The Frolic Engineering Story: How the Frolic Machine Produces the Smoothest Ice Cream Available
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Frolic’s one-of-a-kind pod-style machine is the answer to every dessert lover's needs. To truly understand why our ice cream is superior, it’s important to understand what Frolic has set out to do and how we’re doing it.
- What is Frolic?
- How does the Frolic machine work?
- What makes Frolic unique?
- Why do ice cream enthusiasts love Frolic?
What is Frolic?
Frolic Ice Cream is a modern ice cream brand that focuses on bringing high quality gourmet ice cream into peoples homes. Frolic’s countertop ice cream maker utilizes single serve pods to provide consumers with fresh churned, completely customizable ice cream in just minutes - think of it as the Keurig for ice cream!
With mediocre at-home ice cream options available in the current market, Frolic set out to create a machine that would provide consumers with a Michelin-star experience from the comfort of their homes.
How does the Frolic machine work?
Through research and innovation, the founders of Frolic realized that the key to the creamiest ice cream lies heavily in the ice crystal size - the smaller, the creamier!
All grocery store ice creams are made the same way - mixed and packaged in huge quantities, frozen, and then shipped to grocery stores for sale. In order to ensure that the ice cream will last its trip from the factory it is frozen to super low temps to make it extra hard. This is why when you open an ice cream carton, you’re welcomed with a sweet treat that’s hard, and even crumbly. While the texture may have been creamy and smooth upon making the ice cream, there’s simply no way to maintain that texture when it has to go through the industrial supply chain.
The frolic machine uses a high-speed stainless steel blade that shaves and atomizes the ice crystals within our premade ice cream pods to achieve the smallest ice crystals to optimize texture and taste. As a result, Frolic’s ice cream features a 4-7 micrometer ice crystal size, nearly 10x less than traditional ice cream alternatives available in the grocery store.
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Ice Crystal Size |
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Frolic Ice Cream |
4-7 micrometers |
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Standard Store-Bought Ice Cream |
30-40 micrometers |
Because of the machine's ability to break down the ice crystals so small - Frolic’s ice cream is guaranteed to be smooth and creamy every time! We’re talking ice cream so smooth you would previously need a restaurant-grade machine that could cost upwards of $10,000.
Frolic is the only counter-top machine on the market that uses this same technology, engineered in a simpler, more accessible way. This is what makes Frolic a fraction of the cost, allowing every day ice cream lovers to get to experience the very best the ice cream world has to offer.
What makes Frolic unique?
There are a few things that make Frolic’s ice cream like no other options that are available for at-home consumption. The most impactful are:
1. Ingredients
Frolic’s pre-portioned ice cream pods are made from the good stuff - grass-fed and organic milk and heavy cream, and pure cane sugar. Those top quality ingredients are mixed together and immediately frozen before arriving at your doorstep.
2. Time
Frolic’s ice cream pods come pre-made and already frozen. Just grab one from the freezer, pop it in your Frolic machine, and you have fresh churned, restaurant-quality ice cream in minutes!
Other ice cream machines designed for at-home use, like the Ninja Creami, require the consumer to make their own ice cream bases. This would require you to purchase the ingredients needed to make the ice cream (milk, cream, sugar, flavoring), mix them, and freeze them, often for upwards of 24 hours, before they’re ready to be used.
For a more in depth look at how Frolic compares to the Ninja Creami, check out this full guide comparing everything an ice cream lover would need to know about the two.
3. Size
Compact is key! Even the biggest ice cream lovers likely are not looking to have industrial sized equipment in their home in order to get their fix. Frolic is the only machine of its kind that is engineered to produce the quality of restaurant quality ice cream while still being able to fit right on your counter.
4. Flavor
Frolic allows you to combine their base ice cream pods with any ingredient you can think of to create completely customizable flavor profiles.
While other ice cream makers on the market allow the ability to add mix-ins, they’re just that. Pieces broken up and mixed with the ice cream. Frolic’s one of a kind design breaks up the added ingredients so finely that they become atomized within the ice cream itself. Instead of vanilla ice cream with strawberry pieces mixed in - it’s truly strawberry ice cream.
5. Texture
Frolic’s proprietary design breaks down the ice crystals smaller than any other product on the market, ensuring the smoothest at-home ice cream experience possible.
Why do ice cream enthusiasts love Frolic?
People that love ice cream, and we mean *really* love ice cream - are looking for a couple of things to judge the sweet treat on.
- The Look: What color is it? Are the mix-ins evenly distributed?
- The Taste: Are the flavors easily identified? Do they work well together?
- The Feel: How does the ice cream feel in your mouth? Too runny, too lumpy, just right?
- The Texture: Is it creamy and smooth? Too hard? Too soft?
The Bottom Line
At Frolic, we’ve engineered an ice cream machine that’s first of its kind (in our humble opinions). Frolic combines the technology and innovation responsible for Michelin-star rated restaurant quality ice cream, with the hometown ice cream lover in mind - a pod-style countertop ice cream machine that makes high-quality, smooth and creamy ice cream in just two minutes!