Re:The Meltdown of Ample Hills
by carabiner on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:53PM
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This seems like a startup opportunity for a group with the chemistry / food science / mechanical engineering chops. Build machinery that can make consistent ice cream at scale in a turn key operation. Sounds incredibly hard and capital intensive.
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Not quite so simple.
It's not like mega-ice cream companies like Breyers don't already have an army of chemists, food scientists and mechanical engineers on staff to solve these problems - and yet they still have a tough time producing real ice cream at everyday prices.
The silicon valley wiz-bang startup crowd often forgets... sometimes an industry's incumbents are not lazy and incompetent.
Re:The Meltdown of Ample Hills
by fredophile on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:28PM
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There is machinery that can make consistent ice cream at scale. The problem is that it is very different from the machinery you would use at smaller scales so matching the results of the two processes is very hard.