Friday, July 24, 2009

Quick Review: Dairy Queen- Blizzard



Since there are no Dairy Queen locations close to where I live, I have always been curious about the ice cream.  Particularly, the Blizzard.  It's basically soft serve ice cream blended up with various toppings.  I decided to try chocolate ice cream with cookie dough and fudge.  The chocolate soft serve itself was not terribly dense, it was more airy.  I prefer it more creamy and dense, like Carvel.   Also, the chocolate flavor was not very strong, which I didn't like.  It was too mild in terms of chocolatey-ness.  The cookie dough bits were soft and they tasted just like the store-bought cookie dough.  The fudge was nowhere to be found... I think it got blended away or there wasn't enough of it.  All in all, I'm glad I got to try Dairy Queen but I don't think I would return back.  The ice cream is just average... and it's too far away anyways.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Since I have extensive experience with dealing with ice cream, I will comment on this post. I think that the key to soft serve are the machines that are used to make it. An ice cream machine can run you up $15-$30,000. Often times, store owners opt for smaller, inexpensive machines to make their ice cream. However, the smaller machines NEED to be cleaned at least 3x a week. It truly does affect the consistency of the soft serve because ice cream builds up on the beaters inside the machine. So that was my take on why the consistency was probably poor at dairy queen. Don't you love having an insider at an ice cream shop? Enjoy, love Stacey!