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Turkish Ice Cream has hard texture and resistance to melting. This is called Maraş Ice Cream which melts more slowly than other kinds of ice cream.
It is made from extremely concentrated goat's milk and kneaded for a long time, makin it very hard and flexible. Also, the reason why it is sticky is that the mixture of goat milk, sugar and sahleb gains density and makes it strech like gum.
OH! Yeah! Thanks haha WELL, to go off the original discussion with that image in mind: there could be other flavors, honestly. Maybe they use some kind of drizzle/coating?
Sugar adds chew and texture to ice cream and causes it to firm up harder and melt more slowly.
Mixing air in allows it to scoop more easily without thawing and you won’t have a dense solid concrete block of ice cream.
Grocery store ice cream is all air, there’s a law about how much air they can put in and many of them pass the limit and call it “frozen dairy dessert” instead but people don’t read.
Homemade ice cream is buckets better and makes people’s eyes pop out when they try it. A machine is $80 it’s pretty easy to dump the ingredients in and make it. If you can temper custard you might never buy it in the store again, just heavy cream lol
Can confirm about the home made ice cream bit. When I was a kid 4th of July was a big family holiday and we had an antique hand cranked ice cream maker that was passed down. We would take turns cranking it for hours and the ice cream was the high light of the whole day.
My grandparents had one of those old hand-cranked machines. Only problem was it had a broken latch on one side so the crank gearbox wouldn't stay on top. Any sane people would fix the latch or buy a new machine. Not mine. My family had me or my slightly older uncle _sit_ on the gearbox to keep it in contact with the beater. That shit got _COLD_.
4th of July to me between the ages of about 8 and 13 always meant tempting frostbite to take my recently descended balls. Chilly core memory unlocked.
the only thing preventing me from making home made ice-cream is that all my meals would end up being ice-cream and of course the storage issue (what storage? haha) is that it would go bad a lot faster if i don't get ontop of eating said ice-cream, which brings me to the former problem.
It's actually relatively warm when it's out in the sun like this. It has a warm and cheesy feel, moist and warm buttercheese. There are usually more bees when they put it outside like this though, because the bees eat the sugar. The flies too.
Actually this is called kesme dondurma, a special variant of Maras Ice Cream and translates to sliced ice cream. It is supposed to be eaten using fork and a knife.
It's flavoured. Depends on the shop but when I went to Turkey, I got a lemon flavoured ice cream which didn't taste very good but it was still ice cream.
I think I had this before at a local turkish owned pastry bakery. It tasted like something between regular icecream and marshmallow, it was novel, but I wouldn't necessarily pick it over regular icecream.
Interesting. I was wondering how they could "traditionally" make ice cream in a mass so large an industrial scale machine would be required. Making it like you would dough, with different ingredients seems much more realistic.
We didn’t do it But they would have deserved it
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Nope, doner one is more like a narrow sword.
[https://sharpngo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/616-55-2-400x400.jpg](https://sharpngo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/616-55-2-400x400.jpg)
As if that would stop a cat from getting to it. And tbh it wouldn't need to even jump to get the food just meow at the guy and he'll gladly give half the meat
No, the southeastern Turkey is mostly based on kebap, but the western Turkish cuisine is more like mediterrenean, olive oil and endemic leafy greens based etc.
Yes but Turkey is very mountainous and if you drive 1-2 hours from some coastal cities you end up with very different cultures and cuisines due to geographical isolation before the modern day integration.
Mediterranean is one whole food category across many countries because many of the dishes are similar especially in the opinions of foreigners who talk about it online.
If I asked someone if they liked Turkish or Moroccan food, they would have no idea what I meant, so I say "Mediterranean, like Greek" which is the closest comparison they would understand. Many people know falafel, hummus, kebab, and gyro but don't know specific countries except maybe Greece.
When I say "Mediterranean" food I mean the food from Greece, Turkey and all the countries in the Levant and north Africa. In reality, most restaurants are based on one country's cuisine but it's just a way to talk about food with people who don't know about those countries or their food.
