this sweet treat is universally loved the world over comes in every flavor imaginable contains
every topic and every item imaginable it could be crunchy creamy chewy gooey even
spicy you can spoon it you can drink it you can put it in the dish with all your favorite toppings
i have to tell you guys this is one of those days where i can't believe
i get paid to do this because today we're going to an ice cream factory
98 of all u.s households have ice cream at home at this very moment and in fact
the average american eats about 23 pounds of ice cream per year each the u.s produces 1.5 billion
pounds a year and ice cream is an 11 billion dollar a year industry i screamed for it you
screamed for it but today we get the inside scoop because this is modern marvel's ice
cream
today i'm gonna start at the turkey hill dairy it overlooks the susquehanna river right here
in conestoga pennsylvania the dairy is a massive operation it sits on 72 acres and they produce
over 70 different ice cream varieties started as a humble dairy in 1931 it has now grown
so big that they produce 25 million gallons of ice cream per year and today i am lucky enough to
have a tour with this fine fellow the director of supply chain management derek frye who is
also the great grandson of the founder of turkey hill that's correct turkey hill started making
ice cream in 1954 using derek's own great grandmother's home recipes and guess what
they still use some of his great-grandmother's recipes for turkey hills premium label ice cream
today so your great grandmother made it by hand in 1954 but how are you making it in the 21st
century will you show me absolutely let's go check it out all right let's go make some ice cream
today turkey hill is whipping up a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough
this room right here this is really where we start to make ice cream okay adam i'll let you select
a recipe here okay we'd like to do premium white and how many gallons should i enter three thousand
we're gonna make 3 000 gallons of ice cream 3 000 gallons of ice cream mix this 3 000 gallon silo is
actually going to yield about 6 000 gallons of finished product because of uh the fact that we
add air to ice cream as well as other ingredients such as cookie dough and chocolate chips time to
fire this batch up and sorry to disappoint all you home confectioners but turkey hill keeps all
their ice cream recipes top secret okay you can't see this this is censored let's light this candle
at this point it's just milk and sugar so sugars are coming in up here
it's time to drop some science on that ice cream mix that we just made this baby right here this
is the pasteurization unit we heat the mix up to 180 we run it through these holding tubes
so it holds it at that temperature holds it and it's it's timed out to last 30 seconds
from there we're going to send it over to the homogenizer gotcha and those are those pistons
they're actually going to make sure that all the particles the fat the actual milk particles the
flavoring elements everything is the same size and that kind of evenness is what makes that
creamy feeling in your mouth and then where does it go so we're going to drop it down to 34 degrees
before we put it into a holding tank and take it down to ice cream and the holding tanks are just
over here right out here follow me lead on so this is an ice cream yet this is just the base
it hasn't gone through freezing and it has no added flavorings or cookie dough i'm very
curious to see how it tastes we're going to take one of our syringes put it in the sample port
slowly draw out the ice cream mix okay oh look at that oh wow look at that okay let me
carefully withdraw this excellent okay wow flavored coffee creamer eat your heart out
this is like proto ice cream it's a special sauce right there
oh come on
it's like the smell old-fashioned vanilla is the first three words that came to mind
it's just amazing this is maybe one of the best vanilla flavors you will ever have ever
fasten your seat belts because we're now at my favorite stage of the ice cream making process
adding the flavors and inclusions inclusions are like toppings but swirled right
into the ice cream itself this is exactly where the mix will come into the flavor
our premium white mix still tastes like vanilla until we add this
that is so awesome have you just made your first cookie dough ice cream mix it's time to finally
add the cookie dough to our cookie dough ice cream these look too good not to try cheers
it's delicious and it has like the same granularity of real cookie dough that's the thing
that i love it doesn't taste artificial you can keep your tequila give me a cookie dough shooter
but i'm learning there is a lot more than just cookie dough in this cookie dough ice cream
liquid like liquid chocolate syrup
it's like chocolate chip 2.0 it's amazing liquid chocolate chips people
we are living in the future we've made our mix added our inclusions and now we're
finally loading up those iconic turkey hill cartons with our own batch of cookie dough ice
is your cream
oh yeah
i can eat it like this right here
oh my god this is unlike any ice cream you're ever going to have because you know why before
you freeze it i think you really taste the characteristic of every ingredient
you taste the cream you taste the milk you get the little tiny liquid chips the cookie dough
it's soft but different sauce in the ice cream it's i'm telling you if you can go to a creamery
if you can go to turkey hill it's better than every soft serve it's better than every hard pack
i just uh i want a spoon and some privacy that's it all right so now it goes to the freezer
if you being nice patient informed and letting me do
fun stuff weren't enough you gave me a bite of arguably some of the best ice cream
i've ever had in the coolest way imaginable so i'm giving you an air hog and an elbow bump you're so
cool michelle thank you so much i'm gonna go find a treadmill i'm gonna take some ice cream
that's it our batch of turkey hill cookie dough ice cream is on its way to a supermarket near you
if i could only decide which flavor i want to have next
where do you guys keep the mint chocolate chip
you