Resources on the Web¶

Here is a list of well-known web sites and other resources like YouTube channels found on the internet.

Resource Collections¶

Lists just like this one.

• Sites I like — Dream Scoops

Web Sites¶

• Underbelly promises to make ideas edible, chemistry bingeable, and simple food complicated. My kind of game.
• Dream Scoops is always looking for the perfect ice cream, the "dream scoop." A documentation of findings, successes, and failures, with lots of background information.
• Ice Cream Nation is devoted to ice cream and related frozen desserts in all its fascinating forms and variations. A main objective is to encourage, promote and share information on the making of home-made ice cream.
• if the spoon fits – an ice cream blog: Be a kid again. Just don’t skimp; because if the spoon fits, there’s not enough ice cream in your bowl!
• r/ninjacreami Wiki — Your guide to ice cream making.
• Scoop Club — Ice cream recipes and appliance reviews.
• Popular Posts on Ice Cream Science

Recipe Collections¶

• My Recipe Posts on Reddit — Most of them, anyway.
• Ninja CREAMi Test Kitchen — Recipes beyond those in the manual.
• The Frozen Dessert Spreadsheet of Doom (download)
• Ninja Creami at Samsung Food — Make ice cream, smoothie bowls, milkshakes, and more using the Ninja Creami.
• proteinninja on RecipeSage — Protein-Ninja.com's shared recipes.

Forums¶

• r/ninjacreami — Let's share our experiences, recipes, fails, and experience using the Ninja Creami.
• r/icecreamery — You scream, I scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!
• Stack Exchange on Cooking — Newest 'ice-cream' questions.

Video Channels¶

• Polar Ice Creamery — Science-based ice cream making, for classic ice cream machines as well as the Creami.

  • 🧪 Ice Cream Science Playlist

• Odd Scoops — Where ice cream gets weird! Also see r/cursedcreamis if you're a fan.

Noteworthy Videos

• 🎦 The Best Ice Cream Books for Beginners by Polar Ice Creamery
• 🎦 Gelato Masterclass: Make the best Italian ice cream at home

• Stabilizers (Polar Ice Creamery):

  • 🎦 Ice Cream Stabilizers: Beginner's Guide
  • 🎦 Ultimate Ice Cream Stabilizer Video (2025)
  • 🎦 Ultimate Ice Cream Stabilizer Mix
  • 🎦 Starches, CMC, GMS & Tara Gum
  • 🎦 Carrageenans
  • 🎦 Guar Gum
  • 🎦 Locust Bean Gum (LBG)
  • 🎦 Xanthan Gum

• 🎦 Is Your Ninja Creami Full of Rotten Dairy? — A look at the inside.

Ninja Creami Manuals¶

These are the PDF manuals and guides that SharkNinja offers for download.

NC30x (Standard, 7-in-1, 16oz)¶

• Quick Start Guide

• Owner's Guide

  • Safety Warnings
  • How to Use
  • How to Clean
  • Troubleshooting
  • Different mode meanings

• Safety Instructions (included in the Owner's Guide)

• Official Inspirational Recipe Guides:

  • Inspirational Guide with 50 Recipes
  • Inspirational Guide with 30 Recipes
  • Inspirational Guide with 15 Recipes

NC50x (Deluxe, 11-in-1, 24oz)¶

• Quick Start Guide

• Owner's Guide (2nd link)

  • Safety Warnings
  • How to Use
  • How to Clean
  • Troubleshooting
  • Different mode meanings

• Inspirational Guide

Ice Cream Calculators¶

I use my spreadsheet, so this is a "what I found on the web" list, without any preferences attached.

• Dream Scoops — Meant to be a relatively simple tool for home cooks.

  • 🎦 Ice Cream Calculator • Part 1 (from "Polar Ice Creamery")

• Calculate Ice Cream — Online recipe creation software.

• Scoopulator — A web-based and approachable ice cream calculator & ingredient database.

• IceCreamCalc – Ice cream recipe and balancing software.

  • icecreamcalc.app – Web version of the desktop app, with mostly the same features.

• Ice Cream Science — Home Cook's Spreadsheet — How to calculate an ice cream mix.

• Omni Perfect Ice Cream Calculator
• Ice Solution

Nutritional Databases¶

• Frida — Food data published by DTU Food (National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark). You can download Frida as a spreadsheet for free.

• Open Food Facts — The free food products database (also has an app).

  • de.openfoodfacts.org — The German version.

• USDA FoodData Central — As long as you-know-who does not destroy it.

• Eat This Much — Browse Foods
• FDDB — Calorie table, food diary, food database.
• alko.fi — Web shop that allows to search and browse for alcoholic products, and provides ABV, energy, and sugar content values (the latter are often hard to find).