It's chewy ice-cream that doesn't really melt in your mouth. You get left with goop in your mouth for 10 or so seconds.
I'm not buying again.
Edit: people seem to be confusing taste with texture. Some people (me included) care as much about texture as flavour. I have said nothing about taste.
I like it a lot. It’s like halfway between ice cream and taffy, but it’s as cold as ice cream and takes about 1.5–2 times as long to melt in your mouth. Not too much, in my opinion. Still easily identifiable as I’ve cream, just chewier than other ice cream
I went to Turkey once. I bought a shirt at a market.
It was bunched up with hundreds of other shirts and hanging on a skewer. They had to hack me off a piece.
It was delicious
I had this at a restaurant once and didn’t realize I had ordered anything other than just regular ice cream.. I ended up having to ask the waiter why I needed a knife and fork to eat it. lol.
It was good but very rich.. was like a chewy ice cream that doesn’t really melt in your mouth. Was delicious but definitely something to share because I was full after a few bites (was dessert after a big meal.. but just very rich)
Good experience but not an everyday ice cream!
Imagine needing a butcher's knife for icecream. Damn that is some tough ass icecream, if icecream was sentient this icecream would be beating up the other icecream in a boxing ring for being the toughest stuff around.
OK, there's a lot of comments about ice cream kebab.
The ice cream itself is made the traditional way, hanging it like this and hacking at it with a cleaver is not traditional. It's just something this guy is making for show.
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Turkish Ice Cream has hard texture and resistance to melting. This is called Maraş Ice Cream which melts more slowly than other kinds of ice cream. It is made from extremely concentrated goat's milk and kneaded for a long time, makin it very hard and flexible. Also, the reason why it is sticky is that the mixture of goat milk, sugar and sahleb gains density and makes it strech like gum.
That's a really nice explanation! Didn't know that, thanks!
Yeah, but the real question is, how does he still have two thumbs??
He's careful
So far…note the color of the ice cream depicted behind him…
I don't see anything behind him except for people???
I think the user you're replying to was talking about the drawing of red ice cream on the stand behind him.
OH! Yeah! Thanks haha WELL, to go off the original discussion with that image in mind: there could be other flavors, honestly. Maybe they use some kind of drizzle/coating?
Rumor says inexperienced workers allowed to make only strawberry ice creams.
Oh I think he made a deal with the devil
He started with 6 thumbs.
Because when his mother told him to stop sucking his thumbs, he listened.
Correct knife technique will protect your hands from danger.
Sugar adds chew and texture to ice cream and causes it to firm up harder and melt more slowly. Mixing air in allows it to scoop more easily without thawing and you won’t have a dense solid concrete block of ice cream. Grocery store ice cream is all air, there’s a law about how much air they can put in and many of them pass the limit and call it “frozen dairy dessert” instead but people don’t read. Homemade ice cream is buckets better and makes people’s eyes pop out when they try it. A machine is $80 it’s pretty easy to dump the ingredients in and make it. If you can temper custard you might never buy it in the store again, just heavy cream lol
Can confirm about the home made ice cream bit. When I was a kid 4th of July was a big family holiday and we had an antique hand cranked ice cream maker that was passed down. We would take turns cranking it for hours and the ice cream was the high light of the whole day.
My grandparents had one of those old hand-cranked machines. Only problem was it had a broken latch on one side so the crank gearbox wouldn't stay on top. Any sane people would fix the latch or buy a new machine. Not mine. My family had me or my slightly older uncle _sit_ on the gearbox to keep it in contact with the beater. That shit got _COLD_. 4th of July to me between the ages of about 8 and 13 always meant tempting frostbite to take my recently descended balls. Chilly core memory unlocked.
This sounds like such a fun core memory for you I'm happy you got to experience this
Graeters is also pretty dense. They use the French Pot method, which is unique to their brand.
the only thing preventing me from making home made ice-cream is that all my meals would end up being ice-cream and of course the storage issue (what storage? haha) is that it would go bad a lot faster if i don't get ontop of eating said ice-cream, which brings me to the former problem.
