A Physics-Defying Appliance That Bakes Up Hot Ice Cream (Say Wha?)

Most of us are glad to use up ice cream straight out of the container ; even scooping it into a cone seems like too much of a rough-and-tumble . But a restaurant in Spain call up El Celler de Can Roca has come up with a new way to serve the frozen delicacy — they broil it . Or , more specifically , they use a machine called theOxymoron Maker IIto entomb a scoop of crank emollient inside a freshly baked brioche .

It ’s a neat parlor magic trick , made possible by this wonderful unstained steel and bamboo appliance , custom designed and built by Andreu Carulla for the restaurant . It promptly heats up and bake the brioche clams before the ice pick can completely melt into a fluid mess . Think of it as a classier alternative to the fry trash cream gimmick that made a restaurant called Chi - Chi ’s so pop back in the day .

Sadly , if you want to try it at base , you wo n’t have the benefit of Carulla ’s wonderful appliance since El Celler de Can Roca has no intentions of letting him betray their primary attraction to the residual of the cosmos . But going back to just eating Ben & Jerry ’s out of tub with a spoon is an all right consolation prize . [ Andreu CarullaviaMoCo Loco ]