As summer approaches, here is an innovation that should delight lovers of ice cream and granita. The Rizvi Lab has developed a machine capable, within seconds, of making ice creams, all without chemical process. 

An innovation that is very timely for the summer. It's a new kind of ice cream maker, which makes ice cream in seconds.

I do not know if you have already used the old-fashioned ice cream makers, those where you must not stop milling so that the mixture takes and turns into sorbet or ice, but it is very long. Even with an electric ice cream maker, you still have to wait a good half hour or more.

A whole new technique has just been patented. No more turning. Gas is injected at very high pressure into its mixture (milk, egg, vanilla) and the reaction takes place instantly. You get perfect ice in two or three seconds flat.

And is it chemical? What is gas like?

It's just carbon dioxide. So it has no taste, no smell, there is nothing chemical. In addition, playing on the pressure, you can make the ice cream more or less smooth or even make granita (the juice with ice that looks like snow). So it's a technique that could make you want to have an ice cream maker at home.

I imagine it will also interest professionals.

Yes. It could even revolutionize the distribution of ice cream. Today, they are prepared in a central kitchen, then transported in refrigerated trucks to the point of sale. With this kind of machine, ice cream can be produced on demand, just before serving. Without the need for fridges to store the cream. Which is good for the environment.

It is an invention of the Rizvi Lab. Unfortunately, ice cream maker manufacturers are just starting to take out licenses. So it will be a bit fair to take advantage of the first machines this summer.