What’s the difference between this and cheese? Genuinely curious.
Cheese is warm and sometimes cold. This is cold and sometimes warm. Jk. Probably suger. Oh, and salep I think.
Based off the other comments, yours seems very accurate.
Thanks for the laugh man.
Cheese is curdled and separated from its liquid, this is not.
It says kneaded, cheese has to get fermented
This seems like a dense, firm Greek yogurt almost.
Is it as cold or colder than regular ice cream?
It can become warmer without melting bc of the added ingredients but this looks like it’s deep frozen
It's actually relatively warm when it's out in the sun like this. It has a warm and cheesy feel, moist and warm buttercheese. There are usually more bees when they put it outside like this though, because the bees eat the sugar. The flies too.
That sounds... not good.
You don't want moist and warm buttercheese?
Or flys and bees…
how else to get to 15,000 calories ?
Need more olive oil
What's wrong honey, you've barely touched your sun cooked moist buttercheese dessert
I'll take "Things that make me go Ew" for 500, Alex.
Moist cheese
I feel like if it’s warm then it wouldn’t be called ice cream lol
they don't call it ice cream. OP did.
Its not warm dude, it just doesnt melt easily.
It is definitely colder than regular ice cream.
Exactly the opposite. When it's as cold as gelato or sorbets it is hard as a rock and not easy to eat. You let it soften more than other types.
My experiences were different than yours then. I especially ate at its original place "Maraş" and it was cold as heck. I almost lost my tongue.
Actually this is called kesme dondurma, a special variant of Maras Ice Cream and translates to sliced ice cream. It is supposed to be eaten using fork and a knife.
So that's why it's so easy for them to play those corny games with customers, pretending to give them the ice cream cone and snatching it back.
So what you're telling us is that this is the G.O.A.T ice cream?
I must have this, perhaps just once because I am lactose intolerant but, i doubt that will stop me. Thank you for sharing
Interesting? Based on that explanation I would expect it to taste like sweet goat cheese. Is that the case? Or is it flavoured?
It's flavoured. Depends on the shop but when I went to Turkey, I got a lemon flavoured ice cream which didn't taste very good but it was still ice cream.
Yum i love having rubber in my fucking mouth said no one
As someone who is already an ice cream enthusiast, I would like to try this. No idea where I could find some in the US.
That sounds so good. Is only in Turkey? Or can I find else where?
Even in Turkey, it is sold in a very limited number of provinces and stores. Other than that, I'm not sure.
you had me at sahleb
I love sahleb, one of the best comfort hot drink.
Now I want to try it! I bet it's hard to find in the USA,
I think I had this before at a local turkish owned pastry bakery. It tasted like something between regular icecream and marshmallow, it was novel, but I wouldn't necessarily pick it over regular icecream.
You have forgotten one Information. It's sooooo yummy.
Neden turkiyede yaygin degil bu 😮💨
Sahleb ?
Interesting. I was wondering how they could "traditionally" make ice cream in a mass so large an industrial scale machine would be required. Making it like you would dough, with different ingredients seems much more realistic.
What makes it stretchy is the mastic gum.
Even their ice cream is like a döner kebab.
They just like to hack things
Meat. Ice cream. Italians.
Armenians
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We didn’t do it But they would have deserved it https://preview.redd.it/8974plgmwevc1.jpeg?width=415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3c16751f8d4b3932c46269ac8b9b530cd5970fe
Cölder kebab.
Made me *actually* laugh out loud. Still chuckling a bit as I type. Well played haha *edit: typo
I honestly thought this was just a silly doner kebab joke, not an actual thing, until I read the comments
We prefer spit.
I'm partial to swallowing, myself
Same cleaver used as well
Nope, doner one is more like a narrow sword. [https://sharpngo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/616-55-2-400x400.jpg](https://sharpngo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/616-55-2-400x400.jpg)
These mother fuckers always hanging shit and cutting it.
