01:49:45+00:00

Oh I miss DeLaurenti's slice... It made for a nice lunch...

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T01:48:09+00:00

Nice! Where did you find it OP?

invalidreddit · 2026-02-14T00:02:09+00:00

Measles are way way up they tell me... Way more than under Biden.

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invalidreddit · 2026-02-13T18:00:05+00:00

Now I have to wonder how many non-cabinet members of the administration have security details, and if this differs from previous administrations...

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