With all due respect to State College’s famous creamery, the Cold Stone Creamery makes great ice cream. The encouragement of the customer’s creativity is designing their own flavor is what sets them apart from their competitors. To permit this liberal use of mix-ins, however, the ice cream is usually kept fairly soft and melts easily. So it came as no surprise to Daddy last week when he scooped out a dish of take-home Cold-Stone ice cream and found it to be pretty runny. After all, he has left it on the counter to thaw for 20 minutes. Why? Because our freezer is so powerful, it usually turns the ice cream into a rock-hard solid chunk of icy goodness.
But not this time. Daddy didn’t seem to mind the runny ice cream, but when mommy went to scoop out a bowl of Ben and Jerry’s Fudge Brownie, she found a milk-shake consistency soup. Something was wrong. Mommy dragged daddy out of his chocolate-peanut butter induced stupor and they examined the freezer. It was cold, but not freezing. The frozen pasta was covered with frost, the cooler packs were soft, and worst of all, the breast milk mommy had placed in the freezer 2 days before was still liquid!
My milk-sicles were in imminent danger of thawing! Three months of storing mommy’s precious milk was about to go to waste! Who cares about the ice cream, the coffee, or the duckling (yes, we actually have a duck in our freezer! Maybe by Thanksgiving we’ll actually eat it). The milk must be saved!
It was soon discovered that Lowe’s opens at the ripe young time of 6:30am, only a few hours from the time of the discovery of malfunctioning freezer. Daddy was off at the crack of dawn, speeding away into the morning mists to wrangle up a new freezer. He returned home with a 5.0 cu ft deep freezer and, after
struggling through the process of getting it in the door, plugged it in. Two hours later, Gran carefully transferred the precious cargo to the new freezer. I am happy to report that all the milk units were sa
ved as well as the ice cream, and even the duck!
Operation Deep Freeze was a complete success! YAY!
But not this time. Daddy didn’t seem to mind the runny ice cream, but when mommy went to scoop out a bowl of Ben and Jerry’s Fudge Brownie, she found a milk-shake consistency soup. Something was wrong. Mommy dragged daddy out of his chocolate-peanut butter induced stupor and they examined the freezer. It was cold, but not freezing. The frozen pasta was covered with frost, the cooler packs were soft, and worst of all, the breast milk mommy had placed in the freezer 2 days before was still liquid!
My milk-sicles were in imminent danger of thawing! Three months of storing mommy’s precious milk was about to go to waste! Who cares about the ice cream, the coffee, or the duckling (yes, we actually have a duck in our freezer! Maybe by Thanksgiving we’ll actually eat it). The milk must be saved!
It was soon discovered that Lowe’s opens at the ripe young time of 6:30am, only a few hours from the time of the discovery of malfunctioning freezer. Daddy was off at the crack of dawn, speeding away into the morning mists to wrangle up a new freezer. He returned home with a 5.0 cu ft deep freezer and, after
struggling through the process of getting it in the door, plugged it in. Two hours later, Gran carefully transferred the precious cargo to the new freezer. I am happy to report that all the milk units were sa
ved as well as the ice cream, and even the duck!Operation Deep Freeze was a complete success! YAY!
1 comment:
Oh My- I am beside myself. Two blogs in one day and multi- pictures of Queen of Everything and Princess of Quite a Lot Sophie... after a terrible PSU football loss to Michigan (ugh) Ada could certainly use a Sophie fix and wow I got one. The creamery is the best but cannot be compared to the loss of milk-sicles. It appears that Dad and Mommy (along with able assistance from Nanny Granny) saved the day. Sophie you are in charge sitting on your frozen throne!
The count down to Spring Creek camp continues.
Ada loves you!
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