Module 5: Taste
This week you’ll explore magic ingredients and flavour before planning your ultimate ice cream!
Ingredient swaps
We know that a creamy, scoopable, flavourful ice cream has 5 types of ingredients.
For each of these ingredient types, there are lots of different choices. For example, to add sugar to your ice cream, you could use icing sugar, or you could use maple syrup.
But, when you change ingredients, your ice cream changes too.
Condensed milk
Condensed milk is regular milk that’s been changed by STEM superstars.
First, they take out most of the water that's inside it. Then, they mix it with sugar. This means condensed milk has medium fat, high sugar and low water.
Do you remember how fat and sugar impact your three ice cream goals? How do you think condensed milk would change your ice cream?
Activity 5.1: Magic ingredients
Explore ice cream ingredient choices and how they might change your ice cream.
Find your flavour
Flavour is what takes your ice cream to the next level. And sometimes, two flavours are better than one.
Every great flavour pairing starts with the five basic tastes.
Flavour matches
Once you know the five basic tastes, you can start mixing them to create flavour matches. Flavour matches work when they achieve one of three things.
Activity 5.2: Flavour chemistry
Display these instructions on screen as you find flavour matches using the flavour cards in your kit.
Ice cream quiz
Show off your challenge knowledge by competing in the ice cream quiz!
Your ultimate ice cream plan
You’ve discovered how ice, fat, sugar, air and flavour make ice cream creamy, scoopable and flavourful.
Now it’s time to use all this knowledge to plan your final ice cream creation.
Activity 5.3: Ultimate ice cream plan
Plan the ingredients and methods you’ll use to create your ultimate ice cream.
Reminder!
Start collecting everything you need to create your ultimate ice creams! You’ll also need to freeze more ice, chill your cream in the fridge, and place your cold plates upside down in the freezer.
Module 5 checklist
Mīharo. Today you:
- Explored ingredient swaps
- Discovered flavour pairings
- Competed in the ice cream quiz
- Planned your ultimate ice cream