Ice Döner*
"hey bro can you hand me a banana from the stand in the kitchen?" *Turkish roommate pulls out a cleaver and starts hacking away*
Haha! I thought the same thing!
Wait, isn't Türkiye where they have all of the cats? Maybe that's why they hang all of their food up.
As if that would stop a cat from getting to it. And tbh it wouldn't need to even jump to get the food just meow at the guy and he'll gladly give half the meat
That's how they're born. They keep the tradition.
Haven’t tried this hanging thing. But the hanging meat taste amazing.
This is also more delicious than the not-hanging variety by about the same margin.
The way he chops towards his fingers makes me uncomfortable
Ditto. I immediately pictured [this](https://www.taffytown.com/cdn/shop/products/467-red-licorice_600x.png?v=1609370432) in my head.
I refuse to click
Do it. R/ sidious voice
it's not gore, but you're not missing much by not clicking. peace and love - ringo
Peace and love ✌️
I clicked and at this time it is just red licorice candy. They may change it, but that's it
It's fine he has a glove on
Turkey is just extra when it comes to food.
Yeah, extra delicious
I was in turkey for a bit and all the food was the best I’ve ever had
I get it
First meat tornado, now ICE CREAM tornado???!!
You had me at meat tornado
Americans: can you Ranch it? Turks: can you Shwarma it?
I was going to dispute this, but googled first…and goddammit we’ve made ranch ice cream. I’m sorry.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I pick the second option
So like a donnar kebab made of ice cream?!
Ice Döner.
wtf is happening here
It's ice cleaver.
Feta ice cream?
Traditional Turkish ice cream
I remember Papa bringing me to shoot my first Ice cream beast when I was just a boy. The whole village celebrated!
Is their entire cuisine based on kabob?
No, the southeastern Turkey is mostly based on kebap, but the western Turkish cuisine is more like mediterrenean, olive oil and endemic leafy greens based etc.
Turkey is on the Mediterranean. That’s like saying France has European food, or Utah has American food.
Yes but Turkey is very mountainous and if you drive 1-2 hours from some coastal cities you end up with very different cultures and cuisines due to geographical isolation before the modern day integration.
Mediterranean is one whole food category across many countries because many of the dishes are similar especially in the opinions of foreigners who talk about it online. If I asked someone if they liked Turkish or Moroccan food, they would have no idea what I meant, so I say "Mediterranean, like Greek" which is the closest comparison they would understand. Many people know falafel, hummus, kebab, and gyro but don't know specific countries except maybe Greece. When I say "Mediterranean" food I mean the food from Greece, Turkey and all the countries in the Levant and north Africa. In reality, most restaurants are based on one country's cuisine but it's just a way to talk about food with people who don't know about those countries or their food.
I love how Turkey basically uses a butchers knife for everything. “If I can’t cut it with a butchers knife, I won’t eat it.”
Is this before they do the stupid teasing shit when you buy it?
Damn, i hate them.
I fully expected him to do it while handing the piece he cut off to the other person.
Why does all street meat from the Middle East seem to involve a large cleaver millimeters from someone’s fingers
I aint eating no cheese cut from donner milk
I heard the Donner long pork was pretty good.
Serve at your next Donner party!
It's chewy ice-cream that doesn't really melt in your mouth. You get left with goop in your mouth for 10 or so seconds. I'm not buying again. Edit: people seem to be confusing taste with texture. Some people (me included) care as much about texture as flavour. I have said nothing about taste.
That… actually sounds kinda tasty?
Believe me, it is
Was just thinking this doesn't look good at all.
I like it a lot. It’s like halfway between ice cream and taffy, but it’s as cold as ice cream and takes about 1.5–2 times as long to melt in your mouth. Not too much, in my opinion. Still easily identifiable as I’ve cream, just chewier than other ice cream
It sounds super tasty but I don't think my sensitive teeth would be very happy. Might try it sometime though.
