Ice Cream Expert Guesses Cheap vs Expensive Ice Creams | Price Points | Epicurious

In this episode of 'Price Points', Epicurious challenges ice cream expert Jeni Britton Bauer to guess which one of two ice creams is more expensive. Jeni breaks down vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, strawberry ice cream, coffee ice cream, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and birthday cake ice cream. For each flavor, Jeni looks at, smells, and taste tests before guessing which ice cream costs more. Once the prices are revealed, she explains why.


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[imafr]

I didn't know how an ice cream expert would look like, but she definitely looks like one.

[cheybbypeace]

I'm from the area she opened her shops in! Her ice cream is seriously INSANELY good.

[charlidamelio-ittf]

can the person who did the background do cheap vs expensive chalk

[lilystorey]

Can we just take a minute to appreciate all the effort put into the black board behind her?

[rmiddlehouse]

Level 100 expert: when you predict correctly that one will cost more, but also say its not as good as the other.

[TheHomerowKeys]

I love her outlook. "Ultimately it's about your preference, and that is the only thing that matters."
And the "eat it from a cone" philosophy is really sweet. I hope we see more of her.

[ltrey]

You guys should do an amateurs vs experts version of this, where regular joes have to guess and give their explanation why as well.

[loveluca]

3:45 "air is free"
Not when you buy a bag of chips :)

[elichambers]

I had the very good fortune to work under Mrs. Britton-Bauer at the Jeni's production kitchen for a couple of years. Insanely smart, knowledgeable, talented, charming human being! Glad that more and more people (and retailers) are all about her products
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(P.S. If you've had her salty caramel ice cream recently, there's a good chance I made the caramel! bon apetit!)

[AlphaStrainOfficial]

I worked at her shop in Cleveland during high school. Such a knowledgeable and humble person to learn from. Amazing flavors as well!

[norulazri]

Finally, some experts agreed with me that the cheap mint ice cream taste like a toothpaste

[user_]

All of these people look like their area of expertise.

[mmanull]

The person that does the art on this black board is... amazing. Everytime. Flawless.

[gelusvenn]

I really quite enjoyed this one, this lady is professional without being pretentious, and notes that individual tastes may differe from what you'd expect comparatively to the common concept that more expensive = automatically better. Ice cream is something that I've always loved, just because the blank canvas of cream and sugar(flavor wise) can be transformed into basically anything that someone might want to, even if as we've learned from Iron Chef, maybe some flavor combinations aren't such a fantastic idea even if they are creative.

[fartripper]

Next video: *water expert guesses cheap vs expensive water*

[santiagoarenas]

I don't Care about the video I just want her to tell me a bed time story

[drewparson]

She actually owns an amazing ice cream shop called Jeni’s. She went to Ohio state and she’s a really cool lady

[AIRdance]

I like how she called out the more expensive strawberry one, no mercy.

[SirGherro]

I love how for the strawberry one she didn't even like the more expensive one.... don't always trust the more expensive choice! with anything.

[thuanneramos]

She is the mix of Cosmo and Wanda. Omg 😍😍😍😍