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We Asked 3 Chefs to Name the Best Ice Cream, and They All Said the Same Thing
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The thing about ice cream is that eating it is never a bad idea. I’ve eaten ice cream to celebrate triumphs, and I’ve eaten ice cream to soften the sting of failure. No matter which occasion it accompanied, it was always cold, sweet, and right on time.
Case in point: When I was a line cook, I worked under a sous chef who kept a gallon of vanilla ice cream in the walk-in freezer at all times. As a former smoker, he had switched from taking smoke breaks to snagging a random spoonful of ice cream, and I always thought it was a particularly brilliant move. Thinking about him made me wonder what brand of vanilla ice cream — the standard bearer of all ice cream flavors — do chefs love most? So I asked, and here’s what I found out.
The Best Vanilla Ice Cream to Buy, According to Chefs
Emma Hearst, chef, author, and founder of Forts Ferry Farm and the Farm Shoppe, thinks people shouldn’t overlook a high-quality vanilla ice cream: “Although vanilla ice cream can often be looked at as a sleeper, in my opinion it is actually the most useful of all the ice creams because it can serve as a blank canvas or be melted down into a sauce.” Hearst stocks an artisanal ice cream from Woodstock, New York, at the Farm Shoppe, but when it comes to a classic grocery-store vanilla, “I always go H?agen-Dazs.”
Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream, Vanilla
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$5.99
Those flecks got a nod from baker and author of Breaking Bao (out this fall), Clarice Lam. “I love H?agen-Dazs vanilla bean ice cream for its ultra-creamy, custard-like consistency and splatters of vanilla bean freckles.” Lam likes to top crispy liège waffles with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a liberal drizzle of hot fudge. (The Belgian breakfast staple is popping up on shelves across grocery stores.)
“The warmth from the waffle and fudge melt the outermost layer of ice cream from both the bottom and the top to create a delightful dance of textures and temperatures that are to die for.”
Buy: H?agen-Dazs Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, $5.29 (on sale!) for 14 ounces at Amazon
This article originally published on The Kitchn. See it there: We Asked 3 Chefs to Name the Best Ice Cream, and They All Said the Same Thing
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