![]() ![]() Amid the death and destruction, some combination of luck or destiny or smarts saved them-and therefore saved the voices that can still tell the world what it looks like when human beings find new and terrible ways to destroy one another. For the survivors of those ruined cities, the coming of the bomb was a personal event before it was a global one. As TIME noted in the week following the bombings, the men aboard the Enola Gay could only summon two words: “My God!”īut, even as world leaders and ordinary citizens alike immediately began struggling to process the metaphorical aftershocks, one specific set of people had to face something else. New frontiers of science were opening, along with new and frightening moral questions. World War II would end, and the Cold War soon begin. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later-was that rare historical moment that requires little hindsight to gain its significance. The decision by the United States to drop the world’s first atomic weapons on two Japanese cities-Hiroshima first, on Aug. When the nuclear age began, there was no mistaking it. Photographs by HARUKA SAKAGUCHI | Introduction By LILY ROTHMAN We learned a lot while we were developing our exciting new Non-Dairy line.Survivors of the Atomic Blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki share their stories The Non-Dairy Flavors Had a Bit of a Melting Learning Curve. ![]() That’s why when you melt and then refreeze ice cream, it’s firmer and a little bit smaller on the second freeze: no air to fluff it up! But here’s an interesting fact: Ben & Jerry’s has less air than most ice cream out there-we like it rich and dense! 7. When the ice cream melts, its delicate molecular structure breaks down, and all those microscopic air bubbles escape. Prepare, there’s science ahead: ice cream is an emulsion of a whole bunch of different euphoric ingredients – cream, sugar, fruits, flavor bases, and even air. Soft ice cream is not partially-melted ice cream its composition just gives it different physical properties in its frozen state. You know how sometimes you pull a pint out of the freezer and it’s already pretty soft and scoopable? You feel secret delight at its scoopability, but a hint of fear that you may have a melting disaster on your hands? Have no fear! This does not mean that your bowl of ice cream is going to melt away at lightning speed (although feel free to gobble it up at lightning speed, just in case). But our Flavor Gurus-who know a thing or two about ice cream-are adamant that 10° to 12☏ is the ideal temperature for serving Ben & Jerry’s. And some people like ice cream soup that you can drink with a straw. ![]() Some people like their ice cream so hard you need a knife to slice and dice it. (We tried hiring extra-muscley body builders to do the scooping, but ultimately this was easier.) 4. What you didn’t know is that they’re actually formulated to be a bit softer and more spoonable so that scoopers can scoop them easily. While our Scoop Shop flavors use the same recipes as the flavors that go into pints, they get packed into big tubs that our scoopers dive into when they serve you a cone. Add enough of it, and it will forever be a milkshake. Booze Changes Everything.Įver wonder why that bottle of vodka in your freezer doesn’t ever actually … freeze? As it turns out, alcohol totally changes the freezing point of ice cream, more drastically than any other ingredient. This ingenious trick means that they melt at a similar speed as the ice cream they’re mixed into – otherwise your ice cream would melt away in your mouth, leaving you with hard pieces of chocolate to contend with. They’re formulated to melt at a lower temperature than a regular chocolate bar that you might pick up at the store. In fact, the chunks of chocolate that you find in Phish Food and Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey (and New York Super Fudge Chunk and Banana Split and. Tell us the truth: you’ve never broken your tooth on one of our chocolate chunks, right? You have our Flavor Gurus to thank for that - they knew that frozen chocolate is hard and brittle, and isn’t actually the most delicious thing you’ve ever had. We chatted with our Flavor Gurus to bring you some really cool fun facts about melting that will help you get to know the foe of your favorite dessert. But it turns out that there’s a heck of a lot of cool science behind melting ice cream. ![]() If it’s melted, it’s ruined, we like to say ( wait, where have you heard that before?). What’s an ice cream lover’s biggest nemesis? (No, this isn’t a cheesy joke.) Melting! That’s right, melted ice cream has been known to bring a tear to the eye of even the steeliest ice cream lover. ![]()
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