Salty in Seattle: Indie Ice Cream Complications
I found a post on Seattle’s Metblog about Molly Moon’s Ice Cream, a new ice cream joint a leisurely stroll from our place in Seattle.
Normally, when I experience something (brace yourself for the pun) savory or unsavory, I post about it in my blog… but since this post presented itself at the right place and the right time, I decided to unload and leave a comment.
I don’t want to get too harsh, but the salted caramel was wayyy too salty and gave an “off” flavor. It didn’t taste like Kosher or sea salt to me… more of an iodized tint.
All the way back home, I kept murmuring to myself “I really want to like this, I really, really do.”
That being said, the scoop underneath, vivant coffee, was good… but not good enough to make me forget about the caramel.
I’ll definitely be back, I *need* them to succeed!
Maybe salted caramel just isn’t my thang (even though I so want it to be). Yes, it was kinda harsh, but I made a promise yesterday that I’d be back to support the shop. I really want it to be a place where I can take all of my visitors and say “YOU WILL NEVER GET BETTER ICE CREAM ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.” (or at least wherever the heck the person is visiting from.) Hee hee.
Go indie ice cream!
~Spec
May 15th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Well, go TELL them the salted caramel tastes off! Could have been a substandard batch, or a recipe still in the tweaking stage, or a new employee who doesn’t grok the difference between sea salt and Morton’s.
You need to get them to fix this flavor… preferably before I drag Erik out to Seattle later this year. Not that I have ulterior motives.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I’ll take vanilla.
And….. Frozen Custard > Ice Cream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon’s_Frozen_Custard
‘Nuff Said. lol.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
man. i had JUST been getting into salted caramel—as in chocolate cupcakes with caramel frosting and a sprinkle of sea salt. now i’m sad you hate it.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Alice: Darlin’, it’s not that I don’t like it… I was just thinking that the proportions were off.
Cupcakes are a different story.
~Spec