Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 18, 2004
Twisted Thinking

The ice cream a young child had at the park last night:

Chocolate-Vanilla twist ice cream cone.

made Doug Baker and Dave Spiro of Yale-New Haven Hospital wonder the following

(Download movie.)

If the chocolate and vanilla are being twisted together, how do you get one side of the cone to be one flavor? I have no clue.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:54 PM | Ice Cream | TrackBack (0)
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The ice cream comes out in alternating vanilla and chocolate. It's designed so that when you make the circles of the ice cream in a cone that it ends up being chocolate on one side and vanilla on the other. Nothing too complicated.

Posted by: sabernar at August 18, 2004 05:16 PM

They were rotating the cone at the exact rotational speed of the earth.

Posted by: steve at August 18, 2004 10:42 PM

I just spent 10 minutes pestering my mother by phone about this ice cream question because she sells soft ice cream. The chocolate and vanilla ice creams are in two separate tanks. When you want a twist cone you use the center tap. Ice cream comes out in a tube shape that is half chocolate, half vanilla (each taking up one half of the tube). When the ice cream hits the cone, the tube of chocolate/vanilla sits down on the cone. Say the chocolate half is facing out at this point. As the ice cream continues to fall across the top of the cone, the cone-maker rotates the cone. About half way across, the vanilla half is now facing out.

I never dreamed it was this complicated. My mom made two cones and one dish of ice cream before we could figure it out. And I'm still not sure I get it.

She thinks scientists are a pain in the butt because they want to understand these things. I want to eat ice cream until it makes sense.

maybe sabernar knows of another model ice cream dispenser.

Posted by: Lynne at August 19, 2004 03:10 PM

thats my crushes ice cream and the side of his face lmao

Posted by: k at August 19, 2004 09:52 PM

It is so refreshing to know that two of my mentors at YNHH are asking the truly important questions....to understand frozen dairy is to understand life itself....

Posted by: jeff seiden at August 20, 2004 10:54 PM