Who invented soft serve ice cream

The air bubbles are essential to giving ice cream its texture. Think of it as foamier. An at-least-partially apocryphal story about s British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher suggests that when she was working as a food chemist, she helped invent the technique that added even more air to soft serve—cold air, not hot air, but the political metaphor still works.

Soft serve can consist mostly of air, writes Daniela Galarza for Eater, while "regular" ice cream has to be less than 30 percent air.

A side effect of all this air is that soft serve is much warmer than regular ice cream, Rohrig writes. Regular ice cream is about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, while soft serve is about 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Thatcher's task in that role? To help figure out a way to whip extra air into ice cream using emulsifiers -- so that the ice cream could be manufactured with fewer ingredients , thereby reducing production costs.

And so that, additionally, the dairy-y result could flow from a machine rather than being scooped by hand. While Thatcher's exact contribution to the effort remains, in a way that would foreshadow her future political career, a matter of controversy , her team ultimately succeeded.

And the work resulted, ultimately, in the swirly stuff we know today as soft serve. Or, if you're in Britain, " soft scoop. According to this, by inventing these low grade soft serve ice creams, she is making higher profits. Home History. History Ice Cream is a type of dessert liked by all age group people. Below is the long-winded history in peculiar steps: [1] It was started in over the Memorial Day by Tom Carvel.

Contact Us. Mobile No. Your Email. In , when Tom was only four years old, his parents decided to leave what was then impoverished Greece for Connecticut in America. At the age of 26, after a variety of careers that ranged from a drummer in a Dixieland band to an auto test driver for Studebakers, Carvel was incorrectly diagnosed with fatal tuberculosis and fled to the country air of Westchester, New York.

Some bad luck on Memorial Day weekend in turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Carvel. When his truck suffered a flat tire, he pulled his trailer into a parking lot next to a pottery store and began selling his melting ice cream to vacationers driving by. Carvel sold his entire supply of ice cream in just two days. This is when he realised he could make a lot more money working from a fixed location.