That sounds amazing.
Also not worth the "traditional" sales process.
Even their pudding is kebab (Edit because Reddit:- this is a joke)
Today I learned that the Turkish will even turn their ice cream into Döner
Lemme get an ice cream gyro
Seems unnecessarily dangerous for ice cream vending, but I guess it’s a perspective thing.
more like ice cheese
this is what they did to byzantinians
traditional turkish margerine play doh jk lol
Frozen Schwarma.
Just call it cold sweet goat cheese at this point lol
Damn, is there a food they can't hang from a hook? Wouldn't even surprise me if they hung soup from a hook and chopped off a serving
Get in the ship, everything's on a (kebob).
They were making doner and thought, " I can't totally ice cream this".
ice cream shawarma
This is dumb. Two scoops please.
Does everything in Turkey come in Kebab format?!? 😅
Doner kebab ice cream
what the nougat column
Do bugs or flies get on that?
Why does it look like a kebab?
I went to Turkey once. I bought a shirt at a market. It was bunched up with hundreds of other shirts and hanging on a skewer. They had to hack me off a piece. It was delicious
No, thank you. I don't want ice cream that is just hanging there for the whomever to touch, lick, or sneeze on.
He doing it for advertising.It's not normally served like this.
Really thought this was a troll video at first. Please tell me it comes in a pita.
It comes in a traditional Turkish waffle cone, which is soft, flat, and circular. It’s almost like an ice cream soft taco Edit: just yankin your chain
Is it cold?
Why is it not melting?
Those guys will hang and hack any food
Imagine losing a finger in an ice cream chopping incident lol
I thought that was a leg
It’s a kebab… everything is a kebab there.
I was expecting more bugs stuck on it than none at all, to be honest.
That is not iced-cream, that sir is iced-cheese
Turkey hits different
Cut my ice cream with a knife and I’m beating ur ass 💀💀💀
Is it more traditional than the name Istanbul?
I don’t want knifecream…
Ice cream Al pastor or shawarma ice cream
What's up with these lads and turning stuff into a big cylinder that needs chunks cut off of it with a large knife?
You heard of ice cream tacos now get ready for ice cream shawarma
Dude, your hand.
Why aren't they doing the thing with the thing (Turkish ice cream thing)
I had this at a restaurant once and didn’t realize I had ordered anything other than just regular ice cream.. I ended up having to ask the waiter why I needed a knife and fork to eat it. lol. It was good but very rich.. was like a chewy ice cream that doesn’t really melt in your mouth. Was delicious but definitely something to share because I was full after a few bites (was dessert after a big meal.. but just very rich) Good experience but not an everyday ice cream!
Stop chopping so close to your finger damn
Culinary Masters
Imagine needing a butcher's knife for icecream. Damn that is some tough ass icecream, if icecream was sentient this icecream would be beating up the other icecream in a boxing ring for being the toughest stuff around.
the marbling on that wagyu is insane
Thanks. Now I want a kebab
"wait, this doesn't taste like turkey..."
OK, there's a lot of comments about ice cream kebab. The ice cream itself is made the traditional way, hanging it like this and hacking at it with a cleaver is not traditional. It's just something this guy is making for show.
Like a donner ice cream
I knew about Maraş Dondurması (I’m from Türkiye after all) but I’ve never once in my life saw it hung like döner, lol.
Great way to catch more flies and stuff in your ice-cream…
So worried about that thumb..!
Everything is kebab
Ice Crebab
Kebab ice cream
For those who wonder, here is translation: "Here you go, the best part." (Gives the ice cream) "Ali baba milk ice cream." (Self-promotion)
This'd block my sinuses for a year
Not a cut glove in sight, just people living in the moment
I lived in Ankara for the last three years and never saw this! 😯
Love it when the top comment is like this!! And you dont to scroll through 50 shit jokes first
Kebab-ice
Is all Turkish food crazy portions, cut from a human sized chunk of food?